Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-04

My friends, people who oppose
the fundamental idea of the ware
house bill know little Of what Is
going on deep in the souls of the
nations. We claim to be the land
of equal rights and progressiveness
Yet go to staid Old England and
read David Lloyd Georges proposals
as Chancellor of the Exchequer: One
and 25-100 per week to each man
or woman Qaborer) at the age of
seventy-a mammoth life insurance
company, conducted for the benefit
OF labOrers at cost.
"1n France the burning question
Of the hour is, shall the government
buy and control wheat, corn, meat
and all food products to prevent
speculation In, these aecessities Of
"All the wise nations are organiz-
ing production on a national basis,
especially where 1t is natural mo-
nopoly.
and iron come from, has organized
cious monopoly.
know, has her national potash trust
and forces tribute from every cot
ton planter from the Atlantic to the
Rio Grande. Further, Germany has
system OF government land loans,
about which | wish | had time to
talk to you.
Brazil, under its valoriZation
scheme. has advanced coffee from
four cents to twenty-five cents per
pound-made tho coffee planters
rich, and the profits to the State so
great that internal taxation has
been abolished.
suppose South Carolina, forty
years ago, instead Of allowing her
phosphates to be mined and sent
abroad, had nationalized the indus
try, taken her convicts and worked
those great deposits and let the far
mers have 1t at cost. Every acre of
cotton land to-day, with the pure
ground phosphate rock, would have
been an ineXhaustible mine of
wealth. Instead Of much Of our
land being ruined with acid, and de-
pendent each year on fertilizer, It
would have been permanently filled
with phosphate, ready for the nitro
gen, which will soon be drawn from
the atmosphere around us.
IF you would put one-half Of the
vitality. thought and energy into
your business that you put into poll
tics. South Carolina would be the
richest State in the Union. What Is
the sense In allowing politicians to
excite and stir you up over this man
or that? 1t will put no clothes on
your back nor food in your stomachs,
Study government with view to u.s.
ing 1T it the promotion Of your own
interests, not the other fellows.
t1ght Tor measures, not for men
unless that man Is an exponent Of a
great measure or principle which
Will lift YOU up.
"While YOU have been tearing
around shouting for Blcasc or Jones,
cotton mas dropped fifteen dollars a
pale. On one side the moneyed peo-
pie are organized, and on the other
labor is organized, compact. alert
ana aggressive. We stand midway
between, the slave of one and tho
easy victim of the other.
Don't you think it Is about time
that we farmers were organizing and
shouting for something that will give
us more money and surcr money for
our productS?"
Many Important Details
of Mr. McLaurin's address to the
farmers are necessarily omitted. He
spoke eXtemporancously, exccpt for
a "skcleton' outline OF main points
and much Of the important matter of
his address Is omitted from this mea-
gre report OF what he had to say.
Those who heard him went away
as rule enthusiastic over the ware
house project.
If you knew OF the real value of
Chamberlain Liniment for lame
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