Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-09

with the domestic manufacturers-that
the people-the consumers, can get
their supplies with only a reasonable
profit added-that the tariff should
never be high enough to stop imports,
but only high enough to raise revenue
to economically run the government. In
this way the masses of the people Will
never be abnormally poor, and the raw
ored classes, can never be abnormally
rich. 1t has been said that no country
can long endure one half bound and
one half free. tell you that no country
can long endure when one half OF It's
people are paupers and the other half
are abnormally rich. No country can
long endure when the masses OF the
people are toiling for the absolute ne
cessities Of life when the favored few
are rolling in wealth and living lives of
idleness and immortality and ungodl-
ness. No people can be happy without
labor, but where their labor yields
them only an existence 1t Is but cause
of discord and unhappiness, and hatred
of those who do not labor
The total ordinary disbursements OF
the United States for last year amount
ed to more than six hundred and fifty
millions Of dollars. OF this amount,
about 70 per cent was for the war and
navy departments, and for the payment
Of pensions growing out Of former
wars. In other words, my friends, the
idea of war-wars of the past and pre-
paration for wars Of the future-is
costing the American people four hum
dred and thirty eight millions Of dol
lars annually, and this my friends Is
growing every year. This appalling
statement of ITSELF 1t seems to me, is
enough to make a practical, common
sense people stop and think; but when
we consider that war never settles
controversy according to the justice OF
the cause-when equity and righteous
ness have no place in the final termt-
nation-when power and force are af-
question, and when the green valleys
are painted a rich red with the life
blood Of thousands and tens Of thous-
ands of human beings who are called
upon to sacrifice home and family and
life on their country's altar, Is 1t not
time for Us, a great Christian nation,
the hope Of the world, In the great
march of progressive thought. and Of
civilization to seek about for way to
abolish war from the face Of the world? ?
Just as fifty years ago, on the old
muster field, the biggest man In the eye
Of young America was the one who
could lick any other bully-just as a
few years ago the biggest man wan the
one who after quarrel with his neigh
Dor, could shoot the truest In the duel,
Just as the result Of force settled diff
ferences between man and man, 80
still today the most powerful nation,
with the greatest navy and the biggest
army and the fullest treasury lords 1t
over the weaker nations Of earth, and
every big nation feels called upon to be
as fully prepared for war that may
never come as its strongest competitor
for world power.
In the great Civil war the Federal
government put In the field 2,722,OOO
men-the Confederate armies number
ed about 100000 men-the Federal
government lost about 100000 men,
and the Confederate army lost about
$4,000 men. Think also my friends OF
the other wars of the United States.
and of the other nations Of the world.
Remember that 1t Is to the advantage
Of every country on earth that the
enormous expenses Of war, and fearful
sacrifice of human life should cease,
and ask you Is II hoping for too much
when l suggest that this government
should take the initiative and try to
get the other nations Of the earth to
Join in a treaty whereby they would
agree to submit all their differences to
an International Court Of Arbitration
in which all nations would have g. rep
resentative except those who might be
parties to the controversy-disband
their armies except enough to insure
domestic tranquility-disarm their ma
vies except to jointly maintain a navy
sufficient to cope with the navy Of any
one country which refuses to enter into
the compact, and then say to the world
Thou shalt not commit murder"
South Carolina has always been Pro-
gressive-she has always dared lead
the way-she can on this anniversary
Of the nations birthday send out a
message to the nation and to the world
of Peace on earth, good will towards
men," and I verify believe that that
message taken up by the great Demo-
cratic party and carried to the four
corners of the earth by that greatest Of
American statesmen, William Jennings
Bryan, who, like Clay and Webster and
Calhoun, Is too great to be president,
commissioned by that other great mar
Woodrow Wilson, the next president Of
the United States, will be received and
acted upon by all the great Christian
nations Of the earth.
Mr. Finley has been in congress four
teen years. Why not Pollock? Mr..
Finley has drawn during that time a
salary amounting to about 100000.
Then why not Pollock?