The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-22

&c 5@A2A0Ss aA0 n E18rES1E BIS E1ssw
he explained that - nas rot rAanx.
ed bis judgment. but waad &c wosld
vote against 4; out Of 1ef~r~1rs IN .hs
sentiment Of the people Of Sorxn
Carolina When be voted for IL. ozr
State platform was deroanclnx Sab
sidiss- lie ls the oaly Democrat from
North Carolina. dare say. In either
House. who ever voted for fhEm an
Democratic proposition. TIE Cover-
nor told how that speech IN ttn favor
had been industrsogsIy elrcalate4.
He drew = lesson from the North
Carolina mail subsidy. kno~n ~
81. the fast mall appropriation. in
Central North Carolina. and said thar
men OF Greensboro. High Point. Sal
isbury and Charlotte thought that IL
would impair their enterprises IL
has long since passed, he said. and
those thriving cities 10 longer think
of II as a pillar OF their prosperity.
Against Reciprocity.
Upon reciprocity. Mr.. Kitchsn de-
eiared Senator simmons wax against
his party and continued this rehear-
sal OF tina, gen;Ieman's record:
Only twelve Democrats in the
House and three In the Senate voted
against Canadian reciprocity. Sen
ator Simmons voted with Lorimer.
Smoot, Hepburn. and the majority
OF the Republicans against IL. He
uae nut ~ harronv ~x,f.a - 49,
cratic party on this great question.
A new man in political life, who had
given no special study to the tariff.
who had never declared for recipro-
city, who was on no committee re-
curing investigation OF the record
OF his party and the principles in
volved in the question. might easily
go wrong upon IL, might confuse
this genuine reciprocity in the inter
est of the people with the sham re-
ciprocity which our party had de-
nounced. but our senior Senator was
old and experienced in political mat
tiers, had studied the tariff for twenty
five years, was on a committee 10
consider it and knew the record and
principles of his party on It, 1t is
almost certain the next Democratic
Convention will endorse reciprocity,
and it is unfortunate that his friends
are using his opposition to it in his
behalf, and this will. in all probable
ity, be opposition to our next plat
form. 1t is opposition to our platform
of 1904, which specifically declared
under the head of Reciprocity
eve favor liberal trade arrange
ments with Canada, and with peoples
of other countries where they can be
entered into with benefit to Ameri-
can agriculture, manufacturers, min
ing or commerce
"In 1892 the platform on which
Mr. Cleveland was elected declared
that
Trade interchange on the basis
of reciprocal advantages to the coun-
tries participating is time-honored
doctrine of the Democratic faith
when Senator Simmons was chair
man of the Democratic party, trying
to build up his principles, in his
Snow Hill speech in 1902, circulated
by him as a campaign document,
and also in his speech in the Demo
cratic Convention of 1904. published
by him in our State campaign book,
he unequivocally took the Democratic
position and favored reciprocity as
means of lowering the tariff. He de-
nounced the Republicans for their
failure to pass reciprocity agree
been able to learn, did he modify
those Democratic declarations until
the Canadian reciprocity. measure
most strongly opposed by the north
western lumber interests, was under
discussion. In his speech in Char
lotte, in 1908, circulated as a cam
paign document, he denounced the
paper trust as creature of the ia
riff. He declared that what that
trust was doing to the newspapers,
the harvester trust, the agricultural
implement trust, the barbed wire
He declared that if We applied the
Democratic remedy and TOOK the
tariff off of their products 1t would
destroy those trusts. His Democrat
ic brethren throughout the State ap-
plauded. The Canadian reciprocity
bill placed barbed wire, salt, print
paper, wood pulp, timber, and lun1-
her not further manufactured than
sawed, and many other articles on
the free list with Canada, and it re-
duced the tariff on agricultural i'm
plements, portable engines. cutlery
clocks. watches. coal and many 9TH
er articles. He voted against the bill
and gave as his reason in general
that it was against the farmer. Ev-
cry Democratic Representative from
the great agricultural States OF Tex
as, Missouri, and Nebraska, voted for