The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
VOL. Xxx
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THAT Is HHAT THE1Eaa'Es DOz 5
SAYS WILSON.
FARMERS ARE ROBBED

Woodrow Wilson, the DS1nocratl
Presidential Candidate, Speaks il
Pennsylvania on the Relation o
Farmer TO TariR.-Time for Farm
er to Be Considered in Tariff Max
ing.
Colonel Roosevelt's analogy tha
benefits Of the protective tariff sys
TEN constituted "prize money O.
which too much was kept by the Of
fcers and too little distributed to the
crew was criticised by Governor vii
son in q speech at Williams Grove
Ca, Friday.
He wanted to know II his speech
before the State Grangers' picnic just
where the t'prize money came from
He said the "plunder'' came from the
farmer, who was taxed too highly by
the tariff on agricultural implements
The governor confined himself to the
tariff and how it affected the farmer
and drew attention to President
Taft's veto Of the farmers free List
bill.
"I dare say he was right from his
point Of Ylew," said Governor VIII
son, Of President Taft. "for he repre-
sented the trustees an6 not the peo-
DIe. The governor argued that the
; government had been In control OF
s'self constituted trustees" in the Re
publican party and that it was time
for the people to obtain control.
Governor Wilson said eft is strange
That we should have put of 50 long
looking into our government to see
whether it is in fact run according to
the rules we originally laid down for
It, but it is. certain that We are now
looking into it very sharply indeed
and without. the least danger that We
ehall be deceived again as to its char
acter. Our idea CT it has been from
the first that it was a genuine part
aership and that all were upon one
footing and were to share alike.
"But a, very interesting thing has
come to light. That is not in fact
the way the. government has been ad-
rainistered In our time. It has been
In the hands OF ,seTf-cen stituted trus-
tees and the partners have seldom
been allowed a real governing voice
In its administration.
- eve had supposed that We were
: conducting the national business
along the lines laid down by JeEer-
son, but we have been conducting 1t
along the lines laid down by Hamii-
ton. Hamilton believed that the
common run Of men had little quail
dcation for such business, that It
could be really compreherded and
wisely directed only by those who
led il commercial and industrial en-
terprises and owned the chief bodies
OF property in the country. And In
our time the leaders Of the Republl-
can party have consciously or uncon-.
scious.y adopted his notion. :
Those men financed party cam
paigns and were always on the inside
when sparty policy was to be deter
mined. Tariff schedules, the foreign
policy Of the country, the chief eN-
perditures Of the government-ev
erything vent as they suggested,
while the rank and file Of US Jared as
we might and were happy il we had
any small share in the prosperity
which they organized for themselves.
They were the trustees, we were their
wards and took part in the common
Nta as. they planned and directed.
What went on in the trustee meetings
we were very seldom allowed to learn
Learned indeed only by impertinent
inquiry, only by congressional lnves-
legations or trials in court which the
trustees complained sadly interfered
with the regular course Of business.
t.Mr. Roosevelt has proclaimed
himself a convert TO the protective
policy-I say convert because he at
one time very frankly ayowed diff
ferent opinion-and has said that
while he admitted that, no doubt.
some duties were too high and ought
to be lowered, on the whole, the pol
icy, pursued by Republican admins
trations had been the right one; and
he thought the prize money which
had been received under that system
by the manufacturers of the country
was legitimate booty.
"The analogy is a very Interesting
one. Prize money is generally ac-
quired by capture and, not by any
process OF earnings, but &r. Roose-
velt Is always franks and says that
his only objection to the system is
too much Of the prize money remains
IN the hands Of the officers and too
little Of it is distributed to the crew.
-Hfs own object he ayows to be to see
to It that more OF the prize money
gets into the pay envelopes Of those
whom the free-booters employ. 3. The
interesting point 7 wish to raise now
is, who supplied the plunder, from
whom is the prize money taken?
,ssThe present Democratic Congress
nent. They supposed that its bene-
fits and projections were to be dis
tributed and equally shared. 1t in
troduced and passed bill which be-
came known as the farmers free list
bill. That bill put many indispensa-
BILE things on the free list Most
prominent among them were agricul-
tura1 implements, because the Amer
ican farmer pays more for his agri-
cultural implements than any other
farmer in the world The American
manufacturers who make agricultu1-
al implements sell them much cheap
er on the other side Of the water. It
was a very natural act on the part Of
the Democratic Congress, therefore,
to put agricultural implements on the
free list, to put fence wire also on the
free list, and the bagging and ties
which the farmer needs and uses for
his cotton. It added lumber and
laths and shingles and leather and
shoes, and salt and meats, thinking
not Of the farmer alone, but Of all Of
US who are struggling to live and
pay our bills. But such changes die
not com port with the ideas and plans