The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-10
SPEECH OF HON.
JOHN l.. McLAURIN.

SPEECH VI hoN.
JOHN L. McLAURIN.
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right and wrong is so finely develop
ed that no other law is needed. II
YOU believe the Bible you are bound
to believe that some day the code
promulgated in one sentence by the
greatest law giver of all times Love
We one another will be the one law
in the land.
So far every effort has been in the
extension of suffrage in the direction
of the poor, the ignorant, and often
the criminal classes; this has play
ed its part in securing personal liber-
tv. This accepted, the next great
step in suffrage will be in the direc-
tion of intelligence, purity, and vir-
tue. That is what this great woman
suffrage movement means in Eng
land. Bad men and impure men could
not be elected to Office with the bal
lot in woman's hand. We give bal
lot to the most idle vicious negro and
the newly landed emigrant, and yet
deny the privilege to the highest
and finest creation of God, good
woman. The time will come when
the ballot will be purified and the
criminal and vicious denied; our vot-
ing places, where freemen express
their will, made as clean and sacred
as temple God, where the gentlest'
purest, and best may go without fear
of contamination to exercise the high
est function of citizenship. 1t is
shame and disgrace to Anglo Sax
on manhood that we are forced to
say. mo, the polling place is unsafe
and unfit and politics so corrupt that
it will degrade womanhood to take
part My friends, any business or
pleasure that is unfit to share with
your wife or your mother will cor
rupt your manhood and taint your
purity.
Problems Yet to Meet.
We have to meet in the near future
other great problems. A Democratic
administration is now at work trying
to undo and straighten out the tan
gle which comes to us as the financial
results of the war. The greed and
selfshness in human nature has
found ample field for its exercise,
and with the control of the volume
of money through the national bank
ing system has been developed great
trusts: not content with destroying
competition but also limiting produc-
ton to the point Of greatest possible
profit. Instead of encouraging for
eign trade to meet increased produc-
ton, they raised the tariff duties so
high that it has stifed trade.
believe firmly in home market for
home products, but when they raise
the price of home articles so high as
to enable a domestic manufacturer
to go abroad and on the profit he
makes here undersell a competitor
in that competitors home market, it
is all wrong from the point of morals
and business. New markets cannot
be developed by such cut-throat
methods, and We invite the enmity of
all other nations, who will surely
find some way to retaliate.
The great need of America, espec-
tally the South, is new markets, and
these I do not believe will ever come
except through reciprocal trade re-
lations This will mean the creation
of new lines of employment, new
industries, and channels OF trade.
The Labor Question.
There can be no doubt that the
immediate effect of this new tariff
bill will be to precipitate great
struggle between labor and capital.
There is bound to be radical change
in the status of labor. 1t might as
we'll come now as later. All of the
old theories of government treated
labor as a commodity, without refer
ence to the individual laborer. This
will be changed, because the labor