Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-14
Stevenson's Platform.


/. Equality for the voters Of the
Fifth District who are loyal citizens.
They are now being Disseminated
against in the following particulars:
(a) Congress is wasting on the
average, $4O,OOO.O0O a year in River
and Harbor projects which are prac-
tically useless to the Fifth District,
and has utterly failed to comply with
the Constitution to build and main
tain postroads. IF 1t would spend
$50. 100000 a year on the public
roads which it uses for carrying the
mails it would mean $1,000,000 a year
for South Carolina roads and $142,-
S57 in the Fifth District each year
or $20,400 in each county in the Dis
trict This Congress. with Mr.. Fin
ley's help, has passed a River and
Harbor bill providing for spending
$50. 100000. This would make ST.
10000 for South Carolina, or $780,
coo for each county in the District.
Now the people are taxed that amount
for Rivers and Harbors and get no
benefits. Suppose our part was spent
on the roads of the Fifth District. 1t
would help every man in the District,
especially the farmers. The value of
their lands would be doubled.
(b) They are Disseminated against
in what is known as the Reclamation
Service: $1O6,O00,O00 has been spent
in building dams to irrigate the states
of the west. Why not give the south
some of it for public roads?
(c) The farmers of the Fifth Dis
trict, as we'll as other citizens, are
Disseminated against by the act Civ
ing free tolls to the ship owners flying
the u. S. flag, and engaged in coast
wise trade when passing through the
Canal and placing the burden of
maintaining the canal on the people
instead of those who use it. This
amounts to millions of dollars and was
merely a gift to people who are al
ready rich. Morgan & Co., of New
York. are dominants in this trade, we
are informed, and the bonds of the
shipping companies are held in
Europe. There is no voter of the
Fifth District who owns either stocks
or bonds in such ships. Why tax
them then to give money to the mil
lionaires of New York and New Eng
land and Europe? Yet Mr.. Finley
voted to do that thing. Woodrow
Wilson said it was wrong from any
point of view" Mr.. Finley followed
Champ Clark against the request of
Woodrow Wilson and voted to tax
you to keep up the rich. yet when the
Fifth District voter wants to ship his
cotton or cotton goods or import his
nitrate of soda or Peruvian guano,
this moves in ships engaged in for
eign commerce, and they had TO pay
toll while the manufacturers of New
England, New York and Pennsylva-
mia ship their wares in large quanti-
ties cOastwise to California, Oregon
and Washington and hence get the
benefit of free tolls if the shipper
gets any. and the Fifth District is
Disseminated against again and by
the vote of Mr.. Finley, its Congress
man. Mr.. Stevenson is opposed to
this and stands with President Wilson
on this issue.
Finally. He opposes giving away
the great water powers.
AS late as February "a, 1911, with
Mr.. Finley in Congress, they gave
away to a Power Corporation Ozark
Power Company water right that
the Missouri Waterway Commission
says will give net income Of $780,
600 year on the investment of ST.
100000 Thus the people are robbed
for the rich and there are hundreds
Of other like projects. Do we ever hear
of the Congressman of the Fifth Dis
trict Objecting?
Try new man. Stevenson is the
candidate