Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-12
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robbery
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robbery.
AS to Shipping Trust.
I'VE hear much about shipping
trust, but the most complete monop-
oily in the United States at this time
is our coaStwise trade. Not a pas
senger or a pound of freight can be
carried from one port to another In
the United States except in an Ameri-
can-built ship. Our navigation laws
need mending as much, indeed more,
than this law which we propose to re-
peal; and | should gladly support an
amendment to allow vessels built
abroad and purchased by our citizens
to obtain American registry and en-
ter into our coastwise trade. We Gre
ated the shipping trust by this favor
itism. If our people can buy just as
good ships as we can have built at
home, far cheaper, why not allow
them to do it? To my mind it is abb
surd and outrageous not to do so, and
all the trusts in America owe their
origin to this same cause.
1.-The protective tariff has been the
nursing mother to monopolies, and Is
the fruitful source Of many inequali-
ties and injustices which now exist.
We ought to do away with the last
vestige of it, and in order to do so,
we will have to make radical changes
in our navigation laws. Indeed, I
believe that it is the thing we ought
to do at this very time. We pass
resolutions and put planks in plat
form about the merchant marine, but
we do nothing practical.
Unable to Compete.
"Whie the American flag used to
Al 90
woodenships in all the seas Of the
world, we do not seem to be able to
compete with foreigners in building
ships of steel, or in running them. In
those good old days, when our COM
merce was so flourishing, the Yam
kee Clipper was famous throughout
the world; but our New England
friends, having found they could per-
suade the congress Of this country
to protect them, Immediately set
about concocting schemes to rob the
balance of the people for their special
benefit and we are keeping 1t up un-
til this day. / am bound to believe
that it is the paramount duty of the
Democracy. now while 1t Is working
upon the bad laws passed by our Re-
publican predecessors, to take care
that this one particular law shall no
longer hamper and throttle our COM
merce. We should be able to build
ships as cheaply in the United States
as they are built abroad, just as we
can make armor here as cheaply as
they can anywhere; and why not do
it? While we have revised the tariff
downward in no uncertain way and
changed the law in many particulars,
the policy Of protection is still al
lowed to control in too many things.
We are forever confronted with some
Of the deviliry which has thus grown
up, giving one class of citizens favors
and compelling the balance of us to
pay tribute to those favorites
Question kaleidoscope.
"The debate on this question of
tolls has been very able and has been
conducted in admirable spirit and
temper; but the question is kaleido-
scopic and more difficult to unravel
than any other with which we have
had to deal this session. l admire
President Wilson very much. I be-
lieve he is entirely loyal to the public
welfare and to the party's interest as
he understands them. His patriotism
and integrity of purpose cannot be
doubted for one instant. Well nigh all
the people trust him and most Demo-
Gratis are learning to love him more
and more. He will go down in history
as one of our greatest presidents. III
he succeeds in emancipating the white
people of this country from the thral-
dom to money and bonds where the
Republican party has placed them, he
will deserve and occupy place along
the side Of Lincoln in the estimation
of posterity. l have felt that as the
first Democrat in half a century
real Democrat, l mean, for l never
regarded Cleveland as a Democrat
it is the duty Of every man who claims
to be a Democrat to support him in all
his policies, wise or unwiSe. If he
makes blunders, let us all make
blunders and stand shoulder to shoul-
der and fight it out on that line and
go down together. This has been my
policy and desire since his Inaugural
ton.
Stassers His Common Sense.
But it does stagger my common
sense and l have been unable to un-
derstand just why he projected this
fight into the party at this time. The
canal will not be completed and ready
for use until 1915. He could have
waited until the regular session next
year and then brought the issue to
test. There was every argument in
favor of delay. 1t is of great i'm
portance to the Democratic party to
control the house of representatives
at the next election, and l believe
the president should have kept quiet
until that election was over 1t would
have been the best craftsmanship as
well as the best politics to have done
so. Until this issue was pressed to
the front, the cause Of Democracy
had been onward and upward. While
the opposition was intense and bitter,
it was hopeless and helpless. This
is the first jolt to check it has re-
ceived. / do not believe in the
Machiavellian principle of politics.
deception and hypocrisy, but there
would have been neither displayed in
remaining quiet. This question was
not Il burning issue at the time when
he read his message in the house of
representatives to the joint assembly.
There are so many things of more
Importance that the Democrats ought
to do. that / must say in my opinion
ii was IL great blunder on the part OF
the president-and l say it with all
due respect-tO have precipitated this
fight now. The Democratic party.
instead of presenting a solid, united
front. is split into contending fac
tiOnS
Republicans Pleased.
while the Republicans, too, dis
agree on this important subject, both
wings of that party mean the Pro-
greSSiveS and StandpatterS'-are Smil-
ing Complacently ut the division in
the Democratic ranks. They had well
nigh given up all hope so far rs the
next election goes. Now they are
pricking up their ears and scenting
victory from afar | have been glad
To see that, while Democrats are very
earnest there has been no anger or
Ind tnlnnnr shown. and | feel safe in