The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-07-24
GREENVILLE MEETING
WAS REAL SPICY
Continued from page q

a miniature bale of cotton on silver
salver and note with the inscription
"Greenville county will give you 5000
majority over all your competitors"
When he appeared after the intro
duction he was loudly applauded. He
opened his remarks by stating that
when he appeared in this city six
years ago and asked for nomination
and election to the United States SEN
ate, that he promised to see that the
people who made the clothing and
food supply of the world did not go
hungry and naked themselves. He
said that he was there to give an ac-
count of how well he had tried to car
ry out those promises. He defied his
competitors or any one else to show
that he had not done the best he could.
He claimed that the farmers now
when he went to the senate and pro-
ceeded to point out several important
changes that have been wrought
largely through his efforts in the SEN
ate.
He first took up the immigration
question and stated that he was vio-
iently opposed to allowing foreigners
to come to this country to take the
places of the men and women in the
factories, because the foreigners, by
living at cheaper wage scale, could
starve out the Southern men and wo-
men and the dishonest capitalists
could put the difference into their
pockets.
He went on to state that he had
made trips into New England and
that the foreigners are gradually dis
placing the native Americans. He
promised that if returned to the sem
ate he would continue his work to
eliminate that foreign "riff-raff" as
he termed them.
He showed that through his efforts
the 'literacy test" had been placed in
the immigration bill and now before a
foreigner can enter the country he
must be able to read and write.
81 am not willing for the foreigners
to come here and take your Job at half
the price. The mill owners must pay
you or they must shut up their mills"
he .g said.
when you elected me to the senate
! promised to work for the farmers,
If it were not for the farmers there
wouldn't be any factories, if it were
not for the farmers there wouldn't be
single store in town."
He took up the currency bill and
showed how he had worked for the
farmers. He told how when the bill
was being worked on, the trainers of
the bill had failed to take care of the
farmer and he was opposed to the bill
as it stood. President Wilson sent fo.
Mr.. Smith and wanted to know why
he was opposed to the bill. Senator
Smith replied:
"You haven't taken care of the
farmers
He said that nov When the bill gets
into operation, tho farmer viii be able
TO borrow money to the extent of one
half of the taxable worth of his land
will be able to get it for only 90
days as the trainers of the bill at first
proposed and which Senator Smith
opposed.
When they told me that commerce
and agriculture wouldn't mix on such
a BILL" said Senator Smith, 81 told
them that since they had to deal with
agriculture three times a day they
had better take care of agriculture
first"
~ wrote that section 13 into that
bill with my own hands and when that
bill gets into operation farmer can
borrow money on six months time and
one-half the value of his land"
You cotton farmers are the people
upon whom the State rests, YOU are
the people who make South Carolina
the grand old State that she is, and
though you might not know me per-
sonally, rest assured that "Ed." Smith
is thinking of you and working for
you all the time. You are the people
that have built every mill and store
and school and you ought to be taken
care Of"
He paid one of the most beautiful
tributes to womanhood in general and
motherhood in particular, stating that
the time had come when the mothers
who toiled and dreamed their dreams
over their children ought to be looked
out for, when thew could make those
dreams for their boys and girls come
true and that he was in the senate to
make those dreams come true for the
women and children of South Can,
lima. He was greeted with tremendous
applause at the conclusion of this
piece of oratory, the only fowery SEN
tence of the whole speech and one as
beautiful as it was true.
II am the first man who ever nut a
bill through the senate to curb thar
gang on Wall street or to put stripes
upon them. This dealing in cotton fu-
lures and this bill when signed by the
president will be law. | hope that
If he signs it and sends me gold pen,
that he will also send one to my friend
Congressman Lever also"
Senator Smith, in speaking on the
raise in the price of cotton, met with
applause throughout his remarks on
the subject. He showed how the price
of cotton has advanced since he has
been working upon the proposition in
the senate and showed that the price
has advanced from 8 l.. cents to 14l
cents per pound or some 500 ON the