Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-01-11

of life ana nDerty. II the protection
Of property is not made to mean
something more than mere physical
possession. if.it does not protect the
citizen in the use Of that property.
and the full opportunity to EMPLOY
THAT PROPERTY WITH PROFIT.
THEN OUR WHOLE SCHEME OF
GOVERNMENT Is A FRAUD AND
HUMRUG. II trusts fix the price Of
all buy. If these combinations
amount 10 CCNSPIRACIES IN RE-
STRAINr OF TRADE, 1t is the duty
OF the government to protect me in q
fair return in the use OF my proper
~.
What chance without state aid
have the unorganized COTTON
GROWERS scattered over thirteen
states. in a contest with expert H.
nancial strategy backed by unlimited
capital. 1t is not only the province.
il is the duty of the government, 10
do for the people lin mass.) what
they are unable to do for themselves
individually. / am only asking the
state to help the farmers to help
themselves. II you will pass this
warehouse law and validate with the
great seal Of South Carolina, these
receipts. it will impart an artificial
value to every acre Of cotton land.
because its products will then be a
recognized collateral in the money
markets Of the world. 1t will make
the south rich beyond our widest
dream. am not asking for money,
| only want to capitalize a portion Of
the sovereignty of the state for the
benefit of our most numerous class
and only MONEY CROP.
Already a hireling press is crying
out socialism. say. NO. 1t is only
JUSTICE. Another says it is pa
ternalism. / say. then make your
choice. Shall it be PATERNALISM
OR POVERTY"
In discussing the trusts. Mr.. Nc
Laurin actually foreshadows the
price fixing now being done by the
federal authorities, anu says the
trusts have educated the people up
to it. 1t is the same idea expressed
80 years ego in Bellahy's book
LOOKING FORWARD"
TRUSTS have existed from the earl
lest time and will exist until the
dawn of the millennium, which after
all will be one BIG TRUST of the
kind defined under the Sherman act
as BENEFICIENT INTENTIONS.
There is lots of rot taught in text
books on political economy. They
say competition is the life of trade" "
That is proven by actual test to be
fallacy. CONSOLIDATION. NOT
COMPETI1I ION IS THE LIFE OF
TRADE. THE SHERMAN ACT
CANNOT AND NEVER WILL BE
ENFORCED. THE COURTS ARE
POWERLI.SS. Wipe out trusts and
you increase The cost of production
ana lower efficiency. They had a
sherma2\ Ssrast law in Greece and
Rome. JosTh formed a great trust
in Egypt, on no other capital ex-
cept ~ old coat, he left in the hands
Of POtiphar's wife. GOD ALMIGH-
TY HAS GIVEN US A NATURE
MADE TRUST IN COTTON PRO-
DCCTION. GIVE ME- THE pow
Err, and We will use our TRUST for
ourselves and our children instead Of
Wall street and Liverpool. 1t is not
laws nor lack OF money that is en-
shaving the south, it is lack of vision.
1t is IGNORANCE THAT BINDS
YOUR LIMBS WITH SHACKLES
STRONGER THAN TEMPERED
STEEL
Look about you; the present ad-
ministraton is seriously considering
a LAW REGULATING THE PRICE
OF ALL TRUST-MADE ARTICLES.
They are either bound to do this or
so increase the wages Of labor that
more money will be feft for labor and
its products. | say that this will be
done or that revolution of some kind
will engulf the entire world. Talk
about Socialism with cotton at seven
cents and labor barely able to exist,
am satisfied so per cent Of the white
people Of this state are Socialists
without knowing 1t.
The present day SOCIALIST is
merely a protest against the existing
order Of things. Do you know that
in this state. MEN NO LONGER GO
TO THE POLLS AND VOTE THEIR
CONVICTIONS. but to register their
votes AGAINST ONE MAN. Public
officials in this state are the product
of PROTEST VOTE, and as long
as they are. PUBLIC POLITICS will
represent the destructive. not the
CONSTRUCTION forces Of society.
Poverty is the PRIMARY CAUSE
Of FACT1oNALISM. Give me this
law, and We will wipe out poverty
and with it FACTIONAL STRIFE
Social Evolution.
At the close Of his speech. Mr..
McLaurin shows that in his mind is
dimly prehgured the world cata-
clasm that is now convulsing man
kind. He says:
"A mighty revolutionary force
is now soliciting MANS Coop
Grafton in his own uplifting"
The unceasing brooding over
WRONG. has ever. in the past, been
the tremendous lever. which from age
to age, has lifted mankind from one
epoch into another.
We utterly misread the signs of
the times, II there is not at hand a
world crisis, which will wreck and
bury this generation with much that
it holds sacred and dear.
Twenty centuries Of Christian CIV
ilization still finds human greed and
militarism its corner stones. The
next stop may be backward until
through terror, blood and death, we