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y i' M'LAURIN SPEAKS.T [Continued from pago 1.] did not dhcuss the question from a theoretic or philaathropio aland point, but merely claimed a full ahare for tho South of all the benofitB to aooruo from legislation. 1 recognized tho fact that our revenues wore to oomo from tho imposiiion of import duties, and assorted that this being true, it was but fair to give oaoh aeotion and industry asharo of the benefits, as tho burden must bo borne by all. 1 attacked tho dootrine of froo raw material as a olandeatiue and unjust form of protootion. I traced its historv and showed that it was <1 vised and offored to tho manufacturer* of the blast by Mr. Cleveland in his first race, as a form of proteol ion. In other words, Kogor Q. Mills, the Chairman of tho Ways and Moans Committco of the Houso, was sont up into tho New Kng land States to otter them tlrs "loft handed nrotootion." whilo free trado was talked in the South and Went. It was a uiero party expedient to oatoh votes 1 think that no political party will ever attempt again suoh a monstrous ir jus tice. It moans that tho farmers in this oountry shall bo forced to buy in a rostrioted market and thonHcll all of their products in competition with the paupor labor of tho world I made this fight lor Southorn industries whilo a member of tho House, when 1 had no idea in tho world of going into tho Scnato. You all , remember what universal chorus of ap proval there was. Sona'.ors Tillman, Bacon, Clay and others took up the same lino in tho Sonato Tho News and Courier, tho Columbia Stato and ninety per oont. of tho papors of tho South commended my course. 1 hazard little in saying had 1 never boon a candidate for tho Senato, tho wisdom of my course would never have been questioned I was strongly urged to run for tho Senate in IHlMi, buijl did not wish to leave tho Ways and Means Committee, and besides 1 was thoroughly di gusted with ihooondition of affairs in South Carolina. I oould hear of nothing but "charges of oorruption," "bend deals," "whiskoy rebates," oto. 1 did not wish to be mixed up in such an affair; howover it might eventuate, a man oould not but fcol lowered and degraded by oom ing in oontaot with suoh filth. 1 felt reasonably sure at that time that 1 could Ivavo been clcc'td to tho Senate. 1 was assured, by ono authorized to speak,that .ludgo Karlo would not bo a candidate if I ran; but 1 oonoludcd to go rn in a modest, quiet way and work out my J a! - ii.. ii mi : a a ueHuny in mo nouse. i niBwas noi to bo, however. It wan not intonded that my lines should fall in oasy plaocB. That puro man, chivalrous gontloinon and up right .Judge, your townsman and my predooessor, lived but a few short weeks. Governor Kllorbc tendered uio tho nomination. I realized tho radical naturo of some of my utterances and votos, and whilo 1 oould not forosoo what has hap poncd, 1 know my naturo well enough to fool oertain that havicg onoo enlisted in tho fight 1 would never turn haok whilo life lasted. 1, therefore, refusod to aooopt the appointment at tho hands of Governor Kllcrbe unless ho would guarantee that the Excoutivo Committee would ordor a primary and permit tho pooplo to i a?s upon tho issues whioh I had raisod. CAMPAIGN OK 1897. It is unnecessary for me to refer to that bitter fight. You all remember tho meeting in Greenville, whoic 1 was insulted, bullied and bailed like some wild beast, it was a sample of some of the rest. For myself 1 am willing to "Let the dead past bury its dead." 1 have no ill feeling towards anyone on account of it. 1 spoke, 1 believe, in every county in the Slate outside of my Congressional l?isttict except three. I advocated my views not only on tho .'nritVbut on what 1 considered the real lino of policy to be pursued by Southern Representatives. 1 carried about eighty per cent, of the vote cast and every county except three, whioh were lost from local considerations by small margins. 1 wish I had time to recount to the people what tho rice schedule, which I got into that hill, has done for tho rico planters on the coasts of South Carolina, tho waste places it has redeemed, the thousands of dollars it has brought into this State. What the duty on pine has done for tho lumber interests, which were being sacrificed lo the white pine imported free of duty from Canada. The North, whioh is almost bare of timber, inatead of going to Canada, bat been foroed to go Houth, and that has put thousands of dollars into this Btate. There is no telling what an arrangement of the sohedulo on cotton goods so as to prevent discrimination against coarse fabrics, has meant to the cotton mills of the South. COTTON PLANTKR8 SACUinCKO TO A SKNTIMKNT. This is not the place to explain what the retention of the home market means when a manufacturer seeks a foreign outlet. I will refer, however, to the duty on raw cotton, which I advocated at the time Cotton, corn and wheat are our great exports, Now 1 want to ask any man of reason, why it is that a duty of twenty-five cents per bushel is put on wheat, and fifteen cents per bushel on corn, while nothing ia put upon cotton? The three stand exactly upon tho same basis. It is this, Northern Representatives protect coin and wheat against importations from Canada andelsewhere, while cotton bas been saorifioed to a mere sentiment. 1 think that I am the first Representative in Congress to point out the danger to the cotton p nntera arising from tho importation of Kgp>tian cotton. Ten years ago there were 110 importations to speak of. The year 1 made this speech there was in round numbers fifty-six millions of pounds and last jear there was almost seventy millions, an increase of uearly twenty per oent. Since then two mills have been built in Souih Carolina (in one of which I am interested) using nothing but Kgpytiao cotton. ' Now I contend, if the coiton fanners were protected like the wheat and corn planters, we could produce any kiud of cotton that is needed. South Carolina is tho home of the cotton plant. No cotton comes into competition with our Sea Islaud cotton, and common sense tolls me. that we can develon anv made np?wt?xt A ? 0 - -vv* between that and the short s aple. Ten years ago the "Allen long staple" was planted all oyer upper South Carolina, and 1 know of some men wbo bought gins especially adapted to this cotton, but they had to throw them away Egyptian cotton has driven them out of the business. The red hills of this up oountry are thovcrv place where this ootton should be grown, hut how can we develop it in competition with the oheap labor of Egypt? What are we doing now, meeting and passing resolutions to reduce the acreage while English engineers aro constructing dams in the valley of the Nile, which within two years will add ono million and one-half baies or one eighth to the cotton crop; while we are reducing the acreage here our competitors are increasing it, and we are to furnish the market for the increase. I say, away with the impractical statesmanship which will sacrifice the cotton planters of Mouth Carolina to those of Egypt. After I was elected to the Senate I attempted to pursue the same line in everything, but I was ery 111 for a long time after my oampaign, confined to my bed at one time for seven weeks. These terrible campaigns of ours in Uftl JLfl|f A I I. w, - ^ the h>\t of aummer, making PpcfcettM day after iiKy, sitting for four or five bourn, your clothes t'et with perspiration, In the sun, and one half the lime without dinner there are hut few men who hare gene through with it and not had their health impaired. 1 have no doubt but that it shortened ihe days of tbe gallant Knrle and even rugged John I thy. Til K TRKATY WITII SI'AIN. While 1 was in this physical and mental condition, the war with Spun came on and I had to grapple with these new questions I was siek, heart, body and soul. All that 1 wanted was peace and to l?e let alone. The cruel taunts and sneers of "Republican and traitor hurt me then, while I can laugh at them now. I made up my mind not to create any further issues, but tamely fall in and follow the lead of Jones, Tillman, T'etligrcw & Co., and then to quietly retire at the end of my term. My intimate friends know thnt this was my intention. When they concluded to defeat the troaty, I could not see what great harm could come to Ihe country from forcing the Republicans to call an extra sess on. It would only postpone matters by one month. At the request of some of the Democratic leaders, 1 made a speech, not against the treaty but against Imperialism, ai liiuli ui\nnoK ? ft u n t llm I i mA .?%?.! ? I ' b - ?1 iiivu o i'vvvu ni?r> c?? iiiv liiliO, Hint Willi lUU lights before me, my opinion. I had not drawn tho distinction between Kxpansion and Imperialism, and I fully intended to vote against the ratification of the treaty, I was bo tired of being abused and aocuscd of dis loyalty to my party At that time, howo?or, I contended in private that tho rejection of the treaty wan unwiso even from a party standpoint I had then, as 1 have now, very little confidence in tho political sagacity of Senator James K. Jones, and 1 believed that Senator Qorman was at heart an Kxpausionist, because ho voted for the acquisition oftho Hawaiian Is'snds, and I suspected him of an ambition after Mr llryan advised the ratification of the treaty, to defeat it and thus suppl nit htm in the leadership. Not that 1 objected to this, for Gorman s a conservat ive man. and might have been elected President the last time, could lie have commanded the nomination. However, on Sunday afternoon, the day before the treaty was to be voted upon, the news was Hashed over tho wires that our troops had been fired upon by the very people wioin wo had freed f om tho tyranny of Spanish oppression This presented an entirely new situation and before I bad finished reading the "extra" the correspondent# of the New Vork Sun and i think of the World, called at my house before I had consulted with any human being, and I ? xprcssed this opinion, as tho files of the newspapers will show. One month of delay might mean serious consequences to the people of the United States. It must be remembered that Spain had the sympathy of ent ro I'.u rope, and after the battle of Manilla noth ing but the tact of Dewey ami the attitude of Kngland prevented us from being forced into ii war for which we were totally unpre pared. To defeat tlie treaty meant that we were still at war with Hrmin nml thui our soldiers were intruders in I lie Philippine Island. To ratify the trenty meant n?t a Mate of war, but a mere insurrection and deprived other nations of an exci se for interference. It seems to me any way, that no matte what tlie situation or causes may ho, ihat the only position for a man to take when we are en. gaped in a foreign w ir is to stand hy his own country, right or wrong. Let mo review the situation a moment. In the tirst place, I had not, as long as it could ho avoided, been in favor of the war, and had hut little sympathy with the inflammatory address* s made in Congress, which embarrassed the Presi dent in his humane etloristo avert the war, I could not hut look with distrust upoi those men who forced the war on hy frantic appeals and then, the very moment that hostilities were begun, criticised every movement made to bring war to a speedy and successful end. ItwnsnHmall and pretty pa*t for henators to play. Aguinaldo had many warm sympathizers in Congress, who compared him to "George Washington" and his half naked followers to the heroes of King's Mountain and Hunker Hill. Heme of theui now can not conceal the chagrin which they feel at the capture of Aguinaldo and the cessation ol liGHiilitin* It ?a i'Iiqm'O'' il??* .. ...v,vr? .? .u UIUV 111^ \ Uir lllll' tied the treaty and stopped the war. If ho, I am proud of (ho fact, and I am thankful (hit 1 had the strength to do my duty and cant that vote. I fear that 1 would not have had the couregc to do it, had 1 not felt that my vote was absolutely n coop nary; hut realiz ing the farreaching effect and the fearful responsibility, 1 oatu mv vote accordingly. 1 have never soe-v the lay when I regretted it, and my children will remember it after 1 am dead, with pleasuro and pride, as the most glorious act of my life. expansion. 1 will not undertake to demonstrate the wisdom of expansion, but will content myself by simply saying that we are a nation of expansionists. We have expanded during the last one hundred yea<s on this continent from eight hundred thouiand to four million Sipiare miles. Kxpatision is the bed-rock of Democracy. Thomas Jetlerson, the first expansion President, added 1,122,000square miles to our area. The annexation of Texas, California, Arizona, New Moxioo and Nevada were by 1) mooratio Administrations. Andrew Jackson would today be denounced as an Imperialist by the very same people who eat "Jackson day dinners" and worship at his shrine. Old Hickory said on litis subject, I have thought with the ancient Roman, that it is right never to cede any territory within the boundary of (lie Republic, but always to add to it by honorable treaty, thus extending the area of freedom." All this talk about imperialism is bosh. The people understand it as the cry of "wolf," when there is no wolf. When Mr. Rryan abandoned the money <piestion and atI tempted to substitute ' Imperialism," lie stood about as much chance of being elected as a a split-foot hull-frog did of kicking all tho water out of bake Michigan. At least, that is the opinion of a friend of mine The price paid for these islands has been given as an objection This i< absurd, hngland, France, Germany, Russia or Japan would pay ten times as nyrch to occupy our po-itioa in the Phi ippine Islands Dying as they do along the Asiatic coast, they are the gateway to the Orient. The people of the South aro vitally inter, ated in the trade of China; so far, we have on y touched one of the provin e-? Minister Wu, the other night in Charlotte, old of the teeming millio h in South China, aud s.id the great problem was to clothe the people. They are fmced to use silk to make ,heir clothes, t?ut that this was hi pensive and almost an impossibility. I am told that, f..r fear of wearing them out, the Chineie very rarely wa-h their clothes. 1 have heard it wittily said that tho chief difference between the Chinese and Japanese is, that the former never wash their clothes ami the latter never wanh their body 1 believe it was Mr. Wu who said the other night, to teach the Chinese to wear cotton Hhirts and then get the emperor to issue an c lict to make the tails only one noh longer, and the cotton ciop of the 8outb would b.-exhausted by that one inoh, and none left for Europe. If any argument wan needed to show the im portance of these markets, tho effect of receDt troubles in China in sufficient Cotton goods Are stacked up in the warehouses uneatable, and when tho heat judges thought last fall that oolton would he twelve anil onehalf to fifteen cents pet.pound it has declined more than three cents. 1 am an expan sionist?1 favor the political, commercial and religious expansion of our country. This is along the line of progress. We cannot attain a oeitain growth and then stand still. As iu the individual, so in the nation Wo either move forward towards perfection, or back wards towards deoay. There are cer. tain crises in the life of every man which seized leads to suooess, let them paes And the chance is lost forever. The capacity to take Advantage of the opportunity constitutes the difference between the man who suojeeds and the one who fails, and so it is with * i 1* n ' ' 1 *?i mm i ' f - i i i>i i ? i rym ? % N >W i m . nations. We hurt! grandly seized our op portunltiea, and I for one fctn in furor of pushing It to the limit. During the past century we bare been absorbed in testing the grent question ofo institutional representative government and the development o' America. Tho time has now come when we must have foreign trftdo, and not merely subsidiary to our industrial development at home but an nectssary to nur continue I prosperity. Ourr-souroes and popu'alion demand world-wide avenues of trade, ami w? cannot separate the commercial and political elements iavolveJ, What are we to do with our surplus products? Thit is the question engaging tho attention of all the civilized nations of the earth. The only Held unoccupied is in the Orient 1 believe that the time is near at hand when the citton trade of the South wil. be with the Orient, When our oommeroe on the Atlantic will bo insgintficant compared with that of the Pacific Minister Wu gave us some valuable informa'iou at Charlotte. Our manufacturers are reaohing out for this trade, and what better can I do as you Senator than help them. No State will reap a richer reward than South Carolina wiit. .>u the water powor and muuufacturing development in tlie Piedmont rrgon, and withthrco such harborn as Charleston, Georgetown ami Tort Royal. How can 1 better serve tho farmer's of this State? Thoy will share in the benefits of this trade. Here is the United Stntes mill way between Europe and Asia Almost au island when the canal is cut?with tho Gulf of Mexico on tho South and the Great Lakes on tho North; tho Atlantic on oue side and tho Pacific on tho other, and with tho people of two continents lidding for our products, the possibilities dazzol tho imagination. It is no idle dream. I bcliovo that most of tho people witbin the sound of tuy voice will live to see it realized We have become a pacific power with 6,000 tnilcs of coast on that ocean; with tho llawaiiau Islands and Aleutian Islands as resting places, and the Philippines as a key to tho "Open Door," wo aro the only naliou slroug enough to compel Russia, wiih her trans"ihorian ltai road, to rospcoi the integrity of the Chinese Empire. As long as the United States and Japan say "No," tho Chinese Empire must remain intact and the door he loft open to our products When 1 think of how strangely it has all come about I can not but believe that the band of God is guid inu this government, and that ho has watch od ever and directed us along the path where lie greatness, peaoo and prosperity. I ciiii not undertake to discus* the ipieiiion of n goieriiincnt for these oil lying possessions; we have settled other problems of a more complex nature, and I cannot but believe thai a solution will bo found just; humane ami satisfactory to all concerned My vote on tho Army Hill lifts been alt eked. SOT TIIB FIRST TIM K SOUTH CAROLINA HAH R1SKN A HO V It PARTY. It was ft long tho lino of Hiipporting the foreign policy of thin government. Let me say right here, that 1 am n<t the first Con gressnian from South Carolina who Iirh voted against his party and supported the l'resi dent when it oa.ho to a question of a foreign war. Three of the greatost men that South Carolina has ever produced, Calhoun, Lowndes ami Ohevos, supported the government against their party during the war of lHlVt. Cheves used these words, which I ro peat from the bottom of my heart: "Irrespective of party, for the great interest of the nation." In connection with tho fight now in progress against me, ihe first protective tariff hill ever introduced was by a youth Carolina ltepresent vtive, Lowndes, ami advocated by Mr, Calhoun in one of the gratest speeches of Ins life. I his is not the first time that our gallant little State has risen nhovo section and acted for the interest of tho nation. The Army Hill provided for a maximum of 0110 hundred thousand men and a minimum of sixty tivo thousand, and between those amounts tho discretion was left to tho Preii dent. At that time the insurrection was in progress, and my common sense told me there was but one of two things to do. Hither put enough men in tho tield to crush tho rebellion; or quit and come home. 1 believed in the former plan, and so voted. Fellow citizens, there is a great deal of clap-trap talked even in the United Statei Senate About one-half of those mournful speeohoa on the grcit danger of "Imperiali ism" and "Militarism" w<.ro for homo con au..i|'iitjuaiiu lun mum ui IIHMI1 were 111 111 10 after comfortable beef-desk ami a bottle of "Mutnm's Kxtre Dry." I sec that since '.he rebellion la over, the President says that lie will take the minimum amount. Surely, fellow citizens, 1 could atl'ord to trust a man on a question of that kind whom the people tho United States had elected to the Presi doncy Why not exeicise a little common acme?it ia a aimple application of tho rule three. If an army of thirty thousand men . ia required for a population of 85,000 00) people, ia an army ot 06 000 men too much for a nation of 70,000 0(H)? Congress has for years been spending money along the coats > and buying expensive guns, ami absolutely many of tuem are lying out and rusting for want of men. Tilt: sinisitiY ini.i,. Now, fellow-citizens, this brings me to the much-discussed Subsidy Hill. In tho first place, it is astonishing to mo what a misconception there is as to this matter. There has never been a vote on the .Subsidy llill, and yet, even my good frioad, (loner,il Holler, whom I love like a father, speaks of McLaurin's vote on the Subsidy Hill." There never was a vote on tho Subsidy Hill, and it was well understood a tho time that I mado my speech that there tfould not be a vote at that session. If 1 desired to deceive the people and play an unworthy part, I mig u just as well havo kepi si cut and not had that issuo in this campaign; bit 1 felt that tho peoplo shoul i be cduoated on this important measure. My vote was of no uraotical value under anw niMi.n..i.?.?. m - vunioumvico, because, if it could have been brought to a vote, there wah a majority of eighteen to tweuty in favor the bill. I did not intond jnet at that time to make a set speech on the hill, 1 arose in my seat to present the resolution of the Cotton Spinners' Asa relation, and before I knew it 1 had drifted into a speech on the general principles of the bill. What is known as the Manna Payne Mil has already been changed so much that the authors of the bill would not know it if they met it in t ho road, There was at t he time a great many amendments pending, and no body ever hnows what a bid of th ,t s rt will be uutil it passes the ( (inference Con rnittee between the two louses; this bill never wont so far as to get a vote, I t alone a conference So far ss 1 am concerned, 1 do not profe,<s to bo a master of the suhjeot. When you e ter the realm of ocean freights, with the relative cost of high knot and low knot speed, tounago and wages it takes an expert to understand, &o. Senator Frye is a very able man, and I do not believe tuere is a more houest one iu the American Congress >le has devoted twenty-five ears to the study of these ({uestions, and yet 1 have no doubt thatyou could tlnd some members of the South Carolina Legislature who never saw a big.-er ship than a canoe on a mill pond, who know more thau Senator Frye, or auyhody else, on the subject of sh pping and ocean freights. ONI.Y A "STKAI." WIIRN NOT COMING TIIKIR WAV. One of the great objections to tho sub' sidy in they call it a ' steal." Well, fellow-citizens, that is a very poor argument' opponents of the river and harbor, postotiice, or any other bill oan make the same chargo. 1 was a little amused to see the headlines of the News and Courier, "The Ship Subsidy Steal," when in the name week the Mayor of Charleston and the edtior of that paper wero in Washington wanting nine million dollars spent on a naval station, and a subsidy of a quarter of a million for the Exposition. It seems that a subsidy is only a "steal when it is not coming their way. lly suoh foolish denunciations of the subsidy prinoiple it has v. . .. fi.riMirf' been difficult to get a fair consideration TalK about lobbies. There never was a more powerful lobby In W nhington than that opposed to the subsidy fo?*me I l>y the street trans continental railr tads and the foreign steamship owners. I may bay something later on this subject which will eiubarass seme people, but will refrtiu at this time. There is nothing in the principle of the bill itself which involves stealing, defrauding the government of sectional advantages. There may have been some abuses iu granting subsidies when it was in the experimental stage, but there is no reason now why thero should be abuses. In the administration of any law there is a chanoo of abuso, and yet tho law may bo a good one; the abuses beiog merely incident to its execution, This is what the friends of prohibition and tho dispensary each claim. Subsidies arc no new theory in tho South. Conventions were held during the twenty years preced ? ? - " ...b >u? rm hi muuurage me imiiuing up of the commerce ami industries of <he South llayne, t'ulhouu and MoDutKo were leading spirits iu these enterprises. The establishment of railroad auil steamship lines by government aid was advocated. {South Carolina subsidized railroa a before the war. Two tuition dollars were given to construct the II ue Kidgs Koad, which has never been completed 1 think 1 cm sa; that nearly every lino of road constructed iu this State before the war was subsidized, either dircctly or iudirect'y. The Legislature of Louis iaua granted a subsidy of fib.00 p ir ton for eviry vessel of more than 10(1 tons built iu tbo Hi'te. Alabama give $4.00 a ton, and exempted from taxa ion all goods im ported into the State from foreign countries. The National Government connected the Atlantic and the Pacific by subsidizing railroads and in this policy we have unentitled railroad facilities, and have d 'Veloped our interstate trallic to such an extent that wo are now forced to seek an outlet for our snr plus products. All that is propo.so I, is to follow iu developing our foreign trade the same prinoipl-s thai havo succeeded iu our intern il development Is there anything new or strange in this? It is good common business sense W hat difference in p^lnci j pie is there between the tltate Government llhai.lioi.i~ 11 * I i' i- - iiiiuwij, ituu mi! rcueriu 1 ?ov eminent steamship I inch'.' WHAT DOM ItIIVAN THINK (II Ills I'OI.IIICAL I'AKTNKR Ol IS'.lG? I have in my haml an article advocating subsidies by Mr. Sew ill, win) wan on the Bryan lickci in 18'H?. 1 would like to know what Mr. Bryan thinks of the "Democracy of his recent political partner, since he has attacked mine." Twonty years ago. when we wished to develop manufacturing in South <'aroiin i, di' we not subsidize very cotton mill by exempting it from taxation? Wh it progressive town or county has not subsi dizci railroads or other entorpiises essential to its development? I never siw an in dividual, who ever aTOuutod to anything, who was afiaid to spend money on himself and so i is with towns, conn ii s States and governments. VOTING SUIIHIHIKS TO It AI t.RO AOS ANI> NKWSl'A I'KltS, Why should the Southern people, in the face of these facts, repudiate the spirit of sixty years ago? What a gross inconsistency for Senators and U >p resent itives to denounce tho subsidy principle and endeavor to ar >use the prejudices r f the people, when nearly every one of them from iho South tach year votes a subsidy to the Southern ltaiiroad for carrying the fast mad to New Orleans. Why, fellow citizens, they voted for a I'ostollico Appropriation Bill at the lad session with aiubfidy of thirty live million dol lars for carrying tno mails. It iB really a subsidy to the magazines and newspapets of the country, for the receipts are that much less than tho expenditures for that class of mail. A subsidy of nine 11 illions per year is much more defensible, in my judgment, in the development of our foreign trade. We spend millions of dollars building naval vessels, useful only in times of war, why not build vessels useful both in war and peace? Kvery vessel accepting tho subsidy is a part of tho navy in time of war. The ipiestion is not as to the principle of the subsidy bill, that is a part of our established policy, both State an National, but it is whether this particular subsidy is for tho general welfare. Is it expedient? Is it wise? I shall devote ft few moments t> this aspect of tho cnso There was ft time when by government aid and encouragement, we had u meroliant marine, aud carried ninety per cent of our products abroad. Last year only nine per cent, was cirrried in Amerioan bottoms. Why is this? ki'boi'k vs. unitkd 6tatrs. It is becft'iso in this contest of Europe against the IJu ted States, foroign ship-owners get a subsidy from their Governments of twenty million doll rs besides the advantage of lower wsges, and have thus driven too American (lag from the high seas. We pay this subsidy to the foreign ships in increased freight rates over and ovor again. We are drained of two hundred millions a year which we pay foreign vessels in freights. No other country could stand such a drain. After all, thon, we are paying a subsidy, and henoo it is a question of whether wo will subsidize Ameiioan or foreign vessels. It is usoloss for me to discuss before this intelligent audience the importance of our foreign trade. 1 f Kuropo aud the United Sabs are to bo competitors in ttio markets of the world, can wo atl'jrd to put ourselves entirely iu their hand-? The power to fix freight rates gives ihem tho power to fix tho price of our cotton, wheat and manufactured products. Suppose there should bo a general European war, and the merchant marine of England, Germany and Norway was pressed in firtrvnsport service. What would ho tho etVect on ootion and cotton goods? 1 tell you that you would boo cotton hauled into the streets of Greenville and not sold at thrco oents, but simply hauled back home. There would be no buyers, because thore would bo no ships to carry cotton or cotton goods abroad, business of all kinds would languish, and there would be failures on every haud Conditions have changed?before the war wo ncm uuyttrs aoroau, now we are sellers Wo are asking foreigners not to exchange pro ilucts, but to conic here to buy. Nothing would Butter in caso of a European war like cotton They would have to come here to buy wheat, corn, bacon, mules and horses, as England did in tho Boer War, but they could do without eott m forayear or so. All tho ships would be needed for war uses Fotxlsiutls hign and no sale for cotton, what could hurt the South worse? What, theu, is more dependent on American ships than the cotton crot>? Docs any man of commsn sense supposo in this great contest for the trade of the Orient tha?. the ships of Germ ?n> ami England are going to give lis the same advantages th it they do their own merchants? As Mr Tnurt er, of New York, recently sai l, "Eviry shi i is a missionary of trade aud si cam lines worn for their own oouutries just as railway liues work f .r their terminal poiuts. It is as absurd f >r the United States ?o reiv upon fjreigu ships to distribute ber gomIh, as it would bo lor one busines* house to rely upon the wagons of a competing house to make its deliveries." There is 110 section so vitally interested in ships as the South, Why, Charleston, Mobile and New Orleans should rival New York, sifar as harbors are concerned We havo already felt the benefits of our Asiatic trade, and in it lies tho possibilities of our future, but we must have cheap freight, rapid transportation, And tho prestige of the Amerloin tUg over our own ships. Our Southern ports Are discriminated against by the same great railroad linos that are fighting the opportunity for an American merchant marine. Wo must have a Southern commerce, not a Southern trade. That same intluenco has prevented the construction of rhe Nicaraguan Canal, and I predict that there will be no canal, until its friends and the advocates of a merohant marine join forces and work in harmony. The \ I I I immaim I ' rnm ml I ? I.. > I two are inseparable. They will either fail together or succeed together. W..en lha? tirue comes. freights will more North aotl South, instead of K?*t and Wf?t Our port** will he the gateways, and the South will develop with nuequalled rapidity. Cannot any man of eenee tee that the money power headed by C. I' Huntington and Hill, with great, railway systems running Kant and Went,do not want freights dellecUd South? W th this cbauge, the Seiboard, Coast Line and Southern would rival in groataeis the three transcontinental lines. The producer of taw material will prosper, just in proportion to the demand for his product. All that our Southern people have to do now is to he w'ne and conset vattvo. and favor the great pub lie incisures looking to the promotion oftho material and industrial interests oftheeoun try and the honor and glory of the natiou. I?(> YOUK OWN THIN KINO. Kollow-citizons, with ko tunny things to talk about, it Iihk not been possible for mo to <lo morn than skim tlio surface, but I hojto I have boon so fortunate as to oxcito a desire on your part to investigate for yourself and not let some old moss back, who does not know that the war has ended, do your thinking. These are praetieal vital issues. As your Senator, I have frankly stated my position. There are two sides to these questions. I respect an honest dilTerenco of opinion, hut no man can impugn my motives successfully. NOT AN AUTOMATON. I never could answer the ends of an automaton in polities or business. I yield to the dictation of no man. It is characteristic of a Scotchman to think and act for himself. I have asserted and will always assort my personal and political individuality. I have hla/.cd out my own path more than once in t'onnty, State ami National politics, and followed it without regard to popular applause, i made "Peace and unity" very popular once in this State too popular, in fact tor some ul those who once doiiouneeil the ''header of the Movement," now grovel in the dust at the feet of th"ir oldtime foe. h u 111 hi v ciiiitoni ?v ol. ?lw............ that fall from his lips, for the sake of tlio few crumbs that drop from the table. IIKK US ICS TO I'KKACII Til 10 GOKPKI, Ol' DKHl'Allt. If re-elected, as far as in me lies, my voice ami vote will he used in behalf of those measures which make for hu man progress ami human happiness m tin- present world; measures which will unite and knit men into a wider recognition of the hrotluu'hood of man. My voice will go, not to invoke party prejudice and party passion, not to preach a gospel of despair, not to help to create bitterness, hut to assist in its elimination. The rancor of party prejudice, the t >inent of party spirit, the agitation for public spoils ami Hellish ends, these arc the fetters that clog, the manacles that impede our national development, ami threaten our national life, A COMMISSION TO STI'OV CHINA IMCOItTANT 10 TIIK SOUTH. When a measure is before Congress proposing the creation of a non-partisan commission of trained business men to visit China, to investigate and report how wider markets for American products may he obtained among the eight hundred million of peoplo who live in that portion of the globe, a measure which would he of more benefit to the cotton spinners of the South than almost any single economic measure ovor introduced into Congress, shall I blindly follow the load of the modern apostles of Democracy and vote against it because tlm Jrueasuro originates upon the Republican sido, and because a Republican President would have the naming of such commission? For one, I have a higher concep tion, not alone of my privilege, but my duty, to stand by and advance by every honorable effort the interests of those pcoido through whose favors I have a place in the halls of legislation. When to 1 >0 a successful politician one must cater alone to prejudice and follow blind passion in its leadership, I shall, even if taunted by the latter-day saints of Democracy, prefer to believe that my conduet is in strict accord with the policies of those grand old Democratic heroes of the past who in their day and age, gifted with patriotism and wisdom, made the Democratic party known throughout tinnation as party of progress as well as the party of power. IS PKOSI'KKITY SO KlUUIITKUr. A I'HANTOM? Whenever prosperity is so frightful a phantom that I must either get scared at that phantom or stand by the issues that promote prosperity, you need not fear that 1 shall dodge. Whenever certain "latter-day saints attempt to force me to the acceptance of the doctrine that a dead issue of the past, is a vital force in the living present, 1 shall make my personal protest. Whenever, to be an acceptable Democrat, according to the definition of a party led by Allen, I'ottigrow and Teller, I must attack and oppose every man and every mens* re that is not marching backward, I shall reserve to myself the right to state that South Carolina turns her face with liopo and with courage towards the future. Whenever, in tho face of a ponding political contest, one must have a cold chill each time cotton goes from livetotwelvo cents or wheat to a dollar a bushel; each time cattle or hogs go up a cent a pound; each time he reads an advance of ten per cent, in wages; each time ho soos a notice in the uapar of "Men Wanted" in our great industrial army; each time that an old, lingering mortgage is cancelled; n'.ioli 1 i mo bo noun <> ?? - c 4 * Itvii vuaiu IIU DUUfl ?l tiu ?v I UU1 JMIL upon the houso and a fow more comforts for tho old mother at. the tiresidc; each time he sees tho burdens of domestic toil lightened for the weary wife, to he compelled to have a chill for fear Mr. ltryan's chances would he hindered by each and all of these varied circumstances during the last three or four years, won hi have kept mo in a perpetual shiver. For myself, rather than ho a sufferer lrom an imaginary ague, I shall prefer toglory in these evidences of prosperity and liappi ness, rather than conjure tliein up as specters even if some politician's chances are thereby lessened. When to he approved by "the latterday saints of I ?omocracy" as a consistent party man, one must turn his back t<> the rising sun and watch alone its setting, and when, instead of viewing the glories of tho morning, he must conjure up the phantoms of night, 1 shall rest content 1 to place my faith in those immortal principles, which the fathers of Democracy promulgated, at tho f filiation of our government and which have been scaled by the devotion of patriotic ineu and consecrated by tho blood of heroes. When marching from a condition of misery, when fleeing from a land of Sodom, must one needs look hack with yearning? When, liko the chosen of God, escaping from the ?i I ....MVVIO U1 <111(1 marching towards the lain', of promise (lowing with milk and honey, with wealth of corn, vino and olives, abounding in fatness, must we still attempt to satisfy the morhid cravings of that appetite which yet yearns for the tleshpots of Egypt? OIVK T1IK VOi;.\(l MKN OF TIIK SOUTH A CIIAMCK. When pig iron was stacked up in tho yards at. Chattanooga and Birmingham, unsalablo at six dollars per ton, furnaces cold, men idle, and I now find furnaces blazing, yards empty, mon working, ami customers knocking rtt the door to buy that iron at prices which have ranged from sixteen to twenty dollars per ton; when, instead of four cents. I sold my cotton this year at eleven, shall I. as a loyal citizen of this glorious Southland, with the visions of the greatness that lie before her, standing as she does at the opon door of opportunity, shall I follow the leadership of a l'ottigrow, Altgelt, or Tillman; or shall I exert every honorable ofTort in my power to make the present measure of prosperity but as a faint glimpse of the coming mom. compared with the splendor of the sun at its meridian?* Am I to he turned from my course, conscious of the absolute unselfishness of iiiv tmriii>Mi> to do -ill t li,?t niriv li.i in my power foi the welfare and happiness of the people whom I love; am I to he deterred from my course, because some political wolves are heard howling upon my track? 1 see before mo a mother, who over and again has with bowed head and in Unite yearning asked herself. "How may i km rear my son that he may go out into the world and achieve success?" This has been a sterner problem in the South than in the North. The diversity of manufacturing industries has left the avenues of success wide opou for the young men of the North, while to tlieyoung men of the South there have been but few avenues open for those rightful ambitions which lire the heart of every youth. I would, if in my power, before I am called home from my labors, promote a condition where I might see these boys one, perhaps, the president of a great factory, the other perhaps the treasurer or secretary, another the manager, and another perhaps as the sales agent establishing markets tor South Carolina products throughout the world. .\11 men cannot be lawyers, clergymen or bankers, but every boy with the training of a good mother, and the education afforded by our public schools, has a reasonable right to aspire to the proudest positions of em thence in the world, linancial, industrial and commercial. I woul.l if in my power, promote the condition where your sons might go out into the hroad avenues of life with every impending barrier tern down, where the hoy upon the poorest farm in South Carolina, or the sou of the least paid operative at the mill, could march out with hope and courage, and, having been taught those lessons at the mother's knee which must ever lie his guiding star, find that opportunity for success and eminence which his qualities command. Willi the great race problem, which has for so many years confronted us, happily settled, as I said at Charlotte, "why should wo he miserable slaves of one party and a foot-hall for the other?" bet it he understood that the industrial and commercial interest of tin- South ( dine before the interest of any polltf^ cian. I cannot beliovo thai narrowneiw^ bigotry, prejudice or (be arts of the wily politician, sh mid bo permitted t<? swerve us from a course which leads to the attainment <>f these objects, which brine in their train blessings to ovor.f* farm and tireside, to overy hearth and home, in our grand old commonwealth. Why should the achievement of some narrow political ambition stop the young men of tli^ South from the opportunity of winning the same success which is open to the young men of the North? Some twelve years ago, a hoy of (rcrman parentage just out of a little school near I'ittshnrg, went to work in an iron mill, t^uick, active, willing, obliging, he was soon promoted to a position in the draughting ollico. A short time afterwards he was promoted as assistant foreman, then as foreman, then as superintendent, then as manager, then as president, and to-day he stands as president of the largest corporation that the world has ever known, and by common report draws a salary of one million dollars per year. This is an extreme ease, hut merely an cxaniplo of thousands ami tens of thouamls of similar cases in the North. I cannot boiiovo that there are higher intelligence, greater capacity or truer worth, to lie found anywhere than among the youth of our State. The difference arises alone from conditions and environment. What father or mother, what good patriotic citizen, what Christian man, then, would censure me, realizing as I do the marvelous advantages that South Carolina possesses for manufacturing, and recognizing the infinite possibilities of uuvoiuuiiiuui, ii i nope 111:il mat novo topmoat shall come speedily as a blessing to you and yours. Can there ho a commorcial triumph, an industrial success, that will not bring pleasure to my heart? I believe that the intelligence and the Christian patriotism el' the,people of this State will arise to a conception of our grand possibilities. If my life shall ho preserved to witness this marvelous triumph, do you think the attacks made upon mo by hellish, ignorant men, with their own purposos to scryo, will not hw forgotten, or, at least, the wounds they may leavo will have healed, and oven those who condemn today will join with mo in a shout of thanksgi ving that will stir every heart capable of lofty sentiment. Deafness Canuot be Cured by looal applications, as thoy cannot reach tho disoasod portion of the ear n.oro is only ono way to ouro dcafnoss, and that is by constitutional remedies Doafnoss is caused by an inflamed oonditon of tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubo. Whou this tube gots inflamed you havo a rumbling sound or imporfcot hoaring, and when it is ontiroly olosod doafnoss is tho ro suit, and unless tho inflammation can bo taken out and this tubo rosiorcd to its normal condition, hearing will bo dostroyod forever; nino oases out of ten aro caused by catarrh, whioh is nothing but an inflamed condition of tho mucous surfaocs. Wo will give Ono Hundred D.ilKra for any oiso of Dcafnoes ( ausci by i catarrh) that oan nut bo cured bv II >11 b Catarrh (Jam. Send for circulars, tree F ,/ UfclKNEY & CO , Puledo, O. Sold by Dru.g st-, 75o. Hail's fauji y Puis are iho best. If pecplo only kef w what wo know lb ut Koicl L)j.spttpt>ia Curo.it would b- mod in nearly every hou-thulu, as there aro few i o< j?'o who Jo not suffer from a feeling of f'ulinets a't r eating, bolohing, fla.ulvnoe, stur sum .oh or water-brash, caused by indigestion or dvspeysia. A preparation r.u ih an Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure, which with no aid froui the stomach, will digest your food, ocrtaioly can't help bat do you good. Dr. B Norton. J iwMBujaa mm in ?m?ra?? ? />lwv. /*l>3 i t A */IS v/c/i/isuuy. K_qM<wg> Addrosa, B. \V. Gitsinoeb, Bo* 105, Spartanburg. 8. (3. < H. H. WOODWARD, Attoraay And Councilor at Law, OONWAT, 8. C. af stair# orar HaraM iIm appaaita Baak, VilMngtii mi Cimij I Railread. Southbound.?No. 19. L.ctl freight daily except Sunday. Loot* Okadbouru G 40 P* Leave Clarendon 6 05 pm Lmti lit Taber - 28 P"? > Leave Lerla - ? ?0 f> Leave Baa ford 7 10 pm Leave layboro 7 2# F? Leave Frivetta 7 2t pm ^ Leave Adrian 7 32 pm Arrive Conway H 00 pm m." (P Northbound.?No. 20. Local froight deily except Suuday. Leave Conway 8 00 am Leave Adrian - t 28 am Leave PrireUe 8 80 am Leave Beybero 8 40 am Leave HanLird 8 80 am Leave Levin ft 10 am Leave Mt Tabor 9 40 am Leave Clnreeilon 10 10 am Arrive Chtdboura 10 <>6 am Southbound. ? No. 97. Passongcr daily ? xo p< Sunday. Leave ('hadbourn.... 1' -0 Leave Clarendon 12 10 pm Leave Mt labor '2 21 Pm Leave Loris 12 40 pm Leave .Sanford 12 61 pm Leave Kayboro 12 68 pm Leave Pr i vet I 1 " pm Leave AdiUu 1 09 pm Arrive Conway 1 ?0 pm Nonhbf uud.?No. 98 Passenger daily rxocpt Sunday. Leave Conway 8 40 pm Leave Adrian 4 01 pm Leave I'rlvcttu 4 01 pm Leave llaj borj 4 12 pm L-avc San ford , 4 10 pm L* ave Lorin 4 10 pm Leave Mt labor. 4 49 pm Leave Clarendon 6 00 pm Arrive (,'hadboum A 20 pm Saw Mills, | Corn Mills, [ Cane Mills, liiee Hullers, H fe ww >* - I'ea Mailers, bhigines. Boilers, Me*-Planers and Matchers, Swing Saws, Kip Saws, : and all other kinds of wood working machinery. My Sergeant Log Beam Saw mill is the heaviest, strongest, and most efficient mill for the money on the market, quiok, accurate. State Agent for H. 11. Smith Machine Company wood working machinery, For high grade engines, plain slide valve?Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atlas, Watertown, and Struthers and Wells. J V C. BADE AM, / 1326 Main St., Columbia, S. C. w vV SL STANDING ON YOUR OWN MERITS. With a diploma of our College in your possession, you need no p ditic&l pu'l" or intluiutial friends lo help you to success, but can stand on your own merit* and advanoo Burely to tho front. 1 m't it worth trying. For further information ad Iress, NEWBERRY'S BU UN ESS COLLEGE, ColutnSia, 8. C. IJULLS " -v '< &Q buG^RoAeHBO.ANT^ i -V v' ' ft I ? <* (ROYON DUG3. 'V, Spiders, Flies,Fleas. . AND ALL INSECT LIFE-. h \4M lO AND 35 CENTS. -rALL DEALERS^t ' -'d ; iJnr(APOOIi ION C,mimical CO. . LM viA'-1 Mtrmotew J . If Deith Dust is not for 8\le by your ileiler, wo will upon receipt of 25 cent* jemt you tbo Urge package by mail postpaid. April-10. 8t \\J~ At XJA M A W LINK STB \ Yt BKi.?Til* T 1 8 enmrr will Uave the wharf at Camway erc.j Monday and Wednesday morning for Qeorgetown at 4 o o'ock, touching all Intermediate joints; and will lew bar wharf At Georgetown erory Yuoslay and Friday . morning for Conway at 7 o'clock, teaching at all inteinied. i*1} points. 1). T. McNeill, Gen'l Agi and Tveae., t'oaway, tt. C. . jonn M. Bi-aty, Aif?Di, U?orj!?towii, 8,0. NOTICE, Conway I^xlge, No. 00. KnlgbU of Pythias will meet regularly the tfrat and third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordered. I). A.Spivkt Chan. Com. . J. 0. Hrivnv -Ms K. H.AS ^ May 14th, ttfl. \j Dr. II. H. BURROUGHS, LORIS, u. Oallspromp.ly aniwerttl night or day. R. B. Scarborough, Co swat, 8. 0, ATTORNEY AT LAW.