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M'LAURIN SPEAKS.T
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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
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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
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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.