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GIVES FACTS Rep csentatife Joktsti Gifcs Up the Ioiqiitjr #f PrttecHoi. THE FEW HAVE GAINED TIia Fourth District (Congressman Replies to Constituent With Strong Points Against Tariff Cirah. ? He N|>eaks for l>emocratlc Principles, and Warn* People of Strange Gods. (Representative John, of Spartanburg, Friday knocked the Republican protection doctrine into a cocked hat in a letter directed to a constituent in the Fourth district, who had written him asking for just j enough protection on his wares to j keep others from selling in this i country. To this letter Mr. Johnsan ( replied as follows: Your .favor of the 1st inst. in re- y ply to my letter of the 2 4th ult. con- i eludes with the statement that my i determination to vote for the free list i makes it unnecessary to present any i argument from your viewpoint. I 1 wish you had presented all your ar- t iguments from your viewpoint. I as- i sure you that I would read them t carefully, and try in all good humor i and .friendship to show you the error t of your way. If you convince me c that I am wrong, I would do the lion- i est thing. Tho honest thing would j not he to vote for protection, but to c resign, my seat in congress; because my views -on fundamental government questions are as well known to my constituents as is my face. I be- ( Heve that campaign assurances and ( pledged, when followed by election, I oec a me binding and solemn obllgalions, which must lie faithfully ohserved in letter and in spirit. If I , fihould become convinced that as a , candidate 1 was wrong on a funda- , mental proposition, like the one now in hand, I would bo honest enough with myself and honest enough with my constituents to surrender my ' commission. As to Protection. , fxd us come to your letter. You t say: "I am n*ct a believer in protec- t tion on an extravagant scale, but I > do believe in protection just enough 1 to keep the other side from selling 1 their products in this country." I i may observe in passing that you t have scarcely gauged your own views; i because in the first cause of the sen- c: tence you say that you are not a \ "believer in "protection on an extra- t vagant scale," but in the same sen- a tence you avow that you favor iust ' enought protection to "keep the oth- n er side from selling their products in 1 this country." This measure of pro- c lection will receive the cord Lai in- li dorsemont of Aldrich, Dalzeli, Frod- ft uey and any other high priests of <1 protection. If prohibitive rates are a not protection "on an extravagant scale," pray what would be? If a wall ii is so hl?h that nobody can scale it, v 'making it higher would not keep any c more people from scaling It. If your b town had and should exercise the f< authority to levy tax on poultry, butler, eggs, milk, vegetables and pot a- f< toes, just high enough to keep all () these things from coming in, the f. d'airymen and the truckers within ytyur limits would grow rich and powerful. Hut he not deceived, the consuming public would pay the pip- ^ or. H< Tliev Fiiriit for fJrn.fi. I ? j) Suppose this monstrous condition ,0 lasted fifty years and the beneficiar- 0 lea (the dairymen, the poultryincn j, and the truckers) became rich and jc powerful, owning many newspapers, p the lighting plants, the railroads, 73 0 per cent, of the property within the p city, and had members of their own ^ calling in the city council, can you NN Imagine what a fight they would put ^ up against depriving them of their graft, if it was proposed to abolish u it or reduce it? They would pull every possible wire and bring pressure to hear on their employes, tenants, bankers and merchants. That is what we now have on a national Brule. As illustrative of how greed a and selfishness will stand for idola- p try and false doctrine, I invite youi ^ L L 1 I ? i ^ it. - -f Ai V. - 1 ? ? * J " uuenuou 10 me rjin cnapter 01 acih. Paul was preaching God and the true H faith In a land of idolatry. His ' preaching was hurtful to id-olatry and * the making of images for the temple of Diana. Whereupon "a certain a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, s brought no small gain unto the t craftsmen; whom ho called together with the workmen of like occupation, a and said, Sirs, ye know by this craft we have our wealth; moreover, ye see and hear that not alone at lOphesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned ^ away much people, saying, that they c be no gode which are made with hands. So that not only this our c craft is In danger to be set at nought, ! but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should bo despised, I end her magnificence should bo de- t etroyed, whom all Asia and the world c worshippeth. And when they heard t&eee sayings, they wero full or t wrath, and cried out, saying, 'Great 1 v is Diana of tho Ephesians!' And the whole city was filled with confusion." The Few Have (jiained. For r?0 years our government has used the taxing power, not to raise revenue for government purposes, but t>o enrich tho few. The few have become multi-millionaires. They own railroads, banks, great newspapers, 75 per cent, of the wealth of the United States. They are organized. They study how to pull the wires from every angle and bring pressure to bear on their public men. They have very highly paid lobbyists and uiuikIuI iiloailora t r> tlirnnt? thA r* ii ill ? tol and present their specious arguments. The masses ask no special privileges. They are not organized. They have no lobbyists. All they have is their representatives in congress, and all they want is for the representatives to do what is right. How important it is that we should stand firm and keep the faith! The difference between your view and mine is fundamental. I believe tli<at taxation is a burden; that the government has no right to impose [axes upon the people, except for the purpose of raising revenue to administer the government in the interest pf all of the people. I do not believe hat you can make a people prosperous and happy by taxing them, ifou believe that a tax be levied upon ;oods, not for the purpose of raising evenue, but for the purpose of keepng the goods out, and thereby addng to the cost of the domestic prod ict, which the consumer must pay; >ut this added cost does not go into he public treasury, but into the lockets of those who make or grow he things taxed. Right here is the mrting of the way. I will not vote o tax 90.000,000 people for the benefit of 10,000 men who raise sheep; ior will I vote to tax 9 0,000,000 peo)le on all their meats for the benefit >f a score of meat packers. Now us to Facts. Thus far I have dealt with principles; but 1 want to notice two or liree statements of fact in your let,er, lest my silence might be construed as an admission of their correctness. Referring to the question )f wages here and abroad, you say: 'We pay about as much for one day's work as they pay over there for a week." You have evidently not investigated the wage question. The late Zach McOhee, who was a rea1 student and philosopher, understood he tariff thoroughly from personal n vestigation. He spent several nonths visiting the manufacturing owns in England and mingling with no operatives, no wruie ?i svjmcb ui ery instructive letters to The State. 11 one of these articles he discusses, lot in a wild, extravagant, hearsay nanner, but from a personal invesigation, the wages and purchasing lower of two families who worked in otton mills ? one of the families vorking in Burnley, England, and he other working for your friends it New Bedford, Mass. lie said: 'Sitting this afternoon in a workingnan's stone cottage in Burnley, the lousekeeper, wife of a cotton mill operative in Burnley, and another lousekeeper from New Bedford, lass., also wife of an operative, iscussed with me the relative wages nd what those wages would buy.. The American woman is 011 a visL to some of her people here, and it .-as easy to see she is a fair repreentative of the well-behaved, sessile, thrifty and Industrious New Bedord working class. " 'Wages are higher In New Bedord,' she said, 'but the same amount f money will go just about half as *1* there as here.' Actual Figures. " 'Having heard statements like (lis many times, 1 was not satisfied. 0 seeing my opportunity, I took out \y notebook and wont over with the arty every item of living expenses f the two families, each consisting f a man, one working son, two work[ig daughters, and the wife who eops the house, one such family in lurnley and one in New Bedford, in very case we went by the actual urchases in the households of these wo typical American and Knglish 'orking women housekeepers, who ere right there with me in the cotigo, with many of the things around a. "A man, his wife, one girl of 2 0, nother of 14, .and a boy of 17, would ve in Burnley in a four-room cotage just like this. It was a well ppointed house, rooms about 13x13, ooking and heating range (part of ouse) gas fixtures, two chimneys, ood-sized windows in each room, ink, closet and so forth, hot and old water, cellar and little yad, no athroom. " 'And how much in the rent? I sked. " 'We pay 4s. fid. a week for this,* aid me mirnicy wuiimn, uiuiuuius axes, 5s. 6d.?equal to $ 1.3n. " 'And how much do you pay?' I ^sked the New Bedford woman. " 'Wo live In a house the same size ind pay $2.35 a week,' she said. " 'The man must have one new Sunday suit a year,' all agreed. This osts 42s. (42 shillings is $10.39.) " 'The same suit in New Bedford :osts my hushand $20,' said the Vmerlcan woman. "And so they went on with their mrchases in the household of the wo families, to the end, each having >xactly the same articles. "The English operative, with his drl of 20, and boy of 17, his girl of [4, and his wife keeping house, earned In the mills $17.97 per week. "The man in New Bedford with his girl of 20, his boy of 17, his girl of 14, doing precisely the same work as their English cousins, earned $25.08 per week. "The living expenses of the English family footed up $12.44, leaving a margin of $5.53. "The living expenses of the family in New Bedford, having precisely the same articles as those purchased by the English cousins for one week amounted be $21.15, leaving the New Bedford family a margin of $3.93. "Now there it is figured out, not by the statisticians or politicians, but by the folks themselves, typical ones in America and in England, who get the wages and have to do the buying with these wages. The Burnley family has $ 1 .GO more margin at the end of the week than the New Bedford family Needless to say. the reLativo distances the margins will go are the same as the proportions above." In one part of your letter you say: "Burlaps will not help the cotton termer at all. but it will take the place of a good many articles for which cotton is now being used. If burlaps are eliminated from the free list, and bagging for covering cotton is left, then the farmer of the South will be benefited just that much, but every pound of cotton that burlap substitutes injuries the farmer of the South just so much." "It is hardly logical to say that o,000.00ft bales of cotton made In India and South Africa do not conpete with the cotton of the South, and in the same letter complain about free burlaps injuring the farmers by displacing an insignificant quantity of cotton. India cotton is not so good as our cotton, but Egyptian cotton is better. Each, however, affects the price of our cotton, because whatever is made of either kind would have to be made from our own cotton if the India and Egyptian cotton were destroyed. Any two things that can be substituted, the one for the other, must of necessity affect the price of each other. It is unquestionably true that just so much as you displace cotton with burlaps, you to that extent diminish the demand for cotton; but is it. equally true that every pound of Egyptian or Indian cotton used displaces an equal number of pounds of American cotton, and to that extent diminishes the demand for it. You facor free bagging Why? Why not pursue your doctrine to its logical conclusion and have the tariff just high enough to keep burlaps, jute and jute bagging out of the country? That would necessiate the use of cotton bagging. Jute bagging displaces cotton just as burlap hues displace cotton. When you bring to legislate along the line of giving somebody special privileges, you are lost. If you thoroughly understand the mul 11p]icratIon table you can easily ai any time multiply any given number by 7 or 9, but if you do not know the table, with large numbers you will soon get lost. So, if you get a firm hold on sound fundamental governmental principles, you can apply those principle questions as they arise. But whenever you begin to legislate on the ground of granting special privileges to a limited number of people, you lose sight of correct principles of government, and must be governed by the demands of greed and avarice. In the South we have borne the heat and burden of the day. We had no protection on what we sold and paid tariff taxes on what we bought. Biedmont, Whitney, Pacelot, Clifton, burdened by tariffs on their steel, iron, belting and machinery, prospered in spite of these handicaps so long as they could sell their goods in China and the Orient in competition with all the world. They are suffering now because complications arts- ' ing out of the Russo-Japanese war have closed to them splendid free trade markets. It would grieve me to see our people, or any of them, go off after strange gods. We can't destroy a vicious system by becoming participants in it. If any man in the South sells his birthright for a mess ' of pottage, he is helpless. A man who seeks protection on one article made or crown in his locality must stand for protection for all. He dare not fight. any tariff iniquity, lost he lose his own graft. The strong beneficiaries of protection believe that they have the right to tlic cream and ' that you ought to he satisfied with the skimmed milk, even if you did milk it from your own cows. The steel trust, the meat trust, the rubber trust, the harvester trust, and all that horde that have grown fat, will give you a few crumbs if won will stand for their graft. 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In tune A TTr?vt orliinr r?f thn Cn_ j lumbia Daily Record, who hos just returned from the Associated Press v and American Newspaper Publishers' Association's meeting in New York, has the following to say in his payer Monday afternoon of the political out look: "An exceptionally well posted man from the Middle West, having joined very heartily In the applause accorded the President, turned and said: "The next President will he a ! Democrat." "That was the belief expressed by men from every section jof the country there gathered. Desf ; l?ite the respect in which Mr. Taft j is held, and despite the certainly 1 the prevailing belief is that ho will bo defeated, or that a Democrat will be elected, or that is what it means. , There is not a great deal of talk about who the candidate should he. but tho fact that Harmon has carried Taft's own State makes him seem to many the strongest candidate, politically, and the suggestion that the Democratic ticket should be ! Judson Harmon for President, and Woodrow Wilson, for Vice President, is very popular. That may be tbe ticket, if Governor Wilson will accept second place, and there Is no ' reason to believe he will not."