The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 11, 1911, Image 4
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
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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. What little
the South has got out of or will get
from protection can best be illustrated
by my boyhood experience. When
they cooked pound cake (tho real article)
I stood around with open
mouth to scratch tho crumbs from the
bottom of the pan when tho cake
was taken out. The Southern man
who will help these great influences
to get the cake will be permitted to
SCraiCli trie ci uniua iruiu 1111? ihiiiihm
of the pan. *
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Tornado in Missouri.
A tornado swept Johnson County,
Mo., Monday destroying scores of
houses. Fain Kelley, 10 years old,
was carried a quarter of a mile by
the wind and thrown against the
ground and his brains dashed out.
Ilia mother was struck by flying timbers
and may die. His father's home
a mansion of ante-bellum days, was
demolished.
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jNKXT PRESIDENT A DEMOCRAT.
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Observations of Editor Hoyt During }
Trip to New York.
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."