Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-21
THE TARIFF.
SUNSET Cox on the SUMS Rays.

Sunset Cox on the Suns Rays
The following is an extract from the
speech of S. S. Cox, on the Tariff, de-
livered in Congress on the 2Sth ult:
am not sure if l should ask him, edo
you oppose all foreign competition with
what we can produce in the United States
against cheaper production from abroad p
he would, in the interest of his
State, promptly reply eyes !" Ii
| again asked him, if the arti-
Gle from abroad were fabulously low,
so as to injure trade and glut the market,
whether he would either restrict its entry
or prohibit it altogether? he would an
swer, ''By all means! Restrict! Pro-
hibit !" When he so answers he would
illustrate the parable of the French
economist. lie would close all
windows, skylights, outside and
inside shutters, curtains, blinds, bulls
eyes, openings, chinks, clefts, and assures
whereby the sun has entered to the pseju-
dice of the meritorious manufacturer OF
candles, wax lights, lamps, candlesticks,
street lamps, snuffers,. GXtinguishcrs, and
the producers of matches, oil, tallOw, ros.
in, and alcohol. Oaughter.) | shall moi
be surprised when the votes are taken by
clauses to find the gentleman from Penn
sylvania Mr.. Kelley appealing for these
manufactures against the sunbeam, as q
free-trader, destructive Of American in.
dustry. He will insist against the policy
of cheap and plentiful light from abroad.
He must care for the producer of petrOlc
UNI; he must stop this external cOmpeti
ton from daylight Oaughter) He
must reserve the national market for ma
tional industry? He would say, Wha
right has this uppiSh, solar foreigner tori
val the coal-gas of Pennsylvania? Oaugh
teri Is not the sun alien to Pennsylva,
mia? Is not his labor, though the beam:
come from SO far, cheap labor, pauper Ia
Dor
Does he not inundate us half the time;
and if some Joshua of Pennsylvania were
to command him to stand still over the
Alleghanies, would not the whole bust
ness of gas and coal be ruined3 (Laugh
teri Is not the home market already
| glutted with his insolent COmodityi
When he appears is not the market fol
brass candlesticks and gas-burners dis
turbed? Oaughter.) Is not trade dull
Do not all consumers obtain ''withOu
money and without price" their supply
at his golden urn! Is he not a score
enemy, bought by foreign gold? Oaugh
ter.) In fact, does he not, like Other
laborers, prefer our land to the foggJ
realm of England? If his natural light b.
quenched, will it not give an impulse tC
| artificial light? How encouraging, then,
to domestic manufactures to keep out his
| cheap vet useful radiance2 How ramifiet
| too, is the business he interfcres with
| He destroys the tallow bUsinessi Oaugh
teri That is blow to agriculture, a
hogs, oxen and sheep? Oaughter) l
| is foul blow at meadow, meat, wool
hides, manure-those foundations of agri
culture? He destroys the oil market
He plugs the gushing oil wells? He thu
interferes with transportation, throw
| out of work workmen innumerable, an
reduces wages.
He goes further and docs worse. III
invades Alaska. There are $4,000 pee
pie there depending on seals for livcli
hood. These Alcuts might become bur
den on Federal bureau, unless prOtccte,
in time. Under the precious seal skin
there is valuable adipOse deposit, frOr
one to five inches! 1t is mGIunI prOhiL
ittRl to destroy these seals; but for pul
poses of oil and light, and commerce
they are killed; COW and bull seals alik
fall before our enterprise! Although th
sun does not invade those realms wit
that ardor which he illustrates in Pcnsy
vania, yet he must affect the business
some extent. But the gentleman frol
Pennsylvation says: 'Keep away th
foreign element of competition" I'll
sealmen of Pribolov must applaud the c
forts of the gentleman from Pennsylvi
MIA, and drink long life TO him in tn
fluid for which they ever banker. Eve
the 4, 900, 900 seals practicing the Mo
/ mon doctrine win forget the gentleman
vote on Utah, and extend him their than
with their flippers! Uaughter.)