The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-08-31
The Tariff. the West. and the Freedmen.

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The force of public prejudice and passion was prob
ably never clearly e2emplifed than BY the eu-
dorsement Of the Western people Of the present tariff
laws The shrewd down-easter, by embodyag this
principle in the platform of the Radical party
its adoption by the of the people, who are led
by blind pnsSion-a hatred 10 socaed rebes-to even
financially inure themselves ia the insane desire to
punish the South The ntouoposts of the East,
perched upon their money bags, manipulate these
puppets these goted asses with the facility that
the Snowman makes Punch and Judy 90 through their
performanees-the puppets doing all the work, under
going all the and tear and the Snowman receiv
ing all the pay.
The artificial price OF imported goods caused BY the
eztavagant and uneard of duties have to be paid BY
the people. and all this time millions after millions of
their hard earned money gathered into the Golfers
of the who planned and continue the fraud. They
pretend that this tariff is necessary to carry on the
machinery OF tie Government and to the discharge of
the national debt while, in truth, the tariff ring is
placing duties high that on most of the articles in
its long list, importation has entirely ceased and of
course from them the Government absolutely does not
receive dollar of revenue Are these mot facts
stubborn facts? If, then, the duties are placed so
high as to entirely preclude imports the great
of consumers so utterly stupid to see that the
Government is injured, that they injured and the
manufacturing monopolists alone are enriched
The National Democratic party is opposed to the
present unjust, unequal and oppressive tariff system,
and in favor of which, while adapted to the pur-
pose of raising the necessary to provide for
the liquidation of the national debt and meet the
expenses of an economical administrator will not
Cypress labor, and build up monopolieq BY a system
OF bribery aud corruption the great red ncnopo-
lists, the manufacturers of the East, subsidze Con-
the consumers, must foot the bills.
We would ask such intelligent colored men as An
toine Sterrett and Smohers if these not ncontro
vertble facts If So and if they are Influenced BY an
honest desire benefit their race would it not be the
part of wisdom for them to lay aside their prejudice
against the Democratic party and cooperate with it in
the effort to cast off the shackes upon labor the keys
of which held by the boated manufacturers of the
Easily tariff for protection is draining the very life
blood from labor 1t cannot be argued that the freed
men have property, and therefore the taxes can
not affect them. The tariff is not tax upon capital
it is tax upon !abor-a tax upon every yard of cot
ton eoh every hat and every pair of shoes the freed
man wears, upon every pound of coffee and every
poucd OF sugar he consumes, and upon every imple
ment be The Democratic party is prominently
the poor mans party-is opposed to all monopoes
and all rings, tariff other in favor of the rights of
labor and an economical administration OF govern
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Schools miscegenation and social equality it is true
but in favor ofgranng to the freedmen every other
right, whether guaranteed to them by law or not.
Though the of the party at first opposed to
their being invested with the right of suffrage because
they knew that carpetbaggers would use them tools
for their own aggrandzement to the prejudice both of
Southern whites and of the freedmen themselves, yet
their rights in this regard now accomplished |
fact and while objectionable upon the ground that
til they become better educated they are liable to be
led astray by demagogues who, gain Office will spare
no means to embiter them against the whites, their
right to vote the South the very material
advantage of increased representation in Congress-
There is, then, not single right Of which the Demo-
cratic party would wish deprive the freedmen if it
lad the power to do. In very truth the interests of
white and black indissolubly linked together
hat one cannot be injured without nficting injury
pon the other. Carpet-baggers, on the other hand,
re but the spawn of that portion of the Radical party
Who are the creatures the henchmen of the moneyed
nonopolists of the East They the vile tools of
orrupt ring, whose mission it is to play upon the pre-
ndices of the freedmen and taking advantage of their
ynorance to make them the blind instruments of their
wn injury.
Such colored have named must know
1ese thngs-mus know that they abject slaves,
Morally and politically, to these their masters they
yer we're physical slaves the whites of the South
hey must know that only crurnb Of patronage is,
o" and again, thrown to them, simply to keep them
ON kicking in the harness. Why, Antoine had no \
ore chance OF nomination at the congressional con-
antion recently held at Bayou Sara than the writer of
lis article. Warnoth is evidently endeavoring to I
lild up party whose programme will be graciously
,cept the votes of the freedmen, but deny to them
~ participation in the spoils of Office and the freed
en- are blind bats if they cannot see that this is
lie tendency of his political maneuverngs. b
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