The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-25
COLUMBIA, S. G.
Saturday Morning, May rs. 1872.
Protection to Homo Industries.

day that We stuck little ginger under
the tail Of the Asinine biped, across the
way, who brayed so Justify for ''proteo-
tion to home industries" in his Wednes-
days issue. The way he pranccd out
yesterday, reared up behind, and flung
dirt and ''horrible outrages" at us. was
amusing; but the exercise was too vio
lent to be wholesome, this sultry weather.
The animal was frantic, and we regret
it; for such fearful antics may result
fatally, and our oyclops will then be
useless, and the cause Of liberty lose
glorious martyr. He will never get to
Congress, il he keeps on exhausting
himself in that style. It is said he has
longing for seat in that honorable
body, and we are disposed to favor the
project, in order to get rid of him and
to spite The Yankees, who have shoveled
their garbage down upon US here, by
throwing it back in their faces. That
was sharp trick of our shrewd brethren
OF Cape God and thereabouts, to use the
South as receiving basin for the filth
and scrapings OF their political and
social sewers. We can but admire the
ingenuity Of the thing, though we are
bitterly conscious OF the cruelty and
meanness to us. But we will get even
with them yet, and no better way offers
itself at present than to return some of
this stuff to Congress. The Union man
will please pardon our being thus ex-
plicit in our reasons. Our object is to
prevent our friends misunderstanding
US, when we support tariff man for
Congress, as we expect to do next fall.
It was not our wish in our previous
article, nor is it our wish now, to goad
our high tariff contemporary into such
frightful posterior exhibitions of temper
as he gave Us yesterday. AS we have
said before. we fear the consequences,
and we would reserve him for higher
and better things. We protest against
the Union man'a getting mad, too. from
another consideration. He usually flies
the track. when "his angry passions
rise," and answers all arguments by
vomiting Ku Klux outrages. he evil
dently considers himself as proper OBJ
ject for Ku Klux revenge, or else he is
trying to play the martyr. and reap all
the political and pecuniary advantages
incident to that character, without ha7-
ing performed the first essential prere.
quisite of undergoing the pains of q
bloody murder. The thing cannot be
done. Ouffy may be hoodwinked in
most cases. but there is limit to his
Orednlity, nevertheless, and not even the
astuteness Of our high tariff ontemporary
can persuade him to look upon living
man as dead martyr. That role had as
we'll be dropped at once.
We deprecate this entire flying the
track. A little, now and then, suoh as we
indulge in to vent our humor as we go
along, We are willing to accord. But we
wonld be glad to have just q few re-
marks more from our tariff contempo-
rary on the subject of "protection to
home industries" We would like to
have few words showing how an advo-
cate OF protective tariff gets around
the Injustice done to the agricultural
laborer, rs shown in the illustration we
gave. How is it wise, or just, that few
should be benefited at the cost of the
many? Why should the millions who
engage in agriculture and in other pur-
suits. not SUBJECTS of protection, be re-
quired to pay bonus of millions of dol
lars annually, to few thousand manu-
facturers? Answer Us these quoetions,
Mr.. Union man. Take our frat article.
if you be sincere in your tariff notions,
and show us where we were wrong. We
don't mind how you do it. You can
bray, and pranoe, and fling dirt, md
below Ku Klux, as much as yon like, but
do not oonfine yourself solely to suoh
laughable performances. Let US hear
why colored farmer in South Carolina
should be made to pay two prices for his
hoe. in order to SUPPORT manufacturer