Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-16
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The industI ial classes OF the United
States, and especially in the impcser-
ished South. should give their best
thoughts to the study of Industrial
craftsmanship, Radical statasmanship
lie far ls,ere speculative in its nature
than industrial, and seeks to acquire
money by speculative monopoly called
protection "a poor Legislative trivs
which processes 81 saaAn 4 nation rich
by restricting It's commerce andnatural
exchanges with other nations. Like
many other tricks played off to the
public injury, this is not andersteed
by the masses,
Free trade, With al mankind at home
and abroad, is nothing more than free
labor for all classes of American eiti-
zens; for, to restrain and restrict cFes
right to import iron, Europe and other
places the goods received for grain,
cotton and tobacco raised in and ex-
ported from the United States, is ts
impose an unjust burden on American
agriculture, II We bury false and rot
ten tariffs and odorous Radicalism in
the ground out of sight, and adePt TIE
principle of freedom in al productive
industry rs the basis of sound states
manship, We viii attain at once fnan-
cial and moral reform.
And this IS the hind of reform that
the country most needs. Dishonest,
speculating and th;eving legislation,
carried on for the last fourteen years,
and spread ever ali the republic, has
propsgated and multiplied corruption
everywhere. Unless this prostitution
Of the supreme law making power OF
the land can be stepped, it is idle to
hope for ony reform in American
statesmen or craftsmanship.
False political dognlas have riisin-
formed and misled indefinite thousands
to their ruin. A wrong education is
infinitely worse than no education.
Mark the contradiction in our systen
of political education, We are taught
to believe that the free exchange of
labor and its products between forty
millions of people living, some of them,
three thousand miles apart, quite across
continent, is of the highest impor-
lance to their well being. If this be
true, it involves a social and political
principle which all should ponder. If
it be beneficial to Ohio to trade with
New York, why not trade as freely
with Canada?
Trade should be as free between all
States and nations as II any one State
or nation. industrial progress de-
mands this removal of CALLING iron fet-
tiers. What prevents the emr ncipation
Of all honest labor and honest trade at
one blow? Nothing whatever but ig-
norance, selfshness and dishonesty.
What public interest is promoted by a
tax on imported salt? 1t excludes for
eign salt, and therefore pays no reve,
nue. ID the treasury. IL permits an
odious and infamous monopoly to spec
late upon the pressing wants Of forty
million people, who unavoidably CON
sumo much salt, and mist pay the
price charged by Radical extortioners.
This is simply using the forms OF law
to rob millions in The United States,
and gin princely fortunes to a few
families. No honest man viii defen3
sueh rascality as this, yet American Ia
Dor Is No more free to import
iron than salt t. England.
Apply honestly themoney now grabbed
as bounty by monopoIis.s, to the pay
ment of the national debt, five years,
and every dollar would be cancelled
1t is because 50 many millions of l..
borers' income are stolen by high tariffs
and revenue taxes, not so much direct.
ly as indirectly, by greatly enhanced
prices that the public debt of the ma.
ton cannot be paid in a few years,
Craftsmanship is needed which is
own brother to labor on the farm and
in the workshop, and as economical as
industrious. Every working man
should be made to see that he cannot
possibly have free labor as a farmer OF
mechanic without free trade-that
is, the right TO sell what hii
labor produces where he can trade t.
the best advantage, and to buy all hi:
supplies where he can make the best
bargains in obtaining what his farm
or workshop needs. This is produc
tive industry, free from all Legislative
cords. and withes and chains. These
are the badges Of the white mans slav,
cry. They cry aloud for a new dispen,
sation IN political science, for true pro,
gress and improvement in industrial
craftsmanship. Free tladeis Nature
law, and 6he laws of nature are the
laws of God. Honest industry and
home trade must both be set free il
free America.
THE STATE BURDEN