Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-11-03
VALUE OF MANUFACTURED GOODS
from 1860 to 1870.


Boots d Shoes. ...91 Io3
Carpets ..................... ~
Iron (blooms). )................S S19 113
(plg)... ............'.'.'.''lo ~
(roled). ).................5z 1SO
(cast). ...................36 lUO
torged) ................ %
Macnnery ...............s..sOz 1oo1a
Nails d lacks. k5................lU ~
SILK. .........s......s... oz2 10
steel. Observation-Disclosures. IA va
Woollen goods. ......... ..62 l5513
WorSted ................ 3M ~
These were put few of the articles that
showed enormous increase. Steel had
prodigiously developed in special lines, as,
for instance, Bessemer steel rails, of which
but 5000 tons were made in 1867, and in
1874, 100000 tons. But besides these fig
ures. the speaker referred to the evidences
at the Centennial Exposition of what
American ingenuity. skill, and enterprise
had done. In that
ENORMOUS AND SPLENDID EXHIBIT
every American could see for himself the
growth of the country's industrial interests,
and not only did we see it, and perceive by
it that the policy of Protection was now not
longer open to discussion but practically
settled in the affirmative, but our foreign
visitors saw it, too, and the English experts
| had gone home with long faces to tell their
people that we should now be able to sup
ply our own market and to compete with
them in the markets of the world. The
speaker cited the reports of several foreign
| Centennial Commissioners as to this, and
| especially Prof Rouleaux, chief of the Ger
man Commission, who said that American
industries had made enormous strides"
within the last ten years, and that this WAS
due undoubtedly, to the protective sys-
| tenn"
/ Alarr,ad 90 tLa Enolieb Y,oanufa ott1rara
were by the evidences Of our great indus
trial progress, they had no plan by which
| to meet our competition, but further re-
| duction of wages. 1t was the American
plan to pay the workman decent hire-what
would enable him to live comfortably, and
lay up something for old age such wages
as would give HIM what Wilmington to. day
presents, city of thrifty mechanics, whose
children go to the public schools, whose
families have each their own house, and
who read the newspapers, and understand
and discharge with intelligence their duties
as citizens. The system of protection pro-
tected this prosperity of the workingmen,
and the speaker hoped the time would never
come when it should be successfully struck
at by the advocates of Free Trade.
WITH so GREAT AN INcREAsE
in our manufactures, under settled policy
OF Protection, with the development of our
own city under the tariff laws, and the all
most complete dependence of Wilmington
on the prosperity of her manufacturing in
terests, the speaker proceeded to read from
the st. Louis platform, (said to have been
written by Mr.. Tilden, himself and from
The election in NstU Castle county is to be car
risd, not by tatt BUT BY WORK Get cut The
Republican strength, IN EVERY HUNDRED, ana
prevent Democratic frauds, and our majority in
the county is as sure as that the 7th of NoUstber
will come
the Democratic platform of Delaware
adopted last May, denunciations of the
Tariff system, and demand for its repeal.
He referred to the fact, also, that Senator
Bayard, in recent speech i'll this city, had
taken occasion to denounce it, and after
dwelling on the general topic some time
longer he closed with the conclusion drawn
from the facts stated that the Free Trade
party, and the party of Southern statesman.
ship which had formerly argued that capital
should own labor, and still held kindred
views, did not deserve the votes of the me
chanics and laboring men of Wilmington
AT the conclusion of the address, which wat
necessarily full of facts and statistics, bu
which was repeatedly applauded, the chair
man propc sed three cheers for the Republl
can candidate for the Legislature from thil
city, which were heartily given.b
3 ADDRESS OF COL. WILLIAM BROWN OF KEN
TUoKY.
! Upon the introduction of Col. Brown tC
: the audience, that gentleman said he Ger
. tainly could not be accused of sectional pre-
judice against the South, as he was borr
and bred in Kentucky, and all his interes
: lay in that State from the inception of tht
Rebellion to tho present time. He had seer
| Rows n Rina n 81 M
! though southerner by birth and educa
ton, he had found it to be his duty to cas-
i'll his lot with the former
He took dispassionate view of Southern
affairs, and praised the magnanimity o
President Grant as General and as Pres
ident, towards the rebels He thought tina
Grant was imposed upon and sometimes
made bad appointments, and he believed
; that any President was liable to be similarly
deceived, but as all the Apostles were no
condemned because of Judas, neithe
should the Republican party be condemned
because all its officers haYe not proven i'll
l. | corruptble.
: In referring to
SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS,
D. he defended the course of Governor Cham
:, berlain, and regretted that Senator Bayart
Il had forfeited the reputation in which h
had generally been held, by calling him
'lying houndn He (Brown) knew Cover
g. nor Chamberlain personally, and well, ,beini
classmate with him at harvard he kney
r that for hosesty and morals he was tn
equal Of Mr.. Bayard. and in intelli
gence and ability he was his superior
= He reviewed the first shot gun polio,
= Of Wade Hampton and his followers, AM
p said the half of the inhuman murders o
- the colored men OF South Carolina hai
- never been narrated. He had been there
st himself, and had vi>ited the homes of col
nred nersons where the inmataR wara vel