Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-18
hancock WANTS CHEAP LAsos.

General Hancock is said by the DEM
ocrats to be strenuously against Chinese
immigration; but no is in favor Of abol.
ishing the protective tariff, calling 1t q
matter Of "local nonsense" and thus
placing American products and American
labor on Q par with Chinese and Euro
pean products and Chinese and European
cheap labor. American manufacturers
and American mechanics and laboring
men must look this proposition squarely
In the face and think several times before
they vote for the aristocrstic Hancock.
He would place the American laborer on
q par with the Chinamsn. Any man who
cannot see Ii or il 90 blindly partisan in
his political ideas that he will not see 1t
deserves to be put upon Chinsman's
wages the rest OF his life. Upon this
vitality important subject the San Fran.
cisco Argonaut edi.orially makes the fol.
lowing remarks:
Second only In importance to the great
political auestion-whether the party that
would destroy the country should now be
| permitted to dominate it 10 the question
| Of the tariff. Let New York consider this
| question with reference to Its commerce;
| New England and New Jersey with refer.
| ence TO their manufactures; Pennsylvania
| with reference to Its development OF coal
and iron; the West a. IL bears upon Its
cereals. But California 10 concerned a. to
how IL will affect the development OF Its
resources Of wheat and wine and wool aud
dried fruits, and its prospective develop.
ment in reference to the establishment oil
manufacturing industries.
The Republican party favors . protective
tariff; the Democratic party Is In favor OF
free trade. The principles may be formu.
lated thus: The Republican party favors
. tariff for the protection Of home indus.
tries; while the Democratic party favors q
tariff for revenue only. The Republican
party Is the party Of the North; the De-
mocracy will be dominated by the South.
The North 10 interested in manufactures,
commerce, mines Of coal and iron. In rails.
ing agricultural productions, wool, wine
and grain. The South has one dominant
industry. vast in proportions. producing
four hundred million dollars annually.
and controlling all other industries. and
making all questions Of local interest. and
all social and political questions, subser.
Went to IL; Cotton Is its king. The
North 10 interested In 30 regulating the
tariff Of the country that IL will afford an
incidental protection to all its pursuits
aud products. The South Is interested In
absolute free trade. because its largest
market 10 abroad. especially In England.
and its articles Of consumption II would
introduce free Of duty. Free trade would
increase the price OF cotton. and II would
decrease the cost Of such imported articles
~ IL consumes from foreign countries. II
would admit cloths and all wool products
free. II would admit wines and bran
dies, and ~raisins, and all products
OF the vine, free. Free trade. bringing
established manufactures into composition
with European cheap labor. would destroy
our wooden and other manufacturing In.
terests, and make the establishment and
success Of other industries impossible.
Incident to this question Of tariff upon
imported productions from Europe 10 the
question Of the unrestricted importation
Of cheap labor from Asia. This the South
fAvors, and because the South demands
cheap labor General Hancock made no a.
fusion to the Chinese question. in his let
ter Of acceptance. And yet w~orkingmen'
otherwise intelligent and keenly alive tc
their own interssts-lsbor leagues and
societies. having among them able men
seem TO be oblivious, or ut least indiffer'
ant. 10 this sectional effort to bring all thu
industries and all the labor interests o
the nation In subsection and yassalage te
its king. When cotton is king there Is nc
monarch more imperious, more surround
ed by . court and aristocracy, more exact
ing-no form Of government that place.
its iron heel with more grinding lore
upon the necks Of its slaves, or demand
from them more implicit obedience.