National Republican., 1880-10-05
THE TARICT-wuo Is FOR II, WHO
AGAINST, AND WHY.


tariff helps to destroy foreign competition,
enables our own worllmen to make our own
goods instead of having them imported.
This gives employment to men who other
wise would not have it, and gives better |
wages to laborers of all kinds, and secures . |
diversity of employments to suit the tastes, |
talents and strength of all sorts of men and |
women who have to get a living by labor.
An exclusively agricultural community |
is ordinarily poor, because many members !
of an average family are not strong enough !
or have not the taste for teamwork, and so |
they earn nothing and the working men,
bcrs of the family have them to support
their timo and talent produce nothing:
Also because many of the natural pro-
ducts of the farm cannot be sent abroad
and sold, being perishable or in over5upply
III other countries, and their whole value
depends upon home consumption;
And because to send produce abroad and
exchange for goods, freight and insurance
have to be paid both ways, and they are so
much dead loss TO the farmer who in the
case Is both producer and consumer.
No workingman at the north ia so
ignorant as not to know that If boots, shoes,
hats coats, machinery and other manufac-
tured goods are made abr Dad and sold here,
the mechanics who would have made them
here have lost the chance for so much work,
which to them as whole, is the loss Of the
money cost of the labor those goods repre-
sent. Every cargo imported throws more
or less hands out of employment and creates
n surplus of labor to result in competition
and a reduction Of wages.
The wealth Of a community depends
| upon what it produces The amOu Mt Of
production depends upon the proper EN-.
ployment of all the working elements, and
the use of all natural m iterials, aud neither
can be fully utilized without diversity of
employments. The farmers of New Eng
land could not sell milk, wood, straw,
! fruit, granite, etc, if nearly all the people
were farmers, rs all wou Id have enough of
their own, and hence diversity is n neces-
sity to prosperity, and whatever helps
diversity assists and promotes prosperity.
The reason of the thing is evident and
all can understand it 4; the facts sustain it.
The north has diversified labor and is rich,
the south has undiversfed labor and is
poor, though in natural resources the south
is richer than the north. The south can
raise everything that the north can, and
sugar, cotton, rice, figs, oranges, tobacco,
turpentine, and tea besides. l. ,bor, inteli-
gent and diversed is wanting and the south
remains poor while the north keeps grow
ing rich.
Now the reasons why the republican
party is for diversity of labor and for the
tariff which promotes diversity of labor,
and the democratic party is antagonistic,
are these:
Tho principal strength of the republican
party is at the north; the principal strength
4 of the democratic party is at the south and
in the city of New York, and parties are
governed by their strongest element.
The leaders of the. republican party
sprang from the common people, associated
with the common people in the schools and
lyccums and other free institutions of the
north, and are part and parcel of the system
of diversified labor.
The leaders of the democratic party are
the old Shareholders who never did any
work and the rich importers of New York
who are mostly foreigners, owners in for
eign factories or their agents. whose sole
aim is to undersell and break down Ameri.
can manufactures and monopolize oul
markets for the benefit of foreigners and
foreign countries They never did any
work, either
The old shareholders see that their train.
ing has untitled them forconducting manu-
, features, and to retain their domination
over the masses, they must hold the
offices and keep the monopoly of cotton
raising in their own hands, Diversity oil
labor would raise up class, as it has at the
, north, which would soon take charge ol
, public and social affairs and become domi,
9 nlnt. TO Shareholders, laborers are mud
5 sills, and so their education, instincts and
, interests lead them TO join the New York
! importers and make direct, bitter and per
sistent warfare upon diversified industry
and American manufactures.
As the old shareholders have the brains
of tho party and the importers have the
t money OF the party, they control the ma
, tional convention and establish the policy
, which i. to govern, and this policy is to tax
the poor mans tea aud coffee and take of
, the taxes on silks and costly finory worn
E only by the rich,
As the old shareholders never did wOrl,
and never mean 10, they can have no feel
+. ing in common with men who do work and
] earn their own living and the more they
: can cheaper labor the more goods can they
t get for the money they make on cotton. A:
( they have TO pay wages to raise their cotton
$ they have an iuducement to keep wages
a down, which in the days Of slavery wa,
' lacking, and now they are doubly interested
3. in having cheap labor.
r This double inducement has made them
. bold, and it is tho first time that they have
4 dared put in their platform downright
plank against incidental protection to in
, dustry,
: The combination against labor is So
strong that it controls 1873 electoral votes nj
, the start, and money from England in large
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