The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-01-05
TIE CaRRkgr REASON WHY.

We noticed several car loads OF
cotton passing up the
road last week, we doubt MOTTO the
North, to be utilized by those sharp
and industrious fellows there. OF
course they will do it, and at big
profit too. The same cotton will be
returned to the South after awhile in
the lshape of manufactured goods.
VIII y can t the Southern people build
factbries and manufacture their own
goods, and thus save the, enormous
profits the Northern manufacturers
annually take from them and put in
their own pockets? Echo answers
why ?'-MoRRIsTowN (Tenn.) GA
zETTE
THE REASON WHY.
The South for many years has
been opposed to anything like pro
lection to manufacturing interests,
and for this reason the Southern
people have been unable to build
factories. They wanted free trade,
and they would not encourage man
ufacturing industries. Now when
they see the need of factories, those
persons who have capital to invest
in that way will not take the risk of
putting it in section that is solidly
opposed to a protective tariff. A
Democratic South must, if they wish
to see factories built in their midst,
discard the idea of free trade, and
by a iudicious system Of protection,
induce capital and skilled labor to
settle in their midst. But as long
as the South clings to the rotten
plank of free trade and make it the
principal feature in their platform,
50 long viii capital seek other in
vestments besides factories where
the people are ayerse to giving them
proper protection. The South will
be dependent upon the North for
manufactured goods until they mani
fest a disposition to encourage and
protect these enterprises, and induce
capital to come among them. And
this can be done by protective
tariff better and quicker than in any
other way. The Democratic idea Of
free trade is obsolete.
We find the above in the Ashe
Vile On. Co. Ne,o,, and copy only tc
add that there never was truel
saying than that all things appear
green to him who wears green cog
giles. The idea that the free trade
doctrine held by majority Of the
Southern people is the cause OF {
lack of manufacturing enterprise il
the South is funny to any man who
is in the least acquainted with the
principles Of political economy. Nc
thinly settled country ever did be.
come manufacturing country. Nc
country where high wages are paic
to agricultural laborers can be a sue,
cessful manufacturing country. The
South cannot therefore become g
manufacturing country as long as
the corn fields, the wheat fields, etc.
furnish labor at good wages for slj
her people.
The desired change in this respect
is to be brought aboWt~the looms
are to be set to banging and the
spindles to whizzing in the South
by letting the world know that hap
py homes are here for the half paid,
toiling millions Of the old world and
the more thickiy sattlea partitions OF
the new. The one grand barrier
that stands in the way of this hap
py contamination is the fact that
certain public men and pubic jsur-
nails in the South as we'll as in the
North aFR constantly engaged in
misrepresenting Us, ia making false
impressions as to the civilization and
hospitality of the Southern people.
Only let the truth be told--let it be
known to the world just haw for
eigners and Northern men are Fe=
-ceived, and how they prosper here
in the South-let the false hobby on
which the Republican party has
been SO long riding~zbe demolished,
and in : few years it will be said
that the North looks to the South
for her raw material but the South
looks to the North toF nothing: The
great falsehood upon which the
North relies for success is the rea-
son WHY"