Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-22

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the American Zines yielded
s537, 75S, l5s; the rest o. he world, $751;
37S. 100.
1t will be seen from he above figures
that America in five years extracted
nearly twice as much gold and silver
from the bowels of the Garth as all the
rest of the world, and yet France, with
hardly any mining facilities, and after
paying an indemnity to Germany OF ST.
600, 100000. has more gold than we have.
1t would seem that France has more gold
than any other nation in the world, and
she proposes to keep 1t by stopping the
balance of trade that is now IN our favor,
while at the same time she protects her
agricultural interests by breaking down
competition with her farm products.
France buys the cheap wines of Spain and
uses shiploads of logwood to adulterate
them, after which they are sent
to us as genuine French wines, and yet
we could produce wines at lower prices
and of better quality; we should be able
to export instead Of import, but nothing
seems to suit the average American so
we'll as that which is imported, regardless
of quality.
Under our present tariff system the
balance of trade is in our favor, and all
Europe protests except England, and as
England has no productions to sell ex-
cept manufactured goods, it is to their in
terest to buy cheap
Shall we tamely submit while Europe
manages the commerce of the world
solely to forward her own interests? 1t has
been clearly demonstrated to the world
that nation is rich in proportion to the
variety of its industries, and that it grows
poor in the proportion in which it draws
upon foreign markets for what it can
produce at home. Encouragement of
home industries builds factories, depend
ence in foreign importations builds poor
houses. Protective tariff affects princi-
pally the Injuries Of life and not the
necessaries. The most of the'goods the Ia
boring classes use are manufactured in this
country and are not liable to competition,
whereas wool, fine goods for the rich
and iron for the railroads are great OBJ
jects of competition. We need money
to develop the vast resources of this great
country, and the only way to get it is by
selling much and buying little.
Money spent on internal improvements
is not lost to people, it comes back to
them in various ways. The money is
distributed among the working men, the
improvements remain to add to the con-
venience and comfort of life, and the in
dustries that are built up perpetually help
sustain life. All monies sent out of the
country for foreign importations are lost
to the nation; 1t is money taken away
from our working men and sent to
Europe never to be returned.
1t is safe TO predict that if tariff should
become the political question of the day
large majority of the south would be in
favor of protection, for the prosperity
and rapid growth of that section since
the war has clearly demonstrated to them
what is essential to their development.
Texas, that has given Democratic ma
jority as large as 10000, would surely
vote for protection if called upon to give
her voice in the matter. 1t would net be
to the interest of the two Virginias,
Georgia and Alabama, with their past
amount of iron and coal undeveloped to
vote for free trade. Georgia needs pro-
tective tariff in order that its splendid
water powers may be utilized
in setting the machinery
Of factories in motion. Texas needs pro-
tective tariff to develop its immense iron
fields in the eastern part of the state, its
coal fields extending from the Indian Ter
ritory to the Pecoe, and its copper fields,
commencing at Wichita county and ex-
tending to the aorthein boundary of the
Panhandle, in Dollam and Hastley coun-
ties; Texas needs protective tariff to devel-
OPP its gold and silver mines in Preside and
Llano counties, to help utilize its live oak
and it's vast long leaf pine forests on the
Sabine River. The great natural advan-
tages of Texas, will, within the next ten
years, attract an immense emigration,
and, as it cannot be expected that all the
people flocking there can be agriculturists,
they will have to build cotton factories
to manufacture their raw cotton, and
also to build rolling mills
and iron furnaces, for the purpose
of utilizing these fields of iron ore. With
the increase of our industries we shall
need navy and merchant marine, and
Texas would afford every facility for
building merchant marine, her gulf
coast affordiug excellent harbors. Since
the war the interests of Texas have en-
tirely changed; under free system of
labor she cannot afford to let her immense
resources lie dormant. Resources allowed
to slumber in the lap of nature means
capital wasted, and capital wasted means
industry crippled to the extent of the
waste.
Texas has been made great since the in
PRODUCTION of our present tariff system,
and she cannot afford to go back to tor
pidity by voting for free trade. What the
south needs to invigorate her business
is an export duty on cotton sufficient to
give our manufactures an advantage
over European manufactures. This tariff
to 60 to the different states where the raw
cotton is raised, to build cotton factories
to employ the surplus labor of those who
are not agriculturalists. This would not
lower the prices of cotton one mill, and ID
ten years it would put the cotton fabric
trade Of the world into the hands of
America. Political economy demands
that America have navy and merchant
marine, and that she improve her inland
water courses.
It is estimated that the United States
pays annually in freights to foreign ship
ping from 800, 900 to $4,000 600; a
greater portion of this, as Of much else
that fiAds its way to foreign shores, should
be earned by our own people. Self pre-
servation makes it incumbent upon the
government to defend herself econemi-
cally and politically, and nowhere do we
need more skillful and vigilant statesman
ship than in our commerce upon the seas.
The question of transportation is vital for