The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-02

This was not protecting our own coun.
,rymcn but skinning them to he tune OF
fifty per cent. bonus for the benefit Of
foreigners. a. Feejee cannibal could Kill
4 missionary with an American h.tchet
or knife, free Of duty, and assist digestion
with free salt, while American labor i,
heavily assessed upon all of thee articles.
Sugar was imported free Of duty from
Hawaii, to break down the Louisiana
sugar industry and ruin The colored and
white laborcrs in thai State. Our own
countrJmcn are always Disseminated
against when i. suits the pro,ectionists,
who force us to bIy from them al the
highest price. Eur home market was
built up FOR manufacturer, and nobody
else. l. was the Yankee idea Of heaven
to corner" Western and Southern mar.
can not get rich By trading with itself.
cientl exclusivene.s and home mar
her ports and broke down her traditional
demand to that end. The gold Of Eu.
rope is drawn here BY the products Of our
soil devoted to agriculture. a nation
If the West and South ever cqualed New
do with our surplus? Foreign paupcra
produce $2l 900 600 Of cotton are strip
ped Of their profits By the protection
policy. Lands are cheap here because
they arc abundant. Labor is dear be.
cause il is scarce. The wages paid By
frao trofo En,,inpI oro Jc,,blo tI,n.- .rf
protected Russia, Germany and France.
England is not declining and never will
as long as her commercial flag is dying
from the peaks of nearly all the shipping
at New York. Protection is like Aunt
Jemimas plaster OH her old mans back
the more she tried to pul! it of, the
harder i. stuck. I, is the .eat political
tapeworm. 1t is an infant that gets an-
grily jealous every time there is new
baby in the house. Great care is taken
not to allow the rising cotton factories of
the South to purchase cheap machinery.
New England were much harder to strug-
gle against than the horde Of European
paupcrs. The South was tickIcd with
the hope Of free apple whisky some day
but she preferred free cotton machinery.
A judicious lowering Of the ta.if and
utter extirpation Of the internal revenue
was what the South wanted. The inter
nal revenue service was disciplined po.
litical machine, to bcdevil mountairccrs
and carry elections for the Republican
party. When Virginia Democrats agreed
TO a debt-payIng policy, the Republican
Administration menaced its myrmidons
with dismissal unless they aided and
abetted reputation. He opposed the
lop sided commission urged by Senator
Morrill,, because the verdict on hog steal.
ing was to be rendered by men who had
gotten some Of the pilfered pork. But as
n sop to CcrbeIus, bank checks which
the poor never had, were TO be released
from taxation, and matches were to 60
free, for the benefit Of saloon keepers.
Patent medicines were to have day Of
grace, and the American stomach was to
become a wholesale recipient Of mystic
rious nostrums, whereby speedy exit to
the grave was assured. This increase of
mortality would add to the protected
value of Vermont tombstones and Ruth
land marble. Ours is the grandest land
upon the planet, with its 100000 square
miles of sun kissed soil and 1900, 900, 900
acres laughing with grain harvests. We
had new Egypt watered by new Nile,
which had gigantic development even
under repression. We reached out our
arms for an all-embracing commerce, but
were stopped by New England spin.
ming jenny! Protection enriched one
man at the expense of ten others.
Wealth is concentrated and penury diff.
fused by prohibitive tax that is unwise,
unjust, unconstitutional. Give us free
land, with free labor, free ships and free
competition.
At the conclusion Of his speech, Sena-
tor Vance escaped the congratulation of
all his friends, except Senator George, of
Mississippi, whose rugged face was aglow
with delight and satisfaction. He
emerged from the cloak room in hot
haste, with hat and overcoat, and beat &
retreat so precipitate that the casual OBJ.
server must have supposed that "the toe.
sin of the soul-the dinner bell"-had
summoned him away. He had earned
his banquet, and hoped he enjoyed it,
for whether right or wrong about the
tariff, no better or more whole souled
public man steps in shoe leather o-day.
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