The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-26
THE LAST DITCH.


say, "a stiff upper lip" evidently feel that
the sceptre is departing from them, and
that the awakening intelligence OF the
masses Of our people will not allow this
baseless fabric to rear its head much longer,
and beat down the honest industry and
best interests of the country. New Eng
land has grown fat and rich, in one sense
but poor indeed, in another. While vast
fortunes have been piled up in tho hands
of u few individuals, the people at large,
the masses, have been almost literally en-
shaved. Yet the protectionists point to New
England as the result of protection, and in :
sist that ii has been rendered opulent there
by, leaving the impression or seeking to-
that the entire population have benefited
from the system. The free trade, or rather
the anti-protection doctrines, have been
taking root and Hourishing most luxuri-
antly in the west and south, and from these
sections, therefore, is arising the power
that must in few years br,ak down
the heretofore practical monopoly en-
joyed by New England and the east.
If not checked speedily in these sections
IL is patent to even the unearned AMI UNI
thinking that the whole dollhouse fabric
must crumble. The protectionist, there
fore, is equal to the emergency, and he has
begun vigorously and adroitly to fight his
last battle. Having reached his last ditch,
n 10 nil for la
accordingly. Two or three extracts will
serve to show what the plan of operations
is, what the cry depended upon to counter
act the growing anti-tariT sentiment IN the
south and west. The Boston Transcript
remarks that protection appeals to selfish
ness and ignorance, and it is already evident
that its last ditch, rs in the case of all old
blights and drags on our progress, will BIO
found in the SOUTH" The Savannah News
says that every democrat who shouts for
protection on the ground that the south
needs it, simplifies the labors of the barons'
evangelists." But the plan is laid open In
its barefacedness and entirety in the follow
ing remarks sent by an Alabama protec-
ZIONIST to northern journal, and the idea
advanced by him is exactly the same
rs now taken up and elaborated
everywhere by these men who would
combat the growing popularity of free trade
with us, and remove from New England to
the south the system that up there has rem
dered the thousands the slaves of the
few. This writer declares boldly: "a pro-
tective tariff has built up the north; what
is sauce for the goose ought to do to Who'll
lop the gande- In. While We were exclu-
sively an agricultural people, we wanted to
buy as cheap goods as We could get, now
that we are beginning to manufacture we
want to sell for all we can get, and In my
opinion that is all, or about all, that there
is in the tariff" He is right. All there is
in the tariff is to sell for the very highest
figures, and free-trade simply means to buy
In the cheapest market. Manufactures are
being built up in the south, and we hone
soon to see ours a great manufacturing
section; but, if to accomplish this fact it is
necessary to build up few rich landlo lords
at the expense Of the masses, as has been
the case in the east, we would prefer seeing
the sonth remain Just where il has been.
The impression Is sought to be made that
the south as whole can be made opulent
by the tariff, Just as has been the case in
the east. But just the reverse is true in the
east. Only few have been made rich,
the manufacturers, while the operatives, the
masses, have been rendered poorer
aud poorer. Hardly day passes but we
read OF strikes and want and suffering
among the laboring classes Of the east
The buyers In every land under the sun
exceed In numbers the sellers and the con.
fession OF the Alabama correspondent that
the tariff is designed as o means for the
seller to obtain the most he can get at the
expense OF the vast majority, tho buyers,
is a confession at once of the whole weak.
ness and injustice Of his cause. We dom,
want to see the New England system, the
few wealthy manufacturers and the on
shaved and impoverished multitude, sy,
tenn whose parent is this same boosted
tariff that 1t 10 now being sought to render
popular in and engrah upon the sout h,
transplanted to our section. We do no,
want 80 see the franchises of the multi.
tude sold for all time to few individuals
who may be rich enough to start few
mills. Every southerner who wants the
tariff continued because the souti is grow.
ing In manufactures is an enemy to the
masses Of his people, and as the Savannah
News says, but simplines the labors of the
barons' evangelists.
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