Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-19
aEas Pills APPEAL
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1854


The prospects of the South open up more
brightly as the years pass by, and sweet
peace, with her bland influences, befriends
the onward course of progress. There is one
obstruction in the way which the South must
use every energy she possesses to repress-
the protection policy. "a clear stage and no
favor" is what the South wants for her rising
industries, because she wants foreign outlet
for the commodities she is beginning SO suc-
cessfully TO produce, and she requires reliev-
ing of any artificial raising OF prices by
means of duties Obstructive TO commerce,
such As those which make a cotton-mill that
costs 100000 in Manchester cost s750,GOO
in Memphis. The excellence OF our cotton
manufactures have, even as the customs duties
stand, gained an approval for American cot
ton goods which England with all its ex.
perience and skill has never attained, and
these advantages must not be destroyed by
unnecessary and oppressive taxation de-
struclive to the lines OF business in which the
South has special facilities for excelling.
Pennsylvania complains that Southern iron
mills are putting out the fires OF Pennsyiva-
MAS furnaces, and that Southern cotton
mills are depriviDg Pennsylvania factories
Of profits. Had Pennsylvania the power to
dispossess the South of its advantages upon
the territory of that State by adopting "pro-
tectIye" taxation, so far as to tax Pennsyl-
vania into condition where the purchase Of
Southern products should be impossible, and
ua hat Oh
act with any sentiment but admiration. If
Pennsylvania and other States accomplish
the same evil result as it respects
all the world beyond the United States
boundaries, is such course any less obiec-
tionable and injurious TO Southern interests?
II it is well that we should have no oppres-
sive duties imposed upon us by prohibiting
our trade with -Pennsylvania, it would be
we'll also that we should not be prevented
freely doing business with Mexico and
Canada. What Pennsylvania cannot do
against us directly, in its own Legislature, we
do not want il or any other State TO do indi-
reelIy through Congress. If Southern-made
sheetings and twills may not be prohibited
entering Pennsylvania, why should they be
arbitrarily excluded from Mexico aud other
countries, by duties imposed on material, or
machinery, or both? There are manufacture
ing concerns in the South, we are aware, hat
favor prohibilive duties. They are established,
prohibition gives them monopoly which
they do not want others 10 share in, and
they are willing to help to obstruct trade and
clog enterprises to secure their own ends, but
the expansion of Southern prosperity re.
gUires that trade shall be thrown open and
monopolies made impossible. As a CO.
temporary says of these monopolies: "They
do not wish TO see any more furnaces built in
the. South, or any more cotton-mills opened,
fearing that they may cut down the profits of
those already established. These men wish
really TO have a monopoly of business, and
they hope TO maintain such a monopoly by
increasing the tariff in the way indicated by
the Tariff Commission" The tarif siimu.
lates the opening Of enterprises that do not
pay, and. their failure to pay is actually per-
yerted into reason why tariffs should be
raised yet higher. Reduce the tar
lift and these unproductive concerns
close, which gives the profitable ones
in The South, that have been kept down
b. their rivalry, opportunity to obtain the
necessary capital and custom, and SO win
success. As the market prics of cotton de-
clines, the worthless concerns are abandoned,
and capital seeks and makes use of oppor-
tunities that stand upon their own merits
and pay. Iufantile interests that, being
without intrinsic merit, live only as monop-
old artifcially sustains them, require to be
bolstered up by protection; the infantile
iron, coal and cotton factory enterprises OF
the South being able to stand of themselves,
and even arouse the fears of such State as
Pennsylvania, requires freedom from restrio-
tive laws and obstructive duties. They
want only full and free opportunity,
space to expand in, liberty to extend
themselves by their own strength, and to
win support by their own merits. The
pulling, crying, begging, sponging baby that
has TO be carried and fed, and swaddled and
physicked, ought never TO have been born;
the lusty, growing, lively, self-supporting
industries of the South require no such
dandllng and nursing; they want only room
and lair NAV.