The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-09
NO TARIFF.
Free Trade Universal --- Direct Taxa.
ton to support the General Gov
eminent.

is the great producing country of the
world, and its capabilities for pro-
ducing and exporting being incon>
ceivably vast. and is, and more es>
pecially is to be, the Egypt of sup
ply for the crowded nations of the
olden world, demand is laid upon
this government by its hopes of IN,
ture progress, and by the behests of
the impoverished kingdoms of the
Eastern World, that we, as nation,
adopt the social policy of free trade
with all the ruling powers of earth
that we look up to advancement-to
more extended trade-to look out tor
new markets to receive these great
and various products.
Our welfare requires that there be
no obstacle to competition, the life of
trade. Our prosperity as a people
demands that the producing laboring
masses, the bone and sinew of the
land, who produce all our wealth, (for
it all comes out of the ground, should
be now and forever freed from the
tribute to the protected few. And
we remark, if the manufacturers of
any particular state, or anywhere
else. after being protected until fully
grown, and fed upon the hard earn
ings of the "bone and sinew" of the
country-if they after making 30,
40, or so per cent. can not stand
without being propped by men who
are glad to make 9 or 10 per cent,
let them forever ground their BUSH
ness, and let others come to the front
who can.
Free trade, being social, opens the
ports of other nations free to our
commodities oft because we open our
ports free to them. And we, as a
people, possessing, unrivalled capac-
tiles for producing, by free tIade,
have every thing to gain and nothing
to lose. Contemplate for moment
the matchless developed and unde-
veloped resources of our country, its
various products and climates, its
fertility, its various crops and mines
of wealth. What a harvest of pro
gress would spring from the develop
ment of these unparalleled sources OF
national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The needs
and wants of the old world look ant
will continue to look more and more
to this country for sustenance. Here
with free trade and development
would commence the new.risen life o
our nations greatness. How are thes'
developments to be accomplished
l remark first of all, by extending
just and equal laws to all, equal pro
lection to all interests. 1t is certain
ly humiliating policy to extend pro
lection to one class, and that the larg,
mass of our people, many of whom
are working for their daily bread
placed under tribute to this protected
class. Men under tribute, purse
depleted by tariff, come to thei
work-come to the development @
our countiy's progress, and of tn
paramount matters of the age, shor
Of half their energies shorn of thei
bouyancy and resolution. This ev
remedied, all our people removed fror
under tribute, equal protection estab
lished, this nation would awaken int
new life-this enervating gloom, tn
night of unequal protection would /
followed by the dawn of a mornin
which would shine into high exalts
ton and prosperity. Great crops
vast herds of stock upon millio
hills, various products teeming fro
their hiding places, would enrich az
gladden. the land. This sparkle
new life would impart general bou.
ancy. cheer, and good will with i
creased energies and enterprise. III
farmers cheered being free from tri