The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-25

Rich Northern corporations have es-
tablished a large number OF cheap pa
pers TO food the country, and disseme-
nate Protectionist doctrines II /. pow
known that a so-called National Agricu!-
tural Association, which issued a mag
~nificen: journal, with long articles from
Edward Atkinson in defence OF gigantic
Railway monopolies, was paid for by
Railway money. Recent, there have
been many copies of the "Protecuo"'st
and the Washington Farnler scatter
over the South.
Col. Wharton j. Green. member
elect from the Third District, : responds
in Fayetteville Observer 10 the Protec-
t,onist in his customary direct and keen
witted manner. We find room for an
extract
Il repeat that no one in the South
e~vipces the slightest disposition TO haul
down the old flag. although 1t Is some
times made ridiculous and bombastlcai
bv the valiant bomb proof defenders
who .ang low and kept dark when balls
were whistling. but, ike the fat knight
of Gadshill, clustered and bullied and
raised the battle cry when the battle was
ended.
No one shows the slightest ambition
Ito step upon its tail. The old nag
for partisan purpose and party clap-trap
Is no less fuUled than the new. The
eapruiuary garment, as has been said,
hang, ia the back yard OF the clothes
linr. Ttey know 1t, however reluctant
10 have it 50, OF 10 admit Il, the party OF
dead aud dying issues. And 80 a new
refrain, All who object to being taxed
six time. a. much far the erclustre Irene
ut Of the p5oprtet0ry mOHopottsts OF a
few manufacturing centres a. they are
for that of the Government. are banded
together TO make war on Northern
industrial interests and Northern
labor i Protective noppy sock! II
so, it argue. then, to plagIailZe the
pretty speech of Abou Ben Adhem,
write me down "a one who loves forty
seven millions of his fellow men, him
self Included, more than the little three
| millions who spin cotton and make iron
for the benefit Of as many thousand
more or less purse proud PlutOCrats
who employ them and pay no hirher
wages under a Republican Protective
Tariff thao they did Gall things consider
ed under the good old Democratic one
If Revenue only.
Northern labor 'orsoothi Why these
paltry thousa ds who represent 50 called
Northern labor, would score a lick o.
honest labor, as they 40 the laborers
they employ, after utilizing them to
their own individual advantage.
Per contra. Perhaps if the cotton
Spinners, or wire spinner, or rail spinner
q mean the spinner and not his en-
ployer) would take the trouble to com
pute hi Tariff tax on hat and shawl, and
coat aul frock, blanket and shirt and
lse upon which he pays from ten pei
eent to three hundred and fifty, he
would not be 80 dazed by the manufac-
turers f~avorite cry Of american labor
and perhaps might see that the manu-
mctuftng interest Is Numerically OPP
posed TO the interest of the nlnnufdc-
turer and that Of all other laboring
classes, be their work in the shop, the
field. the store, tie office or the mill. II
is of course to thc interest Of the lordly
manufacturing employer to as,imilate for
political purpo,e s lbs interests with those
of his employee in a political canvass
But none knows better the falsity of the
pretence than be who otCas the furnace,
the mill and kindred establishments.
In dealing with questions of Finance,
of which Taxation is an essential and
most potential element, bosb, bathos,
buncon be and false pretense will have
to 20 to the wall. as they are fast going.
To rcpeat Self interest moves the
world: and the interest ofthe great farm
ing and other industrial classes vetoes
Government subsidies per Sc to the man
~ufacturing class, or any other cla s.
w. j. G..