Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-02
MEMPHIS APPEAL
TWO sOUTHERS FLEETS.

Through thick and thin the New York
Tribune adhsres, of course, to the doctrine Of
protection, and can see nothing condemna-
tory in the works that doctrine brings forth.
Under guise Of paying tax to the country,
citizens who live upon what their business
produces are made 10 contribute toward the
means of other citizens who persist in saying
that the business they carry on will not
maintain them, and the Tribune says it is
right that the men whose business maintains
them should also aid in maintaining others
whose business will not main ain them. The
Tribune rsj0ices under the present appearance
of thiugs, and believes the patching the
tariff received from the lsst Corgrsss has
made il su entire new article, bound to last
1t discovers that the South hnds the tariff &c
congenial, although it does tax iron ties, that
it ia going to hug il az a friend to its bosom
1t presents a list OF the Southern paper,
whose columns have given 1t such occasion
for Joy; they are the Macon Telegraph, the
Richmond Dispqioh, IT, axsAsiAs. Rzzisssss.A sE
! NashEiils4 Are1es,!, The New Orleans Plea
ytne, and the Memphis Avalanche. These
choice papers the Tribune regards as "refect.
ing accurately the attitude of their constitu.
encies." In proof of the excellency of the
vintage it finds 80 acceptable, the Tribune
treats its readers with few quoted samples.
Here they sre: A tariff for revenue only
would be worse than folly"-"it would
blight the country beyond anything ever
Ennwu i
fstuous and forsdoomed" free trade luna
ties'-"tarif for revenue killed Hancock ss
dead ss herring, and will kill the next
man whose coat-tAils il ia pinned to-" only
'matter Of laughter and derjsion" the
freetraders are "a little coterie," a
''mutual admiration party" These choice
morselS are selected by the Tn.
bune from the different papers that
render it 80 exultant, and are here given
with the Iribune'S own quotation marks.
Surprising each quotation to be ball fred
at the steel-plated vessel Tariff Reform, how
that stately craft would suffer from the peue'
traing power Of these mighty words, so sug.
gestive of the might Of the cannon that fired
Nhchi1 ahu ~ GdANuAhftN " NOANAASS s-S
doubling and to refu,e the tariff reformer
Let the reader scan them over again, and see
whether they are not irrefutable as srgu-
ments, and irresistible as truths. Such ss
they are, however, the Tribune has culled
them as evidences Of the force and Yigor
with which Southern protective papers are
driving the tariff reform cause TO irredsema-
BILE destruction. "Agaiust this formida able
array Of protection sentiment" asks the IIi-
bune, "whst do we fnd?" Among the Southern
opponents Of an uncomfortable tariff it finds
the Louisville Courier Journal, the St. Louis
Republican, the Vicksburg Herald, the Mem.
phis APPEAL, the Baltimore Day, the Charles
ton Netss, and the Little Rock Gozette. Thii
is the phalanx against which the TRIBUNE
draws cut in battle array the squadron which
has so much exhilarated its spirits and
aroused its martial ardor. We have only
TO point to the two fleets as they are drawn
upby protectionst admiral, and to the sor
oil shot the admiral presents as specimens o.
what his formidable array" can do. They
tell their own story and require no aid from
us to those who know anything of the various
journals named by the Tribune.