The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-31
For the Farmer and Mechanic
BIown-up by their Own BIunder.
BuSS

What has been the effect of emanci-
patton on the manufacturing industries
of the North: Before the war the
south was almost exclusively engaged
in agriculture. We raised the raw pro-
ducts sent them North. where they
were manufactur then we brought
them back, paying a greatly enhanced
price. and brought them South, paving
freight both ways. Now we see month
lv. perhaps weekly. new factories rising
up at the South.f With our warns and
our cloths we are underselling and sue
cessfully competing with Northern fab
rics. even in foreign markets. And the
same is true of iron and steel. We are
making and selling to the North am i'm
mense quantity of cotton seed oil.
which they find better than the bogus
olive oil. which they have been hereto
fore using; and l predicted that within
ten years, at farthest. we shall sell them
in value, more Of this. than we will buy
of their pork and lard. They are send
ing us to our summer and winter resorts
on the mountains. and plains of the
South hundreds of visitors. where before
the war they sent their tens; to spend
their money with us. And oh IHfan-
dum Dolorum Providence has carried
back 20 Massachusetts the man whom
| they sent South to subiugate. to de-
grade. and plunder our people. and
whom they arplauded as long as he
was engaged in this barbarian work. to
rule over the pious people of that para
gon of holy States. Butler at the South
was very proper man. Butler in
Massachusetts is a very devil. Here
let me entreat the people of that State
to give alr the support they can to old
Benz mean the majority of the work
ing people. If 1 am not mistaken he
is enfranchising them from a bondage
As Octavius. by a better life. atoned
for and wiped out past misdeeds. under
his new name of Augustus, so | hope
Butler, at the North. under not the new
but revived name of Democrat, will
atone for his sins at the South with the
name of Republican. | hope and be-
lieve he is preparing. by means of a
graduated income tax. to tighten the
barrels of milliOnaires now filled with
gold wrung from the sweat of labor
ing men, women and children. and from
dishonest robbery from the public purse.
Now let me present for the considera-
ton of Northern laborers engaged in
manufacturing single idea. for which
bespeak a serious and thoughtful pom
derino They have been persuaded by
selfish. artful men that a protective
tariff has been made mainly IN their be-
half But beg them to look into the
matter and see how each workman'S
veal is affected by it. Take the cotton
mill hand. Say his product is protected
to the extent of Twenty-Five per cent
That is that the goods he makes are
sold by means of this tariff for that
much more than they would otherwise
bring (whether this addition of twenty
five per cent goes into his own pocket
or into the pocket of the boss. hc knows
and feels better than | can tell him) but
admitting for arguments sake 1t goes in
to his own pocket. he Is largely loser
by it. For every Twenty-Five cents the
tariff bonus gives him he has to pay out
at least twenty-five dollars. | beg him
to figure il out for himself Let him set
down in the credit column this twenty
five cents bonus on his earnings. and ii
the debit column Twenty-Five cents on
each dollar OF his spendngs. which he
. :
what he now has to pay for his sugar.
whsKev. tobacco. clothing. ronware.
tinware. crockery. and the hundred 9TH
er things which he buys, more than he
would have to pay were these things
untaxed Let him make for himself
this calculation. and if he does not find
that protection is about his worst ene-
nv. let him set me down with Billy
Bottom as an ass. | say nothing about
the fact that protection has raised and
is every day raising up fresh ccmpetl-
tors in his line of work at the South.
Let the Northern employees think for a
moment how differently the boss is af-
fected by protection. Take factory III
which 500 hands work. The boss gets
a bonus of twenty-five per cent on the
products Of their labor. Yet he has to
buy necessaries. on which lie pays the
protective tax, for only one famly-his
own. l have no doubt there is many IA
single factory hand who pays tax on as
much tobacco, sugar. and whlskey. a.
t his boss does and only one Iive-hun-
dredth part of the protective bonus falls
TO his share. SO that with the frogs III
the liable the factory hands may well
say to the boss protection may be fun
for YOU. but it is death to us. Let me
bee OF YOU, Mr.. Editor, to scatter hun-
dred copies OF your paper containing
this article among the people of manu-
featuring States, where you may think
it will do most good. and if you will no.
tify me that YOU cannot afford the cost.
will pay it.
Writing with full head and enfeebled
frame forgot to give an anecdote OF
j. c. Calhoun. which had from A. w.
Nenable who vas his intimate friend
| Some Years before his death. Mr.. C's
slaves having multiplied so that he had
not sufficient land to work them on, ht
purchased other land for which he CAV.
, his bonds I 10 not now remember tC
what sum these amounted). They were
deposited in bank for collections an,
some ot his friends, finding out tha
from bad crop years, OF the low price o
cotton. their payment would suhlec
Mr. &. to perhaps much Inconvenience
7 went 10 the bank, and paid them off
Mr.. c. in speaking of The matter to Mr.
Nenahle told him that no circumstance
D in his lite had given him 50 much pain
: or had so Inundated him-that he knew
: this had been done by his best friend
from the kindest motives-hut for al
that he had been greatly hurt i'll teriin.
bv their action. As soon as he coul
! raise the means. he repaid the sum thu
v paid Tor him in full. How different thi
y from Mr. Webster's action under llk
!. circumstances Clay, whose friends,
believe. at one time paid off fifty thou>
J and dollars of his debts, and which wa
i never repaid. cannot be made an otlse
IS against Webster; for after the glitter {