The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

tannery if hides are on the free list,
the building OF the tanhery since the
removal Of the duty shows the Bless
ing Of free trade. 1t Is a clear case of
suicide, and we leave him ike Byron's
struck eagle "To view his own feath-
er on the fatal dart"
"Protection" wants to know why it
is the tide of immigration does not
change from America to England, if
the latter country is so prosperous
under free trade. He actually grows
grandiloquent ON this subject but his
point is like "a grain of wheat hidden
in three measures of chaff." | did not
assert or even intimate that England
was n more prosperous country than
America | only compared England
with protection and England with free
trade. ] do assert that the United
States is the best country under the
sun. Her natural resources are the
wonder of the world, and with few
years of free trade to stimulate COM
merce, our country would not only
become more and more prosperous,
but would furnish every quarter ofthe
earth with her productions If free
trade did SO much for England, why
will ii not do great things for Amer
lea?
That quinine argument is still
born monstrosity, 1t is another boom
erang. lie asserts that the American
laborcrs would not work for the low
wages they work for in Germany, and
the quininG manufacturer was forced
to 60 to Germany in order to get la
borers for lower wages. That estab-
fishes the position | have already as
serted, that free trade makes high
wages Quininc was on the Ameri-
can free list and wages were so high
the manufacturer could not pay them,
and he was compelled to go to Ger
many-GCrmany that has IN extreme
protective lariil, 0Iind "pauper Labor .
| Oi course "ProtcctiOn" wants the tar
in'put back on quinino, q medicine,
50 that it will bring big
price; he wants the poor invalida
racked and tortured with aguc, burn,
ing with fever, and clamy with chills
of whom there are thousands all over
our southern, and malarial counties,
to pay a high price for quinine, there
only remedy, in ordcrto protect that
strong, reliable. intelligent firm, with
a large capital" ooh shame, where
is thy blush?'
am relieved Of answering con-
siderable portion OF his communities
ton, by his own statement that the
| ~ Y. Heraid agrees with my view of
the question and Lam inclined to Let
the Herald be weighed as authority
against his bold statement. M
We are told that previous to 1867
Bessemcr steel rails were sold in this
country by England for $50 per ton,
but now we are supplied by American
manufacturers ut $37 per ton. "Pro-
tectionn surely iforgets that most Of
\ 1.-THE Steel rails now used in this oojih-
try are of English manufacture.
Maj. Pettibone sdid in his speech at
Bristol the other day, that he travelled
from Bristol to Memphis on the rail
road short time before, and that ev-
cry steel rail he passed over was OF
English manufacture. Take off the
tariff and we can buy steel rails for
500 per ton, and then "down with the
walls and out to the sea- and in few
years our country will be threaded
and traversed in every direction by a
net work Of railroads, and our mer
chantmen viii carry our freight to the
"fartherest corners Of the earth" ..,.E
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