The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-24

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in one section or by one interest at the
expense of another section or another
They see that the agricultural
States have made even more rapid pro-
gress than the manufacturing States.
The farmers see that in 1860 Massa-
chusetts and Illinois had about the same
eight and nine hundred
million dollars each-and that in 1880
had advanced to twenty.
six hundred millisns, while Illinois had
advanced to thirty-two hundred millions.
They see that New Jersey and Iowa were
Just equal in population in 1860 and that
in twenty years the wealth of New Jer-
sey was increased by the sum of eight
hundred and fifty millions of dollars,
while the wealth of Iowa was increased
by the sum of fifteen hundred millions.
They see that the nine leading agricultu-
raj States of the West have grown so
rapidly in prosperity that the aggregate
addition to their wealth since 1860 is
almost as great as the wealth of the en-
tire country in that year. They see that
the South, which is almost exclusively
agricultural, has shared in the general
prosperity and that having recovered
from the loss and devastation of war, has
gained 80 rapidly that its total wealth is
at least the double of that which it pos
sessed in 1860, exclusive of slaves.
They see that even in the case of
wheat, which IS our chief cereal export,
they have sold, in the average of the
years since the close of the war, three
bushels at home to one they have sold
abroad, and that in the case of corn, the
only other cereal which we export to any
extent, one hundred bushels have been
used at home to three and half bushels
exported. The farmers see that in the
increasing competition from the grain
fields of Russia and from the distant
plains of India, the growth of the home
market becomes daily of greater concern
to them and that its impairment would
depreciate the value of every acre OF
tillable land in the Union.
The internal commerce of our thirty.
eight States and nine Territories is car.
ried on without let or hindrance, without
tax, detention or governmental interfer-
ence of any kind whatever. 1t spreads
freely over an area of three and a half
million square miles-almost equal IN
extent to the whole continent of Europe.
Its profits are enjoyed to-day by fifty'six
millions of American freemen, and from
this enjoyment no monopoly is created.
r. ia into this vast field of home trade
at once the creation and the heritage of
the American people, that foreign nations
are striving by every device to enter. 1t
is into this field that the opponents OF
our present revenue system would freely
admit the countries of Europe-countries
into whose internal trade we could not
reciprocally enter; countries to which
we should be- surrendering every advan'
tage of trade; from which we should be
gaining nothing in return.
A policy of this kind would be disas-
trous to the mechanics and working men
of the United States. Wages are un-
Justly reduced when an industrious man
is not able by his earnings to live in COM
fort, educate his children, and lay by q
sufficient amount for the necessities OF
age. The reduction of wages inevitably
consequent upon throwing our home
market open to the world would deprive
them of the power to do this.
The Republican party has steadily
aimed to maintain just relations between
labor and capital-guarding with care
the rights of each. The Republican par
ty has protected the free labor of Amer
ica so that its compensation is larger than
is realized in any other country. 1t has
guarded our people against the unfair
competition of contract labor from China
and may be called upon to prohibit the
growth of similar evil from Europe.
It is obviously unfair to permit capital
lists to make contracts for cheap labor IN
foreign countries to the hurt and dlspar-
apement of the labor of American citi'
zens.
AS substitute for the Industrial sys-
tenn which under republican administra-
tion has developed such extraordinary
prosperity, our opponents offer policy
which is but series of experiments upon
our system of revenue-a policy whose
end must be harm to our manufactures
and greater harm to our labor. Expert
ment in the industrial and financial sys-
tenn is the country's greatest dread, as
stability is it's greatest boon. The Uni
ted States has no cause and no desire to
engage in conflict with any power on
earth, and we may rest in assured con-
fdence that no power desires to attack
the United States.
With the nations of the Western Hem
isphere we should cultivate closer rela,
tions and for our common prosperity aud
advancement we should invite them all
to Join with US in an agreement that tor
the future all international troubles IN
North or South America shall be adjust
ed by impartial arbitration and not ny
arms.
The letter enlarges on this subject and
recites the impossibility of any anne3a-
tiop of Mexico, stating that the line be
tween an American Spanish" and an
"American Saxon" people is broad and
must be kept 80. -,
The South, Mr.. Blaine says, is devel'
oping and becoming peaceful and happy
under the republican government and
would be injured BY a change, and
especially by the abolition of the protec'
tive tariff. The Democratic party, ne
contends, Injuries the South by urging its
consolidation and sitting its patriotism.
General remarks in favor of the elimi-
nation of partisanship from the civil SER
vice. against the Mormons and in favor
Of gold and silver and interchangeable
currency follow. The Republican and
Democratic platform declarations in
favor of public lands to actual settlers
are endorsed, and encouragement to
American shipping interests favored, and
The letter concludes with brief essay on
the sacredness of the ballot.
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