The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-18


whole nations riding up TO gree
our nation in commercial amity
| Our people for the most part sit il
appalling ignorance of an opportu
nifty such as was never spread ou
before any nation since the morn
ing stars sang together. "On tn
south three gates" yea, 800
and all Of them wide open.
l have had facts put before m,
enough to keep man awake night
because of their startling signid
cance and statistics so loaded with
meaning that they move with the
splendor and power of the IroI
Dukes army at Waterloo- Scotch
Greys and the Life Guards anc
Packs Infantry, and battalions o.
Ponsonby and Ryland, and the
Dutch Belgians and Highlander
sounding their bagpipes. Aye.
aye! 1t is blooiless Waterloo
which viii decide the commercial
destiny of North and South Ameri-
ca. The simple fact that the vast
realms of population in the tropics
are buying from the transatlantic
nations almost everything, and
from us almost nothing, and the
tide ought to turn, and the tide
will turn, and l preach this sermon
TO help it turn--your ears will tin
gle with the intensity of this reci-
tai. In 1880 So, 1863, 100000 worth
of goods manufactured in the Uni
ted States, and only 2 per cent. ia
ken by foreign markets. 1t is a
marvel that
AMERICAN MANUFACToRIES
are not as dead as the proverbial
door nail.
My only wonder is that nine
tenths of the manufactures have
not gone into bankruptcy, and nine
ty-nine one hundreths of the facto-
ry hands gone into starvation or
the almshouse; and it will be worse
if the battle is to go on between
Lowell spindles here and Manches-
ter spindles there; between foreign
merchants, who want tariff down,
and American merchants, who want
tariff up. There is no relief for us
in the markets of Europe, and will
be none till moons shall wax and
wane no more. Another door to-
ward the south. On the south three
gates. This nation to- day is like a
silly dry goods merchant who
stands behind the counter haggling
with a small customer about three
yards of tape, when there are at the
counter impatiently waiting three
princes wishing to purchase their
bridal trouseaux. May God rouse
this nation from its commercial
idiocy!
On the south of us are regions
nearly three times as large as the
United States, which are without |
manufactures, without wooden
goods, without agricultural imple-
nents, without shoes, without sew
ng machines, without ten thou
sand things that we have and that
hey must have. Where shall they
get them? They are getting them
rom 5000 miles away, and we at
,he next door from them are bur
ed under surplus of these very
,hings. They are able to trade
With us for their sugars and coffees
md spices and fruits and valuable
woods, We need as much as they
need our products. But look, and |
hen hang your heads at the state
nent that while our next-door
the southern republics
md Brazil and neighboring colo
lies import $675,0OO,O00 worth OF
goods in a year, only $I26,00O,O0O |
Ire from the United States. Only
one-ffth of the trade is ours, Eu-
'opean nations taking the four fin
gers and leaving us the poor thumb
The sister republics on the Ameri-
ian continent have a foreign com
nerce amounting to $42S,O00, 900 of |
which we have the feeble and pal
nv sum of $63, 100000. There is
nothing but comparative ferry be-
ween this country and the West
indies, while there are raging seas
If long voyages between them aud |
,ther countries. Yet they import |
s1I5, 100000 worth of goods year,
md only $3I, 100000 come from us. |
Now all this is going to be speed
ly changed, and the change is go
ng to be the solution of the labor
question and the bread question
md the communistic question and |
he over production and under-con-
question and almost every
'ther question. 1t is going to set
IL the.mills on the Merrimac ard
he Connecticut and the Susquehan-
Ia and the Chattahooche, running
lay and night with double set of
lands, and calling for ten factories
Vhere we have one factory, and put
ing all the men who are now out of
into work at good wa
res, and change this story of dull
ines into a prosperity which will
oil ON in full tide until the Missis-
ippi loses its way to the Gulf of
Iexico. l am more thankful for
he past blessings of this country
han 1 am thankful for this opening
pportunity, in its height stupen-
Ious and in it's width hemispheric.
How will 1t be done2 Among
ther things, by such action as that
7hich led our congress to apprOpri-
tie 81, 100000 to the Worlds Expo
ition, Mexico giving 100000 and
lew Orleans 100000. That Ex-
'osition, though preceded by the
,ydenham, Crystal Palace and the
french and the Vienna and the
expositions, will be in
ar-reaching significance
LORE IMPORTANT THAN ALL OF THEM
ut together They showed chiefly
that hod been done. The Exposi-