The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-07-24

millions Of dollars (Si2 00O, o 10 aJO,-tSe whole
OF Il being the product OF American labor
Evidently a protective tariff has not injured
| our export trade when, under its influence
\ we expo ted in twenryfour yolrs forty per
cent moe than the total amount that had
| been exported in the entire previous history
| OF American commerce All the details
| when analYzed, correspond with this glgan ie
result. The commercial cities OF the Union
/ never had such growth ms they have hal
| since 1850. Our chief emporium, the City of
! New York. with its dependencies has with
| in that petiod doubled he r population and in
creased her wealth five fold. During the
4 same period the imports and exports which
nave en- cred and LETT her harhOr are more
| than double in bulk and value the who O
4 amount imported and exported b. her be-
tween the settlement of the FIRST Dutch col
ony on the island Of Manhattan, and tie out
/ break of the civil war in 1860.
AGRICULTuRE AND THE TARIFF.
4 The agricultural interest is by far the largest
\ in the Nation, and is entitled In every adjust
ment q revenue laws to tha first eonsldera-
4 tlOn, Any policy hostile t. the fullest dcvel-
| opment or agriculture in the United States
4 must lie abandoned. Realizing this fact the
1 opponents Of the present system Of revenue
4 nave labored very earnestly to persuade the
4 farmers of the United States that they are
l robbed by the protective tariff, and the effort
Is thus made TO consolidate their vast influence
IN favor Of free trade, But happily the farm
eis Of America arc Intelligent aud cannot be
misled by sophistry when conclu i've fact are
peiorc them, Ihey sec plainly that, during
/ the past twentyfGur years wealth has not
\ been acquired by one section or by one in
4 terest ut the expense of another section or
/ another interest. They see that the agricul-
I tural States have made even more RAPID
progre than the manufacturing St,tes.
The farmers see that in 1860 Mas 'achusetts
ana Illinois had about the same wealth-be-
tween NO0000W and $780, 100 each--nnd
that in 1870 Massachusetts had advanced to
S2'G06 Oo0 00Q, while Illinois had advanced to
S5,2UuUOO,O01. They see that New Jersey and
Iowa were just equal in population IN 1860,
and that in twenty years the wealth of New
Jersey was increased by the sum of $S5O,000,-
D.. nj In xFa Inn Ittf
the sum Of Sl,50l09,000. They see that the
nine lea ling agricultural States OF the West
have grown 50 rapidly in prosperity that the
aggregate addition to their wea tn since 1850 is
almost as great as the wealth of the entire
country IA that year. They see that the
South, which is almost exclusively aqricui-
tura, has shared in the general prosperity.
and that having recovered from the loss aud
devastation Of war, has gained SO rapidly that
IT'S total wealth Is at least the double of that
which it possessed in 1850 exclusive of slaves.
In these extraordinary developments the
farmers are the helpful impulse of Il home
market, aud they Sse that the fina lcIal and
revenue system, enacted since the Republican
party came into power. has established and
constantly expanded the home market. They
see that even i'll the case of wheat, which is
our chief cereal export, they nave sold, In the
average of the years since the clos of the
anu that IN the case of corn, the only other
cereal which we export tl any extent 100
bushels have bcen used ut nome to three and
hat bushels exported. In some years the
disparity has been so great that for every
peck exported 100 bushels have been con
snmed IN the u lme market The farmers see
that IN the increasing competition from the
grain fields Of Russia aud from the distant
plains OF India, the growth of the home mar
ket becomes daily Of greater concern TO them
and that It's impairment would deprsciate the
yalue Of every acre of tillahle land in the
Union.
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as those touching the growth
and consumption of cereals ut home give us
some conception of the vastness of the in
ternal commerce Of the United tates They
suggest, also tn II in addition to the advan-
tages which the American peOp enjoy from
protection against foreign competition they
enJOy the advantages OF abs lute free trade
over larger area nnd W tn greater popula.
ton tran any other nation. the in ernal
commerce of our thirty eight Sta-es and n.ne
Territories Is carried on without let or
hindrance, without tax, de entiOn or Govern
mental interference OF any kini whatever.
IL r. ads freely over an area of IN rec and
q nalt million square miles almost tial in
extent TO the whole continent of EuroDa Its
pro1ts are enjoyed today by 56,0Ju,f0 of
Ane ican freemen, aud from this n ,oy mont
no monopoly is ereated. According to Alex
ander Hamilton, when he discussed tho same
subject in 1888, "the Internal comp ,tition
which takes p nee docs away with everything
like monopoly, and by Gegrt eS rcdLce ths
prices OF articles to tie minimum of reason
able profit on the capital employed" 1t is i'm
possible 70 POI u 20 single monopoly in the
Unit d States tina has been created or
fostered by the industrial system which is up.
held by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign com nerce these
domestic exchanges are inconceivaby great
in amount-requring merely as one instIu.
Ineatality as large IN leage of rnllwayas ex.
lists to-day in all the other nations of tho world
combined. these internal exchanges nre o.
tinlated by the statistical Bureau of the Treas
ury Department TO be annually twenty times
rs great in amount rs our foreign commerce.
Ii is into this vast field OF home tra1e--4at
once the creation and the hcrit, ne OF the
American people-that foreign nn ions are
striving by ovt try device t) enter IL is into
- Il lraf afa S.r.
revenue system would freely admit the cOun-
tries of Eut0pe-couutTies into whose inter
nal trade we could not rec ,ocally enter;
ing every advant ge of trade; from which
we should be gaining nothing in return.
EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND THE La
BoRRR.
A policy of this kind would be disastrous TO
the mechanics and working men of the United
States. Wages are uniustly reduced when an
industrious man Is not allie by his earnings to
i've in comfort, Educate his children and lay
by sufficient amount for the necessities Of
uge. The reduction of wages inevitably rOu.
se9uent upon throwing our home market open
10 the world, would deprive them of the pbwer
to do this. II would prove a great calamity to
our country. 1t would produce conflict o.
tween the poor and the rich, and ia the sor-
fowful de9radatlon of labor would plant the
seeds of public danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain lust relations o ween labor and cap
ital-EuaednP with care The rjFhts Of uach A
conflict between the tw o mas always led in the
past and will always lead in the future 10 The
injury OF both Labor is Indispensable TO the
creation and prufltab e use of eapitt and ctip-
ltal increases tho efficiency and value Of lator.
whoever arrays the one against the other
ls an enemy Of both. That policy Is wisest
and best which harmoniAes the two on the
basis OF absolute justice. The Republican
party has prol G tied the free labor of America
50 that its compensation is larger than is re-
allied in any other country, II has guarded
our people against the unfair competition of
CONT act labor from China and may be called
upon TO prohibit the growth of d Similar evil
from Europe 1t is obviously Unfair TO per
init capitalists to make contracts for cheap
labor in foreign countries TO the hurt and dis
Iaragement of the lHborof American citizens
such policy, 0ike that which would leave the
time and other conditions of home labor ex-
clusivey in the control of the employer) is in
JulioHs TO all parties-not the least so TO the
unhappy pc sons who are made the subjects
Of the contract. The institutions OF the
United States rest upon the intelligence and
virtue of all the people. Suffrage is made
universal as a just weapon of self-protect!on
to every citizen. II is not the interest of the
kepuhiic thai any economic system should be
adop ell which involves the reduction OF
wages to the hard standard prevailing else
where The Republican PARTY aims 10 elevate
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