The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-31

party came into power. has established and
constantly expanded the home market They
see that even in the case OF wheat, which IS
our chief cereal export tn ~ ave sold, in the
war, three bushels at home 70 one abroad,
and that in the case of corn, the only other
cereal which we export to any extent 1JJ
bushels have been used at home to three and
a half bushels exported. In some years the
peck exported 100 bushels have been con
sumed in the b )ne 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 its Impairment would depr C ate the
yaiue of ever acre of tillable lald in the
Union.
OUR INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as these touching the growth
and cOnsumptiO1 of cereals at home. give us
some conception of the vastpess of the in
ternal commerce of the United states. They
suggest, also tn 1T in addition to the advan-
tages which the American peop.e enjoy from
protection against foreign competition, they
enjoy the advantages of absolute free trade
over larger area and with a greater pOpula-
ton tt an any other nation The in ernal
commerce of our thirty eight Stares and ne
hind ance without tax de entfon or Govern
mental interference of any kind whatever.
1t reads freely over an area Of three and
a half million square miles-almost lual in
extent to the whole continent of Europe Its
profits are enjoyed to day by 56,00U,U00 of
Ame lean freemen, and from this IN oy m9nt
no monopoly IS created. According 20 Alex
and Hamilton, when he discussed the same
subject in 1870, the internal comp stition
like monopoly, and by degre es reduce the
prices of articles to the minimum of a reason
possible to point to a single monopoly in the
Unit ID States that has been created or
fostered by the industrial system which is up
held by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign commerce these
domestic exchanges are inconceivably great
in misunderstanding merely as one instIu-
mentality large a mileage of railway as eX-
is TO day in all the other nations of the world
combined. these internal exchanges are eS-
timatcd b. the statistical Bureau of the Treas
ury Department to be annually twenty times
1t is into this vast field of home ira ie-at
once the creation ana the heritage OF the
American pCople-thaJ foreign nations are
81 irving by Cv ry device to enter. 1t is into
this field that the opponents OF our present
revenue syst I'm vou.d freely admit the coun-
tries of EuIOpe-cOuntries into whose inter-
mai trade we could not rec p orauy enter;
countries to which we should be surrender
ing eve v advant ge of trade; from which
we should be gaining nothing in return.
EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND THE La
BORER.
A policy of this kind would be disastrous to
the mechanics aud working men OF the United
States. Wages are unjustly reduced when an
industrious man is not al Il 10y his earnings to
live in comfort educate his children and lay
by a sufficient amount for the necessities of
age. The reduction of wages inevitably con-
seguent upon throwing our home market open
10 the world, would deprive them of the power
to do this. 1t would prove a great calamity to
our country. 1t would produce a conflict te
twcea the poor and the rich, and III the sor-
rOwful de2radatiOn OF labor would plant the
seeds of public danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain just relations between labor and cap
ital-guarding with care the rights of each. A
conflict between tie two has always led in the
past and will always lead in the future to the
injury of both. Labor is indispensable to the
creation and protitab @ of capital, and cap
itaI increases the efficiency and value OF labor.
is an enemy of both That policy is wise t
and best which harmonizes the two On the
basis OF absolute justice. The Republican
party has prote ted the free labor of America
50 that its compensation is larger than is re-
allied in any other country. 1t has guarded
our people against the unfair competition of
cont It labor from China and may be called
upon to prohibit the growth of similar evil
from Europe. 1t is obviously unfair to per
nit capitalists to make contracts for cheap
labor in foreign countries to the hurt and is
arrangement of the laeorof American citizens.
Such policy, (iilSc that which would leave the
clusively in the control of the employer is in
iurious to all parties-nOt the least so to the
unhappy persons who are made the subjects
United States rest upon the intelligence and
virtue OF al the people. Suffrage is made
universal as Just weapon OF seIf-pfotect on
to every citizen. 1t is not the interest of the
Republic that any economic system should be
a1Op e / which involves the reduction OF
wages to the hard standard prevailing else
where. The Republican rarity aims TO elevate
and dignity labor, not TO degrade it.
As a Substitu for the industrial system
which under Republican ad ninistratiou has
de velOpe1 su h extraordinary prosperity, our
oppone its 0 fer a polly which is but a series
of eXl @ timents upon our sys en- OF revenue
"a policy whose end must be harm to our
EXPERIMENT in the industrial AMI fina &c al
system is the coun RVS greatest d read as sta.
bllity is its greatest DO IN. Even the uncer-
ton In Concr s. has hurtfuIly anecfed the
business of tire entire country. We can
measure the ha m to our shops and our
homes to our farms and our co m erc9, if { lie
uncertainty of perpetual tariff agitation is to
be inflicted upon Il G C untry? We are the
MID It of an abundant harvest; we are on the
eve OF a revival OF gener Il prosperity. Moth
ing ands in our way but the drea of a
change in the industrial system VIII en- has
D h do. fHG ~
years, and which with the power of increased
capital viii wo k still eater marvels of
prosperity in the twenty years TO come
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic
| development. We are at peace with the world
! at I e ice up IN a sound basis with no unset
/ tied questi, of sufficient magnitude to en-
| barraSs distract us. Happily removed BY
| our &c graphical position from participation
! or int est in tho &c que stiOnS of dynasty o.
boundary which so frequently disturb the
peace of E. rope, we are left to cultivate
! ire ldiy re a ions with all, and a. free from
| IossiI lie entin2lements in the quarrels OF any.
| The Unite sta e has no cause and no desire
| to engage in conflict wi h any pt Wer on
| Garth and we may rest in assured confidence
that 20 power desires to attack the United
| With tire notions of the Western hemisphere
| we should cultivate closer relations. and for
| our common prosperity and advance .nent we
should invite them ali to join with us in an
| al troubles in North or South America shall be
adjusted by impair ial arbitration, and not by
| arms. This project was art of the hXed pol
/ icy of President Gartield'S administration,
| and IN 1uld, in my judgment, be renewed. Its
I accomp ishment on this continent would
favOIably affect the nations beyond the sea,
and thus powerfully contribute at dis ant
day to the universal acceptance of the phil
anthrOnic aud Christ an principle of arbltra-
ton. The effect even of suggesting it Tor the
! spa. ism American States has been most hap
| py, and has increased the confidence of those
/ people in or friendly disposition. 1t fell to
! M lot as Secretary of State in une, 1881, to
quiet apprehension in the Republic of Mexico
by giving the assurance in an official dispatch
| that there not the fai1test desire in tn ,
| United states or territorial exc IS on south
| of the Rio Grande. The boundaries OF the
two republics have been established in con
/ fornity W tn the best juTisui 3tOual interests
of both The line of demarcatIon.is not mere
| ly conventional. 1t is more. 1t separates a
/ Spanish American people from Saxon
| American people, IL DIVIDES one great ma
ton from another with distinct and natural
We seek the conquests of peace. We de-
sine to extend our commerce. and in an
SsPecllL tce W1'H Out w 's.1i ~ IN
borS on TINS continent, we nave not I'M
proved our relations with SPANS Amer ca
as wisely and pc Sls5enty as we might nave
done. For mo re than generation the sym
pathies of those countries have been al owed
to DRIFT away f ON US. we should now make
trade with them is already large. Dur.ng the
last year our Xchanges IN the we.terIl nc m
lsphere amounted TO S3o0On,OJO-nearly one
fourth of our entire foreign commerce. To
those who may be disposed to underrate the
value o. our tale with the countries
of No tn and South America it may
be well TO state that their population
is nearly or quite 50OO0.OJ9-and that in
proportion to aggregate numbers, we import
nearly double as much from them as we do
from Europe. But the result of the whole
American trade is in a high degree unsatis-
factory. The imports during the past year
| exceeded Sas2j. eco ODD, while the exports were
less than Sl25 O0O, O0O showing baIan G
against us of more than 500 .0no 0O0. But the
mOneg docs not go to Spani America We
send large sums to Europe in coin or its
equivalent to ray European manufacturers
for the goods which they send to spanish
| America We are but paymasters for this
| enormous amount annually to European fac
| tors-an amount VIII CHI is serious iraft in
! every financial depression, upon our re-
/ sources oil specie.