Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-07-19
some Conliaon Sense.
Nasl.viiis a Art!.a4t.


N.arm'SS ,o-,gtkri mat Ia laln.r
Is "lia, fie t.Famr "nd nsrlsanic
HantS. II hr tiriNf- hi> ninri,et
across tiic ,ar9in dan't he iniS very
'itssr Inr the liulr 2,Vin,@l hr nnsi.ts >
'n his purchases?
Wliid doth il prudt the lirlnar or
mcchanic Ia h,uid up f,,Feigu mann.
idctur,s' AMI iirrr'i,y g,t Il .iit.sli ~.
ductiVn in price uf things he uses IL
lac reduces the price 81 his work
and products In a greater proper
ton?
Free tradc may have been an ele-
I gaut thing for tho SmtlI in days Of
yOre when she wis purely ngricuIt.
ural, hut Just now she Is lHsuming
a manufacturing country and lOa't
care 10 cut her throat to feed Eug-
lish iron nOngcrs with her life
| blood.
The market for farm products
and the demand for mechanical Ia
bOr doesn't come from the country,
but from the towns aud cities. the
market for produce and for labor
and mechanical pursuits is with The
consumer, Il .d not with tho t,rRlu-
Gers. The cities and towns are the
consumers. What produces the
cities and towns? Manufacturers.
| What ruins the manufacturers and
drives them out of the country?
Free trade and no protection. Con-
sequentIy what ruins iho farineTand
impoVerishes the labnrer and me-
chanic? Free trade.
There was a time before the war
whom tho South was purely m ;lgri-
cultural people aud bought Its mtn-
utactured articles, and then they
having but little railroad cOinnIual.
cation il was ms easy tO OiiupOrt Them
from foreign countries as from the
North. That day il past, and tho
South is now doing, to large OK.
tent, increasing every year, her own
manufacturing and giving employ
ment to her own IabOrcrs aud me.
chanics. She will mover commit
the suicidal policy ~ bringing the
cheap hhOr of f0reigi. countries in
competition with her new horn
com nparntively feeble Industries and
stifiiing them I'm their Infancy Tor
want of little protection. Tic far
mer and labOrer of the South now
has homo market fnr the prOduc-
tiOn OF his labor, will he throw that
away and rOluc" The pricci thereof
TO that of the oppressed of Eurupcan
countries merely 10 PM in office
few self constituted aud uCrCcnarv
guardians Of the rights NJ tho pee
pie" who would ruin tho now and
growing South to add u lille Ia
their flccting hOnOr5 and put 2 few
ShecklCs in their bottumlCS3 peck
cts?
Some 0l the members of the PRES.
ent ruling political Sanhcdriid have
sclilcd the free trade position to
their own satisfaction, Nnd believe
they have settled the question of
the Chicago Democratic Convention
platform by getting rCnnesco cunI-
mittcd t0 "a SEMI free tTadO pUlny
by sharp prIciicomdcarctgl m2nip-
ulatinn. litli considering, iuat aiiCr
the careful work and aclCcjiOu nnd
drilling, only At bare majority uf 10
SO declared, the hnaineNS ana think
ing men of the iariS d0 uCt pruprSo
To bo attached &C. The chariot wheels
of the British naniiuci pr
mado part oitheir glory and 0ur
downfall.
Since the establishment of manu-
factories IN many of tho small towns
o; Tennessee during the lasi twelve
months property has increased In
value " tO 10 per eCni. nud this in
crease has extended To the csurrOund-
ing farming country, thus giving
the farmer Il direct benefit from the
Introduction of manufacturing.