The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-16

was for them 4 harvest of gold, but har-
vest OF fraternal blood for all the other
States, became Immensely rich, and that
wealth by many of Its owners Is now seek
ing investment all over the South ana
West. and in Mexico rs well. Profit with
such people is everything; liberty, justice,
the rights of man, and the agricultural and
laboring millions nothing. They-that Is,
the wealthy classes, shOddieS all-are
ready TO ensave the people il it VIII IN
crease their percentage. The commercial
interest of New York city is apparently
land sIlpremeIy selfish. To increase her
commerce she would sacrifice America.
Her press, or large portion OF
it. though able. is venal. selfish.
Pharisaical beyond description. Every
thing for New York-fish, flesh, fatness,
bones. soup, aud charity balls for Amer
lea and her own starvlings. This is the
watchwOrd.
What has been the
EFFECT OF THE nigh TARIFF?
What would be the effect OF its sudden re-
duction? These are serious questions.
Though the whole country by the high
tariff has in many things suffered and been
plundered, yet the evil is curing itself and
will soon he healed.
EXAMPLES: BeSsemer steel yielded so great
profit as TO draw very large investment
of capital. Consequence, vast reduction
in the price. Wool-The tariff has been
so great us to stimulate the raising of sheep
in the great West and South to such an
extent that in few years it will be pro-
duced there Ms cheap and as good as any
where in the world. The manufacture OF
cotton has been so stimulated that the
South will very soon undersell New
England In our markets and become fair
competitor in the worlds markets. The
same may be said OF large variety OF
manufactures now springing up all over
the South and West.
| The policy Of some OF the aStute manu-
facturers recently interviewed by the New
York Herald is
TO CHECK ALL THIS.
and thus continue to monopolize all the
manufacturing. Like the policy of the
! Herald and many of the eastern papers and
politicians, 10 beegar the Treasury in order
| to prevent the Government from improving
the great rivers of the South and West.
and thus divcrting trade and manufactures
to these sections. Hence to continue to
monopolize the manufacturing interests
they propose to cripple the manufactures
in these sections. Cheap machinery would
greatly promote the manufacturing inter
ests Of the South and West. Propose. if
YOU like, to take the tariff off machinery.
and you will hear the East howl. But by
a very reduced tariff to check the prOduc-
ton of wool and vast variety OF other raw
material now produced III the South and
West they hope to check the growth OF The
manufacturing interests in these sections.
They see that with the raw material and
cheap labor at our doors, and
A SPLENDID CLIMATE,
we can manufacture cheaper than they can
and save TO ourselves the cost OF double
transportation. Hence they propose to adj
nit the raw material duty free, and at the
same time force the South and West to buy
their manufactures by holding them to {
protective tariff, hoping thus to keep down
competition, both from our own and frou
foreign manufacturers, and at the same Tint
20 into the markets OF the world and ther
sell as cheap as the cheapeSt-that il, when
they have crushed out southern and west
ern manufactures, and the foreign manu-
facturers with their oVn at their O1ril price
they will take the surplus to foreign mar
7 kets and sell at diminution OF 10 to 81
per cent. as compared with the home mar
ket, and at the same time at good profit
So swindling and
RASCALLY A SCHEME
D should be thrOttled and exposed at once
III there is 10 be a protective tariff or
manufactures for the benefit OF the manu-
iacturer, hen let the foreign raw materia
pay q corresponding tax Tor the benefit o
) tobacco, rice, sugar, wool, iron, coal, anC
} many other Of the raw products OF the
South and West. We are not prepared
} nor do we propose, to sacrifice these vas
: and growing products, from which $4,000.
! 900 OF people derive so great wealth, il
order TO convert the East into vast man
! uiacturing establishment, for their benefi
and the ruin of our raw products and In
I FAINT manufacturing establishments. De
stroy these products and you suddenly
throw out OF employment hundreds o
thousands OF laborers in the South ant
c West, pauperizc the employers, and con
vert them into producers Of gram aud cot
ton, thus Cutting market already full
and reducing the pay Of all now employed
: in agriculture. Ii we are to have protec
ton for manufactures. let us also have pro
: lection for the raw material. "Equait.
: is liberty y has very wide application.
Senator Kellogg tells the interviewer o
the New York Herald =" that II the duty i
\ taken off sugar Louisiana will become
! Republican State" and the Herald sees il
this infinite selfshness and want OF patriot
/ ism In Louisiana, while 1t can sees in il
own uniform and persistent purpose. a
the spokesman for the commerce OF New
:, York city, TO sacrifice the whole countr,
5 for the supposed advancement OF th
: commercial interests OF that great city M
\ selfishness at all. (Cannot the Herald Sc
. that vast amount OF the commerce 0
New York city is wholly dependent on tn
t production OF raw material by our people
The money appropriated to the improve
ment Of the rivers Of the South and Yves
Is great steal In the opinion OF the pres
and politicians Of the East, particularly II
the opinion OF the Herald. Wbys BE
cause it diycrts trade from the East 4
0 more southern ports. DO they not know
that even the partial improvement Of oil
rivers has reduced frelghts many million
, l. a year, and as the improvement goes OIL
Eis reducing them still lower Can't th
world see the Phariseeism egotism anl
selhshness Of the East!