The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-05-10
Report adopted


that would not have American la
borers compete with English pauper
labor though three thousand miles
away, but would bring them home to
us. He is correct. | would not have
our working men reduced to the nee
essity of working for the low wages at
which the poor men work in England.
Let the men and women of that coun-
try come to our shores, let them bring
their muscles and brains, and they
will not long be paupers, but useful
citizens, swelling our population and
making market at home for the three
hundred and thirty million dollars
worth of provisions which Revenue
Only says was exported in 1879 from
the United States. We will thus save
the transportation Of our surplus three
thousand miles across the ocean. Our
farmers will put into their pockets the
amount necessary to transport their
provisions to foreign country, and
will have more certain market.
Revenue Only is afraid this army OF
laborers will glut the markets with
cheap products. He is correct in that,
manufactured goods would become
cheaper, that is the result of assured
and continued protection. A protcc-
ton tariff Is intended to build up all
our people.
Revenue Only says,ycry earnestly
81 do insist that protection benefits
the manufacturer alone" but in the
same article admits in substance that
the tannory at Johnson City is bless
ing to all the people. Again We arc
told that protection, or to usc his very
chaste and elogantlanguage the "thioy
ing tariff" is the worst enemy oi tic
tannery, because there is a tariff on
beef hides. lie would have hides I'M
ported FROM South America free of du
ty, when he says thousands of wilt
cattle are killed for the hides alone.
Yet he wants the farmer protected
but il willing to break down the far
mer to build up something that Il,
says is alone benefited by protection
This may be consistency.
Yes we have had protection 70
twenty years and the result IL manu-
factories have increased, that we hav
had period of unprecedented pros
perity, Notwithstanding We emerge
from u destructive and prostrating wa
about that long ago. We sec even i
our own country, cotton, woollel
leather and iron manufactures spring
ing up, blessing not only the NAM
, facturer but also the farmer, the labo
J er, the merchant, the State and soei,
: ty generally, and had not the fear thu
English money would be able to co
rupt sufficient number of our NJ
t tlonal legislators to change our la
: and bring about free trade, hundred
: of manufactures would be blessin
our Southland where only tens she
their blessings.
If past history is worth anything v
should shun free trade as we would
: pestilence. The periods OF protectiC
have been periods of prosperity. FIR
! trade has brought with it bankruptc
J poverty and financial ruin as anyol
. can verify by referring to the histo
of this country.
Why is it that England floods o
country with free trade pamphlet
: Is it because she loves our people
! our money more? 1t is no wond
! that theprotectiye policy is denounc
!, as "thieying policy" Such epith,
have their origin either in. Britt
- gold or British Threats. No man W
- is unprecedented can contemplate t
a contrast between the laborers of Il
- country and England and come to a
! other conclusion. But Revenue Or
says the manufacturer alone is bel
fitted by protection. This is the
gument of the free trade party. No
ing shows more conclusively the fal
cy Of this argument than the opinio
at of intelligent men who have contra
NJ ed the conditions OF the working nj
IT. in England and the United States.
n quote from a recent number of Z
X Youths Companion, paper that
% chews politics,
ed can English statesman who visit
" this country lately spent fortnis
at in Philadelphia. One day his host
to accidentally drove him through
ct. district of Kensington, where HI
is dreds of small, clean streets are We
w ed together, lined with small, comic
he able dwellings,. Who lives here?
he said. The workmen in these gr
mills was the reply. Every no
has its gass, its heating furnace &
Its bathroom