The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-09-11

means competition with this sort
labor. 1t is little better in &c
many, though a return to protecCio
has improved it somewhat. In Ell
gland the Cornish miners, drivin
tunnels in the mides, receive SIS t
$l7 per month, while we pay $50 t
$50, carpenters, stone-masOns an
laborers receiving less than half tn
wages we pay in Alabama" Ate
pointing out the very genera
shrinkage in values that would fol
low tariff reduction, Mr.. Noble says
"The south is in no condition tt
stand shrinkage. We have bu
limited supplies, and we accumu
late but slowly. How can it b.
otherwise, pursuing, as we hav,
done for Dearly a century, only on,
industry, the cultivation of the soil
each farmer coming into competi
tion with his neighbor, all engaged
la the same pursuit and shipping
the products of their labor thou
sands of miles to a middle ground
where it came in competition with
the cheap fellah labor of Egypt aud
of one hundred millions of laborers
in India, who are paid a few cents
only a day? Is it any wonder our
people are poorI How can they be
otherwise? How can they accu
mulate anything wheo, year after
year they are butting their heads
against such competition-com .eti
tlon rendered keener every year by
improved means of transportation
IN ladia and shor ening and lessen
ing risks by way OF the SUI z Canal &?
1t Is our planters who pay the cost
of transportation of their product,
Lhe handling, waste, loss of interest
IN getting to market, and the trans
pOrCatiOn and loss and waste and
interest of what they receive L.
RETURN
This system"has impoverished"
them. They are to-day lltt'e better
OIL than the foreign labor with whom
they compete. Not one in ten of
our farmers have barely the ne
cessities, let alone the comforts, OF
civilized life.
I'm a recent trip through the
south l was struck with the power
ty of the people outside the new
industrial o nters, where diversified
have changed every thing,
there are no people on
hn b
longer hours, through heat and cold,
and have less to show for it than
our farmers. spent two weeks
last fall in trip through the ad-
joining counties. The weather was
line and 1 did not see an idle man,
woman or child, white or black,
old enough to work. They were
busy from morning till night.
"rhe secret of this trouble is the
lack of diversified industries. l
asked "a farmer whose orchard was
dying out why he did not plant
more trees. His reply was that he
could not sell his fruit and he had
enough for his own use. Where
stopped over night 1 saw large
1Ock of bronzed turkeys. 1 asked
.he landlady why she did not sell
hem. She replied, L did take a
wagon load to town and only could
get seventy-five cents for a gobbler
and take IL in trade, 81 l brought
hem home again.
This, indeed, tells the story in a
way that every farmer will under
stand.
Until we bring the artisan to the
iOor of the farmer our country and
people ~ill always be poor. If the
armer feeds the artisan, he, in
1rn, will build the farmers house,
plaster the walls, paint it, paper it,
;arpet the floor, and put in suita BILE
short, will improve
us condition. But our policy has
'een to keep the artisan in the
lOrth and Europe, while we raised |
he raw material to- be worke up
nto manufactured goods by labor
aid higher wages than our farmers
an earn, and besides having the |
elp of mechanical power that did
be work of millions of men. flour
tate was dotted all over, as the
Iestern states are, with such towns
) Atlanta, Chattanooga, Admission,
tc., the farmer W uid have mar
ct at his door, saving time, all
Osts and risks, and enabling him
, buy hundred comforts he 9th,
rwise must do without"
The north and west, by availing
lemselves of the protective polio,
f our government, have estab
shed manufactures every where
ou have brought the farmer ami
lie workingman together, each
orking for and promoting the com
,rt of the other. The result is you
ave grown in population, power
nd wealth, far surprising anything
yer known in the history of any
eOple in the world. You have in
-eased your purchasing power So
lat you can buy anything we have
, sell. All Europe sends you its
lrplus manufactures. While we,
Ike spoiled child, are pouting and
sfuse to avail ourselves of the wise
'gislation OF statesmen, who when
ley advocated a protective policy,
uilded better than they knew.
THE only portions of our state
here lands increase in value and
lr people in prosperity are where
goes hand in hand
ith agriculture. Our people, our
are in the same old rut,
re same old policy of half centu-
: ago, they will learn nothing by
lie past, nothing by what is before
leir eyes. We, more than any sec
on of our country, need a protec-
We tariff, one high enough to KEEP
ut every dollar of everything we
,uld manufacture or produce al
ONE.
"What we need is the certainty
the continued system of legisla-
on and finance that will bring q
nick and easy exchange of COM
ODDITIES among our own people
lat is best done by keeping our
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