The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-09

wealth. as IL VAS hiTcsuy puhpth uFV
the channels Of our commercial
wealth abroad Why then condemn
free trade, that hears US up at home.
and the only thing that can bear us
up abroad, and countenance tariff
protection, that let's us down as home
aud let's us down abroad. IL seems to
me that this listening to and con.
sulting of monopolies as to how much
duties can lie reduced consistent with
their interests commenced at Harris
burg and continued ell, eliminating
in the carousals of the tariff commits
sion Of recent date. 1t seems to me
that such iniquitous obeissnce to per-
sonal interests, such degrading of the
rights of the people. such denying
and refusing to grant equal rights tC
the masses, by foreelosing the earn
ings of their labors to erect protec>
ted noneyed nobility that well nigh
rules the government, and will soon,
if not displaced, entirely control elsc'
tions, it seems to me that such der
elections, such Apostacles from the
faith of patriot sires, who framed the
constitution with the leaven Of com,
mercisl freedoa, purposely to exclude
British protection, which had downed
at their mandate, and equal rights
had upped to the head of the corner,
if this second edition Of British pro.
lection, now entrenchsd with n world
of money, and its emissaries danger
ously numerous and untiring in the
halls of coagress, is not met promptly
by political Lutlierism that knows
no trucking to corruptions of money
and personal interests, equal rights
are downed forever. If this is not
true picture, and equal rights of
the constitution are not ignored by
protection rulings, why this great
buzz in monopoly camps? Why
this engineering to reach bottom eff
fort to impede reform in behalf of the
peoples cause? Why these taunts
against freedom of trade, born upon
American soil, born upon the ashes
of British protection. lives and flashes
10 every line Of the constitution.
Why this great alarm, when the peo-
Piles, cause comes up for recognition,
asking not protection moneys, asking
not preference in legislation, but sims
ply to he squals' Why this array
against free trade, but to stab the
success of the peoples cause, 10y stab
bing this, its bulwsrks, without which
"sll other liberty is a mockery'" The
rulings Of congress then are that the
doctrine Of eqsal rights exist no lon
ger, impoverisbing to Zurich, degrad>
ing to elevate. For thcre can be no
equal rights or liberty where one 10
debarred from the fruits Of his labor
to promote another class. Equal
rights supplsnted, and misnosler,
"vested interest" raised to crush leg
islation. The most dangerous feat
are connected with this t'riff dis
custom is the want of decision.
All admit that the stimulus impaired
by protection to investment in man
utacturing is no small evil, causing
declension in those industries, from
which investments are thus drawn,
and at the same time causing unnatu
raj Investments in manufacturing,
to the distres, of the country, thu
staying both ways, producing slsugh
ter of interests that rises to the in
conceivable. Why lament as to the
stimulus produced by incidental pro
lection and permit the cause to exist
The least stimulus produces unnatura
investment. No removal Of the on,
without removal of the other. Blu
they say, of course, the incidenta
protection must be kept up, yet thu
incidental protection produces all tn
undue stimulus complained of. 1t i
hest for all that every man take hi
stand for or against protection. If h
is for protection, let him he for protec
ton in all it's evils If he is agains
protection, let him be against protec
ton in all its evils. In the Dali
World, Nashville, Tenn, Jan 1854
We find the following from Hon
Hewitt: "If the question were an ope
one the Democratic party would pre-
fer to raise the public revenue by du
ties imposed upon articles not pro
duced in this country, and trust
: natural laws for the develop
) ment Of its industries. But the que
: ton is foreclosed by the great extel
5 of the protected industries replscin
> dead industries, which otherwi.
. would have thrivsn." Representative
of the sovereign people tells the cour
, try that the Democratic party, on
hope of permanent revenue reform,