National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-05


~ andseize 5000 of this,
leaving tno poor planteout $500 to live on
and pay the expenses o keepilg his slaves
Preposterous as all tn was, md although
every planter had the cans # showing it
could not possibly be tie, they all believed
it to be true, and armct themselves to fight
tho government and dfoy the republic
to save their section fro tho tyranny and
theft, ln!ls2s the COVER ont d Expenses were
525,OOOOoo, and as so pI cent of the value
of southern productions arIoIn,d to not less
than $l35,000,0OO, the south, Ger paying all
the government expenses, was Numbered for
the benefit of the north to theune of S11O,.
100000 annually if the thoorygas true that
exports paid tho duties, and IL tariff raised
the price of all foreign and all dmcstic manu-
features an average of 60 per cot.
The old forty.bao theory is ut doing duty
now, and we no longer hear hat southern
products pay all the government expenses
and 400 per cent. bonus to nor bern monop-
olists, When tho war came and exports
were cut of from the south it Was discovered
that people at the north paid ayes, and were
able to get on without depending upon the
planters; SO nowt the argument is changed, and
it is assumed that the average duties are 20
per cent, and that they arc paid by the labor
ers of the country. We saw no long since
statement from a workiugman addressed TO
FELLOW Orkingmen which said "Jast week
you bought pair of blankets o cover your
freezing children. They cost so, "a. Seventy
per cent. of the price of the blankets was due
to tho abominable tariff. You vera robbed
n that transaction of g. 50 fol. he benefit Of
millionaire manufacturer 'ou bought a
suit Of clothes and paid $?j SEVENTEEN do.
lars and fifty cents were stola from YOU
pocket in that operation for thebenefit of IN,
rascally bosses who are threatening to cut
down your wages 10 per cent. OF the first of
January, and cut you of from, a chance to
work altoge,h her if you refuse 10 submit To
the reduction"
The information on which tlis workman
made his statement was doubt oss obtained
from David A. Wells, or some of a. David of
the same stripe, but it is great satisfaction
to know that, if it be correct that Abe working
men are being robbed at this ,ate tho old
theory of Calhoun was a rldiculobs error. and
he got up the great nulliGcasio4 excitement
ON chimera, delusion and tn, most arrant
nonsensical bosh and arnbug the world has
ever seen. II exports aid the duties in 1880
they pay them now, f the SAM principle is
at work in all its p gent fore, and to re-
treat from the old pc ton of Calhoun and
adopt the new one of David is to cast upon
the southern statesma'hip Of half a century
the most damning stidla it is Possible to in
vent 1t leaves the wole batch of agitators,
from Calhoun to JET Davis, Stephens, and
Wigtall, in the condition OF charlatans and
humbugs of the first gater, and there is no
escape from this conclsion.
This brings the ari-tarlff men into di-
Iemma. They cannot tand on 10th theories.
IfCalhoun was right, David must manifestly
be wrong, If David iswrong, the argument
based on the robbery il blankets and suits o.
clothes is fraud and iPnsensical. The work
man cannot pay what 10 plante, has already
paid, aud tho planter pinot DO made to pay
what has already bee got from the work
man. To go before u country with Cal
houns theory is to rdease David's grip on
tho laborcrs. To asser the truth of David's
nonsonse is to banis4 Calhoun, McDufiie,
Hammond, Hayne, aHi tho whole army OF
southern statesmen froh the roll and ranks
If intelligent Legislators.
The men now in Command of the demo.
ratio party cannot afiard to take either horn
# the dilemma. They are disciples of Cal.
loun on the tariff. II they represent his
IDEAS, tho new ideas cfnnot stand, the work.
ngman's vote is lost, Ind, that LOST, the party
must incur sure defdt. To abandou Cal
loun is to acknowledge that their school OF
,olitics has been a failure and that, AFTER all
he strife and commoti lon of forty years, their
heory ola tariff has bedn wrong; that tho north
aid the expenses Of gpVernmenb all through
he years of Outrage hat northern laborers
re paying them no1 that necessarily the
reat cotton planting fnd agricultural inter.
ats arc escaping tho b rdens which are borne
" the mechanics Al common people, aud
hat tho republican lheory Concerning the