Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-07-18
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New England's Example.

Il New England's Example.
Nashville Union.
The last great triumph of New Eng
4 hand ID the most brilliant Of ali the
/ achierRments OF thAt most remarkable
people. No man can travel over New
England, who is familiar with its his
tory, without q sense of admlration.
Compared with the countries OF En-
rope New England is yet in its infan-
cy. The country Is absolutely desti-
tute, 50 far as natural advantages and
natural resources are concerned. When
the settlers Came they found hard,
rlgId climate, ice and snow lasting
eight months in a year; a soil destitute
OF the properties to make it product
i've; country without the raw mate
rial Tor manufacturing; no coal, no
iron, no cotton, and without the facili-
ties for wool growing. Where on those
| people to-day? They are competing
with cid England in lending money.
/ Ii n railroad is to be built across the
continent, they have the money to do
it. If a great city is destroyed by fire,
they have the money and will lend it
to rebuild. II the western farmers
want money to enlarge their farming
operations, New England will lend it
and take mortgage ION their lands.
And, besides, their capital has essab-l
lished all the big banks of New York,
and they are insurinly all the properly
! in the United States.
How does all this come? A barren
soil and rigid climate forced econ
omy. Economy becomes a part of
their nature. They transmitted it to
their children and carried it into pol
it;cs. They were sagacious people,
and, as they could do nothing else,
they went to manufacturing. Their
public men, to a man, stood by New
England. They demanded protection
in the adjustment of a tariff for their
manufacturing industries. They were
delighted to see the south shy off and
become strictly an agricultural count
ry, refuse to manufacture and declare
against protection. Southern MEM
berS OF congress made speeches and
the New England Yankees worked.
What the New England member of
congress was expected to do was to
work for his section. What the south
ern member of congress was expected
to do was to make a big speech. The
result was poverty for the south and
immense wealth for New England
During all this long period the New
England Yankee was for protection
protection for everything and tariff
on everything, from a ship to paper
of pins. They wanted nothing free
With them there was no raw material.
Everything WAS the result Of labor and
everything must be protected.
All at once the Yankee wakes up
with slavery-the great obstacle in tue
way of manufacturing in the south
abolished, and while he is intent on
seeing what the south is going to do, |
the south is equally intent on getting |
ready to do something. All'the live, |
wide-awake men in the south Tx their |
minds on the iron ore, the coal, the
cotton, the water power, the timber,
the climate; and to man-the live /
men-they say we have the soil, we
have the climate, we have the cotton,
we have the iron and the coal, and we
must go to manufacturing; our big |
thing is the raw material, what New |
England never had. All we want is
the protection which New England
has had for a hundred years. Con-
tinue this protection to us-just lis New
England has had it-and our growth
will be unparalleled. We have the
soil without making it; we have the
climate; We have the iron, the coal, the
cotton and the wool, and the timber.
The war made manufacturing and dl-
versitied industries possible. Look at
INV England. See how rich she is
by diversified industries. This is our
opportunity, and We actually begin
work-we build cotton factories, we
establish wooden mills, we erect blast
furnaces; in short, we come to the front
and say, Good morning Mr.. Yankee,
we are under obligations to you for
teaching us lesson. And what does
the keen, wide-awake Yankee say?
He says, Good morning, sir. | am
man OF business; | do not want to
waste words. / want to talk with you.
l am rather taken with your free trade
/ knew your father; he
was good mamie believed in free
he WAS your father,
and he was smart man; he was right;
this Is the true doctrine, at least SO far
as the raw material is concerned.
What we want in New England is the
raw material free. We are rather a
dull people, and din't see this until
lately; in fact, we had never looked
into it, and we didn't see the advantage :
of having raw material free until we
saw you getting it free, and now we
want you to stand by the doctrine OF
your father-he was a clever man,
knew him well.
And the southern antiquated, messy
back, hundred-year- old, die-in-the-last-
ditch Democrat saws: No; knew my ,
father; he aOas good man, and am
glad you have come over to our side.
| knew you Yankees would get right.
If the south bites at this, us the
American did yesterday, the appoint
ment of a guardian will be in order.
Certainly it would be New England's :
greatest triumph.