Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-10
RANDALL AND THE FUTURE BUSI-
NESS OUTLOOK.
From :hc st. Louis Chronicle.

Politics pure and simple have very
little interest for the great mass of peo-
pie at present, but there is one thing,
however, of political nature, which
must always command attention, and
that is any movement which will effect
the great industrial interests OF the
country. The pilgrimage of Samuel j.
Randall through the southern states is
IN attempt to revolulionize the senii-
ment in that section GU the tariff.
In the DAYS agone the southern peo-
pie educated their offlce-h holders for
statesmen as in the north they educate
men for doctors, lawyers and profess
sors. The southern statesman was Il
man learned in the science Of govern
rnent. He was as familiar with The
laws of political economy as is the as
tronomer with the laws of gravitation.
The north, before the war, approached
such standard of excellence, but with
the breaking out of that great struggle
scientific principles were overwhelmed
by the moral sentiment of freedom for
the black man. With the war came an
era of gigantic profits and ruinOus spec
ulation. During the four years OF that
conflict the men of the north, not in the
army, were educated in the widest
-chools of business. Adventurers
sprung up on every hand in all call
ings. Spectators bought their way
into congress tor the most selfish pur-
poses and scientific craftsmanship came
TO be sneered at. The immense profits
caused by the era of wild speculation
turned the heads of business men, and
the increased wages paid laboring
men, owing to Scarcity OF laborcrs in
consequence of so many of them being
| in the army, gave them erroneous ideas
# cause anu effect which ~ years have
| not eradicated. Momopolist manu-
facturers, who were rapidly growing
rich through the wicked taxation Of u
protective tariff, taught the laboring
men that the increased wages came
from that tariff and Oh account of such
heretical instruction the wOrkinglnen
have for years been voting upon ihe'n-
selves their present troubles. BIT as
all violations of natures laws correct
themselves in time, SO is this erroneous
teaching being corrected now among
northern wOrkingmen. ihev have
seen high protective tariff in exis
tence in lhe country for 20 years, and
they have seen their wages constantly
decreasing during the last half of that
period, until now they have reached
the same level as that exi ting in
Europe. Still the protective tariff ex-
lists. The manufacturers i'll the mean-
time have pretty much all grown to be
mlllionaires, while the laboring men,
in whose interest this tariff was alleged
to have been levied, have become paul
pers. Hard experience has enlight
ened the wOrkingmen of the north and
they are rapidly becoming free traders
in manufactures and prolecIionisis a 10
labor. The mOnol,uiist manuiactul 8
are therefore forced 10 hunt for rec uiIs
tor their wicked system in some II, W
!, field or see their monopoly desi OI ed.
:, This accounts Tor Samuel j. Randali's
missionary work in the south. The
southern workingmen have not gone
through the same experience rs have
their brethren in the north, and until
they have they will be more easily de.
ceived by such agents as Randall and
the specializing manufacturers of the
north, now removing south, who offer
employment. The wonderful mineral
resources of the south which, from
their presence nearer the surface of the
earth than further north, and salu-
brious climate, offer extra Inducements
to the building up of manufacl cries,
+. and Randall purposes taking advant.
age of this great gift of nature to de-
: ceive acknowledgment into believing Il al
: protective tariff Pennsylvania is iheil
o benefactor, not dame nature. Ran.
il dali may not be paid so much per day
: by the protective-tarff s. indicates fol
this lecturing tour, neither may he be
j paid lump sum direct for it, but the
: republican constituency which sends
: him to congress as a democrat will no
o reduce his majority two years hence
u because of his effol Is to divide his par.
: ty ana aid monopoly. Samuel j. Ran
It dali is a foe to the workingman, III
It enemy to justice, tool of monopoly, &
e traitor to democracy land hypocrile u
V honesty and economy.