Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-07-29

universal popular Intelligence and virtue
as essential to the preservation of our
liberty and the permanence Of our ma
tional integrity, and holding the financial
success OF our people as equally essential
TO the diffusion of these essentials, / am,
therefore, for bringing every legitimate
appliance of law, legislation and diplo.
macy TO bear. in bringing TO all our peo-
PIE engaged in agriculture, manufactures,
commerce and the mechanic arts, every
possible encouragement and facility to
enlarge and not depress their pecuniary
resources. am therefore for protection.
The final thought shall now find time
to offer you on this question Is the trans
cendant importance of developing and
utilizing the material resources of our
country and the impossibility of this
achievement without the aid of a protec
tive tariff. II Australians produce wool
cheaper than our farmers--if Russia with
her cheaper slave labor, or Spain, or AT
RIGA, or England can bring iron here,
either in the ores or pigs, and sell 1t in
our market at less than our own people
pay for its mining and smelling; if Egypt
or India can sell us wheat and flour for
less than we pay for breaking our soil
and for the seed; II England or Germany
or France offer us woolen or cotton
cloths or farming utensils or clothing or
any other commodity for less money than
it will actually cost us to produce the
same kind Of commodities, 1t is evident
that any effort on our part to compete
with them In the sale of these things
would result in our bankruptcy and ruin,
sooner or later. 1t so happens that this
would be Just our situation in relation to
most of the labor products of foreign
lands. In the absence Of discriminat-
ing tariff, they would under sell our peo-
pie in our own doors. Suppose our peo,
pie without any protection whatever. In
such case do you think Ohio would
grow wool, would Pennsylvania produce
any iron or commodities manufactured Of
iron? Would our people produce or
manufacture anything for markcti EN-.
phatically no! But thanks TO the pro.
lection, our tariff affords to many branch
es Of industry, hundreds of millions of
dollars are invested in producing raw ma
terial for textile fabrics, and many other
millions in mining and manufacturing in
great variety, and to this protection and
to this protection alone, is this nation in
debted for almost the whole of its existing
material development, its great centers Of
trade and commerce, its one hundred and
thirty thousand miles of railroads, the
palatial steamers that plow its rivers and
inland seas, and vast tonnage that swels
their profits; for the schools, academies
and colleges that illumine the land, for
nine-tenths of its material wealth and
consequent intellectual and moral culture
its unparalleled growth In population
and marvellous multiplication and diffus
ion of its invaluable blessings of indie
pendence, social elevation and refine
ment and of individual and domestic
happiness. 1t is conceded that othel
causes have contributed their infnitesma
influences operatively, in accomplish
ing this grand result, but these mino
auxiliary forces have been as insignifican
as is the mountain rivulet in adding vol
ume and momentum 10 the mighty Mis-
sisAppi river Now, If all this be true
and challenge successful contradic
tion, If q protective tariff Is the grant
motive power, which, within q little
more than century, has exalted our peo
pie above all others, until we have be
come the terror of tyrants and autocrats
the envy and admiration of philanthro
! pists, the home and hope Of the dowr
trodden and oppressed of all the world
would 1t not be plunge into the pro
foundest depths of folly and madness Il
cut ourselves loose from that now, as ou
opponents frantically urge, and sink a
once, like satan hurled from the battle
ments of Heaven, into the yawning vor
tex of political and financial ruin and so
cial revolution? Destroy the protectiv
feature of the tariff, as they are bending
every effort to do and will do If the peo
pie continue them in power, and the frs
logical and necessary effort will be tn
rapid paralysis of every industry through
out the land, the instant withdrawal o
capita from every enterprise, then uni
versal money panic, fatal collapse o
prices, every mine of copper. zinc, Goa
or iron closed every manufactory an
workshop locked up and falling into rap
| i'd decay, strikes innumerable and every
where, operatives, artisans, laborers b
the million with their wives and childre
thronging the streets, highways and by
ways Of city, village and country-homt
less, houseess. moneyless, friendless
breadless, starving, desperate, ready 70
anything, under any leader. Bread 0
blood!" is the battle cry Of the famishin
millions. In the bloody convulsion, tn
, grandest republic that ever flashed I,
glories from the zenith of the politics
heavens quenches, forever, its benefcer
, splendors in the abysmal gulf Of revolt
. tion, from whose smoking ashes | Sc
emerging the epauletted man on hors,
back with the crown OF q despot for
helmet, and the sword of a conqueror fC
| a scepterl My countrymen would 70
. avoid the possibility Of the realization {
: such horrors9 Then beware of the syre
, song of unwise revenue empyrics-an
continue to cherish and nurture the onl
, true American system--a system undt
whose operation we are prodigy {
growth, development and prosperity
/ all the elements of national greatness an
. individual happiness, and living wol
| der among the nations Of the earth.
. this American system has brought us u
: from population, one hundred yea
, ago, of less than three million souls,
i sixty millions Of freemen-from indigenc
! to a financial wealth of $4,000, 900, 900
4 900, from illiteracy and comparativ
s mental darkness, to polished learning
4 scientific culture and brilliant intellectu
l elevation, from thirteen poor, depresse,
Q dispised, dependent colonies of England
! to a consolidated constitutional national
l ty of thirty y-eight great States from nol
entity to the recognized position of q frs
class power among the nations, and II Il
. protective American system has had IL
r principal agency in these astoundin
| achievements in little more than OF
I hundred years, what may it be expectt
? to accomplish for our children and ma
Q kind in the next hundred years? Do
: hear some one object that our system h
1 no such effects as have attributed to
Now hear my reply and remember it2
Y England one Of the mightiest powers
s the world today None will question
!. Well, what Is the secret of her powe
C The development of her resources
home and abroad. How did she seen