The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-01
Common Sense Tariff ideas.

1t is n popular error that credits the
Southern States with hostility to the
principle Of protection to productive in.
,lustries. Many Of their leading journals
and many Of their statesmen ,whonRn
to be representative men Of Southern in
terests. are blatant free traders; but
they all. "a rule, draw the line when
their local industries are endangered bv
proposed tariff legislation.
Virginia is represented in Congress by
majority of professedly anti.protec.
,ionists but the legislature Of that State
and the chamber Of commerce OF Lynch.
burg protest against the policy Of the
/ free traders. The people Of Virginia
want the internal revenue taxes abol.
| ished and their representative business
men unanimously and earnestly protest
| against free ores.
South Carolina is presumed to he the
most radical free trade State in the
South, but when her representative com.
mercial ~ d industrial men come to face
the question, they unanimously protest
agains, free trade in rice. Rice is one Of
the staple products of the Palmetto
State. and while they are willing t. have
free trade in iron, an article that they
don't produce. they want protection for
their rice fields. Another pointed and
practical denial Of the free trade theory
that is generally voiced by the press and
statesmen Of South Carolina, 10 given in
her law " the last decade that exempted
all manufacturing establishments from
taxation for ten years. No more direct
or oppressive method of protection could
possibly be given by any government.
True, the Law was repealed by the last
legislature as to future factories. but its
repeal was advocated because it would
give larger measure of prosperity to
those already in operation.
There are blatant free trade theorists
trade, or anything approaching free
trade. in sugar, they call halt. They
exact tribute Of fifty millions from SUI.
gar consumers Of the country to protect
six millions of product. They don't oh.
jet to free iron and coal, but sugar must
be protected.
kentucky, the state that gave the ma.
ton II T. American system under the lead
Of CLAY, now boasts of more rs deal free
traders to the acre than can I've found in
any other section of the country but
when 1t comes to free trade in hemp the
chivslric kentuckian swears by his blue
grass and his still.houses that free trade
must halt.
In peint Of fact. common sense on the
tarif crops out in every State when il
comes to the question of protecting or
DESTROYING its own productive industries.
and while free trade theorists are bah
bling about the utterl. Impossible in
Congress, their people at home prove
their insincerity in all free trade profes.
sions by demanding protection for their
staple products which come in COMPETE
ton with foreign labor. Every section
Of the country has productive industries
which require judicious protection to es.
tablsh them and thereby cheaper the
product to- consumers. and q general pro-
teciive policy is thus made justitiable TO
the extent that it may give the greatest
good to the greatest number. --Philadel.
phia Times.
\ Pennsylvania lady raised family
of twenty.four boys. Thirteen were in
the Union army and one in the Confed.
crate Eleven of the thirteen were killed
on the field Of battle, and the one in the
Confederate army has not been heard
from. Two out OF the thirteen returned
home and one of them has applied for .
pension.