The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-15

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peaceful methods, under pretense of pro-
tecting labor, confscate property under
the taxing power, to whom would her prop
erty holding classes look for protection
Could they appeal to federal power against
peaceful ballots in sovereign states! That
would not only be Capitalization, but des-
potism interpreted.
But where in all this vast union of
states would we find the conservative ele-
ment that can strike with one hand the
hydra-head of communism and with the
other bold aloft the flag of liberty and
democracy regulated by protecting law?
1t cannot be found in any state north of
Maryland, for in every one discomfort sits
by the door of the wage-worker, who hears
that supply and demand must regulate all
things and the machine that receives his
care demands also his child. In New
Jersey alone there were in 1880 more
children between ten and fifteen years old
laboring in factories than in all the eleven
southern states combined, and in Massa-
chusetts they had twice as many. These
are the storm centers of labor agitation.
whenever under partial laws special
classes are enriched at the expense of ag-
rlculture, labor is pauperized, and
universal education will only instruct it in
the gospel of discomfort. 1t is instruct
ing them that way up there now, and yet
if it can help them avoid the breakers of
anarchy, that very education will lead
them to higher civilization.
Drop line now from the southern
shore of lake Michigan to the Ohio river,
follow up that river to the southern boun-
Diary of Pennsylvania, and go thence to
Chesapeake bay, and examine the indus
tries and employment of populations east
and north of that line, and what do you
find?
We find that those engaged in trade and
Those engaged in mining, mechanics and
~ manufactures. ...... ......... ....... $4,000
Those engaged in personal and profession
al services. $500 a. IT'S 900
Those engaged in agriculture 1si0 900
So that those who live in towns or cities,
In mining and manufacturing places, and
who trade In traffic, outnumber the agri-
cultural breadwinners 2,679,OOO.
Of that two millions and half, nineteen
twentieths of them are wage workers. So
it is safe to assume that up there are
found at least one and half millions
more wage workers than there are of prop
erty holders.
MAJoRITIEs OF THE SOUTH
AND WEST.
Come now south of the Ohio
liver, and west of Lake Michigan, and
AWAY to the Pacific ocean, wherever the
lag floats, and you find half a million
more of the people tilling the soil than
here are of merchants, traders, railroad
men, manufacturers, mechanics and all
other classes combined. But see how this
always conservative, long patient
md enduring from neglect, looms up here
n Texas; for this we may proudly chal-
enge comparison with all other people on
Earth. Texas has of people engaged in |
of every sort, including
'ailroads and telegraph, only $4,000. OF
I'll other trading and manufacturing
classes, $4,000; total, $1,000. But she has
If agriculturists $4,000.
So that we have s253,OOO more agricul-
ural people than of all other classes com
'ined, or about twenty farmers for every
me who trades, works for corporate en-
erprises or transportation lines. This |
distribution of industries is our sheet
'nchor of safety, for we have farmers
enough here to keep the peace with their
whip stocks if necessary.
DUTY OF THE SOUTH AND WEST
This employment of our populations |
vest and south, reveals power and sug-
tests duty; it constitutes the south and
,reat west, the reliably guardians of con-
titutional freedom on this continent. As
hey are measurable free from the curses
esulting from protected industries, ex-
ept the indirect tax they pay to sustain
hem, so they have the only conservative
lement which in all ages has ever deliv-
rediman from tyrrany. The man who in
eace followed the pillow, and in war car
led the long bow and spear, saved alike
rom king and baron all that has made
ingland great. That great charter which
on have heard was the triumph of the
inglish barOns, was not secured by them
lone, but by the English yeomen who
TODD behind those barons, and who made
ohm concede six guarantees for their
ghts for every one secured to their lead
rs.
Why should Missouri, and the great
est and south, submit forever to the I'M
lushlng robbery of tariff exactions,
hich drain each year the fruits of agri-
1ltural labor, to be emptied into the long
urses OF the manufacturing princes, only
pittance of which is ever received by
leir laborers? Why should they submit
,rever to the incubus of unrestrained
)rperate power owned and directed from
ew York-throttling and blocking our
ade highways, whenever road is to be
rocked or laborer punished? The mis-
on of the hour is for all true men of the
est and south to draw close together,
nd in the light of common interest. for
lie protection of themselves as well as
n that of their brothers of the north and
lst, to avert common danger. :
Unite, not in anger, not from sectional
alousy, not to Cypress, not to tear down ,
7 sudden and destructive reforms, but ,
lite, because we alone have the agricul- :
raj majorities that can arrest the coun- q
y IN its march to Capitalization and :
larchy.
The democracy must understand the !
eril OF the hour, or we are doomed. q
way with your tariff platforms that +
can sail things to all men, and let the =
'tersPf the agricultural states, who out n
lmbef all other people combined,
rget sectional jealousies, and move =
inward, shoulder to shoulder, to h
scue themselves and their posterity =
ON the burthens imposed by kings of +