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

and therefore, to the, development of our
individual and national, prosperity? For
the present. ! leave this question for
themto answer at their leisure, or skip
at pleasure, confessing that have
searched long, earnestly and in vain for
satisfactory solution. If you are a labor
er your prosperity depends upon your
wages, your wages depend upon the val
ue of what your labor produces, that
value hinges upon the supply and de-
mand and ability to pay in the market;
the demand and supply and ability to pay
depend upon the diversity of labor. Di-
versity Of labor depends upon invest
ments of capital in miningy manufactur-
| ing, etc. But investments of capital are
secured or prevented, invited or repelled,
just in proportion to certainty or insecur-
| ity of profits, and these profits depend
upon the protection guaranteed by a tar
iff adequate to protect domestic products
against the ruinous competition Of for
eign pauper labor. Therefore your indi-
vidual prosperity--as does every laboring
mans advancement tinancially--depends,
to greater or less extent, upon the pro-
lection secured to the value Of your labor
products by judicious, discriminating,
protective tariff. This is nation Of Ia
borers, and it is clearly demonstrable that
If the financial prosperity of the whole
nation depends upon the values Of the
products of its labor, and il that value
depends as IL does depend upon the pro-
lection afforded by the tariff upon similar
foreign products-then inevitably, the
tariff must determine the question of the
nations advance or decline In prosperity.
Again | believe every nation that has
arisen in this worlds history, was the
child of wise and beneficent Providence
and was gifted, at birth, with the royal
prerogative of crowning itself with per-
petuity, by adopting the principles and
utilizing the agencies and Instrumental
ties within its reach, for the achievement
Of that end.
As all human beings have the gracious
ability to work out their salvation, If they
will, so every people may, if they will
save and perpetuate their nationality. ]
think this eminently true of the American
republic. Our whole history, in all its
marvellous details, points us out as pecul-
iarly and -eminently the child of Prov
idence, born for sublime mission-and
that mission is to unmask and expose to
universal Indignation, contempt and exc
Grafton the venerable but pretentious and
false foundations upon which the auto.
Gratis, tyrants and crowned conquerors of
the earth have erected and maintained
their thrones through the ages, and to
demonstrate for the benefit of the entire
race-not only mans infeasible right, but
his capacity for -government-by es-
tablishing upon this divine basis and per-
petuating upon these divine principle
the fairest, purest, most liberal, just and
benefcent government that ever yet bless
ed the descendants of Adam. Its per-
manancy and perpctutity must depend
upon the love and loyalty Of its citizens,
who are ut the same time It's subjects and
its sovereigns, and that love and loyalty
can only be secured and made durable by
the wise and persistent protection Its leg
, islation shall guarantee to all the compll-
Gated interests of its people. But the ad-
equate protection of their largest financial
interests can only be maintained by such
a tariff as will fortify the value Of their
! labor products successfully against the
ruinous competition Of the cheap pauper
, labor Of Europe, and therefore the con.
, clusion is irresistible that the success OF
| our grand government-the triumph OF
its divine mission-and its very existence
I depends largely upon wise and perma
D nent settlement of this question. Another
/ essential element In the question Of the
( perpetuation of our union and the free
dom it brings to 1000, 900 of people, is
popular education-the intellectual and
I moral development of all our people. Nc
, argument is necessary to establish the
0 soundness of this proposition-fo al
! admit its truth. But break down, by the
4 free introduction and sale of foreign
? pauper commodities in our markets, al
our own manufactures, throw out Of
G employment then more than twelve hun
I dred thousand employes-without work
s without money-thus paralyze the marke
: of more than 7,000,0 600 farmers, and thu,
Y rob them of amarket and of the means
/. even, to pay their yearly taxes, or the
{ ability to employ their blacksmith, thei
l carpenter and wagon maker, or to pay
: their merchant and shoemaker, and how
: | ask, in the name of cOmmon.sense
G could a people, thus bankrupted, educat,
n and develop, morally and mentally, NOR,
J. than twenty millions of children?
d We have already had only taste ol
n Democratic financiering with threat
Y and convulsive efforts at tariff -tinkerin,
for over year, and now behold hoy
4 coming events cast their ominous ant
s gloomy shadows beforel
J. You, who work for wages, wish to sent
s your little daughter or son to Sunday
@ school, and can't buy and pay for a pal
It Of little shoes for their feet; q new Gallo,
n gown for your wife, and a cent law
IS for your older daughters are out of th
o question. The Democrats are In power
g with a platform demanding tariff fo
: revenue only" and squirting strongly a
u free trade" or no tariff at all-and be
), hold, look-feel in your pocket. ant
n realize the blight that has already i'm
Y p0verished the land II has cut you cat
D tie, your bacon, your wheat, your horses
d your mules, even your land-and If yo
e are landless, 1t has cut your credit dow
G until you can't get credit at all. The ma
\ who made merely decent living, by hi
8 work, but was able to school his childre
IS is begging now in vain for work, an
Q trembling lest he shall have to ask th
@ county court for help. or hide himself i
l. the poorhouse. Is not this trueS Yo
e know 1t is; you see 1t, you feel it. We'll
n every effect has cause behind it-ade
t. quate to the production of the effec,
70 Prior to 1884 for twenty years anothe
r cause operated. There was settle
d policy on this question. We had tarii
n that protected, and what was the effect
l. Universal prosperity. The farmer, tn
D mechanic, the manufacturer, the mel
10 chant. all prosperous. Property Of q
,. kinds, land, labor, everything in demand
II prices fair and remuneratiye, everybod
u cheerful and happy, and schools. college
u and universities all full and all booming
e Now l will give you sum in arithmeti
Q, for you to cipher on at home. II Demt
7, cratic rule in sixteen months, with th
O. threat of tariff for revenue only" and n
y protection has reduced all values in tn
70 nation at least 25 per cent, what will III
IS reduction OF all values be, under III
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