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

the family to this land of protection from
starving, hopeless free trade England.
Thus. look through every branch of
British industry and you will find the
course of free trade, like the roots of a
fatal cancer. devouring vilals of indivi.
duRlantl national. prosperity. 1t is true
not less of her wooden. silk, her iron and
steel branches of production, than in her
cotton mills and her agricultural inter-
ests. But of all countries on the face of
the globe, perhaps, Ireland-that most
beautiful islet Of the ocean-is the most
conspicuously painful but complete illus
tration of the disastrous effect of the free
trade policy. Ireland was once, com.
paratiyely, a flourishing and happy coun-
try. She once supported q thriving, con.
tented population of 100000 souls.
Mark the cause and source of her pros.
perity. A protective tariff, almost pro-
hibitory, fortified securely all her indus.
tries and she was rapidly becoming a
manufacturing country. But England
said to Ireland, as the Democracy say to
us, you can produce raw material, but
Others can manufacture cheaper than
you, and compelled Ireland to adopt the
free trade system. Protection under 1t
ceased entirely in 1925, and now in 1885,
where Is unhappy Ireland and what is
she? "With unequaled natural advant-
ages OF climate and soil, rivers and har-
bors; with coal, iron and peat in mex
haustible quantities; the finest grazing
and dairy countryin in the world" Look
at her nowi Her population is reduced
from 100000 to 100000; her land Is
not one-third cultivated; she has neither
domestic industries nor foreign trade;
her millions of acres Of waste lands, her
ruined commerce and manufactures, her
houses uninhabitcd, her villages deserted,
her cattle and sheep rapidly diminishing,
discomfort characterization, insecurity
and crime stalking through the land, her
people crying for work and wages, and
idle, ragged, paupers stricken, deriving
wretched existence from wasted lands
half cultivated. flying from the country
like Lot from the cities of the plain; she
sinks deeper and deeper into hopeles de.
ISOLATION and despair. And all these un-
speakable miseries are attributable direct
ly to two cooperative causes, England's
free trade policy and her system of land
tenure, but most largely to free trade.
/ am against the penitentiary lease
system | stand upon the platform of
my party on this question and II you will
elect me governor of this State will use
all my power to stop it, will recon-
mend and work for the passage of bill
abolishing this obnoxious system which
is detrimental to the laboring classes.
A great deal has been said about the
submission to the people of an amend
ment to the present constitution. have
been asked what my position is on the
question. answer without equivocation
that the people have the right to amend
the constitution whenever they desire TO
do so and l recognize the right Of the
people If they desire to vote on this amend
ment and the legislature should submit II
for their adoption or rejection. When il
is submitted for rejection or ratification
the people have right TO vote as they
please, but the submission of the question
is demandcd'in u CONSTITUTIONAL way ant
it should be submitted.
Permit me now, by an easy and natura
| transition to passto the consideration oil
another great question of paramount I'M.
portance to our government, State and
national and of transcedent personal In
terest to every citizen of the nation OF
both sexes. of all ages and of every color
/ mean the relation Of our government tC
popular education and the attitude OF the
two contending parties to that question
as demonstrated by their action on wha
lis known as the Blair educational bill
This bill Is o measure initiated in the
United States Senate by Senator Blair, Of
New Hampshire, and provides that fol
eight fiscal years next after its passage
there shall be annually appropriated from
the money in the treasury, the following
sums, namely: The first year the sum Of
81 100000; the second year, $40, ,000, 900
the third year, $15,000,O00; the fourth
year, $4,000, 600; the fifth year, $11 900,
900; the sixth year, $9,000,000; the sew
enth year. 1000, 900; and the eighth
year, $4,000, 900; to secure the benefits Of
common school education to all the child
rem Of the school age living in the United
States; and that these funds are to b,
distributed among the several States AMI
territories on the basis of illiteracy." TIL,
design Of this magnificent, statesmanlik
and patriotic measure, Is TO give to ever,
child In the whole United States, th,
means of acquiring o substantial, practi
cal education, running through eigh
years, without q dollars cost for tuition
at the expense of the treasury Of the Uni
, ted States, and thus to equip, mentally,
| whole generation of American citize
, sovreigns for the tremendous duties an,
, responsibilities, burden and blessings o
! governing and being governed, and, thu
placing them en- mass, in the advance
lines OF human progress, so to enlarg
and intensity their appreciation and lov
, Of their country and the institutions c
} freedom, as to insure the maintenance
and perpetuation of the liberties we hav
inherited and enjoy, to the counties
coming millions who are yet to peopl
: this great continent The inevitabl
7 logical effects of this measure so god
, in its conception. and so crowded wit
Q the vital elements of success In its m.
: chinery, would be the triumphaI
D achievement Of the patriotic and magn
. ficent result designed, and residum c
4 consequences, in the world Of science, {
T invention, Of intellectual, moral, an
. material development, not yet dreame
: of its friends; of results in awakening, q
0 from the death slumber, the dormar
| thought.power, of q, ,000, 900 Of heaye
descended giants and arming, equipin
0 and training them, as the advance guar
8 OF the American host, in the terrific II
| tellcctual conflicts awaiting us net far |
s the future, in enlarging and multiplyin
s the fields Of human thought, and Of II
I dustrial enterprise, and in 80 diffusin
! American ideas. and magnifying Amer
+ can influence, as TO shape for good I'll
8 future destiny Of the world. This gre,
measure Is just now vital national nj
/, cessity and especially SO in the souther
I and western States, and why9 First +,
!. all, Washington, Jefferson, the Adamse
t jackson, Clay, and alfof our great state
Q men and citizens Of all political parti
Q agree, that, as in our theory, the peop
!, arc the government, so Its permanenc,
p purity and perpetuity are dependent q
n solutely upon the intelligence Of the pc
d pie. a,s eian rm ~ gte /.
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