The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-30
TARIFF DoCTRINE In CHUNKS.
Facts For Men Who Are Engaged in Effort
to Root Out Americas Industrial System.

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to Root Out Americas Industrial System.
"Gath's New York Letter in Cincin natl Enquirer.
Laying duties at the frontier and laying them
| high, because we had high obligations to meet.
| there was encouragement all over our continent
\ to manufacture. and mine and develop the earth,
| and this development never was in the history
| of American protection as harmonious and uni
versal as now. skipping no poor territory
| mountain corner of the land, but Bringing them
all into that condition which desired and
explained at the commencement of our govern
ment. The report on manufactures issued in
| Wash1ngtons administration, with the indorse-
meut of that President has been the principal
cause of the settling, connecting and enlighten-
ing of this land There were States blowing off
wind about free trade. which never knew that
they had enormous mineral deposits within
them until they got rid at once of their slavery
and their free trade; South Carolina is subsist-
ing better on her phosphates to-day, which were
not found till about 1868. than upon all the
darkies she chung to with such superior wis
dom. By the application of those pEosphates to
the soil the cultivation of favorite products has
been pushed further and further North till cot
ton is divided only by the mountains from the
great West Now that phosphate is protected
under South Carolina State laws, the State with
a very slight claim. perhaps, to any ownership
over the production, puts tax upon it. and
this is an export tax which the general govern
ment has never indulged in. In 1887 the cotton
crop was about six and a half million bales and
a large proportion of these went to men who
were formerly impecunious laborers, each OF
whom under the condition OF things is
picking up fact every year or two which is
equal to another year put on his life or life in
Surance.
1 was glancing at another kind of protection
yesterday-ihat of coal Pennsylvania alone
claims TO have mined g., 600, 900 tons last year,
and to have employed 900 hands. When
you mention this fact some one rises to a point
Of order and tells you that there is strike in
the coal regions. There always will be strikes
where intelligent men conduct things, and that
is why we have steel-rail combinations and oil
trusts. There is a labor trnst as well, but the
greatest answer which can be made to the con-
dition of labor in our country Is the state of the
savings banks No country affords any such
picture. The banks are the fullest where the
manufacturing system has been active. One of
the savings banks here has some $45, 000, 900 of
deposits: another has $780, 600, 000 third
has 800 600 000 fourth has $28. 900, 900, and
three others run to $40. 000 600 or sl2,-
600 600 apiece. With this picture the banquet
of the Breckinridges Saturday night looks like a
drunk without motive. But all these benefits
seem to be partial, because the society of the
country has not equally and cheerfully worked
at the problem OF mineral and mechanical de-
velopment This was forbidden in large por-
ton of the country by the institution of slavery.
which forbade a laborer to read. and therefore
ruled him ont of most of the mechanical
branches of life. Some Northern mechanic, like
MIR. Wadley, OF Georgia. would go into that
country and submit to the insane domination of
its politicians, who were for running every thing
which they could not rule, and in the course of
time they raised statue to that man, when
they should have been putting up statues to
each other if they had been engaged in the right
kind of development The savings hanks of
Georgia and South Carolina ought to be full of
money, but they are too much concerned in that
direction attending to the business of other peo-
pls at a thousand miles distance. / showed but
Yesterday that according to Wells Fargo e Co..
which Is kentucky organization, in California
the United States got out of the ground $104,
000, 600 of gold and silver last year. This is
proof that the energy OF the people stops mo-
where and when we read of the effects of the
late blizzard in Dakota, and sec how brave the
people have been who continue to settle that
treeless land, where the storms from all the fun
ne o 20 hol fhe
conventions, it is wonder that people VINO live
under perpetual sun and can almost pull bananas
off the trees without getting mp find them.
should know so much about describing the polit
ical condition of the people who, to the number
of half million, have settled between the
Rocky Mountains and Canada.
The European news reports that the Gre
mans are getting out of the country as fast IS
they can go-I mean their own country--in or
der to evade conscription. Bismarck has got
them all counted and watched, but still they
ride away on broomsticks and swim under
water three thousand miles. get in bass fd-
dies aud reach us as musicians. The American
standing army is twenty-seven thousand men;
the German standing army is somewhere be-
tween FIVE hundred Thousand and the population
of China Yet it would have required, 70 guard
frontier OF the United States between the
North and South, if all the British statesmen
who gave rs their advice had been obeyed about
as many soldiers as there are in Europe OF all
the armies and it Is terrible to contemplate that
these would have been commanded by the very
politicians who are now in Congress serving mo-
rice on the material interest of mankind.
A country which can get down to twenty
seven thousand men when it had about
million in its service twenty years ago, and can
cut its debt down from near three thousand
millions q thousand millions in the same
time certainly had system, and none of its
successes were fathered by any of the men who
are now roofing out the American industrial
system. These were the false prophets and
black sheep of tho generation of our youth;
they told truth about any thing: every thing
they predicted failed TO come TO pass. But now
they know IL all
Sneaxinr of aheep We had about forty eight