The Portland daily press., 1888-08-22
MAJOR MCKINLEY IN THE SOUTH.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.1

not wait for his dinner. and the United
States do not want citizens who make Presi-
dents and Senates and House of Representa-
tlves to be in q condition of dependence and
ship we want
Next to the laborer the farmer is the imme-
dlate Deneflclary of TIE American system. 1t
m pmIInSo 70 MS plantation city of consumers
Inc farmer ana the factory are brought into
elose proximity. The problem Of transpor-
ket not only for staple products which
would pear transportation, but for many
products which but for a home mar
ket would waste and decay in the fields. |
need not teli g farmer in this neighborhood
OF the Denenclal effects of a home market.
His own experience is better than any phil
osophy. Atlanta has given him an abject-
lesson. IL mas increased the value OF his
1arm products and enhanced the value Of
every foot OF ground he owns.
benJaulimn 10 franklin, writing from London,
in 1771,to HumphreyMarshali,c ,comprehended
the situation when he said:
Every manufacturer encouraged in our eOun-
Wy makes part Oh market for provisions within
@ ourselves, ana saves so much money to the eoun-
Ny Ny az must OtherWlse be exported to pay Tor
tne manufactures he supplies. Here in England
II is Wen known and understood that wherever
manufacture Is established which employs a num-
pei OF nands, IL raises the value of land IN the
nelgnDorlng country all around il; partly by the
greater demand near at hand for The produce OF
the lahu ana party from the plenty OF money
drawn by the manufacturers to that part of the
country III seems therefore the interest OF all
our farmers ana owners of lands to encourage our
young manuiacturerS in preference TO foreign
ones imported among us from distant countries"
The fathers of the Republic apprecftted
the necessity for home market. They were
all farmers and planters. They could not
sell 10 each other, for each supplied his own
wants. This was their situation. They
recognized the Importance of diyersifying
the occupations OF the people. They must
promote other pursuits than the cultivation
OF the soil. They must have, if the would
prosper, consumers who would absorb the
SThrpus hap rasuR products Of rotceve the farm
| if, and under it the wisdom and fore
| sight of the founders of the Republic have
been more than vindicated. Andrew Jack
| son put the case as well as has ever been
| done when he declared in 1924, "Where has
| the American farmer market for his sur
| plus. productp Except for cotton, he has
| neither foreign or home market Does not
| this clearly prove, when there is no market
either at home or abroad, that there is too
much labor employed in agriculture, and that
the channels for labor should be multiplied
| Common sense points out the remedy: Draw
| from agriculture the superabundant labor,
employ it on mechanism and manufactures,
thereby creating a home market for your
breadStuffs and distributing labor to the
most profitable account and benefit to the
| country" One-third of the cotton crop of
the South is consumedlat home. Who would
not wish that all of it might find a market in
the United States? We would be better off !;
| you would be better off. The country at
large would be the gamer if the whole
cotton crop was fabricated in our own mills
| by our own people. Transportation would
to great extent be saved. We would make
and buy more cotton cloths at home, and
| send abroad for less; idle labor would be EN-
| nl0Vpd. idle panifa1 find invactmanf. the
| South would increase its spindles and its
| looms, and general and permanent prosper
| ity would follow.
| The tariff reformer seeks to flatter the New
| England manufacturer with the suggestion
that he no longer needs protection, and
| should turn his influence in favor of the
| other system. He assures him that he has
| reached such perfection in manufacture
such completeness of organization, such ad
| vancement in mechanical skill, that he has
nothing to fear from competition abroad
| and that he has but to reach out for our own
and the worlds markets and they are his
He assures him that he has nothing Longer
TO fear. from foreign competition, but that
that while he is indebted for hi:
splendid progress in industrial de-
| velopment to protective system, he has out
| grown it, and if it is to be continued the
people of the South and West will become
his dangerous rivals, and that to avoid this
new competition he invites him to assist in
| withholding from the States which have
been slower in industrial development that
measure of legislative aid which has been
so profitably invoked by the New England
| States and to which they are indebted for
their wonderful advancement in mechanical
and Industrial pursuits. What do the South
| and the West say to this narrow and provin-
cial view2 1t may be true that the New
England manufacturer has reached that
rank and that degree of perfection when
| nrntQafiop him ic nof So nccpOtial ac IL
once was, but the West and the South are in
| exactly the same condition that New Eng.
land was twenty years ago, and l am sure
| will insist that the same fostering legisla-
| tion shall be accorded for their development
that has been so long enjoyed by their more
progressive fellow citizens on the Eastern
| coast. The truth is protection must be uni
versal in its application; equally within the
| reach of all sections and all industries, or il
should be abandoned altogether. 1t cannot
be enjoyed by one interest to the exclusion
| of another. The New England woolen
| mills cannot demand protection upon their
| cloth and deny it to WOOL and they do not
The rice planter cannot hope to enjoy full
| protection against foreign competition and
deny equal protection to the producer OF
salt. The sugar planter of Louisiana can
i not invoke the power of Congress for pro-
tectiye duties and yet deny like protection
| to industries in other parts Of the country
The system must stand as whole or fall
As Burke said of liberty, "it is the clear
| right of all or of none. 1t is only perfect
/ when universal" 1t must be protective
| tariff for all interests requiring the encour.
| agement Of the government, or it must be
| free trade or a revenue tariff and rest
| alike upon all classes and all portions of the
4 country.
We are different from any other nation,
| and it is that difference which makes us the
best. Our political system rests upon a prin-
| ciple different from that of any other. 1t is
| founded uDOn the consent of tha naonla III
| we had wanted it otherwise we would not
have left home, but would have remained the
| obedient child Of an imperious parent. We
would not have turned away from the mother
country. We would have remained one of
| her dependencies. We would not have fought
our way through blood and sacrifice to indie
| pendence. We separated TO set up for our
| selves free and Independent political So
| siety, and that policy is the best for us which
| best subserves the purposes of our organiza-
tion, our citizenship and civilization. 1t is
| ours to work out our own destiny, and in do
| ing so furnish an example of free and pro-
| gressive people, whose Industrial policy has
| made it possible to satisfy the best and high
| est aspirations OF men, and which closes no
| field to human endeavor. We would wish
| for all mankind the benefcence of our sys-
| tenn and the opportunities which it presents.
We bid them level their conditions up to
ours; we will not level ours down to theirs.
We will remove all restrictions from inter-
national trade as we have removed all restric-
tions from interstate trade whenever they
will raise their labor and their conditions to
our standard
Men of Georgia, upon this great industrial
question there should be no North nor South,
TO us OF every section have been entrusted
the interests OF our c0untry-our whole coun-
try. To others have been oonnded the care
Of other nations and other peoples. We will
not interfere with them; we bid them not in
terfere with us. NV fellow citizens in this