The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-23
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and North Carolina produced S75, l79
net tons, or 75, 900 more than the whole
annual output Of the United States I'M
der the free trade period.
The eight years last past have
brought to the south wonderful pro-
gress- You had in 1880 10 ,435 miles of
railroad; you now have 36,737 miles,
1880 5, 755, $50 bales of cotton; in 1888
you raised 9, 800, 900 bales. In 1850 you
raised ADJ ,O74 $50 bushels of grain, and
IN 1887 you raised 626, 3O5, 900 bushels.
In 1880 you had live stock amounting
In value TO 1891 ,312 .254; it is now valued
at 1878 ,695 $50. The value Of your ag-
rlcultural products in 1880 was $751;
O0S, 454; in 1887 1t had reached S742, O67,
460. In 1880 you produced 397 ,301 tons
of pig-irOn; in 1887 you produced 929,
436 tons, and L am assured upon the
best authority that it is upwards of .
million now. You mined in 1880 g.
O49, TAI tons of coal; in 1887 16, 476, 7S5
tons. You had in 1880 l79 cotton mills;
you have got to-day 800, and they are
increasing. The number of your spin
dies in 1850 was 7l4,9 79; they are to-
day ,495, 145. The number of your
looms in 1880 was Is ZIP; they are now
oyer "a 900. The value of cotton goods
in 1880, which you produced, was S2l,
900, 900; in 1887 it was over $43, 0O0, 600.
And yet, in the presence of such pro-
gresS, 1t is seriously proposed to re-
verse the policy under which it has
been maze.
Surely a new era of industrial deVel-
opment has come to the South. Moth
ing should be permitted to check or re-
tard it. To her nature has been most
prodigal with her gifts. Her hills and
valleys have been made the store
houses of richest treasure. Coal and
iron mines wait simpatiently the touch
of labor and capital, and tempt both
with promise of lavish profit.
Raw materials are found at every
turn to invite the skilled artisan to
transform them into the finished pro-
duct for the highest uses of man. She
possesses the fibers in rich abundance;
her. skilled labor should weave the
fabNc.
1t is said that there is nothing grown
in any OF the states, except Florida
that Georgia cannot profitably produce
She has coal, iron deposits, marble and
building stone, cotton and cereals
Nothing but her own folly, nothing but
blindness to her highest and best in
terests can keep her from the FROM
rank of the industrial states of the
union.
Whether we discuss this question
from principle, from statistics, or ex
clusiOn; all lead to the same convic
ton. Let me give you some important
evidences from high and undOubteC
sources, which confirms the argument
which have been making.
President Fillmore said on Decembe
2, 1851, in his message to congress
speaking of the conditions of tn
country:
THE value of our exports of bread
stuffs and provisions, which it wa
supposed the incentive of low TART
and large impOrtatiOns from abrOaI
would have greatly augmented, ha
fallen from $6S ,7O1 1921, in lS47, to $26,
O5I 1878 in 1850, and to $2l ,S4S 1858 II
1851, with strong probability
amounting almost to a certainty, of
still further reduction in the curren
year. The policy which die
tated low rate of duties on foreigl
merchandise, it was thought by thos
who promoted and established it, wOul
tend to benefit the farming population
Of this country by increasing the dc
mand and increasing the price of agr
cultural products in foreign market:
The foregoing facts, however, seem
show incOntestably that no such resu
, has followed the adoption OF thi
policy"
Again he said in his message of d.
cember o, 1852:
4 without repeating the argumeI
contained in my former message
favor of discriminating protective d.
ties, deem 1t my duty to call your a
tention to one or two other consider
tions affecting this subject. The fir
is the effect of large impOrtations (
foreign goods upon our currenc,
Most of the gold of California, as fai
as 1t Is coined, finds its way directly
Europe In payment of goods pu
chased. In the second place, as OF
manufacturing establishments Al
broken down by competition with 70
eigners, the capital invested in them
lost, thousands Of honest and indu
trious citizens are thrown out of en-
ployment, and the farmer to that e.
tent is deprived of home market fl
the sale of his surplus produce. In Il
third place, a destruction Of our man
features leaves the foreign
without competition in our marke
and he consequently raises the price
articles sent here for sale, as is no
seen in the increased cost of iron il
ported from England"
In December, 1857, President Il
chanan, in his annual message to co
greSs, said:
'The earth has yielded her frui
abundantly and has bountifully !
warded the toll of the husbandma
We have possessed all the elements
material wealth in rich abundant
and yet, not withdrawing all The
advantages, our country in its mon
tary interests is at the present nome
in deploraDle condition. In t.
midst of unsurpassed plenty in all {
productions, and in all the elements
natural wealth, we find our manuf;
lures suspended, our public works
tarded, our private enterprises of
Ind Ia oh
of useful labOrerS thrown out of g
plOyment and reduced to want"
This testimony would condemn
revenue tariff" in any court of the lar
1t ought to force like verdict from [
great jury of our countrymen.
One of the chief complaints agaiI
the protective system is its alleged h
drance to foreign trade and fOrei
market for our own products. 1t
argued that if we could import raw n
terial from other countries free, a
manufacture such raw material ii
products for use, we could export TIN
at great profit and thus secure staI
ing in the markets of the world. T
theory is wholly, as 1 believe, illuso
1t is without substance. We have
example of free raw material in q C
tain line of manufactures-that
leather for boots, shoes, ETC., etc.
1872 hides and skins were made free
that our manufactures could imp
them without custom house burde
They have had free trade in tn
raw material now for sixteen yea
This industry has been an exceptions
successful one, and yet you cannot av
being surprised when say to you Il
in those sixteen years we have bI
able to export but 2 per cent of
leather production of the country.
But If free raw material be necess
to secure an export trade and the
eign markets, then l answer that
manufacturers to-day have substant
free trade in foreign raw materi
which they make into the finished DIT
uct in the United States, provided Il
export it. Sections 3019, 1920, 302l 4
1922 of the United States statutes T
vide for the remission of duties on
foreign materials used in manufact
ing for the export trade. The Law
positive that all articles manufactu