San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-19
A STRICTLY SOUTHERN VIEW.
Protection as a Means of Retaliation
Views of an Original Seces-
sionist--No Free Trade for
Him Yet Awhile,

Views or an OTl2lnal SeCeS-
sionist--No Free Trade for
Him Yet Awhile.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. II, 1SSS.
Daily LIGHT:
heard man who signed the Texas
ordinance of secession say yesterday
that the first opportunity since the
late whipping for the south to more
than get even with the north was for
all to vote for the protection candi-
dates in the presidential election,
even if they have to do it as a war
measure. Says he, the north has had
protection TO foster all of her great
manufactures, and under the same
protective tariff the south is fast be-
coming her peer. For the south to
vote for free trade in the present crisis
would be worse than suicidal.
But in this is the south to get more
than even by the "war measures" In
very few years every southern state
would have abundant manufactures
of all kinds, provided protection is
continued, and then with our trained
and skilled labor, which the cOlOred
brother will supply, and at cost far
below northern wages in factories,
the south will supply a large portion
full competition with England
No protection would be then
required by the south, and
if continued, it would not
be awaited of; no foreign goods would
come to our shores for a market. No
country in the world could compete
with the south with her then manu-
factories, with class of labOrersy
who will remain laborers in the south
forever.
Already do northern foundrymen
complain because the difference in
the cost of colored labor in the south,
and white labor i'll the north make
fortunes for the furnace men of Ala
bama, and such difference would
he apparent in every manufactu ring
industry ever started III the south.
Should the south stick to protection,
it requires no man with a reed to,
measure her victory. She would be-
come manufactures for world; her
vast resources would all be engaged
making her the center of the immi-
grafton of wealth and population; her
importance in the union, or rather
nation, would OVeTtOp the north and
west combined. Protection will give
it all. And such victory; a thou
sand times greater than mad Grant
and mis- army persisted before Nicks-
burg, or had the southern cross
waved from the capitol of Washing
ton in triumph.
Peace has her victories, and this is
one of them that can be unfolded in
the realms of the future, easy of ac-
cOmplishment, and would be of more
intense satisfaction to every southern
er, than it would be to hear Bob
TrOmbs call his slave roll from the
top of Bunker hill monument.
Free trade, and what will it do?
Simply keep the south in the same
old rut. She may call out her mines
of gold, iron, coal, and tell that her
cotton and labor is the best and
cheapest in the world, with sites for
factories unlimited, but her voice will
die upon the stagnant air. The breath
Offree trade would kill the only hope
of victory the south ever had or ever
will have.
When / contemplate what is posi-
BILE for my beloved south my heart
almost leaps from my throat, but.
when | look about me and see the
preparing pens with free whisky,
where humanity is to be forced into
voting for, he of the big neck, free
trade, and all calamities that can be-
fall the southern people, / become
heart sick, and cannot help thinking
that it We're better had the south
never been born. More anon.
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