The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-22

hood of the beneficial effects Of a homo market
His own experience is better than any philoso-
ply. Atlanta has given him an obiectlesson.
1t has increased the value of his farm products
and enhanced the value OF every foot OF ground
he owns.
Beujamin Franklin, writing from London, in
1771, TO Humphrey Marshall, compreheuded the
situation when he said:
Every manufacturer encouraged in our country
makes part of a market for provisions within our
selves. and saves so much money to the country as
must otherwise be exported to nav for the manufact-
ures he supplies. Here in England it is well known
and understood that wherever q manufacture is estab.
lished which employees a number of hands, it raises
the value of land in the neighboring country all
around it; partly by the greater demand near at hand
for the produce of the land and partly from the plenty
of money drawn by the manufacturers to that part of
the country. 1t seems, therefore, the interest of all
our farmers and owners of lands to encourage our
young manufactures in preference to foreign ones i'm
ported among US from distant countries.
The fathers Of the Republic appreciated the
farmers and planters. They could not sell to
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, II they would prosper, consumers who
would absorb the surplus products OF the farm.
The result was a protective tariff, and under il
the wisdom and foresight of the founders of the
shda hA-
drew Jackson put the case as well as has ever
been done when he declared, in 1924, "Where
has the American farmer a market for his sur
plus PRODUCT Except for cotton, he has neither
a foreign nor home market Does n lot this clear
~ prove. when there is no market either at home
or abroad, that there is too much labor employed
in agriculture. and that the channels of labor
should be multiplied Common sense points out
the remedy. Draw from agriculture the super
abundant labor, employ it on mechanism and
manufactures. thereby creating a home market
for your breadstuffs, and distributipglabor to the
most profitable account and benefits to the coun-
try" One-third of the cotton crop Of the South
is consumed at home. Who would not wish that
sll of it might fad a market in the United
States. We would be better off; you would be
better off. The country at large would be the
gamer II the whole cotton crop was fabricated In
our own mills By our own people. Transports
ton would to q great extent be saved We
would make and buy more cotton cloths at home,
and send abroad for less; idle labor would he
employed; idle capital find investment; the
South would increase its spindles and its looms.
low.
The tariff reformer seeks to fatter 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 or
ganization. such advancement in mechanical
skill, that he has nothing to fear from competi-
ton abroad. and that he has bnt to reach out for
our own and the worlds markets and they are
his. He assures him that be has nothing longer
to fear from foreign competition, but that his
serious danger is from home competition; that
while he is indebted for bis splendid progress in
industrial development to a protective system.
he has outgrown 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 with
holding from the States which have been slower
IT, h% tAoTo-
lative aid which has been so proftably invoked
by the New England States and to which they
are indebted for their wonderful advancement
in mechanical and industrial pursuits. What
do tho South and the West say to this narrow
and provincial viewa 1t may be true that
the New England manufacturer has reached
that rank and that degree Of perfection when
protection TO him is not so essential as it once
was, but the West and the South are in exactly
the same condition that Now England was
twenty years ago, and l am sure will insist that
the same fostering legislation shall be accorded
for their development that has been SO long en-
joyed by their moro progressive fellow -cltizens
on the Eastern coast. The truth is. protection
must be universal in its applications; equally
within the reach Of all sections and all indus
tries, or it should be abandoned altogether. 1t
cannot be enjoyed by one interest to the exclu-
sion Of another. The New England wooden.
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 pro-
lection to the producer of salt. The sugar
planter Of Louisiana cannot invoke the power OF
Congress for protective duties. and yet deny
like protection 10 industries in other parts of the
country. The system must stand as q whole or
fall. As Burke said of liberty, 1T 10 the clear
right of all or of none. It is only perfect when
universal" 1t must be protective tariff for all
interests requiring the encouragement of the
government. or it must be free trade or a reve-
nue. tariff. and rest alike upon all classes and ell
portions of the country.
We are different from any other nation, and
it is that difference which makes rs the best
Our political system rests upon a prin ciple diff
ferent from that OF any other. 1t is founded
upco the consent of the people. II we had
wanted IL 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 dependen-
cies. We would not have fought our way
through blood and sacrifice to independence.
We separated to set up for ourselves . free and
independent political society, and that policy is
the best for US which best subserves the pur-
poses Of our organization, our citizenship and
civilization. It is ours to work out our own
destiny, and in doing SO furnish an example of
. free and progressive people. whose industrial
policy has made It possible to satisfy the best
and highest aspirations of men. and which closes
no field to human endeavor. We would wish
for all mankind the beneficence Of our system
and the opportunities which it presents. We
bid them Level their condition up to ours; we
will not level ours down to theirs. We will re-
move all restrictions from internatioual trade
as we have removed all restrictions from inter-
state 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 intrusted the
interests Of our country-our whole country.
To others have been confded the care of other
nations and other peoples We will not inter
fere with them; we bid them not Interfere with
us. My fellow-citizens. in this conflict, inhu-
enced by patriotism, national interest, and ma
tional prize. let US be Americans.
THE 'FIFTIETH CONGRESS.