The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-28

soil. They must have if they would prosper con-
suruers WHO would absorb the surplus products of
the farm The result protective tariff and
under ii the wisdom and foresight OF the founders
of the republic have been more than yindicated.
Andrew Jackson put the case as well as has ever
been done when he declared in 1924, where has
the American farmer market for his surplus prod
ueD 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 aboremplOyed in agriculture and
that the channels for labor should be multiplied?
Common sense points out the remedy; Draw from
agriculture the superintendent labor. employ ii on
mechanism and manufactures, thereby creatnS
home market for your breadstuis and distributing
labor to the most profitable account and benefits to
the country"
Onethird Of the cotton crop of the south is con-
sumed at home. Who would not wish that all OF IT
might find market in the United States? We would
be better Off you would be better OIL 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 q great extent be
saved, We would make and buy more cotton cloths
at home and sent abroad for less; idle labor would
be emIoyed idle capital find investment; Inc
general and permanent prosperity would follow.
The tariff Teformer seeks TO fiatter
THE NEW ENGLAND MANUFACTURER
with the suggestion that he no longer needs pr0tec-
ton, 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 oyanizatiOn. such advancement in mechanical
skill, that he has nothing to fear from competition
and the worlds markets and they are bis. He as
sures him that he has nothing longer to fear from
foreign ~ competition, but that his MS, t seTi
ton; that while he IS indebted for his
splendid progress in industrial development to q
protective system, he has outgrown it, and If 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 in
industrial development that measure of legislative
aid which has been SO probably 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 west say to this narrow
and provincial view? It 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 it was but the west and the
south are in exactly the same condition that New
England was twenty years ago, and am sure will
insist that the same fostering legislation shall be ac
corded for their development that has been so long
enjoyed by their progressive fellow citizens of
the eastern coast. The truth is
PROTECTION MUST BE UNIVERSAL
In its application; equally within the reach of all
sections and all industries or it should be aban-
doned altogether 1t cannot be enjoyed by one in
terest to the exclusion of, another. The New Eng
land 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 protec-
ton against foreign competition and deny equal
protection to the producer of salt. The sugar plant
erof Louisiana cannot invoke the power Of congress
to industries in other parts of the country The sys
tenn must stand as whole or fall. AS Burke said of
only perfect when universal" 1t must be protec-
tive tariff for all interests requiring the encourage
ment of the government ii must be free-trade or
revenue tariff and rest alike upon all classes and
all portions Of the country.
We are different from any other nation, and it is
that difference which makes US the best Our po-
ltical system rests upon principle different from
that OF any other. 1t is founded upon
THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE,
If we had wanted it otherwise we would not have
left home, but would have remained the obedient
child of an imperous 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 sacri-
flee to independence. We separated to set up for
ourselves free and independent political society,
and that policy is the best for us which best sub
serves the purposes of our organization, citizen
ship and civilization. 1t is ours to work out our
own destiny, and in doing furnish an example of
q 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 benefeenoe of our
system and the opportunity which it presents. We
bid them level their condition up to ours; will
not level ours down to theirs. We will remove all
restrictions from international trade have re-
moved ell restrictions from interstate trade when
ever they win raise their labor and their conditions
to our standard
Men of Georgia. upon this great industrial ques-
every section have been Entrusted the interests
our coantry-our whole country. To others have
been confded the cafe of other nations and other
peoples We will not interfereSaYsh them; we bid
them not interfere with u.s.
My felloWcitizens in this conflict, influenced by
patriotism national interest and national pride, let
US be Americans.