The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-09-06

NAAlEtilE WHO lAAaht flGEHtNEIAe aIlt
senates and the house Of represen
iatives 10 b. In a condition Of Dope
dence and restitution. That T. no
the sort al citizenship we want
Next TO the iabOrer the farmer {,
the immediate beneficiary Of "a,
American system. IL brings To hi.
plantation a city Of consumers. Th,
farmer and the factor are brought
into close proximity. The probl en-
Ot transportation is largely eiimin
ated. lie finds market not Onls
for staple products which woult
bear transportation, but Tor maul
products which but for "A home mar
ket would waste and decay ia ia,
fields. ! need not tell a farmer ia
this neighborhOOd Of the beneficial
effects Of "A home market. His OWt
experience is better than my phil.
OsOphy. Atlanta has given him az
object lesson. IL has Increased tht
value of his farm products and Ell
HANGED the value 81 every foot ol
ground he owns
BENJAMIN Franklin. writing from
London in l57l, Ia Humphrey Mar
shall, COmprehended the situation
when he said:
Every manufacturer encouraged
iu our country makes part Of mar.
ket for provisions within ourselves
aud save 80 much money To tire
country a. must OtherWise be ex.
ported to pay for the manufacture.
he supplies. Here in England it D.
well known aud understood thai
wherever manufacture h. estab-
lished which employs number OF
hands, % raises the value Of land ii
the neighbOring country all around
IL; partly by the greater demand
near AT hand for the produce of tht
land and partly from the plenty al
money drawn by the manufacture
To that part Of the country. II
seems, therefore, the interest Of ali
the farmers and owners OF land o.
encourage our young manufacturer
ia preference 10 foreign ones ina
ported anoug ~ from distant cuun-
tries
The fathers or the republic appre-
ciated the necessity Tor home
market. They were all farmers aud
planters. They could mos sell o.
each other. for each supplied hi7
own wants. This was their sItua-
ton. They recognized the impor-
tance Of diversifyIng the occupations
uf the people. They must promote
other pursuits than the cultivation
Of the soil. They must have, iT they
would prosper, consumers who
would absorb the surplus products
oT the farm. The result was pro-
teCtive tariff, and under IL the wis
dom and foresight Of the founders Oi
the republic have been more than
vindirated. Andrew Jackson put
the ease as well a. has ever been
done when he declared i'm ISL,
Where has the American farmer
a market for his surplus product ?
Except for cotton he has neither a
foreign or home market. Does
not this clearly prove, when there IL
40 market either at home or abroad,
THAI there Is too much labor employ
ed in agriculture and that the chan
uels for labor should be multiplied ?
Common sense points out the REM
edy, draw from agriculture the sup
erabundaut labor, employ 1t on
mechanism and manufactures,
thereby creating a home market for
your breadstufls and distributing
labor 10 the most profitable account
and benefits TO the country One
third of the cotton crop of the south
is consumed at home Who would
not wish that all Of IL might find a
market in the United States. We
wsuld be better of; you would be
better oil. The country at large
would Ice the gamer il the whole
cotton crop was fabricated in our
own mills 10y our own people.
Transportation would To great eX-
tent he saved. We would make and
buy more cotton cloths at home and
send abroad for less; idle capital
find Investment; the south would
increase its spindles and its looms,
and general and permanent PROSPER
ity would follow.
The tariff refOrmer seeks 10 fiatter
the New England manufactures
with the suggestion that he no lon
ger needs protection, ana 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, ouch advancement in
skill, that he has moth
ing to fear from competition abroad,
aud that lac has but To reach out for
our own and the worlds market and
they are his. He assures him that
he has nothing longer Ia fear from
foreign e, mpetitiOn, but that his
serious danger II from home cOmpe-
titiOn; that while lac Is indebted Tor
his splendid progress in industrial
development To a protective system,
he has Ouigrown il, aud If il is to be
continued the people Of the south
and west will become his dangerous
rivals, and To avoid this new compe-
titiuu he invites him TO assist i'm
Withholding from the states which
has been slower in industrial devel-
Opment that measures Of legislative
aid which has been so probably in
vOked 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 aud provincial view
IL may be true that the New Eng
land manufacturer has reached that
rank and that degree Of perfection
when protection 10 him are not so
essential rs il once was, but the
west and the south are in exactly
the same condition that New Eng
land was twenty years ago, and am
sure will insist that the same
fostering legislation shall be accord
Ell for their development that has
been so long enjoyed by their more
fellOw-citizens on the
eastern coast. The truth is, prOtec-
ton must be universal in its appli-
cation: equally within the reach of
all sections and all Industries. or 10
should be abandoned altogether.
IL cannot be enjoyed 10y one interest
10 the exclusion Of another. The
New England wooden mill cannot
protection upon their cloth
and deny IL to wool, and they do not.
The rice planter cannot hope To ell
Joy full protection against foreign
and deny equal prOtec-
lion 10 the producer Of salt. The
sugar planter OF Louisiana cannot
invoke the power of congress for
duties and yet deny like
20 Industries ia other
parts or the country. The system
must stand as a whole or fall. As
Burke said of liberty, lit Is the clear
right Of all or of none. IL is only
perfect when universal 10 must
be- protective tariff for all interests
the encouragement Of the
or IL must be free trade
" a revenue tariff aud rest alike on
~ classes and all portions Of the
We are different from any other
nation, aud Il is that difference
which makes Us the best Our uBlit- /