St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-08-30
pretended the situation when he said


lures he supplies. Here in England 1t Is
well known and understood that wherever
manufacture is established which en-
pioys 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 Inc
country. 1t seems, therefore, the interest
| OF all our farmers and owners OF lands to
encourage our young manufactures in
preference to foreign ones imported among
us from distant countries"
The fathers of the republic appreciated
the necessity for home market. They
We're all farmers and planters. They
could not sell to each other for each sup
piled his own wants. This was their situ-
alton. They recognized the Importance or
diversifying the occupations of the people.
They must promote other pursuits than
the cultivation of the soil. They must
| have, if they would prosper, consumers
who would absorb the
SURPLUS PRODUCTS OF THE FARM.
The result was a protective tariff, and
under it the wisdom and foresight of the
| founders of the republic have been more
than indicated. Andrew Jackson put the
| case as well as has ever been done when ne
declared in 1924: fWhere has the Ameri-
can farmer market for his surplus pre-
duct? Except for cotton, he has neither
a foreign or home market. Does not this
clearly prove, when there is no market
either at home or abroad, that there is too
| much labor employed in agriculture and
| that the channels for labor should be null
| tiplied? Common sense points out the
| remedy. Draw from agriculture the super
abundant labor employ it on mechanism
| market for your breadstuffS and distribut-
| ing labor to the most profitable account
and benefits to the country" One-third
of the cotton crop of the South is consumed
| + hn yUnr1IH al of
| it might find a market in the United
States? We would be better off; you would
| be better off. The country at large would
be the gamer If the whole cotton crop was
people. Transportation would to great
| extent be saved. We would make and
| buy more cotton cloths at home, and send
abroad far less; idle labor would be en-
pIoyed; idle capital find investment: the
South would increase its spindles and its
| looms, and general and permanent pros
perity would follow.
| The tariff reformer seeks to Halter the
| New England manufacturer with the sug-
gestion that he no longer needs protection,
| and should turn his influence in favor of
| the other system. He assures him that he
has reached snch perfection in manufac-
ture such completeness of organization,
such advancement in mechanical skill,
that he has nothing to fear from competl-
ton abroad, and that he has but to reach
out for our own and the worlds market
has nothing longer to fear from foreign
competition, but that his serious danger is
from home competition; that, while he is
indebted for his splendid progress in in
dustrial development to protective SyS
tenn, he has outgrown it, and II it is TO pe
continued the people OF the south anu
| West will become his dangerous rivals,
] and that to avoid this new competition ne
invites him to assist in withholding from
the states which have been slower IN IN
dustrial development that measure OF
Legislative aid which has been so prontaoly
invoked by the New England states, ana
to which they are indebted for their won
derful advance in mechanical ana INDUS,
trial pursuits What do sthe South ana
West say to this narrow and provincial
view? 1t may be true that the New Eng
land manufacturer has reached that rank
and that degree of perfection when pro
lection to him is not so essential as IL once
was, but the West and South are
in exactly the same condition that
New England was twenty years ago,
and I am sure will insist that the
same fostering legislation shall be &C
corded for their development that mas oeen
so long enjoyed by their more progressive
fellow citizens on the eastern coast. Inc
truth is,
PROTECTION MUST BE UNIVERSAL
in its application equally within the
reach of all sections and all industries, or
it should be abandoned altogether. 1t
cannot be enjoyed by one interest to the
exclusion of another. The New England
wooden mills cannot demand protectlop
upon their cloth and deny it to wool, and
they do not. The rice planter cannot nope
to enjoy full protection against foreign
competition and deny equal protection TO
the producer of salt. The sugar planter OF
Louisiana cannot invoke the power OF
Congress for protective duties, and yet
deny like protection to industries in other
parts Of the country. The system must
La
f BarRe H Said of liberty, cit is the
clear right of all or OF none. 1t IS
only perfect when universal; IL
ests requiring the encouragement OF the
government, or it must be free trade or a
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
a principle different from that Of any
other It is founded upon the consent. of
the people. II we had wanted it otherwise
we would not have left home. but would
have remained the obedlent child OF an I'M
perious parent. We would nos have turned
would have remained one Of her depend
encies. We would not have fought our
way through blood and sacrifice to indie
pendence. We separated to set up Tor
ourselves free and independent political
society, and that policy is the best for us
organization, our citizenship and civiliza-
ton. 1t is ours to work out our own des-
tiny, 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 man
kind the benefcence of our system and