The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-23

him that he has nothing longer to fear
from foreign competition, but that his |
serious danger is from home COMPETE |
ton; that while he is indebted for his |
splendid progress in industrial de-
velopement to protective system, he |
has outgrown it, and IL it is to be con- |
tinued the people of the south and |
west VIII become his dangerous rivals, |
and that to avoid this new competition |
he invites him to assist in Withholding |
from the states which have been slower |
in industrial development that meas
ure OF legislative aid which has been |
SO proftably invoked by the New Eng
land States and to which they are in |
debted for their wonderful advance
ment in mechanical and industrial |
pursuits. What do the south and
west say to this narrow and provincial
vieWl 1t may be true that
the New England manufacturer
has reached that rank and
that degree of perfection when protec-
ton to him is not SO essential as it once
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 fos-
tering legislation shall be accorded for
their development that has been so
long enjoyed by their more progressive
fellOw-citizens on the eastern coast.
The truth is, protection must be uni
versal in its application; equally within
the reach of all sections and all indus
tries, or it should be abandoned alto
gether. 1t cannot be enjoyed by one
interest to the exclusion 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 competi-
ton and deny equal protection to the
Louisiana cannot invoke the power OF
congress for protective duties and yet
deny like protection to industries in
other parts Of the country. The Sys-
tenn must stand as whole or fall. AS
| Burke said of liberty, lit is the clear
right of all or of none. 1t is only per-
| feet when universal" 1t must be pro-
| tective tariff for all interests requiring
the announcement 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 the best. Our political sys-
TEN rests upon principle different
from that of any other. 1t is founded
upon the consent of the people. Ii we
had wanted it otherwise we would moi
have left home, but would have re
manned the Obedient child of an i'm
perious parent. We would have turned
J away from the mother country. We
would have remained on her depend
enciess We would not have fought oul
way through blood and sacrifice to in
dependence. We separated to set III
for ourselves a free and Independent
: political society, and that policy is thu
, 4. r til.
purposes of our organization, Our cltl
Zenship and civilization. 1t is ours t.
work out our own destiny, and in do
ing 80 furnish an example for fire.
and progressive people, whose indus
trial policy has made it possible to sat
isfy the best and highest aspiration
of men, and which closes n
field to human endeavOr w
would wish for all mankind
3 the beneficence of our system and tn
opportunities which it presents. W.
bid them level their condition up t
3 ours; we will not level ours down t
; theirs. We will remove all restriction
from international trade as we have re
/ moved all restrictions from inter stat
!; trade whenever they will raise thei
: labor and their conditions to our stand
I ard.
: Men of Georgia, upon this great in
3 dustrial question there should be n
Y north nor south. To us of every sec
t ton have been intrusted the interest
: of our cOuntry-Our whole country. L
others have been eonfided the care O
2 other nations and other peoples. w
! will not interfere with them; we biz
q them not interfere with us. My fel
: low citizens, in this conflict, influences
d by patriotism;~ national interest, an
: national pride, let us be Americans.
e AS sample of the way betting me
s look at the presidential situation tn
! following may be read with Interest
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-Colonel Isaa
Mccartney, a wealthy contractor on tn
. Santa Fe road, arrived from the eas
4 thoroughly imbued with a convictiO
3 that Cleveland was certain of re-elet
: ton. He met General Solicitor Jacl
\ son of the Santa Fe, at the Gran
Il Pacific hotel yesterday Afternoon
Mr.. jackson was not as enthusiast
o on the Cleveland question and Col
n tractor Mccartney discovered it.
a II want to bet 81 900 to $500 tn;
4 Cleveland is the next president of I'll
= United States" said the wealthy CO.
N tractor.
r 81 will take it, said Solicitor JAG
is son, quietly.
# The money was forthcoming at orc
SIN bet $500 more on the san
N TERMS" said Mr.. Mccartney.
IN Taken" said Mr.. jackson.
r. "I'll duplicate the bet, !" said the CO
r tractor, and the solicitor met the su
v. gestiOn.
n Now said Mr.. Mccartney. 81
m bet 80 eco to 81 GOO that win every b
n have made"
The solicithr drew a long breat
m gasped once or twice and finally ejac
r. lated: i've put up all my availat
an money, but, for heavens sake, t
next time you intend to give odds do
IN first"