The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-19
As TIE ENEMY SEES Us.

As THE ENEMY SEES Us.
With the Republican Protectionists to
touch the tariff is to touch their profits and
arouse all their bitterness, They have
been so long in the daily habit OF robbing
the people that they have come TO regard
their ill-gotton gains as a legitimate profit
and the people whom they rob rs their
slaves. Against the South they pour the
walls OF their wrath, because a majority OF
its people are agriculturalsts who are COM
pclledto pay the protection lcviedb by virtue
Of law almost every section OF which is
tnctured with the spirit Of plumber and
robbery. They assail the South, but are
afraid to say anything against tho North
west, which is also nearly altogether agri-
cultural, and therefore is victimized by the
rapacious and greedy monopolists who have
trusts and combines to control the prices OF
all the necossarics OF life. And they assail
the Southern manufacturer rs well Ms the
Southern planter, and assail them with
the virulencc and violence OF the days
when the propaganda against slavery was
in full blast. For instance, here is an ed
itorial from The New York Tribune that
has all the vtupcrative force OF the old
anli-slayery agitation:
THE SOUTH AND LABOR.
The Democratic leaders In Congress affect solicit
uide for the American workngmau. II IL mainly
on his account that they desire To have those ter
rlblc war taxes" repealed. Tho Mills bill Is as
sumcd 10y lu authors 10 boa general relief measure
for the oppressed lab0ring classes who arc over
taxed for clothes and the ncce9nricS Of life Tho
dishonesty Of this prctcnco is apparent when the
fact q disclosed that i've OF the seven Democratic
members oi the Ways aud Means Committee TO-
porting that measure represent southern oonstltu'
cnclcS Tho Solid South controls the commitlco
by au overwhelming majority, rs II docs the party
nt large aud what interest has that section OF tho
country ever shown Ia the progress Of the labor
Ing clng,cs7 It's own working people today
are rdnccd to level with the panpcr labor
Of Europe. The lowest wage, anywhere In tho
Union nrc paid In the South. The laboring classes
thop arc systematically degraded, Impoverished
and plundcrcd. yet the political leaders Of tho
south have the assurance 10 como before Northern
voters ~ the friends aud advocate, OF the down.
troddcn working pooplc, who are taxed iodcathl'
lot no Northern workingman be- deceived by
these hypocritcnl pfclcnccs The South exercises
dcspotic control over the policy Of the Democratic
party II docs nothing for ls own working classes,
and II & equally Indifferent 20 the fortunes Of L..
I0r IN the North. II has the cheapest ui cheap Ia
bnr itself, aud cyulcally thinks That The Nation
would bC on the high rOid 10 prosperity u the man
uAciuTing and Industrial Interests vi the North
could BE- brought under the old lime supremacy Of
King Coil0n and tho wages IT working people gcncr
aily rsiucci 10 the southern level II does not
feat frcc trade. because thcrc would be no compc.
tiiion under IL between labor In the South aud
labor In Europe Naturally with H. political ira
dltlons 0i the icign Of cotton aud with H. own
dcnso masses of cheap, unciucat,d lnbovr,, the
south g. thu stronghold Of ire Trade With It.
President elostcl by The suppression OF the negro
vote In Tn State, Of the Union, aud with its loo
Confederate soldiers In Congress who fought the
battle Of slavery. Il Is amazed Ia hostility IN the
Industries OF the Norih and n the working classcs
who arr dependent upon them. II y accustomed
n the conditions OF pauper labor and l. indifferent
20 mr proEtcs aud prosperity Of tho lsborinl
classes.
For workman substitute capitalist anC
tho rial colors Of this appears Tho 7cis
unc has never been an advocate Of the
rights of labor and has no sympathicS in
that direction. II regards the workingmnr
~ micro machine, whose absolute un
questioning and slavish suboriination i
insists upon ~ npr.rcquisito TO the success
OF the combines and trusts and monopo
lics which comprise the active and ~
grcsSivc strength oi the Republican party
The Tribune hates the South, and rs thi
extract shows, avails ilscli OF tho Tariff
Reform agitation TO re-arousc the sccIiona
hate and jealousy that came ~ near, be
tween 1861 and 1876, TO wrccking th
Union. 40 other power had NJ mucl
10 10 with bringing about the state {
things that lead 10 that war ~ 7hs Tribim'
vet Il docs no, seem 10 have learned ans
thing by the results. II Is still a iomcnt,
Of scc,ionalism. and still insists upon IN
slayish aud ahicct subor,lina,ion Of III
South to the monopOlistA still insists tn
the people Of the South shall surrcnd,
the right To think. acquicscc tamcly in N
scheme Of robbery called the tariff an
permit themselves 10 bc Obbcd Of the
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