The South western news., 1888-08-29

ton.
Mai. Kinley tells that that the
countries south Of us sold us last
year three times as much as they
beu. hit from US, and he reasons that
The tariff has nothing to do with it,
because more than one half ofthe
products we bought were not sub
ject to any tariff tax at all, bat
were admitted free of duty"
lie ought TO know very we'll that
this is not where the shoe pinches.
We can and do buy from South
and Central America such goods as
we cannot do without and pay for
them in British merchandise for
which we sell our wheat and cot
ton, but we cannot pay for our SUI
gar and coffee with our own goods
because they cost too much. and
they cost too much because the
price OF raw material is too high
10 1850 the raw material cost 54.S
per cent. of the manufactured prod.
uct; in 1880 it cost 63.2 per cent.
With free raw material our manu>
tacturers can sell goods in South
America or anywhere in compete
ton with anybody.
That a revenue tariff will "scale
down the wages and diminish the
comforts OF the American working
man, is hisnext proposition Facts
show that this is MT true. Wages
IN manufacturing industries con
tinue to increase, rs rule, as i'm
pravements in Iabor-saring mac!iin-
cry make labor more efficient. They
have been increasing for fifty years,
but the gain according to the cen
sus, was most during the low tariff
period from 1850 to 1860.
IN that perio | the average years
" wages increased from s257 to
1888, a gain of 1876 per cent, the
highest tariff in any one year being
N14 per cent From 1850 to
1880, the hihest tariff being 1853
per cent, wages rose from 1888 to
S346, gain oftwenty per cent. in
twenty years of high tariff as
against 1916 per cent. in ten years
Of low tariff. The same ratio ofin-
crease for the twenty rs thc tea
years would hav, made the aver
age wages in 1890 amount - $50?
instead of s24s. Mai. N Kinley
viii have much difficulty in ex-
planning why this is so and at the
same time not ran counter 10 his
high tariff theories.
His statement that revenue re-
formers have no respect for labor
ard are Infinitely more interestedin
cutting down the wages of labor
than in saving twenty iive cents on
blanket, is a naked falsehood,
known to be SO by the Ohio tin
plate and cotton tie protectionist.
Moreover, it is a totally uncaiied
for and thoroughly base SANDER
of better men than Himself who are
very sorry to see that he has en-
tirely failed to sustain the reputa-
tation of fair minded and honora-
bic opponent, which preceded him
to this state.
On the whole his com ng here
will not advance one step the cause
to which the little squad of protec>
ton democrats are devoted, and
which Is so detested by vast ma
iority of the democrats of Georgia.
We have in every countv,me who
can get the better of Mai, William
Mckinley, jr., on any argument
he can make on the tariff.
McKINLY rises to higher heights
in the estimation Of the Atlanta
Constitution. He is Napoleonic
in the strength Of his eountenance.
Like Napoleon we suppose he
gave the people "solid shot" from
protection guns in his Chautauqua
parade. AS for us, we don't ads
mire Napoleonic statesmen. We
want to here one whose sympathies
are with the masses 10 this cruel
war waged against them by the
classes. Anything flat resembles
Napoleonis dangerous to Repub>
lie, and we are free to confess that
high protection and the bounty
system of the government for