The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-10-19
But He Did.

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in the measure that protects the pro
ducts of the East and South ano
throws those of Michigan open TO tht
free competition of the world. Mr.
Tarsney is consisient.-Courier o
April 20.
This is W, lat the Courier said about
Mr.. Tarsnev's position in reference
to tie sectional Mills bill, and yet
that gentleman voted for the bill Sin
its present shape" and declared il
was the "proud est vote Of his life. -
He voted for "the sectional disc, imi.
nations in the measure that protects
the products OF the East and South
and throws those of Michigan open
to the world" and for this reason
alone, to say nothing of others.
equally as strong he should not be
returned solCongress to again mis-
represent the interests Of the Eighth
district. The Courier's own evi
dedce condemns Mr.. Tarsney.
Now, let us see where the present
raid on Michigan industries comes
from But two Northern men were
given an opportunity to have any
hand in drafting the Mills bill, Scott,
Of Pennsylvania, and Bynam, OF Indi-
ana, and both of these Democrats
took good care that the Interests of
their own States and districts were
left undisturbed. The five members
of the Ways and Means Committee
from the South also demanded pro-
lection Tor Southern sugar and rice,
while industrial States like New York
Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois and
Michigan were not even gwen hear
ing, SO anxious was the Democratic
administration and the South that
Northern industrial interests should
be made the scapegoat of the so.called
tariff REFORM" Why should the
South be permitted to draft a tariff
bill to put on the free list the indus
trial interests of other States, while
the fact is that that section repre-
Sents but small fragment Of the in
dustrial wealth of the country and
the, poorest paid labor in the United
States? Last spring, Mr. Thomas B.
Barry, of East Saginaw, while on an
official trip through the South as a
member of the executive board of the
Knights of Labor, was simply dis
heartened by what he found in that
section of the country. 1t is stated
that Mr.. Barry is widely at variance
with his party on the tariff, being like
nearly all the members of the Knights
of Labor, believer in the doctrine
of protection. He has recently made
an extensive taip through the South,
and he paid particular attention to
the industrial situation there. In
some.sections the workingmen, who
are mostly negroes, are paid the most
meager wages-so low in fact that
the old shareholders and capitalists
perfer the present situation to the
slaveholding regime. The evolution
AIRY effects of generations of bondage,
the lack of education, race prejudice,
and the want of industry and enter
prise on the part of the ruling class,
have operated 10 the repression of
what is nominally free labor in the
South. The dominant class do not
desire the elevation of labor in the
South, to the intelligent, selfrespect-
Ing, we'll paid plane it has achieved
in the North. Mr.. Barry found all
this out by personal investigation,
and he openly charges the Democrat
ic party with being responsible for it.
In an interview published in the
Cleveland Leader when he returned
North Mr.. Barry said:
alt is most disheartening to see
strong and willing men working for
from 80 to 90 cents a day, and sup
porting families on that pittance.
What the South needs today more
than anything else is better system
of education. ] am sure that if the
Democratic Congressional committees
who 60 on examining tours through.
out the country, would mingle with
the people of the South instead of
being wined and dinedj by the public
sentiment creating faction of that
country they would give such a re-
port to Congress that the Blair edu-
cational bill, or something better,
would be passed at once. / venture
the assertion that not capitalist
ofthe South would be willing to 60
back to the old regime of slavery.
They can to day hire all the help they
want at wages that would not keep
the workers comfortable and are I'M
der no obligations to support them
in sickness or old age. Ii the con-
dition of the laboring people Of the
South today, which has been under
Democratic rule for so many years, is
any indication of what continued
control would bring to the country
we want no more of it."