The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-16

information We can gather, more than
50, 000, 000,0 900 lies like great blanket in
mortgages on the farms OF these States.
Take the nine manufacturing States-New
York Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the
six New England States. They comprise
only small part Of our vast territory, and
only 1900, 900 OF our population, yet that
l4,0O0,0 600 people own out, of u total wealth
OF S4S, 0O0, 100000,
5000, 600, 900 MORE PROPERTY
than the entire So 600, 600 OF people living
in all the other States and Territories of
the Union. | have made speeches in
sixty counties in Tennessee and have not
found one county in the entire State where
the farming lands are not worth less than
they were thirty years ago. am told that
such is the case in many of the states
in the north. The vast inequalities in tho
distribution OF wealth is directly trace
able to the protective tariff. For
the first seventy-fye years in
our national existence they did not exist.
The farmers of the west and south are the
sufferers under this system. Every cotton
merchant OF Memphis is living witness
TO the fact. Every one OF them knows
that we ship 60 per cent, OF our cotton
crop across the Atlantic and sell 1t in the
open markets Of the world in competition
with every other country in the world en-
gagged in the production OF cotton. The
market, which fixes the price Of the surplus
of any crop necessarily fixes the price OF
the whole, and the market OF Liverpool,
being the market in which the cottons OF
the world compete, 1t necessarily fixes the
price in America. AS cotton goes up or
down in Liverpool 1t goes up or down in
America. We ship twenty-seven bus hels
out of every 100 OF all our wheat
in the same way, two bushels out
Of every 100 OF all our corn, eight pounds
of every 100 OF all our meat, and twenty
pounds out OF every 100 Of all our cheese.
| Our farmers are making cotton in compe-
| tition with the hali-naked barbarians
along the Nile and the Gangeri, and wheat
| in competition with the Turk along the
shores OF the Black sea and the Cossocks
along the steppes OF Russia. Applause.
Is il lust as right TO require them TO sell
their surplus crops in this way, and then
bring their hard-earned money home and
pay AZ lilo per cent of II In the way of in
cidental taxes into the pockets Of the favor
ites and pets OF the government Oul
commerce has Jared no better than
agriculture. American ships ear
ried nearly twice the number
of tons Of our foreign commerce in 1861
as they did in 1850. Our laws provide
that no ship shall float the American flag
which is not built in American waters
The tariff on raw materials entering int
the construction OF vessels has driven thu
American flag from the seas. The ship
carving our foreign commerce are bull
in foreign waters and 10y alien mechanics
Blaine, the demi.god of the Repub
lican party, when he returned iron
Carnegics castle In Scotland 10 TAX
part in this canvass, came II
shin built by American capita
in foreign waters, by foreign mechanic
and floating a foreign ilag. lProlongc
! applause.
New England has turned her back o
the seas and has grown rich, not 10y con
mcrcc, but by tribute drawn from Amer
can consumers. (Applau.c.l But ia
I labor of the country is the especial objc'
OF solicitudc on the part Of the protection
! ist. There is one question which ought
I satisfy every laboring man: Who gets u
i benefit OF this system-the millionaire
= the man who strikes for better wagc
{ who gets the organized and protected cap
/ tnl which enters into combines and trur
\ and shuts down Observation-Disclosures wht
/ Il IL discovered that labor has produce
= more than the country can consume
4 will buy OF the laborcr who Ia throw
4 thereby out Of employment aud has
\ trnmp aud bog Tor bread while lac Is lool
e ior another job2 Applause How r. lab
e protcctcd? Where i the cusiom-hou'
. along our shores to exact tribute from 70
zion labor when IL lands 10 compete vii
our own The Democratic party las nlwa
encouraged immigration and stood
:. American citizens oi foreign birth; but
, isopposed TO theimmigratiOn Of paupcr !
q Dor. lApplausc.l
i In 1854 Republican Congress passed
d law authorizing the importation OF co
!. tract paupcr labor. This law remained
y the statute books for twenty ycnrs, ~
10 until Cleveland was elected aud the j
4 mocracy forced its repeal. Applnu.'
d From 1920 90 1868 the entire immigrau
a 10 this country amounted 20 only A,"bl, "
h. but from 1868 10 the present time II u
.o amounted to li,O1O,OOO. The largest =.
10 ton OF this were paupcr brought 10 u
10 country 90 take the places oi Amcrc
No lnborcrs. A citizen took his stand
M other dav nj Castle Garden aud
10 immigrants could not tell u
.o whether they had come ~ land OF IL
M don, or n land oi kings. The tramp, I
combines, the trusts and the lockouls
nll children oi the protective Hystc
They are all produced 10y the restraints
~ commerce, manufactures and ngUcullu
,o caused los this system. Now, the post
\" of the Democracy Is just this; II NJ
~ whisky aud tobacco arr luNurics anu
nc peoplg can do without them, aud that
Nv consumers oi neither nrc asking 10
l' peal the taxes ON either. On
other hand, the tariff IN ~
~ burden on the nrc"ssurirs OF J
nc and Il saws the taxes ought Ia bee rcdu
,N ON the ucrrssarics ol life until the gov,
~, mcnt gets down a. the revenue limit
'ul cutirr averaged labor cost Of mnnuincin
~ products D. only VI per cent, anu o.,
~ iwpussiblp 10 collect hy means ~ Y
W. t8Natiuu the necessary rCNCnu" 90 Fupl
81 Inc government without amply protect
y" American industries, every Glass oi g
wv suinrus IN inlorNol in thc reduction
''s reduce the tarin 20 that the guyrrnu
nv will not collect moro than u needs
''A thcu 20 administer tho puNcrhu
wy honestly aud economically u
' object and purpose OF tho ID
'hH orrlcy. The Republican party on
'h- contrary u opposed a. giving up amy
~ pi the protective system. II inNois
400 mailing the taxes on whisky and tph
lh, 18d. II necessary, raise tho inrii 20
/! Oh exclude impofiitions and thereby w'
thp r,rnucz II h the party OF
,rytufypI and protected capital OF
'On- country aud is wholly under ~ dpmin
ar. n h not the party Oi Abraham lin
area and las ropulmlrd iis lurncr lca'
10 Of 'Tbr ion. liugh McCu.loch a mcmb
hing Mr. Llncoln's Cabinet, Is suppQ