The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-04-06
A DELIvERANOE FROM ROBBERY.

This country has been dominated by
ideas and interests ever
the republican party has been in
power. 1t has, by its aid, been enabled
to rob the rest of the country Of mil
lions of dollars, to build up a thousand
millionaire C~arnegies, and tens OF
of slaves who are at their
in the mines and shops. But
a deliveraDce is coming, which all the
sophistry of illogical high protection
lists cannot set aside. 1t is coming, too,
in the very irony of fate from those
southern states whose slave system be
ing overturned has caused them to
turn to manufactures In which they
are so rapidly forging to the front as to
promise soon I distance their more
northern contemporaries. The milder
climate, the more abundant supply OF
iron ore and its better quality, the in
exhaustible beds of coal, cotton at the
door free from the transportation
charge, with water power equal to a
million engines, all contribute toward
the end here spoken of.
1t is not England that Pennsylvania
has to fear, but Alabama and Georgia.
| Will she want a protective tariff against
them2 Mr.. Carnegie says that $40 a
ton for foundry iron-the highest
grade-produced in Alabama is a liber-
al and paying price. He adds: "With
good management, and for a series OF
years, some of the best located and
best managed furnaces may be able to
do even better than this figure" Dur
ing the debates on the tariff OF the past
few years Pennsylvania iron men have
declared that they could not probably
| manufacture iron at u less rate of pro-
lection against the foreign product
than SI6.72 per ton. If this is true, If
it ia not a mere fabrication for the purs
pose OF securing illegitimate profits,
the above declarations of Mr.. Carnegie
must come TO them as a startling
warning of impending doom, for SIC
per ton is less than the present price oil
pig iron in Great Britain. The latest
quotations OH pig iron In that country
are $40 IS to S12 per ton. 80 it will
be seen that Alabama Is even now
able to produce iron cheaper than Eng.
land, that 1t needs no protection, and
that it will not fail to resent the Penn,
sylvania idea as eventually inimical to
its W industries.
The beauty of all this lies in the fur
Their tact that the new south, so-callcd,
is not an out-growth of northern CAPT
tai or brains, but Is principally due te
the foresight, energy and business tao
of southern men. Northern men anC
northern capital are, of course, inviieo
and encouraged, but they were no
waited for to catch step with the musl'
of the industrial march in the COUNT y
The southern people were somewha
a dreamy and idealistin people wheI
they had slaves to do their work, bu
since that order of things was happily
changed, against their wishes 1t is trne
their muses. have inspired short hairet
poets, who write of Drawn and pluck
of brick and mortar, of iron, cotton
electricity and work
Pennsylvania has awakened a giant
which is as certain to strike it q fata
blow, as that the sun shines, and tn
rivers flow over beautiful falls ant
that the people are yirtuous, industri
Gus and happy in the southland q
these United States. God bless an
prosper IL,