The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-06-27
LETTER FROM THE FAR SOU TIL
The Claim that Protective Tariff will
Make the South Republican Denied.

YAzOO CITY, MISS, June IS, SO.
EDITOR GOLD LEAF There has
been considerable comment in the
Tennessee papers on the statement of
the New York W1Ms report of an
interview with Mr.. Colyer in which
that gentleman is reputed to have
Iprophesled the Republicanizing of the
South on account of the high tariff
policy of that party. The bare sup
position that the South will ever be
Republican from any cause is myth
an illusion more deceptive than the
mirage of the great desert.
The suppliant tools who do the bid
ding of such masters as Carnegie
argue that I" the North having made
fortunes by the protection of her man
ufactories for hundred years, it is
but fair the South should now have a
chance to get rich in the same way;
and to foster the high tariff she will
60 Republican-that she would have
done SO sooner but for the race ques
ton" This is most miserable sophis
try, based upon utter fallacy. "The
South should have a chance!" Aye,
but what sort of chance is offered
the same that Carnegie and Others of
his ilk give their Northern operatives,
for they are the men who are running
l"Southern" manufactures, men whose
greed has grown, and whose souls
have shrurk with the accumulation of
millions unjustIy wrung from the op-
pressed masses (mostly too under
sanction of law till no longer feeling
their purses or their persons safe in
their Northern castles, are now COM
ing here under the specious pretext OF
encouraging Southern manufacto-
ries,' but to inaugurate in our midst
by means of immense capital, the same
: villainous system it is no longer safe
for them to practice upon, their North,
ern serfs.
The South needs and must have
more manufactures, but she does moi
: want them at the cost of forty cent:
: out OF every hard earned dollar O
the patient and much oppressed poor
r Neither does she want them at the
l price of consorting with such men a:
r Blaine and Foraker the shining light:
:. of party which, from its birth, ha
3 striven to make the noblest cavalier
l of land where honor is indigenous
e subservient to the ignorance and vict
of former bondsmen upon whom Coz
+ himself has put a mark. "kite
t (down here) mate not with carrior
r Crows" and the Southron, who i
e worthy of the name, will not insul
e the memory of his ancestry by con
! sorting with these vampires.
: If it is objected that my languag
is coarse. my apology for the descen
:, is that l have been forced to it by tn
n nature of things. Smuggling AM
l. cheating will exist when the duties ex
ceed the risk. Look at the illicit dis
1t tilleries, the whiskey dives in loca
s. option towns for the truth of thi:
Napoleon, in the zenith of his power
n sporting with kingdoms and with a
m army of custom house officers, was un
n able to cope with the smuggler, VIII
g laughed at his power and overthre'
os his "high tariff" policy.
rt Years ago distinguished Senate
- said on the floor of the Hall "you
lr tariff policy compels respectable me
ID to Wolfe the law; you force them t
OF disregard its injunctions in order
us elude its depressions. - Yet they te
B. us the South is going TO vote for
e high tariff and the Republican party
d When it does, 1t will be recreant to i
IS most sacred traditions, hallowed asse
OF Citations and history the grande
Id printers ink or chiseled monumel
ever perpetuated when it does, II
'st spect for our dead heroes will ha,
lis vanished, grass will cease to grow |
ry our ripping streams, roses will I
lis longer bud and bloom in the infecte
atmosphere, the bright stars W
twinkle no more in cloudless SIX
" and justice and honor will be burit
in chaotic oblivion. A. II.