The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-01-23
misrepresentation from the South


misrepresentation from the South.
Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge, in his adj
dress the other day to the Harvard stu
dents, referring TO the next Congress,
said:
When we do meet we are going to tender To that Re-
publican Senate tariff bill 1t is going to be framed
on the idea Of bringing into this country free raw
material The laboring OF America ought to haze
their materials free OF We have gone on step By
step Uter the Morrison Bill came President Cicve-
lands message and after that the Mills Bill
Now, In the SD Congress things are going in that
same way: tina, Democratic House will tender 10 that
Republican Senate bill allowing free raw material
ami will pu, upon the Senate the of refusing that
measure Then in November, We will 60 before the
copc on that issue, and leave everything aside until
We settle the questions OF tariff and taxation.
Yes, you arc fixing up plan to get the
Democratic party badly beaten again.
Cleveland 3 message and the Mills Bill were
condemned with sufficient emphasis to
teach the Democratic leaders some sense.
If, as Breckenridge claims, the last cleo
ton turned solely on shc Mckinley Bill,
that result by no means proves that the
people would not again condemn the Mills
Bill. 1t simply shows, if it shows any
thing, that the masses will have neither
extreme. But blind man should know
that the Force Bill had as much TO do with
the result of the last election as the
Mckinley Bill. Mckinley indeed was the
only Republican who reduced the Demo-
cratic majority in his district, except the
protectionist who ran against free trader
David A. Wells.
That the manufacturers OF New Eng
land want free raw material we admit.
Otherwise they must move their plants
South; but why Southern representative
should wish to aid them in securing such
legislation, we cannot see. New England
has established her enormous plants, has
grown rich undcr a protective tariff; but
now that it is clear the South can
manufacture the same articles cheaper
and is attracting New England capital,
our own alleged representatives are trying
to relieve that section from this c0mpeti-
ton and would abolish the protective
tariff just as VIC begin to get some of the
benefits Of it. Let such skyscrapcrs IS
Breckenridge and Blackburn shape cure
legislation and every industry in the South,
every factory, every railroad and every
town lot will be deprecated from p to 80
per cent within twelve months. New
England would rather nov compete with
the paupcr labor of Europe than with the
cheap raw material Of the South Her
factories are near tic scaboard and
frcights from Europe to this country, in
ships which now have to return almost
empty, will be nero song. Spanish
ores, produced by miners who receive only
forty cents per day, can be delivered in
Boston at triHc OYER the cost Of mining.
So With many Of the products of Germany.
New England therefore, after reaping all
the benefits of protection for an hundred
years,woald prefer free trade and European
competition to continued protection and
Southern competition. And, with shame
lie it said, cur oWn representatives in
Congress pander to this mean and selfish
spirit and geek to make it triumphant at
tie cost Of Southern prosperity. just as
tbc southssu people orc rising from the