The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-08


manufactures abound. should ask
themselves where FREQ trade most
abounds. II they would give this
question thorough investigation
they would find that the south is al
most solidly for free trade. except
where personal interests intervene.
The rice growers OF the Carolinas
want rice protected. The sugar grow
ers OF Louisiana and Texas want sugar
protected, and the tropical fruit grow
eEa OF Florida want fruit protected.
These interests. however. are altogeth-
er personal and isolated. The general
instincts OF the southern people are
Tor free trade, simply because they
have always had a lazy, cheap sys-
tenn OF labor, before slavery was abol-
tshsd, and even since that time. They
care nothing for the interests Of the
iaeoring people. All they want lie to
have the cheap neoessaries OF life for
THAR own consumption at the expense
vi labor.
This is the reason why the South Is
solid for free.trade. In the present
Congress there will hardly DO found a
protectionist from any portion OF it.
uhlsss it be solitary Republican here
and there elected, ns In North Carolina.
Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri.
Whom the question for the repeal OF
tbs Mckinley bill Gomez up In Con
gress, the South may be depended
upon to rally in comparatively solid
phalanx to the support of such bill,
unless personal political considera.
tions should intervene, which would
affect the Democratic party. Away
back In the day OF Calhoun. the Great
Nulliiier, free-trade came near disrupt
ing the Union and probably would
have done SO had not an iron nerve
man like General Jackson been Presi.
tent OF the United States, who in the
heat OF his love for the United States
declared that by the Eternal. The
Union must and will be preserved
Had Calhoun, free trade agitater
not subsidized at that time, he probably
might have found his life OF very little
avail to him. All through the darL
days OF slavery, free and cheap laboi
was tho great deslderatum OF The
south and although slavery Is nov
Ebolished the south is keeping as neal
the same system of cheap coloreC
labor as it possibly can, to give then
cheap products and cheap living. 1t Ii
remarkably strange that the working
nen of the northern States, where
manufactures abound, and which are
protected by tariff provisions, should
- found in sympathy with this cheap
labor system Of the south, and be
found voting with it for lower wages.
We only ask the laboring people OF the
north to watch closely the votes In the
roming extra session Of Congress upor
.he economic questions Of the day anG
pee where this free trade sentiment
comes from.
The solidity OF the south in favor Of
8 should serve as a warning for them
to beware of it, and while large vote
from the Northern States will be will
she south IN favor OF the repeal OF the
Mckinley Tariff, it should DO taker
INTO consideration that northern mem
scrs of Congress who vote on this lin,
20 it from far different considerations
They are partisans In the fullest exten
o. the term. 1t is not to their persona
interest Eor to the good OF the country
that they vote In this manner but IL,
Democratic party with its head in tn,
.outh demands 1t and they must obey.
In tho north the question with work
Egmen should be what is to theii
personal benefit and not what ID t.
be benefit 10 the Democratic party
/ iS not 10 their benefit tn havo til,
tarif reduced to ono OF revenue only
because this would inevitably result il
the increased importation OF manu-
actured goods, which would displac,
90 much well paid American laho
with the poorly paid labor OF Europe
These are subjects which deeply con
sern the American workingmen, an,
Should be given by them very care
tul consideration before casting an
sther ballot for party controlled b,
the free tradesentinent OF the south
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