Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-07-26
i A YEAR In ADVANCE
A Southern Cry for Factories.


marks are made by the Charleston
Newt and Courier in explanation of the
comparative poverty and dependent
position of the South. It's explanation
is so truthful as to be self evident, and
Its utterance is surprising only because
made by SO bitter and uncompromis-
ing an advocate of free trade. Anoth-
er free trade journal, the Memphis
Commercial, has declared that the
commercial vassrlage of the South is
caused by its dependence upon "other
sections for everything except products
of agriculture and raw material" and
adds:
We cannot build house, plow
furrow, plant a crop or reap harvest
without paying tribute to the North.
Without its assistance we can neither
eat, drink nor sleep. Every time we
walk on the soles of our shoes or ride
in any way we pay privilege tax to
the North. We raise wheat and send
it North to buy clothes. We have a
boundless wealth of timber, and we
simply ship the forest almost as God
made it to the North, and buy from
the North our manufactures of wood.
Our vast mineral resources supply us
simply with crude material for North
ern markets.
The News and Courier approves of
this forcible confession, and in its own
columns says:
. Every mill and factory that we build
AMI operate successfully is big help
er in the cause of our independence.
Every shop that gives employment to
one or more sufficient workmen is a
smaller but important helper. Every
wheel that turns and every tool that
cuts, in town or country, does its part
in the great work. What we need
more than all else, as people, is to
make what we need instead of depend.
ing on other people to make it for us.
Exactly what these free trade papers
have discovered to be their need is the
entire aim and end of a protective
tariff. 1t is this very diversification of
industry which has made the North
and the West so prosperous. If the
free traders have their way the entire
country would soon find itself asking,
as do these Southern papers, "Why
are we 80 poor?" and would be finding
for itself the answer which they have
discovered for their own section. We
should be able neither to eat, drink nor
sleep without paying tribute to the
capitalof Europe.
1t is the purpose of the Mckinley
tarsf to give to every section of the
United States the opportunity to build
mills and Sactories, to make wheels
turn, to multiply families of prosper
GUS wage earners, to give employment
to American workingmen at American
wages, in Tennessee, the Carolinas and
Georgia, as well as in the North and
West Already, under the beneficent
operation of protection, the South has
has been encouraged to make organ
lied effort, notably in Georgia, to at
tract immigration and to induce North
ern capital to invest in factories close
to the home of the raw material with
which that region is blessed.
Yet the advocates of customs duties
for revenue only would at once check
this movement in the South and force
the entire nation to pay the very tri-
butte to Europe which the South is am
bitiously striving to cease paying to
the North. We congratulate our free
trade contemporaries of Memphis and
Charleston in having made the same
discovery which promises in time to
convert, by the logic of facts, even the
Atlanta Constitution to the necessity
of diversifying industry by means of a
protective tariff. These three South
ern journals should unite in suggest
ing the formation of home market
clubs in their States; and there should
be speedy and of 'solid South" up
on the tariff qestion. York Press.