The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-18

fesas industries which have made the
yerth rich an1 prospsroua' IL il ~ In
dusssssi wa- O. reTsage."
This 10 true. the South protects her
riee, gives rs taxed sagar and free sools
her coston 10 Der chief inaustry: il needs
no protection. far IL has beer, on tie free
lie. since fss6. when the Sos.h placed is
there with her own ha-ds; the So1.a has
cheap negro labor, practical peoaags. she
fires her own rate Of WAGES 90 the negro.
and when he mnrmars sooat striking
orders h.m to bis work at shs po;ns OF =
shotgun, saying: Root hog or die" SO.
Of course. the South .. whose cares moth
Ing about the prospec. OF defeat before tho
Northern Democracy; IL knows thss IL IL
sure Of its own seats in congress. and j. Is
determined TO PASS is Wilson sectional
tariff bill In order 10 stab the industrial
prosperity Of tie North 10 death: il has
learned nothing since the days OF CAL
houn. who wanted free t-ads 30 that
the South could exchange lis cotton,
raised By cheap labor, for cheap English
goods and thus kill the superior ranufsc-
turing prosperity Of the North and cut the
wages Of northern labor TO the level of the
foreign market To make fias North shut
up shop or cut wsgss: 20 exchangs the
solid reality Of IN immense home market
for the phantom, the will o. the visp Of
foreign market. 10 the purpose Of the sec
tional Wilson tariff, and the South cares
more about the passage Of this sectional
tariff than it does about the defeat Of the
Northern Democracy next November. OF
course IL 10 . stupid policy: the policy of
revenge and retaliation IL always stupid.
but that has been the shortsish ted policy
OF the South ever since il elected
Polk president in 1874 and enacted
the sectional tariff Of 1915 Andrew Jack
son and Henry Clay were the last Southern
Statesmen that were nationalists a. OPP
posed TO sectsonalists; Jackson was .
unionist, nationalist. protectionisr and
. sound-money Democrat because he was
. nationalist and not sectionaliss, but
with the retirement of Jackson to private
life Csihounism. which vas pure section
feased the nomination of Van Buren, In
1874 and lssa Henry Clay. like Jackson,
. unionist, a nationalist and protection
ist, vas beaten in ls44 by Polk. . sec
tional Southern tariff advocate, and with
the disappearance of Jackson and Clay
every Southern statesman that stood for
leadership has been . sectionalist and q
free trader, and sincs the war IN imitation
ist. As q matter Of policy it bore bitter
fruit in shape of the civil war and today
IL is resurrscted and reafirmed for re-en-
sctment - the short-sightsd policy Of ~
sentiment, retaliation and revenge.
or course . sound man Of business
knows that no section Of the country can
severely suffer without depressing the
general prosperity of the whole country;
the West cannot flourish II the East Is
PROSTATE, because Eastern capital 10 tied
no BY panic and depression. and the East
cannot flourish when tho West IL pros
trate, because there 10 no business to EN-.
ploy Eastern capital. The South ought to
know this. but the South never knew any
thing about sound business or honest
finance since Andrew Jackson, national
LIST. disappeared as a leader of the South
and his place was taken by Calhoun, sec
tionaiist. whose fa,eful political philoso-
ply placed James X. Polk in the White
House in 1874. and pushed Henry Clay,
who saved Calhoun's neck in 1889. into
his political grave.