Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-01
THE SOUTH IS ALL RIGHT.

As the Louisville COUr1er-JOur7lIL
says, the tender soIicitude which
Republicans likeMcKinley and Res
publican newspapers like the Chi
cago Inter Ocean have recently bes
gun to manifest for the prosperity
of the South is so unusual and nns
picion. The South is urged to take
a stand against the Wilson Bill be-
cause of the menace it is supposed
to contain to the developing indus
tries of that section. One would
infer that the development of the
South had been for years the dear
est purpose Of the protectionists,
and that their sole anxiety about
the present situation arises from a
fear that their philanthroplc under-
taking will be defeated.
But the S,uth will not be used
as catspaw.
1t has for years pad it's share ct
the tribute to protected mannfac
turers because it had not power to
secure just relief froro the bur-
den. 1t was an agricultural section.
having nothing to gain and all to
pay under the policy of artifcially-
made home markets. 1t naturally
became the earnest haml ION OF
tariff reform. 1t has supported
the cause faithfully and consistently
for many years. 1t is committed
10 the principle it has go long as
serted, that protection BY the levy
of customs duties is not essential to
the upAbuidipg OF any industry
properly grounded on the natural
resources OF the country. 1t will
not nov stultify itself by sbondons
ing these convictions, and becoming
the tool of the men whose pslicy has
SO long oppressed it.
The real interest of the South in
the matter have not been changed
by the industrial development Ct
the section during the past few
years. This development has grown
inevitably out of the natural re.
sources of the section. 1t owes
nothing to protection. 1t will cons
tinue even more rapidly without
protection. 1t has nothing to lose
and all to gain by having the mark
cts of the world thrown open for it.
1t will be fuller, more substantial,
more rapid if, while there is yet
tine, its foundations be laid on the
rock of natural system of trade
Protection is an insecure foundation
for any industry. A great enters
prise erected upon it at this day,
stands on the shifting saId, exposed
TO the gathering force of hostile
public opinion.
No greater good could come to
the South than to have the further
progress of it's Industrial develops
ment spared the uncertainties that
attend the protection system. No
greater harm conld befall it thar
that it shoald build up itself upon
a system which the common sense
of the people has repudiated, which
has been repeatedly condemned at
the pole, which has perpetuated
itself for years by corrupt means,
which represents in its present
shape an unholy compact between
spoilsmen in politics aud spoilsmen
in business, and which despite its
desperate struggles to save itself is
bound to 60 down, and that soon.
So sagacious man as Andrew
Carnegie has eeen the handwriting
on the wall. He understands that
the American people have tried
protection and condemned it, have
detected its shams and despise
them, have counted its cost and res
pudiated it. The reform must
come. Until it conner, there will
be unrest, agitation and diturbance