Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

Coiumub ot IkepuOIlcau pEOIeCtiOni6b organs teem with reports of this character.
 .'Are you going to destroy the 5000 in- dustries in the South built by enterprise and capital of Southern and Northern me1 under many disanvantages?" Oh, mol Tbe Democratic platform contains pledge against anything of the kind, and up to the present writing the party has kept it's pledges pretty well, notwithstanding Re- publican hostility to it and malignity to the interests of the people. What remains of the 6000 indnstrles es. referred4o, built un- der the disadvantages of 8 high protective tariff, which have not been utterly destroyed by McKinleyism, Democratic Legislation will protect.sand patony~ths high road to success by giyfpg tnern cheaper raw ma terial and the open markets-ef the world in which to compete for what should be and would long since have beenStheirs but for the destructivefy restrictive effect of high protective tariff.
 srhe New Englanders say if they can get free coal and iron ore they will line the Eastern coast with ,furnaees aad ship their iron into the interior-in competition with you and break down your industries in the South.'' The statesman from Nashville, Tenn. makes these cold -blooded New Eng flanders out much greater fools than they are believed to be. Supposethey get their coal and ore free of duty, they have to pay for them at the mines3 for the freightage from the mines to s.tHe poi 9toi shipment, for the loading en~ the vessels there, for freightage to the lahding point on the Eastern shore, for the handling theresand then for freightage to the furnace plant; they will have.to pay for their limestone and haul it long distances from the inte- rior; then, after the pig metal is made, haul that long djstauces backinto the iu- terior beforeit com emesintocornpetition with Southern iron. However, before any of this is done immense sums of money will have to be spent in alining the Eastern coast with furnaces,'' at the risk of having them destroyed and the capital in them lost by the restoration of high protective tariff on coal and iron ore as soon as the Repub- licans again get control ofthe government. Again, these Eastern coast furnace plants would have to first come in competition with and break down the Pennsylvania and Ohio furnaces before reaching our in dustries. Now, wouldn't these New Eng land capitalists, proverbially shrewd and calculating, make spectacle of themselves in taking such risks as the foregoing to come into competition with a section where, according to Colonel Colyar him. self, the best foundry iron in America ,per- haps in the world, "cau be made as cheap, if not cheaper, than anywhere on the globe"
 It is we'll advertised fact that the prod uct of the furnaces of this district is largely the highest grade of foundry iron, better than any produced elsewhere in the United States, and that foundry and mill men are compelled to have it to secure best results in their plants, and 1t is, therefore. practically beyond rivalry This fact, to- gether with it's low cost, has carried it suc- cessfully over the fercestr competition into the Eastern, New England and Western markets, and will maintain It's commercial primacy there against all corners.
 How desperately driven-arethese Repub- lican protectionists for argument to sus- tain their contention that high protective tariff, the higher the better, protects American labor and industrial enterprise, and is necessary to the prosperity and de- velopment of the country, when they have to resort to such illogical aud diaphanous pleas as characterized Colonel Colyar's ef- fort at Ersweli's hall.