The true northerner., 1894-09-21

culture go hand In hand; they mutually
support each other" No, they do not
Not in the sense which he implies. To
take the raw cotton of the South, for
instance, and carry it to England to be
made into cloth, and returned To us in
that form; to pay for the transportation
and transformation, and to send our
wheat and meat across the ocean to
feed the people there who are engaged
i'm the work of manufacturing our raw
material into cloth, is supporting COM
merce, it is true, but it is not to the ad
vantage of agriculture, because it is all
done at the cost of agriculture. The
farmer pays for all the transportation.
All his wheat consumed in England
brings him so much less as the cost OF
transporting it to England.
Under free trade the American farm.
er looks abroad for his consumers, and
to foreign manufacturers for his articles
of consumption. He sends to England
TO buy his clothes and cutlery, and he
sends over his wheat and pork to feed
the workmen there. So much of the
value of his labor is consumed in pay
ing the demands of commerce that little
but impoverishmen is left for himself.
| In this sense agriculture and COM
merce 90 hand in hand" But only be-
cause agriculture is the slave of com
| ka Dc o. tt1ra no.
taken to build up commerce.
Mr.. Crisp and his party constantly
echo the cry about opening foreign
markets for our agricultural products.
The truth is, foreign nations buy of us
what they want and can get cheaper of
us than elsewhere, and they will never
do more If we increase foreign con
sumption of our food products, it will
be only by giving up our markets to
foreign manufacturers. BY allowing
foreign manufacturers to supply our
wants, and reserving only to ourselves
the possible task of supplying them
with food.
The American, Republican, policy of
protection is quite the reverse of all
this. Under it the wants of commerce
are only secondary. It's pun pose is to
manufacture the raw cotton into cloth
within the limits of the region where it
is grown Protection stimulates the
production of cotton and wool, and
Il, e fol la
to the farmer, because it gives to him
the cost of the transportation of these
articles over long distances to where
they are to be made into fabrics. Pro-
lection builds factories and mills at our
own doors, wherein are transformed
the bales of cotton and wool, and the
thousands of operatives who are en-
gagged in the work of manufacture are
further consumers of the farmers sur.
plus in the food they eat. Thus, in
stead of building up commerce rs the
old planters did, and as Mr.. Crisp
would continue TO do, by sending the
farmers cotton and wool across the
ocean to be wove into cloth, and send
ing over the food to supply the work
men engaged in that pursuit, the Re-
publican policy, which he decries, would
bring the skilled workmen here, employ
and save the producers and consumers
alike the transportation to and fro,
away over the ocean, of material and
} of food. And, in addition, we retain
among ourselves the money which, un-
der Mr.. Crisp's policy, would be sent
abroad to reward foreign labor and to
maintain foreign trade and prosperity.
Mr. Crisp cites as the glory of Demo
cratic triumph thus far, that it has re-
pealed the Mckinley bill; that it has
succeeded in securing nearer APP
proach to free trade than was proposed
in either the Morrison or the Mills tar
iff bills. He makes this declaration in
the face of the fact that he stood in the
} midst of more of the evidences of de-
velopment, progress and prosperity
all the outgrowth of the prevalence of
the very system which he SO much dep
recated-than were ever before seen in
all the period of slavery and of south
ern subserviency to British commercial
and manufacturing interests.
Mr. Crisp says: For thirty years the
! Republicans have been building up
protection in this country, and thirty
years of such system did much to pro
) duce the conditions which existed when
the Fifty-third congress convened" In
truth, those thirty years of prevalence
of the Republican policy of protection
did more for the material prosperity OF
Georgia than all the previous years OF
: its existence as a state And that pol
icy was instrumental in bringing about
the great industrial depression which
began with the advent of the Demo.
} cratic party into power only in so far
as the apprehension prevailed that