Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-02

uiconsiderable dimensions in the four
Soulnerh states named. The figures of
the census of 1890 are these:
Invested Number Of
state. Capital. Operatives.
hentucky ........ $79,S11, $50 65,579
west Nlrginia..... 2 Sis 030 81, 800
nohuessee ,....... D. lab, O92 A., 159
georgia .......... &c. 2l $50 56,3S3
Totals for four
states .........$ 216, 326. $50 1876, $50
The state of New York has invested
IN manufacturing industry capital
amounting to $1,130,1 61 1875, and the
number or workmen engaged in these in
d.ustrles in the state is S50,OS4. Thus a
single Northern state has more than FIVE
times as much manufacturing capital and
more than four times as many working
people as the four states in question.
The city of New York itself has Just
twice as much manufacturing capital and
nearly twice as many laborers engaged
IN manufacturing industry as all the
southern states mentioned. New York
city also has a distinguished Democrat
as Its representative upon the ways and
means committee in 8ourke Cochran.
But he and the rights of his constituents
ana the claims to consideration Of this
the greatest manufacturing city upon the
continent, have been thrust aside so that
the eXNConfederates may proceed without
protest or interruption to drive the knife
deep into the industries of this city and
state and of the great Northern COM
munities. The sectional purpose (may we
not say the ~revengeful purposeD of the
Southern ~brigadiers in dealing with the
tariff question was never so plainly re-
yealed as it has been by the appointment
by a Southern speaker of the conferees
on the part of the House.
If the end and aim of the ex-Confeder-
ate brigadiers were free trade without
qualification perhaps they might be ac-
quilted of an intention to be deliberately
unjust. But when they arrange to pro-
tect Southern cotton fabrics, Southern
rice, soft coal and sugar, and even South
ern peanuts, they make plain confession
that protection for domestic industry is
a requisite of prosperity. Securing that
protection for themselves and their con-
stituents, they deny il to other Ameri-
cans who equally need it, and against
whose claims nothing can be said except
ing that the claimants live north and moi
south of Mason & DiXon's line. Con
trast such selishness and injustice and
bitter sectionalism with the action of the
Republican party in protecting Southern
sugar during thirty years in which Louis
lana lost no opportunity to try to do just
what Southern congressman now in dead
ly earnest are doing!
The Northern people will do we'll to OBJ
serve the spirit that animates this at
tack upon their means of living. They
may learn from the action of the South.
first. that even professed free traders
dare not embody their doctrines in legis-
lation where their own interests are con-
Cern<i: and. second, that supremacy for
the Democratic party in natioBal politics
inevitably means the domination of the
country by ex-rebels whose hatred of
the North has lost little of the intensity
of its bitterness during three decades of
ppace. The ex-Confederate assault upon
Northern industries and Northern wage
earners may yet be repulsed, however,
if the representatives of the North. in
| Congress show the spirit that triumphed
at Gettysburg. Resolution. courage and
frmness should win the battle over the
discordant and demoralized foe. united
only in their hatred of the section that
co vad tho Union"