Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-30

and how long will YOU be content 10 stun
| bic over these natural gifts that you may
do homage 10 theory that. in II ever has
| any place In human affairs. belongs 70
other conditions and 10 another genera
tion.
Because providence has been so ex-
ceptionalIy bountlful to the people OF
the Southern States-because their
mountains are bursting with iron and
coal and their forests invite TO fields OF
nnmeasured wealth-because natures
gifts to them are so abundant-there-
fore they must run to Washington and
beg Congress to supplement the boun-
ties OF nature and providence by shield
Ing them against competition. That is
the logic OF it. The very facts
which prove that they need no
help from Congress are peraded
as reasons why they should ask
Congress to protect them and commits
sion them to collect tribute from their
countrymen. by she admission OF one
OF their own iron masters they can pro-
duce iron cheaper than II can be pro-
duced anywhere else 50 the world, and
II is well known that steel Is Produced
AZ much less cost in America than any
where else, and yet the South is told
that 1t should go to Washington ia the
character OF pauper begging for aid.
And here is another specimen of this
kind of logic. Mr.. BRosIUs, of Penn
sylyania, quoted 1t from description
OF the burial OF man in Georgia, writ
ten by the late HENRY w. GRADY:
Tho grave was cut through the solid
rock OF marble quarry. yet the tom bstone
ABOVE ms head came from Vermont He
was buried In the depths OF "A pine forest
yet his pine coffin came from Cincinnati
ne was laid within the touch of an iron
mine, yet the nails In his coffin were inn
ported from PittsburG. He wore coat
from Now York and shoes from Cincinnati.
leaving him nothing 20 carry into the next
world 10 remind him OF the country which
was his home but the chilled blood in his
veins and the marrow in his bones
And this quotation was appiauded by
the tariff logicians OF the House as
most cogent argument for protection.
1t did not seem TO occur to them that
OF Georgia against Vermont, New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, aud not for pro
lection against foreign competition.
Ever since the civil war, and alwavs be-
fore the war, Georgia has had exactly
the same tariff protection against for
eign competition as any other State.
During the war il had much more. for
foreign goods were shut out by the
Union army and navy. 1t was not he
cause Of any lack of protection against
European 'pauper labor" that made
the case of the deceased Georgian so
pitiable.
The Republic on this subject says
truly:
If the people OF the Southern States have
neglected TO develop their natural resources
OF IRON, coal, marble, lumber, etc. which
Mr.. Grady and MIR. Burrows represent 10
be so aboundiug, they must have done so
Tor one or the other OF two reasons Either
they have found upon intelligent iuvcStiga-
ton that II pays them better to pursue the
lines OF industry TO which thcy are accus-
toned than IT. would To work their mines
and quarries ana forests. or else they lack
the enterprise and INTEL geuce to turn
these resources TO profitable account
There can be no other reason. n the for
mer Is the true one the only possible ell
feet OF a tariff would be TO induce people
TO leave profitable pursuits and engage in
less profitable ones by giving them power
to make up their losses out of the earn
ings OF other people But il tho latter is
the true reason q tariff can have no effect
whatever. An act OF Congress LAYING
taxes on imports never vet put a spark OF
Intelligence or enterprise into the head of
any man.