Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-07-26

way for this country to regain its former
commanding position on the seas is to
close up every American shipyard. The
Sun then says: AN industry important
in time of peace, indispensable in case of
war, glorious in its traditions both of
war and peace, is to be stified out of ex-
istence in order that the United States
flag may decorate the constructions of
Greenock and Sunderland and Belfast
Tough and Stettin and St. Nazarie. A
proud day, indeed, when having de-
strUyed the noblest of this nations indus-
tries we should go forth TO recondusT the
worlds commerce with a feet of foreign
built tramps. Hessians of the ocean!
Then our principal rival in the old con,
test for maritime supremacy Will nave
gained the last advantage that was in
sight when she let the Alabama loose
upon American commerce"
h Question of southern Dictation.
Speaking about the framing of the tar
if measure being intrusted to Southern
Democratic leaders from the start, for
the express purpose of Gripping the pros
perity and retarding the growth of the
Northern states, the New York Tribune
says:
practically the same men have die
tated the changes which have been made
in either house. Framed by Southern
men, the bill has been shaped at every
point to serve the interests of that Sec
ton. Its constant discrimination against
Northern, and in favor'of Southern inter
ests has been so outrageously sectional
that many Democrats have Indignantly
protested, but to no purpose. The South
is i'm the saddle, and controls the Demo
cratic caucus; ii elected Speaker Crisp of
Georgia; dictated committee appoint
ments in the House, and gave nearly all
important business TO the control of
Southern men. In the Senate the caucus
was controlled by Southern senators, and
framed the committees with the same
sectionalism. The bill of sale and sur
render is a Southern product. Exactly
as in old plantation days, the crack of
the oyerseers' lash drives Northern
doughfaces to vote as the South directs.
Out of 10000, 600 votes cast at the last
Presidential election only 3,400,00 were
cast in all the sixteen Southern states-a
little more than a quarter. Northern
states east of Indiana cast 100000
votes in the same election, and have moth
ing TO do with framing the one measure
of all others which most seriously affects
their industry. Other Northern states
west of Ohio cast 100000 votes in the
same election. and their only part in
shaping the bill has been the pitiable in
capacity of Voorhees,. That he does not
represent his Owl state the votes cast
this year prove beyond question, and he
does not represent his own declared con-
~yictions early in the session. He il was
who vocifcratcd that he would never
no., never-consent 10 grant a protective
duty for the sugar monopolists, and but
for his vote in favor of it the surrender
TO the Sugar trust could not have been
reported, nor could it have passed the
Senate. With less stiffness of principle
and manhood than a wet dish rag, this
one senator is the sole senator or repre-
sentative to stand for Northern Democ-
racy in the framing of the tariff bill.
Have the 100000 votes of the South
a natural and inherent right to rule the
5000, 900 votes of the North? Is that
Democratic doctrine now. as it was in
the days when Southern chivalry sneered
at Northern mudsills and greasy me-
chanics?" Or do the Southern brigadiers
consider that the triumphant Confed-
eracy has conquered the right to make
laws for two great sections, each casting
about a million votes more that the
South? 1t is true that Northern men
of any party may well thank their stars
if they are not in any way responsible
for a bill so disgraceful, so foul with
corruption, and SO sure to bring disaster
upon its authors. But when doughface
Democrats of the North vote for and
pass the bill which Southern s%ectionalism'
dictates, millions will remember how
clearly it was predicted in 1892 that a
victory of Mr.. Cleyeland's party would
subject all Northern industries and in
terests to the absolute dictation of a vim
dictiye and sectional South. Then men
thought the prediction prompted by fran
tic partisanship. Now they find that the
partisan fanatism and the shameless sec
tionalism are both on the Southern side.
This one trial of Southern dictation
ought to last for half a century. The
insolent domination of sectional chivalry
in the fifties taught Northern mudsills
what Democratic doughfaces were, and
exiled the Democracy from power for
thirty-two years. This time the frightful
reyerses in business, and the disasters to
industry, and the sufferings and the
losses of labor, have driven the lesson
deeper, and the greasy mechanics of 1894
have reason to remember even longer
than their fathers of 1860.
The British Confederate War on Wool
and Woolens.
Senator Sherman thinks the proposed
duties on woolens and worsteds may be
fairly protective under free wool, but hat
free wool is almost reasonable.
But Secretary North of the wool manu-
facturers says there is not a branch of
the industry which will not suffer under
the bill if it become a law. The reduc-
tons average GO to 50 per cent. and,
worse still, the duties are ad valorem.
This opens the doors TO undervaluatio'E
and practically reduces the duties al least
20 per cent. more.
Int WOTSL DISQUALIFICATION Is dSdlHSl
carpets, and perhaps some of the carpet
manufacturers who refused to sustain the
Republican party because the Mckinley
tariff did not give them free WOO! now sec
the danger which they invoked.
The best informed manufacturers say
that only the mills which make the cheap
er grades of goods can run successfully
under the bill and that reductions of
wages will have to range from 10 to 40
per ceut.
An invasion of the North by n Confed-
crate army of 1000 q men would be pref
cradle TO the practical destruction of our
great ~wool-growing and woolen-mana-
featuring industries.
Democracy, In Promisa - and Action.
In President Cleveland's inaugural adj
| dress i'm 1883. he declared the Democracy
was bound by its promises. stating the
position of the party in the following
language:
''The people Of the United States have
decreed that on this day the control OF
their government in its legislative and