Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-25

SOUTHERN ana against NOrJne1H llIuuSlIN'
The manufacturing interests are OF quite
inconsiderable dimensions in the four
Southern states named. The figures OF
the census of 1890 are these:
State. Capital. Operatives
Kentucky ,....... $79.S11,9 $50 69,5l9
west Nlrginia..... y, llSO30 Zd'2o3
tennessee ........ 0l,4l0,UJz a. 199
Georgia .......... 56,921,5S0 56,3S3
states $216, 326,6S2 1S6,69O
The state of New York has invested
in manufacturing industry capital
amounting to $1,130, 161 ,195. and the
number of wOrkmen engaged in these in
dustries in the state is S0O,OS4. Thus
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 BOurke Cochran.
But he and the rights of his constituents
and the claims to consideration of this
the greatest manufacturing city upon the
continent. have been thrust aside so that
the eX-ConfederateS 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 reyengeful purpose0 of the
Southern brigadiers in dealing with the
tariff question was never SO plainly re-
vealed as it has been by the appointment
by 4 Southern speaker of the conferees
on the part of the House.
If the end and aim of the eX-Copfeder-
o+o hriCy i fY,nn trn do xxfif hon
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
Il requisite of prosperity. Securing that
protection for themselves and their con-
stituents, they deny it to other Ameri-
cans who equally need it. and against
whose claims nothing can be said except
ing that the claimants live north and not
south of Mason q DiXon's line Con
trast such selhshness and injustice and
bitter sectionalism with the action of the
Republican party in protecting Southern
sugar during thirty years in which Louis
lana lost 10 opportunity to try to do just
what Southern congressman now In dead
~ 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 protested free traders
dare not embody their doctrines in legis-
lation where their own interests are con-
cerned: and. second. that supremacy for
the Democratic party in national politics
inevitably means the domino ton of the
country by eX-rebels whose hatred of
the North has lost little of the intensity
of its bitterness during three decades of
'ba TO nj
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
firmness should win the battle over the
discordant and demoralized foe. united
only in their hatred of the section that
saved the Union
The Free Wool Scandal.
Owing to certain climatic conditions fine
wool cannot be produced in these United
States.
For the last eight or ten years the above
has been the stock argument of free
wool" advocates, many of whom don't
know a fleece of fine wool from the hair
of a bull terrier, and Senator Voorhees,
seems to be one of the converts to this
convenient free-trade doctrine.
1t is not to be supposed that because a
man has reached even the exalted posi-
ton of United States senator that he
must necessarily know everything 1t
should be his aim, however, when great
and important interests are under con-
sideratlon, to use every means to learn
that the arguments used are not il direct
opposition to the facts.
it is hard to believe that an American,
and especially one who has been selected
TO represent Americans, should become
,,.fi. rlCr!H
dorse q statement so injurious to the
people he represents, merely to gain a
! temporary partisan advantage. We must
infer. then, that the Endorsement of Sena-
4 tor Voorhees, was made ignorantly, but
! we insist carelessly.
At OnOndaga New York state, there IS
! a flock of merinos that was established IN
! 1902 Previous to the election of 1892
! the wool from this flock was never but
once sold at less than 20 cents per pound
! unWashed; for the clips OF % and u the
! owner. Davis COsSit, was offered 10 cents.
The blood being considered desirable,
! the increase of the flock had always, pre-
vious to the election of 81, sold readily
and at fairly remuneratiye prices but a
/ contract to deliver 100 ewes and rams at
! the Syracuse station in November, 1877
at so per head was Cancelled as soon as
i the result of the Presidential election OF
/ that wear was known. The same sheep
have since been SOLD at $50 per head.
The climatic conditions Of America
are favorable to the production of the
very best wool that can be grown any
| where Any country where the snow
flies produces finer furS, finer and softer
woods than can be grown in a hot climate.
This is a natural law that neither free
wool fallacies, willful ignorance nor par
tisan malice can abrogatt.
The best woods cannot only be grown
here. but in sufficient quantities, too, to
fully supply every demand of manufact-
urers and consumers. and at prices low
enough to satisfy every reasonable re-
qurement.
But the tariff-tinkering majority il
Congress is pursuing a course that must
compel every American wool grower To