Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-29
r Dublican state Ticket.
The Origin of Our Trouble.

The Granville n. u, sentinel.
The free trade policy which has
brought such misery to a prosperous
country in one short year had its origin
in the brain of John G. Calhoun. Cal
houn, probably the ablest party leader
that the south ever produced, was origi-
nally a protectionist. The records of
congress show this. No arguments in
support of protection were clearer or
more forcible than his, or covered more
completely the whole ground. He saw
with the eve of a statesman that it
would add UNNECESSARILY to the prosper
ity, the strength and the glory of the
country.
This was prior to 1920. He labored
with Clay for the passage of the protec-
tive tariff of 1924, and all that had been
predicted of it was realized. From a
condition of universal poverty and dis
tress, there was an instant change to
one of great industrial activity and
general prosperity in the free states of
the north. But slavery was the labor
system of the south, and though the
fact was not then understood, it is vim
dictated now that there can be no great
prosperity or growth without prosper
Gus and contented labor system at the
foundation. The slave states were in a
majority in congress Colhoun saw that
protection was destined to increase the
numbers and wealth and the consequent
political power of the north, and that
ultimately the power if not the very
existence of slavery would be over
thrown.
Then Calhoun became a free trader.
He not only denounced the very law
which he had helped so materially to
pass, but he set out in 1882 to nullify it
by armed resistance to Its enforcement
at the port of Charleston. President
jackson sent an armed force to aid in
the execution of the law, and Calhoun
narrowly escaped trial for treason. The
sort of democrat that he became in the
estimation of jackson was expressed in
his rerget on his death bed that he bad
not hanged him as traitor. But the
war upon protection went on, and in
1916 the ruinous Walker tariff was
passed the law upon which the Morrison
bill, the Mills bill and the original Will
son bill were all modelled. 1t at once
Frustrated the industries of the north
again and again the south was in the
ascendant. Then came the admission of
Texas with slavery, the repeal of the
Missouri compromise which was intend
ed to give Kansas and Nebraska over to
slavery, the enactment of the fugitive
slave law as sop to the south for the
admission of California as a free state,
the border ruffian war, the bred Scott
decision, the hanging of John Brown to
show southern defiance of northern
! opinion, and finally the rebellion and the
emancipation of the slaves.
Though slavery is gone, and though
the conditions favorable to progress and
prosperity are the same at the south as
the north the confederacy is yet in the
saddle and intent on Furnishing the north
for the defeat of it's war and secession
undertaking. A careful study of the
new tariff law will show that not a
single interest essentially southern is
attacked by 1t. Northern farm produce
wool, pottery, glassware and every
thing the reduction of the duty on which
could inf1ict blow on northern industry
is attacked, but the duty on sugar is
restored and that on rice and tropica
fruits increased. Never in the history
of the whole civilized world has meas
ure so fraught with sectionalism, malice
envy and revenge been enacted intC
law.
But it is not going to advance theil
political power. The true Americans o
the north have become too many for the
doughfaces. The revolution began Ions
before the bill became law. 1t swept
over every northern state that held al
election in 1898, was emphasized in th,
elections in Pennsylvania and New Yorl
city last winter, was repeated in Rhod
Island in the spring, was echoed bacl
from Oregon in early summer, and
now taken up anew by Vermont ant
Maine for the great campaign of 1894
And when it is over the country will b
again able to show it's freedom fror
southern rebel domination as completed
as after the surrender at Appomattox.