The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-08-03

the ways and means committee. but they
have been denied participation in this final
Work of shaping tariff which has been
framed so that it discriminates in favor of
Southern and against Northern industry.
ne manufacturing interests are of quite
lnconsiderable dimensions in the four
southern states named. The figures Of
the census Of 1890 are these:
State CapitnI Operatiyes
Kentucky ........ 79S1i.9SO G5.519
West Nlrginia.... - SllS.U3O .l369
.ehnesSee ........ .l4ao.O92 42ioJ
''otSh .''...... h9-l,ooo 56'S'
Totals for four
states ........ $216326. .GS2 $500
The state of New York has invested
in manufacturing industry capital
amounting to $l,13O. 161 1876, and the
number Of workmen engaged in these in
dustrles in the state is $50. .OS4. Thus q
| 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 4 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 lmay we
not say the revengeful purposeD Of the
Southern brigadiers in dealing with the
u vNlN NSvlx
yealed as it has been by the appointment
by 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
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 & Dixon's line. Con
trast such selhshness and injustice and
bitter sectionalsm with the action Of the
Republican party in protecting Southern
lana lost no opportunity to try to do just
what Southern congressman now in dead
ly earnest are doing.
The Northern people will do well 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-
cerned: and. second. that supremacy for
the Democratic party in national 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
peace. The ex-Confederate assault upon
Northern industries and Northern wage
earners may yet pc repulsed, however,
1t 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 demoraized foe. united
only in their hatred of the section that
saved the Union
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