The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-07-19
GRAND OLD PARTY.
THE AMERICAN POLICY IS AL
WAYS THE BEST.
The South Is Especially Interested in
the Cause of Protection-Why British
Potters Are Pleased-What Leading
Papers Have to Say.

The American Economist: The dis
cussion in Congress on the first tariff
act-that of 17S9-clearly shows that
the trainers of that act, solle of whom
sat in the convention which drafted
the Constitution, regarded no interest
of greater Importance than that of agri-
culture. The South is especially in
terested in that feature of protection,
because her sugar, rice, tobacco and
cotton, her four great staples, stand in
greater peril to-day than at any epoch
in our history, and all because the
Gordon of foreign cheap labor and CON-
petition is being drawn around these
products closer and closer.
Old p%rejudices should give away to
concrete facts. The South, with a new
generation Of men, looking anxiously
and hopefully forward to better days.
when there shall be more capital and
consequently more business and less
politics" Their, is entitled to all the
light on the subject of protection that
1t can get.
hi scars incident to the war be-
wv a. oIoLCo hdNS hCulCu, IHS iooS
vestige Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in the Federal Election or so-called
Force bill-has passed away, the feel
ing engendered between those who
were active participants in the greatest
struggle the world ever saw are being
cemented into ties of fraternal friend
ship, and new business relationships
are rapidly forming based on the con-
fidence which capital requires and
slowly imbibes. A new blood and a
new life agitates the South, which sees
an example in the North of what the
protective policy can do as against for
elgn rivals and for those who have too
long resisted the march of progress and
prosperity.
But n thing remains for the South
to do. 1t must unhorse free-trade and
enter the fight for the regeneration of
that section under the old Wing banner
n the great principle of protection
for home neutrality-suspicious. for
agriculture, for the raw materials
grown on our own soil which enter into
our manufactured products. That sen
timent once dominated the South, and,
while slavery drove it into seclusion in
1S49 and 1850 and almost out of mind,
history has preserved the record of the
fact. No section of the country has a
more glorious climate, none more i'm
portant agricultural products-includ-
ing cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco
none is richer in lumber and wood, in
mineral resources, water power and
energy than the South.
In adapting itself to new conditions,
in seeking to attain the full measure
Of benefit to be derived from produc-
ton, old theories must be cast aside
and practical views must be accepted
The South cannot hope for success by
shaping its legislation nor by sending
men to Congress to clog and hamper
the march of her productive develop
ment and industrial progress with a
political theory hat is sure to poison
the patient, paralyze its energies and
seriously retard it's prosperity. A
Tariff for revenue only" takes no ac-
count whatever Of our business rela-
tons as they may be injuriously af-
fected by foreign rivals who seek to
control QUIZ home market. The future
of Southern agriculture, commerce and
manufacturing industry depends upon
that other policy which can most read
lily be explained in these words: Stand
up for Americai Protection for home
industries against the world.