Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-15

States in the Union combined. IL has
more than one half of the standing
timber of the country; it has sufficient
coal and iron to meet the demands of
the world, 1t this were required, and to
do it at the lowest possible cost. 1t
already raises enough cotton to supply
more than 90 per cent of the total con
sumption of the S5,000,000 spindes in
the world.
10 show that the situation is not
overdrawn, so far as North Carolina is
concerned, l quote from the highest
Democratic authority in the State.
The Commissioner of Labor, W. N.
Jones, in his report for 1887, emph asizes
the truth of my statements. He SAYS:
mo State offers superior natural ad-
vantages in manufacturing way. The
water power of the State is almost un.
limited, and is well distributed in every
section. The very best woods are to be
found for manufacturing purposes: per.
haps no State offers better variety, or
greater abundance. Our mineral
wealth is also unsurpassed-in fact,
North Carolina is wealthier, materially,
under the ground than she is on top.
Cotton is grown in five eighths of the
are OF the State, while tob acco may be
raised in every county, some sections
growing the finest quality known to
the world. These and other natural
advantages mark North Carolina as a
State well suited to manufacturing,
and the development of the State in
this respect, in recent years, would
seem to indicate that this fact is being
appreciated, not only by our own peo.
pie, but by those outside of the State.
wherever manufactures are to
be found, centers of population are al
80 found, and these increase the value
of the soil and the products of the soil.
That community is therefore wise which
fosters the increase of manufactures,
because they are the means of the pros
perity of all classes"
quote this statement to show that
North Carolina is protection State,
once public sentiment can be ascer-
tanned by an honest election; and, in
my Judgment, the law enacted by the
present Legislature of North Carolina
will secure to the voters fair and i'm
partial election. The Republicans and
Populists in our State will present a
solid and united front to the Democ-
racy in 1896. The inference is irresist.
IDLE that any free trade vote cast by
Southern Representatives in the Unite
States Congress has misrepresented the
South and has been cast in direct oppo-
sition to the interests of its people. As
further evidence of this fact quote
from an interview with Robert Reddish
which appeared in the Atlanta Ccnsti-
tuition on March 81, 1895. Mr. Reddish
owns a sheep farm, which is situated
in the wire grass region of Georgia.
Among other things he said:
II have been Democrat all my
life," said he, land the fact that
man had the nomination was all that
l wanted to know when voting time
came. But the Wilson bill has taken
$500 annually out of my pocket, and
at the same time the people for whose
profit this was claimed to have been
done. have to pay about the same
price for their woolen goods that they
always did. Into whose pockets, then
does all this money go?"
He further said: "The great reduction
in the marketable value of wool and
the transfer of the margin into the
pockets of the protected manufacturers m
of New England cut doubly into the
farmers, who have to sell at reduced
figure and buy at figures as large as
ever. The prouortion of this loss,
which comes out of the pockets of the
sheep owners of Georgia, was $109, ,157."
Here we have an admission from one
of the leading Democrats of the South
that this branch of Southern industry
is being destroyed under the workings
of the Wilson bill. The same state
ment will apply with equal force to
North Carolina and every other South
ern State, where sheep grazing is prac.
ticable.
STRIKING CONTRAST.
The Southern Democrats have always
contended that they were the special
guardians of the people of our section,
and that their sole aim was to advocate
and secure the enactment of such laws
as would inure to our benefit; but the
acts of our Representatives in Congress
fatty contradict their professions. 1t
is an undisputed fact that the great
bulk of the raw materials of this coun-
try is to be found within the borders
of the Southern States, but, strange to
say, these professed friends, who had
sworn allegiance to our section, took
advantage of the first opportunity
which presented itself to. deliberately
betray our interests, in order 10 benefit
those who were interested in foreign
raw materials.
They voted to reduce the tariff on our
raw materials to such an extent as to
enable the raw material of foreign
countries to come in direct competition
with us, thereby depriving our citizens
of fair remunerative price for that
undeveloped wealth which, under the
beneicent influences of the tariff act of
1890, we were rapidly developing. Con-
trast their conduct in this particular,
If you please, with that of the Repub
lican Representatives from the New
England States and you have COM
plete answer to the charge that the Re-
publican party is a sectional party.
Although the Wilson law was intended
to give, and did give to the manufac-
turers, who were their constituents
decided advantage over the Southern
people by reducing the tariff on raw
material, at the same time the Repub-
licans stood up in both branches of the
National Congress and did all in their
power to defeat that iniquitous meas
ure, thereby exemplifying the princi-
pie that protection is national ques-
ton, and, when, correctly interpreted,
means the encouragement, mainten-
ance and perpetuation of every Ameri.
can industry. The recent Republican
victories in the North and Northwest
were achieved by a comparison of the
tariff act Of 1890 with the Wilson law
of 1894 1t is a significant fact that
there was not moment between the
passage Of the act of 1890 until the 4th
of March, 1893, that there was not
cash balance in the Treasury of the
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