The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22

ne was Pluu his nedTeTS NOuiu nv iII"SIi
support Il policy that has retarded the
growth and development of the resources
of the United States; n policy that RODS
your farmers of good markets ana OF
good prices and your miners ana TABOR,
ers of good wages-the reactOnary ana
un-American policy of free trade. lie
then continued: 49,
IF there is IL farmer or laborer here,
or any one else who may READ what
say, who doubts the truth OF TINS state
ment. | beg him to contrast, If he Will,
first. the condition of the farmers and
laborers of this country in 1S92 with
that of the farmers and laborcrs of other
countries of the world; and second, 10
contrast the comparative advantages OF
n protective tariff against q free trade
nolicy and his own condition now ana
during the past three years IN contrast
with that Of the previous three years.
Let him but examine the prices pald LOT
his nroducts or for his labor in 1913, lS34
and 1893 under threatened OF actuhi
oncration of tariff for revenue only
with the prices and wages offered in lS9O:
1891 and 1892, under IL protective tariI
law. and if he does not find that change.
from the old system to the new dlsas-
irons TO him. then we will consent for
him TO sustain the present policy ana
cast his lot with n party which, III part,
at least, continues to uphold Tree trade.
Gentlemen of West Virginia, passion
and prejudice have no place IN such an
examination Partisan or sectional pit
terness can not properly enter into TINS
question. Some talk as if the law could
benefit the miner of Pennsylvania, but
iniure the miner of West Virginia; as
if the wheat grain grown III Kansas or
the beet product of Nebraska would
grow rich by its operations and the cat
tlc and sugar plants of Texas and LOUIS
lana become impoverished under IL.
Imposing as had been the progress
from 1870 TO 1880, the growth OF the
south from 1850 to 1870 Is SUI more re-
markable, and ! want to call your at
tention to it. Gen. Longstrcet, III a
speech at Augusta, Ga, on October y,
said:
"'Betwcen 1880 ana 1890 the true val
uation mot the assessed valuation OF the
real and personal property III the SCUM
increased from S7,641 100000 TO SILL
534 600, 600: n gain of S3,SUO,OUOOOO, or
! pcr cent. while the New England and
middle states combined gained only -
per cent. The value of farm properly
in the south in 1880 was S2,3l4, OOO.oUo;
in 1890. SO. 1S2 100000: II gain of j. per
cent. The increase in farm values Ill all
other sections was about 30 per cent.
vested in manufacturing. In 1870 she
had 1868, 2SS 600. II gain of loG per cent;
while the gain of the entire country was
about 12l per cent The value CT inc
manufactured products of the south III
| 1880 was S451 4J4,00O; in 1890 it was
| SOL. $50. 600. gain of 100 per cent. In
1880 the factory hands in the south re,
! ceiycd STJ,917 900 i'll wages. IN lSyo
they received S222, 100000. In 1851 the
south had invested in cotton man4la,c'
turing. sol $4,000; in 1870 It mad SOL.
| 100000 and now. about Sl2O;UOo'ooo. III
1880 the south had S3,JOO,OOO invested
| in fine cotton seed oil industry. 1t has
now more than S30,00O,O0O invested,
',rhc railroad mileage of the south mas mas
increased since 1880 more than 2J,OuV
miles. at cost of building new ROADS
and in the improvement OF Oh ones oi
over 200, 100000. In 1880 the south
made 391 900 tons of pig iron; in 1870 II
made | ,7O2, 0SS tons. In 1850 the South
output of coal was 100000 tons; al
present it is at the rate of 3o,ooo'oo'
| per year. .
This. my fellow citizens. occurred al
! fer the so-callcd scrimc of 1888, VINE,
the free coinage of silver was suspended
| No other section of this country II,
other section of the world made sucl
progress as the south made between lSS'
and 1890, and during all that period we
were on Il gold basis, one dollar bcini
as good as every dollar and all OF then
canal TO the best; at the same llmc w,
wore under Il protective tariff policy ina,
encouraged our own development anI
the increase of our own manufacturers
This, my fellow citizens, has been the
principle of the southern party from III,
beginning; it is this policy, ana our parry
believes now, as it has always believed
that the business of this country must DC
done with dollars that are. worth io'
cents each in every state OF the ullln,
We do not want cheap dollar, an!
more than we want cheap men. we 1T
more want free silver than we wan
free trade. We want good money ana
protective tariff, and then we want D;
orr votes on the Sd of November. to tel
that whole world that this is II govern
mcnt of law and Il government OF ihtcs
rity and of unsullicd honor.