Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-17

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and those other markets. Then take
the freight ratio from Canada and cum
pare the two. and you will SEQ that the
Canadian mas wonderful advantage
over the North Carolinian. All we ask
Of the American Congress and all We
ask of the American Senate is to put
tho North Carolina lumber dealer upon
an equal footing with the Canadian
lumber dealer.
see no reason, and cannot for the
life of me understand why Southern
Democrat can stand up in this body
and advocate free lumber, because ON
every page OF this bill we find pro.
lection for cutlery, and we find pro.
lection for other industries that have
been built up in the Northern and the
New England States. lg7
Mr.. Berry. lt was not put in there
by the votes of Southern Democrats,
MIR. Pritchard. Now we have an
opportunity to develop an industry in
our own section, an Industry that will
enable the Southern people to make
something out OF the product of their
soil, and we find Southern men stand.
ing up hero and stubbornly saying,
mo; we will not have it,
That policy, Mr. President, has done
more to hinder the South aud keep US
in an unfortunate condition than any
other one thing. The Southern poll,
ticisns have in the past sullenly re-
fused to accept the benefits growing out
of the protective system, while our
friends from the Northern States have
displayed more wisdom. We find they
are advocating protection for every
single industry in their States. The
result has been that the North has
grown powerful and rich and they have
had development Of all their in
| terests. We should have had similar
| development in the South had we pur.
| sued different policy.
|, for one, representing in part the
| State of North Carolina, proposed to
stand here while this bill ia being
framed, and to see to it, SO far as
may be able to do so, whenever an in
dustry is to be affected by my vote,
shall vote so as to put the North Caro-.
lima citizen on an equal footing with
the citizen living in New England,
and. il needs be, | shall vote to give
him an advantage over the Canadian
or any other foreigner; and any man
who has any Americanism in his soul,
it seems to me. ought to advocate that
kind of policy.
Mr.. Gray. May interrupt tho Sena-
tor from North Carolina? daughter. J
Mr.. Pritchard. Yes, sir.
| Mr.. Gray | was proceeding, Mr..
President, a wbile ago TO state that it
seemed to me impossible to givs any
good reason why this legislative inter-
position between the millions OF this
country and the bounties of nature
should be made. And now the Senator
from North Carolina comes to the front
and says, very patriotically and with
great deal of emphasis, that he in
tends, and is more than willing. by
legislation, to eaualize the conditions
Of what he calls the North Carolina
timber grower and those ia Canada,
and that be is going to so legislate, il
i understood him correctly, or that he
Is willing to so legislate, that it may
be just as hard for man who lives UP
on the northern tier of States and
in the northern part of that northern
tier OF States, along the Canadian
border, to get Canadian lumber as 1t il
now to get North Carolina lumber.
That is the Senator's idea of Justice
and equality and the beneficenee thai
the law should distribute to a free
people.
Mr.. President Iyant to equaize th,
conditions OF the people who consume
lumber, and | want to deny your righ
20 levy that tribute upon them.
God has given you State or a countr,
in which this bounty has been special,
conspicuous, that doeB not furnish
reason why you should lay tribut,
upon the peuple for whom that is
necessity, in order that you may b,
further enriched than nature ha
already enriched you. There can be n,
} justification for 1t. 1t destroys th,
} only defence you can make for th
private ownership of land; it destroy
the only defence you can make for tn
: possession and control by individuals q
those great natural monopolies AM
5 bounties of nature.
If you claim that you can by legisla
: tiou enhance the value OF it to the pro
. ducer by raising the price to the con
Y sumer-for that is the only way il
D which you claim that you can equaliz
! these conditions about which the Senu
> tor from North Carolina speaks--the
i you are doing just what would be ac
compisbed il you made this timbe
=! supply scarcer, and thus neutralized I
3 the consumer the benefit of abundan
s forests,
n You may call this a free government
!. you may call it what you please, but
y is nothing less than the despotism c
2 wealth il the men who live along tn
d northern tier of counties of that north
It ern tier of States can not reach ou
r their hands across this line that divide
! us from Canada to take the bount
d that nature has given them.
h Timber grows there, not by the cor
Q trivaDce OF man. but by the bounty c
o the great Creator; and why should nc
8 that man living in that northern tic
OF counties of that northern tier {
Q States avail himself of this great ac
n vantage that has come to him withou
D the contrivance OF the Senator frol
:; North Carolina or Of any of his cor
J. stituents? And why does the Senate
10 reach out from that distant State, hur
o dreds of milea away, and seek to sta
y him by the interfering hand Of n
al government and say, You must M
e make the most of the income Of vol
y toll, but you can only nave these nece
r saries of life by paying tribute to mi
e who lives thousand miles away?
,r Mr.. President, it is because | belle,
y Mr.. Wilson. Will / interrunt tt
ID Senator while no ia speaking of II
northern tier of States by stating ii
!? conditions which prevail in one
I'd them; for example, we in the State
is Washington probably have more lumb
ie than nine Southern States and Mich
ID gan. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. Ne