The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-05-23
WORLD MARKET Against HOME
MARkET.

III VIII Dt sDTIy uaJ W. WV
democrats II the cotton
are driven into the
Republican party.-Washi ngton
Post.
But If the Republican party shifts
it's position in favor of protection tol
industries and for build
ing up and protecting the home
market just at the time when the
developing manufacturing indust-
ries of the South are beginning to
get into a position to reap the bene-
fits Of protection, what inducement
IL there for the manufacturers of the
South to join that party for protec-
tion's sake?
IL the Post had done the CAUCA-
SIAN the honor to read the editorial
In recent issue, headed "a New
Tariff Move," it might have looked
at this important question from a
broader standpoint. If the facts
stated In that editorial are correct
and we believe that no well inform
ed person will attempt to contradict
them then 1t is the Republican
party that is getting ready to desert
the infant Industries of the South at
the time, if not for the reason, that
the northern industries have grown
and fatted on protection until they
have become international giants.
The Post has always been friend
~ to the Republican party and at
the same time it has shown fair
and friendly spirit towards the
South; in fact, the Post has been a
broad national paper. Now let the
Post maintain its past record and ap-
peal to the Republican party to be
broad and national enough to allow
the South to be the recipient of the
incidental or direct benefits of that
system of legislation which has, In
no small degree, been instrumental
in making the manufacturers of the
North rich, more or less at the ex.
pense of the non-manufacturing
South. The Post should consider il
its duty to do this because it is the
Republican party that is now il
power, and, therefore, in a position
to legislate.
The New York Evening Post il
one northern republican paper tina
sees the present tendency among Ger
tain republican leaders, and in re
cent issue it calls attention sharply
to President McKinley's speeche!
now being made in his trip across
the continent, and adverts to tn,
fact that his purpose and that of tn,
leaders Of his party, as shown by hi
utterances, is to change their base OF
the question, of protection. Com
menting on the Presidents speech
Mt Memphis, the Evening Post says
"Not maxims but markets, he sale
at Memphis, which, being interpret
ell to fit present circumstances, OBJ
viously means, Don't stick to you
outwOrn protectionist creed if it pre-
vents you from selling your goods.
The world-market, with not a wore
about the home market, the grea
markets of the Orient'-hOw to sc
cure these was the burden of hi
story, and the problems involved
we were to solve 'untrammeled b,
the past To show how completed,
he had broken with his own past
he proceeded to read with approva
resolutions adopted by the legisla
ture of Tennessee in 1S47. The.
were practically free-trade resolu
tions, dwelling upon the importanc
Of enlarged commercial intercOurs
with the rest of the world. Thu
we have the author of the McKinle
tariff, who used to rail at the 'delu
sorry foreign market, going back t
the days of the Walker tariff to fin
true guidance for the present"
1t is possible that the Republica
party is heading for free trade, an
will the slogan of the Republica
party In the future be the Worl
Market as against the Home Market
From the Presidents utterances q
Memphis 1t would seem so. The
will not the Democratic party of tn
South be forced to trade position
with the Republican party on a.
count of the changed industrial col
ditions in the South, or will til
Democratic party prove its incon
petence to deal with the situation
One thing is certain, the Sout
now has before 1t great industri,
opportunity. This is clear to til
business men of the South. But til
important question is, what will til
politicians, or, rather, the two gre.
parties do. Whether unfortunatel
or not, 1t Is fact that business il
terests are at the mercy of politic
leaders, and yet at the same tin
business interests, if they will a.
independently, can have a powerfi
influence on political leaders. Wi
the rich and developing South wit
this great industrial opportunity b,
fore 1t permit itself to be ground b