The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-18

the Marylander and the Delawarean.
we ought to have encouraged inter-
state trade by stopping it as much as
possible, thus pursuing in that regard
the enlightened policy which prevails
~ regard to our international trade.
Ihen, after forming the present
Union, the Constitution itself ought
tual protection, by mutual taxation
ana consequent universal prosperity
Bray of High Tariff Ass.
What an enormously rich country
the little State OF Rhode Island would
nave been now but for the influx or
the cotton raised by the pauper labor
OF South Carolina and Georgia. slave
labor for a lone time and therefore,
worse than pauper labor! How rich
Florida would have been. if. instead
OF raising pineapples and oranges ana
such products as an unreasOning sun
seems to recommend, she had kept the
rye and barley and wheat and WOODEN
goods of the Northern States out OF
her confines and had created, at
some little expense to her people, 1t is
true, but still, with much pride and
selfg qualification purely "Floridian
things. Each community on the sur
face of the earth, sir, should raise
everything and make everything,
which it possibly cam regard
less of the cost to it's people of making
and raising it, and if they will not
make and raise everything, of their
own accord, then the people ought to
be taxed, until somebody consents to
accept the profits of newly created in
t,.i1 -
giving them away to American, Polish,
Hungarian and other labor.
l have known people foolish
enough to answer: THAT il New Jer-
sey had created a great New Jersey
banana industry, we will say. (because
bananas could be be easily raised there
under glass and in forcing beds), it
would have made bananas very much
more costly than common people
would like and that perhaps it is bet
ter for New Jersey to raise potatoes
and peaches and manufacture various
things naturally profitable and, with
the profits of capital and labor thus
plebeanly employed. buy bananas"
But the men who say that, of course,
are lacking in patriotism-'a cheap
banana makes a cheap man." and we
hurl foul scorn at those. who are so
lacking in self-dependence as not to
be willing to pay whatever is necessa-
ny to be paid out of the pockets of
consumers in order to prevent the
paupers banana, raised by pauper Ia
Dor. grown on pauper soil, nourished
by pauper sunshine-vile foreigner, as
il is-from invading New Jersey. |
know there are a lot of old-fashioned,
out of date people, principally Demo
Gratis, who say that the watchword of
industrial progress among communl-
ties is not isolation and independence
of productivity but reciprocity ana
nter-dependence; that isolation leads
TO feelings of estrangement and enmity
among the people; that industrial
inter-dependence constitutes sort OF
world defective bond to Keep the peace.
| need not stop to tell you that such
men are mere theorists one OF
them might be Granted plenary power
for q thousand years and at the end
of that period would not have given
anv change of occupation to such capl-
talists and workingmen in Maine. as
are. or might be made to be, DESTROYS
of raising sun kissed plants. The
base Cobdenite would leave the work
ing men of Maine and New Jersey
unprotected" to devote their labor
selfslly to other things. merely be-
cause the cultivation or manufacture
of these other things is naturally more
profitable! 1t.
Burst of whitening Sarcasm.
How in the world it has happened
(though | confess it did happen), that
during colonial times, when there
were no lcustom-h houses between the
several colonies and when all the pro-
ducts of Great Britain had free access
20 our markets, our laborers yet work
ed at wages very much higher than
those which then prevailed in Great
Britain, / cannot understand How 1T
has happened, since we became Fed
eral nation, the comparatively pauper
negro labor of Central Mississippi has
not been able to run the righ-priced
white labor of Central New York out
of the farming business, l also can
not understand. Nor can l understand
how it is that wages In California
should have been for years two or
three times what they were In Mary
land, although the products OF the
comparatively pauper labor OF Mary
land had free access TO California, and
although that comparatively pauper
labor itself was secured by the Consti-
tuition itself in the privilege Of migra-
ton to and soiourn in California.
Stranger yet the pauper labor of all
Europe was daily flocking both to
Maryland aud California! l again do
not underestimate doubt even II Uncle
Joe Cannon himself can fully under
stane-thesA foolish facts. Some peo-
pie have been silly enough to say that
the white man in Central New York
need not fear the competition of the
black man in Central Mississippi, nor
anv dim!nution of his wage because
of that competition. They say, for
sooth. that the white man in New York
is q more efficient laborer-ouicker,
steadier and more mathematician
the black man in Mississippi; that he
does more work in day, turns out
more product in an hour, works more
DAYS in a week. is idle fewer weeks in
a year, has more seif-control. fore
sight and frugality and, being himself.