The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18
HENRY C. DAVIS ACCEPTS NOMINATION
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little town of Indianoia of aii msn Tar tn. fa. cilities, proceeded to punish TOT sne law breaking intent Of a few-,, h ' deed such intent ever existed-wnicn frankly admit is questioned-ail oL the town, men,. women. as,tn v cuftins of their mail facilities; thus oy White House decree excommunicatiing them from the intelligence or the world Our ancestors: tncomprenenssy nsn even yen Boston port bill fully explained, persist ed in their madness and folly. refusing to be enlightened. and still hung on with miraculous M 1anas,csm ,e,i,m .I bnn sne De. @ punished and even the guilty only after a fair trial Not so with our wiser gen. era tion in the Indianola case. Again wonder how we managed to prosper as we have prospered so miraculously in all our history in spite of a folly like this unconfessed even, until a very re- cent date; but folly which we have now. thank God. nobly shaken off.
 The Next Great Blunder.
 "The next great historical blunder, in spite of which, strange to say, we have. as cannot too often repeat, prospered right along in every step of our history, with now and then a tenn porary drop-back. was the immolation by our ancestors of the nations indus- trialism upon the altar of free trade within the common domain, notwith- standing already existing state lines and temptation to establish custom houses.-those potent encouragers of commerce. What we ought to have fought for during colonial days was products out of the American market and another high protective tariff to Keep American products out of the British British market: thus enriching both Britain and America. Then, after we ACCOmnItQhad inhnnAnhanaa and each state had become a separate sovereignty. South Carolina ought to have protected herself against Penn sylvania and New England. Pennsyl- vania ought to have seen to it that a line of custom houses prevented the invasion of her sacred soil by the pro- ducts of the Jerseyman, the Maryland have encouraged the Interstate trade by stopping 1t as much as possible thus pursuing In that regard the en- frightened policy which prevails in re- gard to our international trade. Then, after forming the present Union. the Constitution itself ought to have pre- scribed to the States mutual protec- ton by mutual taxation and conse- quent universal prosperity
 What an enormously rich country the little state of Rhode Island would have been now but for the influx of the cotton raised by the pauper labor of South Carolina and Georgia, slave la bor for long time and therefore worse than pauper labor! How rich Florida would have been, if, instead of raising pineapples and oranges and such prod ucts as an unreasoning Sun seema to recommend, she had kept the rye and barley and wheat and woolen goods of the northern states out of her confines and had created, at some little ex- pense to her people. it is true, but still, with much pride and self qualification, purely 'Floridian industries of these and all other things. Each community on the surface of the earth, sir, should raise everything and make everything which 1t possibly can. regardless of the cost to its people of making and raising it, and if they will not make and raise everything. of their own ac- cord; then the people ought to be taxed until somebody consents to accept the profits of newly created industries for the altruistic purpose of giving them away to American. Polish Hungarian
 T have known people foolish enough to answer: that if New Jersey had cre- ated great New Jersey banana indus try; we will say, (because bananas and in forcing beds,) 1t would have made bananas vercy much more cost " than common people would like and that perhaps 1t is better for New ter sey to raise potatoes and peaches and manufacture various things naturally profitable and, with the profits of capi- tai and labor thus plebianly employed, DuJ put tDe men WnO say that. of course. are lacking in patriot fsm-'a cheap banana makes a cheap man. and we hurl foul scorn at those, who are so lacking in self-dependence necessary to be paid out of the pockets of consumers in order to prevent the fauper banana. raised by pauper labor grown on pauper soil. nourished by is-from invading New Jersey. I know there are a lot of old fashioned, out of date people. principally Democrats who say that the watchword of industrial olation and independence of productiv- ity. but reciprocity and inter-depend- ence; that isolation leads to feelings of arrangement and inimity among the people; that industrial inter-de- pendence constitutes q sort of world effective bond to keep the peace. I need not stop to tell you that such men are mere theorists One of them might be years and at the end of that period would not have given any change of occupation to such capitalists and workingmen in Maine. as are. or might be made to be- desirous of raising sum kissed plants. The base Cobdenite would leave the workingmen of Maine and New Jersey Unprotected, to devote their labor selfishly to other things manufacture of these other things Is naturally more profitable!
 Some Hard Things to Figure.
 How In the world it has happened
 though confess it did happen) that during colonial times. when there were no custom-houses between the several colonies and when all the products of Great Britain had free access to our markets, our laborers yet worked at wages very much higher than those which then prevailed in Great Britain cannot understand. How 1t has hap pened since we became a Federal na- tion, the comparatively pauper negro labor of Central Mississippi has not been able to run the high priced white labor of central New York out of the stand. Nor can understand how 1t Is that wages in California should have been for years two or three times what they were in Maryland, although the products of the comparatively pau per labor of Maryland had free access parative pauper labor itself was secur- ed by the constitution itself on the privileges of migration to and sojourn in California. Stranger yet. the pauper labor of all Europe was daily hocking both to Maryland and California; again do not understand-I doubt even If Uncle Joe Cannon himself can fully understand-these foolish facts. Some people have been silly enough to say that the white man of Central New York need not fear the competition of the black man of Central Mississippi. nor any diminution of his wage because of that competition. They say. forsooth. that the white man In New York Is more efficient laborer-quicker, steadier and more intelligent-than the black man in Mississippi; that he does more work in a day. turns out days in week, Is idle fewer weeks in the year. has more self control