The Teton peak., 1904-09-15

oiAiuoiiy 10 FI ,OOO,OoO III ~
years $40, OO0,O has been retain
ed in this country for labor which
has gone into the wealth of the
nation.
If we examine the pottery indus
try we will find the same result.
The Morrill, Tariff, plus the pre-
MUM on gold, gave this industry
such an impetus that it has grown
to be one of the greatest import
ance.
In this brief resume of the census
tables we see the facts upon which
James G.. Blaine in his incompara-
Bile letter of acceptance of the Re
publican nomination for President
in 1884, based his statement that
the wealth of the United States had
increased more in twenty-five years
under the Morrill, Tariff than in
the two hundred and fifty years of
its previous history
The philosophy of the statement
was stated by Abraham Lincoln
when he said: ''If we buy ton
Of pig iron of England, England
gets the money and we get the
iron. But if we make the iron, we
have both the money and the iron. "
These historical facts. SO we'll
authenticated, fatty contradict
every statement made by the Free
Traders.
Third-The reason that has been
assigned for the suffering and pow
erty of the. South during the war
the enforcement of the blockade of
the Southern ports, but this is not
the primary cause. Though you
should build an impossible wall
along Mason and Dixon's line from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and put
every Southern port under the most
rigid blockade, the people of the
South, with their great natural
resources which they have always
possessed, and now with the indus
tries they have established under
the fostering care of the Protective
policy, could supply themselves
with every needed comfort and
most of the luxuries of life. This
assertion is proved by a glance at
the industries of Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina and North Carolina
as revealed by the census tables of
1900. 1t is shown that in 1850,
the last census prior to the war,
there were in the above named
states 1887 spindles. The pro-
duct of the cotton mills was $5,-
ITO, 451. These states had in 1900
3.794,054 spindles,. and the output
was $84, 794,O54. All the other
Southern States that were in the
Confederacy show great increase
in the same industry. In the iron
industry, Alabama in 1870 produc-
ed only 6,304 tons; in 1880, Sc, ,237
tons; in 1890, 1854, 12O tons; in
1900, 1903, 595 tons. Virginia in
1870 produced 33,782 tons of iron;
in 1900, 449, ,O6O tons. In 1900
Alabama was fourth in rank in the
making of iron and steel. In the
manufacture of lumber all the
Southern States show a wonderful
increase.
When this great increase is CON-
pared with the growth of popula-
tion it is marvellous. From 1860
to 1900 the population of the
Southern States named increased
from 4,937, 447 to 81, ,35, 338-a
small fraction less than IS per cent.
During the same 40 years in the
same FIVE states the increase of the
products of the cotton mills and
iron furnaces increased more than
1889 per cent. With the excep-
tion of the four years of war and
the three disastrous years of the
Wilson Free Trade Tariff, this
stupendous increase was under the
Protective policy, which the states
men of those FIVE Southern States
opposed.
No argument for tine Tariff can
be more effective than the contrast
between the South, which advocat-