The Teton peak., 1904-09-15
THE TARIFF and THE SOUTH.
Enormous Advantages That Have
Resulted From the Morrill,
Law Of 1861.


is demonstrated by experience.
The War of the Rebellion was a
test III which both theories under
went trial. The Southern States
had for years prior to the war ad-
Free Trade and carried il
out to its Legitimate results-a
ruined and PROSTATE people.
On the contrary the Northern
States had advocated the theory of
Protection. The result was strong
and united people, who were able
to meet the great burden of debt
incurred by the war, and have
made the credit of the United States
the best in the world. No nation
can borrow money at so low rate
of interest.
While it is nearly forty years
since the war closed, it is we'll at
this time to review the facts and
lay before the American public the
conditions of the people of the two
sections of the Union.
First-The people of the South
prior to and during the war had
every natural resource to make a
people rich and independent. The
political economy adopted by the
South was expressed by Jefferson
Davis in his FIRST inaugural address
as president of the Confederacy.
He said: "An agricultural people,
whose chief interest is in the ex-
port of commodity (meaning cot
ton) required in every manufacture
ing country, our true policy is
peace, and the freest trade our
necessities will permit
Horace Greeley said, nearly
twenty years before the days of
secession, in a debate with Samuel
]. Ti1den and Parke Goodwin, who
were Free Traders: 1.-The nation
which is erninently agricultural
and grain exporting, which de-
pends mainly. or principally on
other nations for its regular sup
plies for manufactured fabrics, has
been comparatively poor nation,
and ultimately dependent nation. y
The following, from speech Of
the late Hon H. w. Grady, a
progressive Southerner, eloquently
and truthfully describes the condi-
tion of the Southern soldier at the
surrender of Lee
Think of him as ragged, half
starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled
by wounds and want; ,having
fought to exhaustion, he surrenders
his gun, wrings the hands of his
comrades in silence, and lifting his
tear strained and pallid face for the
last time to the graves that dot the
old Virginia hills, pulls his gray
cap over his eyes and begins the
slow and painful journey. Wha,
does he fnd?-let me ask you who
went to your homes eager to fiud in
the welcome you had justly earned
full payment for four years sacri-
fce-what does he find when, hav-
ing followed the battle stained
cross against overwhelming odds,
dreading death not half SO much as
surrender. he reaches the home he
left so prosperous and beautiful
He finds his slaves free, his stock
killed, his barns empty, his trade
DESTROYED, his money worthless,
without money, credit, employment
or material.
These truths were expressed at a
New England dinner, December
70, 1887.
In these three quotations we have
the false theory announced by
Davis, what the result would be
by Mr.. Greeley, and the truth O
Mr.. Greeley's assertion affirmed by
Mr.. Grady's eloquent words.
Second AT the commencement
of the war the people of the Nortl
were totally unprepared for tn
gigantic struggle they had made t.
preserve the Union. 1t was no
the lack of loyal men that was tn
main difficulty. but to equip them
create navy and carry on the wa
70 successful issue involved
great serious problem. The peopl
of the North cheerfully and patient