Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-01
TURN on THE LIGHT
And let's Raise the Righteous
Slogan Of Yore-,I
1.-THE RaSCalS Out

II
by Men COnversant With All
= the Facts.
The following editorial is from the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot:
To-day the Virginian-Pllot gives ies
readers the first of the series OF ie'
ters which it has arranged with MI
Zach MCGEE to write from Enslaiio
on Industrial and social conoitlohs'
illustrative Of the 10 wtar1H system
of that country. For the last twenty
five years there has been 10 u''ooe
sion of the tariff in the United states
either in the public press or III C'ie
halls of Congress-, which dld ho,
abound in allusions to Great Brltaln
nolicy of virtual free trade and Int
effects upon the country OF a nalI cen
+urv,s pursuit of that policy. HlgI
nrotectionists claim that, as a co1leo
ouence of that system, England l.
now on the verge of an 1ndustrla'
ruin. that her people are poverty
stricken, her industries stagnant an
declining and her progress at sCahu-
s+i11 and that her most 1ntel1lgeh1
citizens are turning again to the ooc-
trine of Protection. Advocates ol {
tariff for revenue only, still are con.
vinced in their own minds thdC Cnooe
contetions have little or no oasls Il
fact. but have lacked the hfst-nahe
and detailed facts essential to tnen
complete refutation. Such staIlsllcs
as are available have been colhplie0
bv government statlstcans WIZ
strong partisan or factional drllllaVionS
and. therefore, more interested III ool-
.stering up the contention OF the pal's
.or faction dominant at Washington
r+ban in giving unbiased facts in the
case-more concerned IN conceailne
and perverting the truth than In re
vealing it.
ssIt is to get at and describe accu-
rately the facts in the matter that MI
McGhee, who is one of the best KNOW
NEWSPAPER correspondents - WASH
ington. is now in England. His pur-
pose is to visit every section OIL liz
British Isles, going through the coun
try districts as well as the great III
dustrial centres, visiting the peoplt
in their homes, their SHOPS incl
schools. their churches, seeing Things
frst-hand for himself and descrlplh=
4her,o as he actually finds them Ii
this way he Wil find out the aetua
conditions, social, domestic ana econ
omic, obtaining among the masses Vi
the peopIe-how they live, what tneS
earn and what their earnings Will aiie
do huv there. Mr.. McGhee is an III
~teresting and entertaining writer al
all times and no matter what ms SUI
iect. The question which ne hahdles
in the series of letters beginning To-
: dav is especially important II view o.
the fact that the tariff agitation WI
the passage of the Payne-Aldrlch plll
assumes proportions larger than ever
before. His treatment OF the suoJeo'
: will be no less instructive than reao
able and entertaining. The McGhe'
letters will appear in the Vlrglhlah
Pilot three times a week and Will con
. tinue for two months.
Commenting on the above the edl
tor of the Fayetteville observer non
e. J. Hale, himself diplomat
Democrat and thoroughly convefsan
with all phases of the tariff, has thi
Ito say:
eft is almost a generation az
o1886) since Mry Bayard's Consuls
England demonstrated the fallacy ina
vunderlay the Randall interre latlo
in the Chicago platform OF 1884 OF
provision for protecting the America
1ahorer against the pauper labor
E,urope. AS Vance said, that gay
away the whole case OF a tafln II
revenue only. See the report on En-
grafton from the United klngdoh
eetc published by the State Depar
,ment in 1886, which completely oNel
Threw the contention of Mr.. Blame
his famous book on the Attractions
America to laboring men in the do
hle decade 1860-1880; and Schoal
hofs demonstration that h1gh-pflc'
labor was cheaper than loW-prlced l
bor. These reports were used IN u
New York campaign of 1880, ana We
the basis of the great victory gain
there. The National platform OF 70
followed on the lines then laid dc@
and upon the acceptance of the tai
principles contained therein y
cleveland and Democratic Congfs
were swept into power.
"If tbe platform demand that t
tariff be the paramount issue /
been obeyed in 1893, the Demoeri
would still control the geyernmel
tba trusts would be practically nont
isrent: and the diffusion OF Wea
shat becomes republic would oil