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VOL V
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, APR. 1, 1892.
NO. 48
Professional Cards.
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citueus of Liucolnton aud surroun
ding country. Office at his resi
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Auk. 7, 1891 1V
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Jan, 9, 1891.
ly.
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lv.
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3000 salary a year) speak in Shel
by Monday, favored the government
ownership of railroads. They want
the government to spend billions for
railroads, yet these same men dou't
own an acre of laud and pay one.
fourth or onenthird of their entire
crops for rent, rent a heavy and
tremendous drain. These pay a
heavy tax lor rent. Is it not better
to own the land you cultivate than
own the railroads 7
What do the railroads cost ? That
is an important item. The railway
mileage of the United States on
June oOtb, 1889, was 157,758,83
miles aud double tracks to be added
make a total of 200,949,79 miles.
North Carolina has 2,654,97 and
' South Carolina has 2.058,66. The
railroads give employment to a bi
army, only 704,743 workers and in
dependent of stockholders provide a
; living tor three millions ot persone.
The railway property is represented j nois farmer who trades 10,000 bush
by 1705 organizations or corporat a I els of surplus corn in France for 10,
bodies, with an tstimated value cf j 000 yards of silk dumps the silk in
j 9,615,175,274.
Railroads would prove a danger
j ous investment and do not pay thre j silk is wanted here,but Illinois farm
per cent, interest on the cost, which j labor-exchange silk enters into di-
averagG 15000 Per mi!e- Th:;
wouia prove apolitical maenme,
worse than the revenue gang.
Railroads no not pay the stocks
holders, and pay only a few railroad
I kings who squeeze out the weak.
It railroads pay, let the citizens
; reap the reward of their money and
j labor.
If railroads do not pay, why rob
the people aud load them with a
heavy debt to buy an elephant. The
North Carolina railroads cost more
than the land in this State. Shelby
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PROTECTION S FjAST 1ITC1I
Reciprocity Fools tlio Farmer
Out of II Is La-ttMiuiice .
For JAfe.
New York World.
Our exports are farm products
eighty per cent. We exchange them
abroad yearly for $350,000 in mill
products and 200,000,000 of raw
material. These, landing on our
shores, become the product of Am
erican labor on onr farms. It is
what over twosmillion farmers (the
excess of the number required to
supply the home market) have to
show, and all they can have, as the
result of their yeai's work. Their
cotton has been replaced with silk
aud their com with melada; but the
manufactured silk aod the raw su
gar have, by trading, become the
products of their American farm la
bor. The McKinley bill stops at once
this conversion of our surplus frm
products into needed mill products
through trade; The conversion put
our surplus American farm labor
into direct competition with our
! imported mill labor. For the III i -
i to the home market for sale in place
i of his corn not wanted here. Ths
' rect competition with the silk made
j in a Peterson mill; his American
! labor on hie Illinois farm competes
I the imported weaver's labor at
the New Jersey loom. For twenty
years our imported mill labor has
beeu protested against this exchange
of unsalable farm products for sala
ble mill products by a system of
lines ranging from forty to fom
hundred per cent. on each transact
ion. There has been no objection to
imports so long as the American
farmer exchanged his surplus for
tea, coffee, and products that did
not bring his farm labor into direct
competition with our mill labor. But
in spite of the fiues, which have
oeen steadily increased, his competi
tion with the protected mills has
not been wholly destroyed. There
still remains some that is a thorn in
the side of the protected mill.own
ers, numbering 14,500, who pocket
the profits on the products ot their
905,000 wae-a1aves. Out of these
profits they purchased the election
of a Republican President, and his
signature to the McKinley bill wipes
out this competition in this marker,
so far as these mill goods are con
cerned.
Bat these mill owners are not
content with robbing the Americau
farmer of his foreign exchange mar
ket for mill products. They now
demand his foreign market for raw
material and the privilege of sup
plying this market with raw mate
rial in exchange lor their exported
mill products. The McKinley bill
makes their protection from farm
competition in mill goods perfect
and complete ; bat their cormorant
greed is not satisfied with all Pro
tection can give them. THEY
WANT ALL THE FARMER HAS,
and Mr. Blaine proposes to give fo
them, by and through reciprocity,
the home market for raw material,
which they cannot get through pro
tection. Reciprocity has a eharm
ing sound, more sweet and alluring
than Protection. In two months it
captivated 60,000,000 people,, while
Protection took forty years to cap
tivate 40,000,000. But what is it,
and what does it mean ?
Reciprocity is Protection's "last
ditch." We pay for Brazilian coff- e
and Cubau sugar with Western
wheat and Southern cotton. The
South American market is now be!d
by the American farmer. Every
dollar's worth of Sonth American
products imported into this country
is in payment for American farm
products, for which we receive South j
American bills of exchange paid to j
Engl tollmen for British manufact'l
ures. Reciprocity proposes that
these bills of exchange on Rio, paid
for British manufactures, shall be I
discontinued, and that there shall
be nothing in Europe to pay for our
txported farm snrplus. In 1891 we
exported to Great Britain products;
of American labor valued at $441,-'
599,807. We took in exchange pros
ducts of British labor valued at
$194,723,262, and for the remainder,
246,870,545, we received bills of
exchange debts due British mer
chants in other countries for Brit
ish manufactures. With those bills
of exchange for our farm products,
we bought not only $85,028,318
worth ot coffee, rubber, and sugar
in South America, but $66,676,950
woith of manufactures In North
America, aud $53,718,247 worth of
manufactures and raw material in
Asia and Oceanica.
Mr. Blaine desires to divert these
bills of exchange from these British
manufacturers, who use them to
pay for our farm products, and have
them sent to our 12,500 mill-owners
for the exported product of Ihe r
mills, in order that the latter may pur
chase with them the same coffee and su.
gar now bouqht with the corported prod"
ucts of our farms. The American
farmer is to be robbed of his for
eign market to give it to the Amer
ican mill-owner. THIS IS ALL
RECIPROCITY CAN DO ; this is
all it is expected to do.
The Congress has imposed upon
the foreign trade of our farm sur
plus the most burdensome taxation
ever known, whenever that exchange
is made for anything that enters
into competition here with a mill
owner. Mr. Blaine proposes to go
far beyond the present protection of
the milNowner, to which the farmer
is objecting, by taking this foreign
exchange market entirely from the
American fanner and giving it to
the American mill-owDer. The far
mer believed for twenty years in the
bunco game of Protection, Now be
is offered the green-goods game of
Reciprocity for another twenty years
of robbery.
Reciprocity is barter. It is uu
known in trade or commerce. The
savage u"es it, but the. first step in
civilization requires him to discard
it. Trade is an exchange of gener
al credits not of specific things. It
is not a trade in its commercial
sense if we exchange a cargo of flour
for a cargo of coffee; nor is it if we
exchange the checks tor them. "Di
rect trade'' is simple barter, and it
remains simple barter, however
much it may be disguised, twisted
and painted. The substitution of a
special credit for a special thing
cannot convert the barter into trade
in the commercial sense.
Civilization demands of all who
enter it the surrender of individual
independence, the division of labor
and tho general (not special) ex
change of products. It abolishes
"direct trading." The baker is not
to pay his rent directly in loaves of
bread ; he must do it Indirectly in
the general exchange of general
credits. Each man in a civilized
community makes all the surplus he
can. He takes it to the general ex
change market, dumps it, and re
ceives credit for its market value?
lie is thea entitled to help himself
from the general stocK to the am-
ount of his credit. There is no Re
ciprocity, because he is a civilized
man exchanging general credit", not
a savage barteriu one thiDg tor
another.
Civilization requires of every nas
tion that enters it the surrender of
commercial Independence, the divis
ion of production, and the general,
not special, exchange with other
countries of surplus products not
ri quired by its own people, A na
tion which will not agree to this is
not civilized. Irs people may be.
but its government is not. The civ
ilization of the individual rests on
the solidarity of mankind ; of nations
on the solidarity of governments.
Tne common brotherhood of man
within political divisions is without
force uules there is also a commou
sisterhood of States.
There is no reciprocity betweeu
civilized governments. It is limited
strictly to savages, if any are left.
We may send a cargo of beads and
whiskey to the Congo Free State
and bring back ivory and gold dosf,
but we shall not do so very long.
Its government will be civilized join
ti e sisterhood of Spates, and then
reciprocity will step, because "direct
trade'' does not pay any individual
or any State, except in very except
ional cases.
Reciprocity is unprofitable. Barter,
like trade, requires profit for both
ejdes. Without piotit to all p.irties
there can bo neither barter nor
trade. But barter is limited to di
rect trade between two persons or
two countries. Unless the baker
wants boots he cannot barter with
the cobbler; unless the cobbler
wants a coat he cannot barter with
the tailor. When the tailor wants
shoes, the cobbler wants bread, and
the baker wants a coai, there in a
deadlock. Reciprocity cannot sup
ply either. Trade abolishes barter,
or ''direct trade,'' by providing those
who need anything with what t''o
nred, to the extent of their ability
to pay, without refereuce to recip
rocity. It substitutes indirect for
direct trade.
Commerce does the same with na
tions. Frauce produces surplus hilk
and wants cotton, Brazil produces
surplus coffee and wants silks, the
United States has surplus cotton aud
wants coffee. There can be no "di
rect trade reciprocity is not pos
sible. But trade is. This is the very
problem that civilization first solved
for individuals and communities. It
was the solution in commerce that
made governments civilized. Each
country sends what it has to dispose
of where it is wanted (if there is
something ot eqaal value to be tra
ded with some one else), exchanges
the credits and pockets the profits
We send cotton to France, France
sends silk to Brazil, Brazil sends ccf
fee to us. We make a profit on our
cotton, France on her silk, Brazil
on her coffee. All accounts are bal.
lanced. Mr. Blaine weeps because
j there is no reciprocity. Why I Be
cause the fat qoes to the American far
mer, and not to the American mill
owner.
But it was not alone to solve such
problems that men became civilized.
It was that he might sell where he
could get ihe most, aud buy where
he could get the most that he
might sell in the dearest aud buy in
the cheapest market. Reciprocity
limits him to two countries, to ban
ter. It prevents us from selling in
France and buying in Brazil. Where
we sell there we must buy, and
where we buy there we must sell.
Jones sends his wheat to Livers
pool because he can get more for it
in Liverpool I ban in Rio, Capetown
or Sydney. He sends it where he
can get the highest price. With
his bill of exchange he trades any
where, wherever he can trade the
cheapest. If he can buy his coffee
cheaper In La Gnara than in Rio he
buys it there, if he cau buy his
tea cheaper in Colombo than in
Chiukiaui; he buys it there. His
bill of exchange for the Liverpool
wheat is good anywhere the world
over. The commerce of civilization
permits him to sell in the dearest
of seventy-two ma: kets and to buy
iu the cheapest of seventy-two
markets to survey the world and
make the highest possible profit.
Reciprocity compels him to buy
and sell in the same maiket. If
what he has to sell has higher value
that what he must take in payment
may be quoted t-till higher. It re
duces his profit and his chances of
profit. If generally adopted it
woold reduce the total commerce of
the world to that of the Mediteran
ean Sea two thousand years ago.
Reciprocity is a mirage. Commerce
dumps the surplus of each nation
into the general exchange market
of the world, ciediting each with
the market value of its contribu
tions. Tlie credit may be taken up
with anything desired that has been
dumped by any country. The ex
changes are not limited. A cargo
of Americau cotton goes to Belgi-
oirM which Las nothing we want-
Who cares ! Beltiiom lias sent
something, somewhere, that some-
body wanted, aud her credit for that
is cancelled and given us. She has
had her return. We buy anything
anywhere, from anybody, and onr
credit is cancelled. We have had
oar return. This is modem com
mJrce. Tbis is civilization as opi
pesed to savagery; tree-trade as
opposed to reciprocity. Tot up
both sides of the total exchanges
and they mnst balance to the penny.
Follow a simple transaction.
Jones sends 10,(R0 huhe!s of wheat
to Liver pool. A letter of credit,
called a bill of exchange, comes
back by cable or mail. Jones then
riders 10,000 pounds of sugar from
Cuba, 1(1,000 p mnds of cotfse from
Uio and Singapore, 10,000 pounds of
'tool from Sydney aud Capetown,
and 10,000 pounds of tea from Chi
na, Japan and Coylou. A bauk
splits his one bill of exchange into
-ight and canco's all his indebted
ness. Jo es has exchanged bLs
wheat all over the world for what!
he wanted, and where he could get
i: cheapest, by the international ex
change of general credits which c v
i izatiou demands. Uo has dumpt d
his wheat in the general maiket of
the world, and taken anything in
the world's maiket that he wanted
to its value.
What Jones does every farmtr
does. One-fourth (or more) of the
.-rod net of every American farm is
exported for general exchange, not
in the Liverpool market, but in
evejy country of the world. Every
f irmer is an exporter, aud every
t trmer is an importer, to the value
of oue-fouith of his crop. Eighty
per cent, of all we import is import
ed by our farmers, for eighty per
cent, of our Imports is in exchange
for their exported farm products.
Because the farmer does not do the
work himself, but hires au ageut to
do it for him, does not affect the
principle luvolved. The agent may
advance f the farmer money, or he
may discount the result and pay
tne farmer iu full. He may e npioy
a dozen sub-agents or pass the pro
duct from hand to hand ; but no
possible juggling can hide the fact
that the Anieiican farmers comprise
eighty per cent, of our importers,
and that eighty per cent, of the
"merchandise'' passing through our
custom houses is imported by them
in payment tor their exported farm
surplus.
They export to Europe: they
must import from South America or
India to the value of their exports.
The banks enchange the credits
and settle thu accounts. There is
no reciprocity anywhere.
Reciprocity is reetriction. It is not
a step towards free trade or freer
trade. At one blow it chops off all
indirect trade. It destroys the
marked for $200,000,000 of our farm
surplus iu Gieit Briiian alone for
which we are paid in bills of ex
change on other countries. Turn to
page YO VI. of the Report of the
Bureau of Statistics for 1891. Our
imports from thirty-six countries
exceeded our evports to them b
$276,007,498, and of conr.-e our ex
ports to the thiityv-ix countries ex
ceeded our import- from them b
about the same amount. The next
page shows it in detail 8316,172,112.
The bills of exchange liom the one
ears celled the bids of exchange to
the other until last year, when the
McKinley bill loaded our farmers
up with bills of exchange they cau
not UKe at a profit, and must keep
until better times, or invest abroad.
Reciprocity wipes out this payment
for over one-half our surplus farm
products, while the McKinley bill
prevents any payment for what is
left coming into competition with
our protected mill products.
The Democratic editors who have
supposed Mr. Blaine, "the Apostle
of Protection," as in favor of freer
tra'e are ;n grievous error. He is
the far-seeiug subtle leader of the
mill-owners in their fight with the
fanners. lie has won for them the
great battle for their protection from
the exchange of our farm surplus
for foreign mill goods. His object
ujt is to restrict our foreign trade sole
jty to the foreign exchange of products
U cur protected mills. To do this be
proposes to destroy our farmers and
our farming industry, compelling
us :o boy even our food abroad in
ex'-aange for n i l products.
Reciprocity is a confidence qame. It
offers a new stock of "lies with which
to fool the farmer, to replace the
Protection lies that no longer fooi
hirr. From the success it has had
iu fooling Democratic editors it will
probob'.y prove an admirable exchange-
The victory of the McKinley bill
is to be pashed. Ttere is no con-
llict betweeu the leaders. - Mr.
Blaine is tar in a jvauco of McKin
ley and Reed, having left them' to
wiu the fight he planued, while ha
maps out the uext battle-iiHd. It
is on Ihe new li n of Reciprocity
t.-iat th. great Protection leader will
i Kent Ihe last groat batllo for tho
j Tariff Trusts of 14,500 banded mill-
owners, iu the final conflict between
wage- labor in the mills and tree la
bor on the farms. The Cliino.se
vall may be pierced by many gates,
tut only to let American mill goods
out and foreign farm products in.
Instead of exchanging Americau
fp.rm products for foreign mill goods
v." shall exchange Anu iiian mill
goods for foroigii f.i, in j r hje!s.
The McKinley lu.t '.s'imM fhtt
competition iu this -ui:iy betweeu
tl e farmer and uniiiowi.er to supply
o:ir people with mill products, lie.
ci:roti;y is intended to drive the
lu-t mau of the 2,000,000 male tillers
ot the soil, in excess ( f the number
needed to feed tho people, either
into the poorshouse or into a pro
tected mill, there to woik as a wage
slave for some niili lord, that the
lord may make "prorected" products
in competition with the pauper la
bor of Europe ami Asia, and supply
by '-direct trade" manufactured
goods to tho countries now supplied
by the labor ot Europeau aud Asiat
ic paupers.
There are now 905,000 of these
wage slaves in ihe 14,500 "protect
ed" mills; While not oue of them
receievos 1 cent moro wages than
the market demand clls for, their
d;iy's wages are greater while their
product wages aio less than are paid
abroad. For example, it costs iu
wages 14 cents per 100 pounds for
refining sugar here, and double that
abroad, although we pav more per
day. Hut when 1,000,000 farmery
with their wives ami daughters ap
ply to ihe mill-owners for woikt
keep from starving what wages will
thyii be paid ? Will tho inillov.ii,
eis pay more thuu they mu-t ? Ai a
bow much 7nust they pay when then
are two applicants lor every place I
To supply Brazil (or any other
"Mm try) by direct trade wiih the,
macii iietnieis it now obtains from
European pari per labor our mill
owneis must compete with those of
Europe. They must have cheap
labor, and Reciprocity is intended
to give it to them. They proposo
to offer American silk, glassware,
tinware, iron and steel to Brazil for
its ceffee and rubber, at a Ies9 price
than England, Frauce, Germany,
Spain and Austria now offer them.
Onr 14,500 mill lords propose to en
ter I heir w.-rg' -labor iu o;en com.
1-etitiou in Ihe markets of the world
with Ihe p iupci-1 bor ot the world,
eotnpeliing it to make the same pro
ducts the foieign pauper now makes
for sale in Ihe .-ame ru n kets.
Reciprocity will delher the work
men over to them, It will take
them from t'aims reinb-'-l uii.n fit
able by Protection. E. T, Wilson,
The Farmer's Advocate, of Tarbo
ro, one of the self-styled "reform1'
payers, says :
' Some of the leading papers say
that Democratic conventions will
uot adopt the Oca'a demands, aud
can that party expect the vote ot
the masses if their platform is not
adopted ! Echoanswers, No !''
Ih not a Democratic platform aa
good this year tor Democrats as It
has been heretofore I Suppose the
OcaU platform and a lot cf other
cra2e and un-Democratic stuff is
foisd upon any Democratic con
vention thisyear,cau that covnention
"except the vote' ot Democrats for
the nominees cf such conventions ?
Whai does echo answer to that
question ? Charlotte Observer,
Multiply tho Hole.
Mr. Rped cabs the Democratic
Dolky ot passing separate bills in
rhe House ", unchmg holes in the
tariff,"
A happy inspiration !
'lh bombardment of a hostile
fort or ship is directed to "punch
ing holes in it.''
Fir every hole punched in the
McK nley tariff au oppressive and
odiojs tax, cordemned by more
rhan a million majority iu the Oon
gresional elections, will disappear.
Keep up the fire from rhe rifled
reform guns! iV. Y. World.