North Carolina Newspapers

FIFTY YEARS AGO, IN TEE DATS OF INFANT INDUS TRIES, When the Country was Without Rail* i roads and Telegraphs. . L (Ily Col, W. L. Saundew.) Fifty yeaiu ago when Henry Clay advocated a tariff, it was not to give protection for protection’s sake and for all time, hut to give" it to ‘ in fun t industries," and temporally on ly i ^ Now thw demand is for protec tion to full grown giant monopolies and for all time. Then Mr. Clay advocated 20 per cent. Now Colo nel Dockery boldly claims 47 per cent, and more. What he advoca ted was as different, not only in its amount, but in its purpose, as the circumstances of the age in which be lived are different from those of the one in which we live. In spite of all this, however, the Radicals of to-day unhlushiiigly appeal to the authority ef his'great name and ap ply to a policy of protection for pro tection’s sake, and for the benefit of giant monopolies, arguments that he applied only to infant industries. His main argument was, briefly, “That the protective system would build up a home demaud for the products of the farm and thus main tain or advance the price of pro ducts.'’ But all the force there may have been in the “home market" when Mr. Clay Used ,it is entirely disipated to-day. Air. Clay spoke to a country with out railroads, without telegraphs and steamships, and wheu the value of u bushel of wheat was exhausted by a haul of 300 miles. It .was a day when,Mr. Webster described American munufacturs as “a little capital mixed with manual labor." At that time the neighboring village or town consumed the farmer's pro ducts and were the clothing made from his wool and cotton. The world has been crcutedanevv since Mr. CTav made that speech. To-day we have a railroad system of 15,000 miles extending into every corner of this country where popu lation, or product invites it. To-dayt we have instantaneous communica tion with every section of the coun try, with every portion of the world. You can order a cargo of tea from China and it will lie loaded on the ship lief ore night. An order for wheat from Liverpool to San Fran cisco will outstrip the lagging sun and get there hours before him. You can transfer millions of dollars in the twinkling of an eye from the money market of Calcutta to that of London or New York. The whole world with the construction of rail roads, with the building of steam ships. with the laying of Cables, - ha* been drawn- into one family. The price of the farmer's products is no longer decided in the market of the neighboring village, but in the great market of the world. During all that time the progress of Invention had been displacing human labor by machinery. To-day one man in a factory, and frequent ly a child, tending some great me cliantcul invetion, produces work in Henry Clay's day would have taken the lahof of ten or even twelve men. -The report of the Bureau of Labor tells us that in a manufactory of agricultural implements 5000 hands do the the work that formerly re squired 2, 145; in one of hoots and shoes one hnnd does the work of .five! and will produce enough shoes in a year to supply a thousand men; in one of carpets one hand with the im provements in machinery does the work that required from ten to twen ty; in spinning, the work of from seventy-five to one hundred; in hammers used in the manufacture of steel, there has been a displacer, ment of employees of nearly 10 to 1; of pa|ier, a new machine for drying | and cutting, run by four men and * * sis women, will do the work of one hundred persons; of wall paper, the! displacement has beau' KX) to 1. The mechanical industries of the United Htiitw carried on. by oleum represent the labor of 21,000,000 men. On oar railroads to-day 250, 000 men do the work which when Mr. Clay spoke would have required 13.500.000 men and 54,000,000 hor ses. In a word, to do the work now done by power and power machinery in our mechanical industries and upon our railroads would require men representing a population of 172.600.000 in addition to the pres ent population of 55,000,000; and yet while Mr. Clay was willing to compromise on a tariff of 20 per cent, to protect human labor, to pro tect flesh und blood, the demand to day is fur 4” per cent, to protect machinery. To-dav American manufacturers longer mean as they did to Daniel Webster, manual labor mixed with a little capital. They mean great capital mixed with a little manual labor. Moreover, as our transpor tation system has been perfected, we have witnessed the gradual disap pearance of local manufactures and their massing in immense industrial establishments at particular points. They are to-day 'sufficient and more than sufficient to supply all the de mands of our home consumption, and yet the farmer lias to look abroad for purchase of his surplus products. Two-thirds of our cotton, nearly one-third of our wheat, immense qualities of other thru (products must be sold to- foreigners for lack of home consumers, and yet the ar gument is daily addressed to the farmer, “Tax yourself still longer to diversify industry and build tip home purchasers for your products ” Our surplus wheat crop last year would feed thirty-millions of people. Is there any device of taxation by which the farmer could build up a hojne demand for that? You say to the Minnesota farmer, complain ing that he gets but (50 cents a bush el for his wheat, "Continue to up hold the tariff; it will start up oth er industries in vour State to buy vour wheat.” But thefarmer, if he is intelligent, knows there is a cry over production trom our manufact urers to-daythat we already have more than we can Hilda market for; and as long as there is free trade among the States of this country there is no taxation to which he can submit that will necessarily bring such natural advantages as would bring them there without such tax ation. But suppose you give him a rol ling mill capable of supplying all the steel rails needed for the rail roads of his State, and a boot and shoe sufficient for the demands of the entire population of Minnesota, there will not be hnmon labor enough in) any one of them to consume the wheat crop of a single farm. With all the families dedendent upon them they would add not one mill to the price of his wheat, and little, if any to the price of his other prohucts. So much for the home market idea. It is but a snare and a delu sion the American farmer in the condition of the country as it exists to-day. His surplus products sent abroad determine the prices of those he sells at home. Without such foreign market they would sell still lower at home. But to the gentle men of the Home Market Club of New Eetigland the home market idea is a most solid and profitable reali ty. It means for them a population of flO,lXX),000 shut in by a benevo lent government aud forced to boy of them at prices which the govern ment is seeking to stimulate 47 per cent, higher than they would be if subjected to the same edmpetition under which the farmer sells his sta ple products." New York World'. Our sunshine i if brighter and more constant, our soil is more richer, our mountains I are taller and our rivers longer thnn |those of England; our women are I mure lieautiful and bright our chil dren more irrepressible than those of that country. But these things ■were so More the tariff was thought of, just as wages were higher. OLDTIMES. TWO BURLY SCOTCHMEN TIBET AT CnURCH. Auld Acquaintances to Some of our Readers.' (From Rod Springs Bcotlsh drier.) During the early part of the pres ent century, the Stage line from Fayetteville to Charleston was the. great highway for travellers. It was along this route that General Scott passed on his way to Charleston dur ing the nullification troubles in South Carolina. Among the stage drivers on this line was a Highland Scotchman named Allen McCorqudale, who was known from Washington to New York for his great strength and fighting propensity. He was a wild i mountaineer, full of generosity and kindness, hut would fight on the least provocation and had whipped every man that had ever insulted him. During a religions revival in Cumberland county he professed re ligion, joined the Methodist church and became one of the most distin guished ministers in the Conference. He lived to a good old age and died some years ago in Bishopville, S. C„ leaving to his church as a legacy a life of sincere devotion to bis Mas k's cause. But few have left lie ninn nooier examples of piety and unrerety. It was at the time of his first ap pearance as a minister that occurred ■lie incident we are about to relate. Djr. Evander McNair was preaching it that time at Longstreet chruch in Cumberland county, and on hearing hat. Parson McCorqudale was to preach on Little River, requested Col. Sandy Murchison to ask Mc Corqudale to announce that there would be Presbyterian services.at die same place on the following ■Sunday. The rwhole community umed out to hear McCorqudale. rhe place of preaching was a school muse on one of the bluffs of Little diver. The bluff was precipitous md the descent to a spring near the water's edge was full of danger.— Parson McCorqudale descended to die spring and was taking a drink ‘rora a gourd when Col. Murchison dso descended and made the request ;hat the minister would announce »reaching there by Dr. McNair. “I shall not do it sir,” said Mc Corqudale. “Well,” said Murchison, “McNair lid not intend to hnrt your feelings n anyway, he certainly did not in end to insult you by asking a broth ir minister to make an announce nent,” "The likes o' you and McNair isnna insult me.” “Well," was the reply, ‘‘If I can lot insult yon, I think / can •chin fou" "JOU canaau rimt rilher, and ;lie parson rolled up bis sleeves and ;he fight commenced. Murchison was h powerful man, as “hot as gin ger and as stiff as steel.” Owing to the danger of going in ;o the river the two men clinched tnd liatT to' stand iu the " 'spring to ight. Mci’oRjudule for once had net his match. The people hearing ;he noise approached the bluff and with difficulty leached the men who were pounding each other and suc :eeded in parting them. * After the ight was over the two Scotchman ipologized and made friends. An rye witness relates WTthe writer thut in the scuffle the two men “kicked ill the water out of the spring.” rhe people at church were much ixcited over the difficulty. The preucher commenced the ser vices and preached a powerful ser mon dwelling mainly upon the duty if forgivness. FORAKgRATTMB SOUTH. He it Still Fighting the Demon et Re bellion. Loud calls for Foraker were now uttered, and the Governor once more tdvanced to the front of the plat form, He sail); “1 fully appreciate the compli Now York UernUl, ment to pay me ill thus calling mi before yon. But I had nearly con eluded my speech when you so heat ily welcomed our great leuder ant patriot, Mr. James G. Blaine, was about to tell you that the slavt South, in following Calhoun, forcet free trade upon us, because tht South with her slaves had no inter est in American manufacturers. 1 was the South that rels-lied 'again* our glorious flag and had to bt whipped into submission. Mow th< South seeks to force free trade upor us and so keep down the price oi both white and colored labor. It it just us much of a war against na tional prosperity as the Rebellioi; was a war against the inltegrity ol the nation, and it must be foughl as earnestly now with the ballot at we once fought.with the bullet. "The demon of rebellion has nol been entirely destroyed. The men of the North saved the Union and they do not want its prosperity im periled. The Republican party wants the laboring man to have good wages and a comfortable liv ing for' himself and his children. We want him to he. able to buy homes and enjoy the comforts of his own hearthstone. I have no fear but that the workmen of the North will be true to themselves and overthrow- free trade, as they overthre\v the Rebellion in 1801 — 115. “ . " GRANDFATHER’S HAT. To William Henry Harrison, of In diana. (By the Bard of Sbake Rag.) My grandfather’s bat is too big for my head, It has hung forty years on the wall; Sow, wear it I must, for I'd ratiier be dead Than to fail in the conflict this fall: It was worn on the day that old Proc tor ran away, And was always his treasurer ; ami pride; But it dropped off—was never w$jm again when the old man died. CHOKVS: Thirty years was it covering Tip! Tipi Tip! Tip! Ilis hoary locks hovering Tip' Tip! Tip! Tip! It dropped off was never worn again— When tlie old man died. I've oft tried it on, but it covers m.\ ear And cuts off my vision entire; But .linimy could lead me .Timmy brings up the rear, Apd Fairchild and Foraker tire; But Depew says. "Stand, you should tighten the band, A lid look weil to whose leading von strike," But it drops off and can't lie worn again- 7 Since tlie old man died. (Churna) I’ve tightened the band and it bulges the crown, iu KU I, ire too large every way: But then is't no matters, we'll all punk it down" With the tariff and free whiskey, says Quay; And Stanford says you, now, can stuff in ‘cut. Which the boys on the slope can't abide; But tt“dropped off tie lie worn not again— When the old man died.—-(I'norus.) Now, Evarts, the portly of logical mind, Says why does it come down low; Stuff in for a few trusts -you can get any kind From Blaine for asking, l know; And Ingalls comes puffing and says that for stuffing t A battle flag lewis all lie’s tried; Yet it drops off, amt can’t lie worn again — Since the old man died. (Chorus.) But What in the name if the hat doesn’t tit, Had aa well lack the hat as the head, But for free whiskey I'd call off and Quit, And the tariff and trusts as 1 said; But I'iu in for it now. and I'm beaten anyhow • The hat’s not the hat that It's cried; For It will drop off, and won't he worn again - Sittee the old man died.—(Chorus) Thomas ,1 KKsnusoN Iloon. ‘Ills vote on the Chinese Immigration wn. t'fhe Cpnfederate liattle flags and Cleveland's order of reconstruction. | THE COLOR LINE. -| DRAWN BT THE NEGROES. 1 '■ | Let the White* Imitate Their Example and Stand by Their Own Color.' People who talk of new issues in 1 the present campaign ami who asek to make the impression that this is purely a national fight on the sikigle national issue of tariff, will not de ceive men who look” the situation squarely in the face. We are con fronted with the same old issue in the South and, as usual, the negro is drawing the color line. . Another evidence of this fact is found in the following circular, which was picked up a day or two ago in the suburban village of Jacksonville, a negro set tlement. It is headed ‘’Thurman on the Negro," and reads thus: Mr. Thurman, since his nomina tion for Vice-President on the Dem ocratic ticket, made a speech at Port Huron, in which he spoke contempt uously of our colored fellow-citizens as “prolific animals.” This is in full accord with the old Democratic and proslavery doctrine that the ne gro is a soulless beast,., unworthy of freedom, and having no rights which the white man should respect. What colored man, with any self respect, can »up|>ort the ticket one ot whose candidates speak scornfullyof him as a mere "animalThe col ored voter who now fails to vindicate himself and his rate, as ivell as to exhibit his just resentment, by vo ting against Thurmariahd the par ty which nominated him. accepts the degrading imputation cast upon him and lends his conduct to- estab lish the truth of the aspersion. Here then is the question that confronts us all the time—so long as the negroes are banded together, how can the white voters afford to split? National issuesmust be subordi nated for white men cannot afford to divide on the question of tariff, when in sn.doing they open the way for negro rulers to creep in. The Register has never tried to excite race prejudice. It has always dealt fairly and candidly with the | colored people and a leading colored I man in this city has volunteered the j statement that the lieijistcr has ; lone much to bring about a better state of feeling Itetween the races in Danville. We have no unkind feel ing for the colored man and we are willing, perfectly wdlling. to eoneede to him all the rights he has under the law of the land. More thau that w# want to see the colored people of Danville in a prosperous condi tion and we shall always aid them in their endeavor to become prosperous and useful citizens. Hut when it j conies to politics, we shall tight to the hitter end any attempt to put the negro in power, or ’any attempt on tlit* part of-the iifffines to puy the white Republicans in power, for thatmeans negro rule. In plain words, the whites must rule and when negro politicians tall on the negroes to stand together find vote for Republicans, we use this its an argument to show the white men of Danville how necessary it is tor them to staud solidly together on the other side of the color line ami vote for the white mail's tiekbt. It is the same old issue and the white men who propose to east a complimenta ry vote for the Republican candidate for Congress will do so with the full; knowledge of the fact that .they are joining hands with the author of the circular above printed, in his en deavor to consolidate the negro vote' and cast it against the white man's candidate. You can't vote for the candidate of a party without voting for the party he represents, and when you vote for the Republican j party, you vote for the negro party. Tha’t plain English, Imt it is true. --- ■*'■* » w -- •' - ‘ Hot Under the Collar." nuriuuu Heconler. Tut, tut, gentlemen, the peoplp j an* sick of such sense. In the Sen-1 ate Thursday was a partisan debate j in which the bloody shirt was f brought to the fronl. Mr. Clnuid :«*»■'* resolulion to- inVestigute'The I recent election in Louisiana stirred up the matter and brought out a burst of oratory from Ixith sides of the Senate. Mr. Gibson defended his State , and Mr. Chandler replied in uncomplimentary terms, defend ing the charges of fraud and bribe ry made in his sesolutiop, Senator Edmunds took a hand at this point amf made some sarcastic comments oil Mr. Gibson's defense. The de i-bate then became general and the j whole 'question', of Southern out rages. negro suffrage came up. iles- I srs. Chandler, Blair, Spooner, liea gan, Coke took a prominent part j and the latter became so personal | in his remarks he was ordered to sit | down. He apologized. Mr. Coke I then intimated that he had letters ] in his possession which coupled Mr. | Spooner with the greatest ami most | cruel evictions of the age. This j stirred up Mr. Spooner to a sayage j reply, in which the allegation were denied and he in effect, challenged Mr. Coke to repeat the words out side of the Senate chamber. Final ly the matter was dropped and the Senrte adjourned until Monday to cool off. NOT LONESOME. r, . . «. Wlingington star. —•_ The Philadelphia llrnml- lies this very interesting paragraph: "Talking of Roliert E. Lee the other day. a Southern Congress man said that he was the subject of two of the finest phrases of eulo gy he had ever read or heard." One. which he quoted, was from Ben Hill s oration, when he said in his climax that Lee was dike (Vsar without his ambition, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Wash ington without his reward’—the last clause summing up the whole south ern feeling toward Lee. The other quotation was from a panegyric on Lee. delivered by Col. Richard Win tersmith, of Kentucky, at a dinner party, when he said of Lee that, .going to heaven, he releived Wash ington of his eternal loneliness." Very fine. Lee is a great man in American history. He was lovable as great. His character is the most engaging of all the heroes of history. If Tennyson-' would cele brate his beautiful character. . so ronded and so lovely, as he has cel ebrated Alfred and Wellington lie would do the world a service and add an unwithering leaf to his own unfading chaplet. If Washington is in Heaven he is not "lonely.” He finds greater men there than lie. He may find companionship in that great General, Joshua, or in that great statesman. Moses, or in that mighty soldier and minstrel. I'avid, or with Paul, the most intellectual of men. and a hero every inch of him. In lennysons splendid ode on Wellington lie represents the great est of British naval commanders. Lord Nelson, as greeting Welling ton as he comes into the beyond But it is to lie hoped that Washing ton is not where Nelson probably is. If so, we do not believe "his e eTnal' loneliness" will ever be broken by companionship with Robert Kdwtird Lee, who loved Je sus and lived for Heaven. He Leaves Washington In Disgust. (From th«> Progressive Funner.) It will be remembered that the State Alliance sent delegates to the City of Washington some weeks ago to confer with represeuatives in Congress as to methods of protect ion against the Bagging Trust and other legalized roldieries. Bro. W. A. Harden represented North Caro lina and that old Alliance Roman, Bro. Flvun Jones, President of the Texas State Alliance, was there. He having remained a few days later, wrote Bro. Darden the following characteristic letter: * Washinotoit. D. C., Sept., 11,’SK. W. A. DaRIIKN, Sl'KIOHTM Briook, N. Dear Sir and fit-other; .In com pliance, with mv promise TWrite yon' a titie. We have- made a most . ————i—• —■ signal fudtrreour effort to'Jme&e, in any legislation looking to relief in the bagging trostrobbAy. Quito n a number of, Senators, and {icpresen tatives Lave promised ivpjll.uj the, near future; defining, ^rns<t» and a law to punish flur same.' The truth is, partisan polities staud in tliei way • of legislation for the people/* The*» liepresentatives are hedking .ttv’jnake party capital and to, make political records for themselves. They sit and watch each other and when one hows his neck, the. other shakes his head. This is. the, game that is being played hero in Congress, ' while rings, combines and trusts are ftffliffiiniiig the earnings ofthe peo ple and the country going to ruin. We start home tombmuw; hmpress ed more than ever with the absolute and imperative necessity «6 Organi zation, education niid eo-«p#ratioi> among the industrial classes-; of this; country. The people must he educa ted to rise above mere party politics, if we ever break the chains wfcit h greedy monopolistic power is fasten ing upon us. Let us 'organise educate mul itbore '.II ro-operdte. Fraternally yours. Kv’an Jokes.' •V. c, AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN,. f Bulletin No. 58 of the N. ('. Ag ricultural Experiintnt».^itn(i<jflp Dr. H. B. Buttle, Director, has been re ceived. Anfong the contents we notice a contiiniaijvn.of a funner article describing the fiehj exper iments now in the operation in nineteen countries Of the State. . Details are given showing the size of spots experimented On, the kind and amount of fertilizing ingredi ents used and the exact cost and an alysis of the various appreciations. The result of these experihiehls will he looked for with much iuterest. A meteorological summary for the whole country for bile month as well as a table showing the state of the weather of various places from m-operatum observers are given by Mr. H. Mel. Baldwin Mefeoiolo ttust. The importance of good drinking Waters, the value and need nf analyzing the waters in use, the interpretation of chemical analysis1 IS wcljns a table .showing the re sult of examination of various i rim king Waters in the Stale made by the Experiment Station in^fhe last weeks are given by Air. ft; G. Grissom-. Assistant C'henii t., All those interested in tlie Exper iment -Station will be pleased to learn that in addition to the new work with Cattle mid dairy intor ?sts. other investigations "will he shortly commenced which we are sure Will he acceptable to our people. These additional investijrntions will lie possible by reason of the Sta tion's receiving the .benefit of the - Hatch Funds fn-m the U. S., and will embrace F .tunieal and Futum loprieal investigation under : the Hmi-oe of experienced s|iecialists. Die Hutanical work will include the ^xainimifion of seeds on sale in the “'tate., for in should be the duty of tin* Station to protect the farthers^ igainst adulterated seeds as well as obliterated fertilisers, for it will he i .■asily seen tout one cun lie practised is well as the other if cure is not aken to prevent it. It is stated' also that samples of grasses and so called weed will lie i lettified when they are sent to the station, and their habits and value •e ported. Another feature which will prove valuable will be the pub i< ation in the Stations bulletin a * lescription (with cut) of each of he grasses or clovers, which earn bo ?rown in the State, with, practical sx [lerience with them of our people >r of people of other states, i » \ similar work is announced in eon lection with injnrions inserts and iheir ravages, with remedies for heir prevention, also indentittciitiim if these insects when sent lo the' Station and publication in the linll •tins of their habits'kttd growth be publications' of the Station will if sent to those who desire thyin.