EXTRACT or AN. ADDRESS OF
DIR. SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT,
ON THE PROTECTIVE POLICY


Delirered at Nqfchez. SER. ii. 1914.
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on THE PROTECTIVE POLICY.


Deiirered at Natchez, Sept. ii, 1914.


But to come to the south. Time has at
length eytorted from the British covering
an acknowledgment of the startling M
that that government is using her best
exertions TO abolish slavery throughout the
world.


Great Britain is therefore Gs Hgly cas-
TONER for cotton planters, and the sooner The
south is liberated from commercial dcpen-
deRce on such a customer the better.


The old democratic tocsin of commercial
independence ON England and the world
cannot be sounded too soon or too lend; for
there are syren voices in the democratic
camp which have lulled the people to sleep
under those duleet notes that old federalism
was wont to tme-'Dependence on Eng
land-cheapest country--best market
commercial dependence blessing Don't
tax England. Let England tax our cotton
and prohibit our rice, tobacco and bread
stulI:, but don't tax English goods.


Il is time for the south to awake and see
what England is about. She IS using her
best exeHions to extingdish slavery through
out the world, and her bloody hand IS up
raised to strike, as soon as she can strike
with deadly effect these southern states,
where her arms have been furnished and
her pride husnaIe1 50 often. low shall
the soulh ward off the pending blow! Not
lly pleading mercy CT frcacbiag te-ioral=sssi.
but bv adhering with iron grasp 10 the old
republican policy Of protecting American
industry br discriminating duties TO the fall
extent Of the revenue. GnIeF tins policy
thc weaver's beam VII soon prestraie our
mortal Zoe.


But how Is Great Britain working to
abolish slavery throughout the world She
is stimulating aud encouraging her own
colonies and every country or province,
where cotton viii grow, to begin the culture
of that staple aad 10 increase and perfect
it where It Is already grown. She broke
up the culture Of indigo N Mississippi and
South Carolina bg extending and enccaFag-
ing its growth in India. Under the most
discouFa ginm circumstances for long series
of wears, Great Britain, wi5h the sumo view,
has been extending anI Pe.tecting the cui-
tivation OF sugar in india. At length, alter
many failures, she has ultimately iriamphed.
40 sooner did she succeed, than she I'M
posed a prohib;tory day on all sugar from
Slave labor countries. Thus she has cut of
the principal market isr t'ic sugar IF Brazil.
Brazil being q siavchodiug cplintrT has
been taught a lessen which we ofthe south
haze rot 10 learn, VIZ: tlal England IS not Il
safe market for slave labor products. So
also in regard TO rice and tobacco-she
stimulated heTcoi0a;es 10 grow these slaP.es.
Then She loaded them witl cDornous duties
making thcii cultivation Improbable by
charging slave labor rice with day of "a
GEMS per il. ami tobacco II ccn-s per lb.
Still pushing. on with steady aim aud liked
purpose in her crisa lie 10 abolish slavery
She has not only been extending anl per-
fectinr the cultivation OF cotton IN India, bat
has Introduced 1t with more promise Of sue
cess in New Holland. sac Is, moreover,
forever grasping II every icrri,oTy adapted
to its growth. IN aIiition 10 her Nest
India and South American possessions, sac
has lately seized upon the MGsqiiito Coast,
and her fleets are even now blochadIng the
ports OF Central Aulercn. Ccntra! Amer
lea is unfortunately in her debt thirty two 3.
millions, and has nothing 10 pay with but
her territory, which IS said 20 be q inc Get +
ton region. Let England once succeed in
obtaining sufficient supply OF cotton ior her
factories, and she VIII DO by US with cotton
as she has already done IN the arac.es of
indigo, sugar, rice and tobacco. She will
put a prohlbilory duty upon it. and deprive
us of our principal market for The chief and
last remaining product cf slave labor. Is
this time for the south to DO lead hood
winlsed under party drili, by McDuiiic and
others, into the Old federal doctrine Of CON-
mercial dependence Of England Is Ihis q
time for the south to indulge in sectional
iealousies, or to be blinded by party pre-
iudicesl England has thrown out a bait to
tempt the southern planter to lean on her,
and not ON his own countrymcI iOr n market,
that he NAV come to her to buy cheap and
sell dear. and fall into the trap which she
has set to abolish slavery throughout the
world. Great Brtain's treasonable de-
signs against southern institutions and the
liberty Of America, which reposes on those
Institutions, the south can easily defeat, BY
pursuing now the same republican policy
pursued in 1916, viz: Uai0a rifh The north
/ and 1rest IN giriag liberal eacourdSca,enl
to American citizesls. The south has but
to speak, and thousands and hundreds u
thousands ofadditicnal ariizans and iaborers
are ready to 90 to work with their labor
saving machinery, in building up free trade
markets for the cotton crop at home. Il is
at home, and no where else, that free trade
markets can be found. There can be no
free trade without free trade markets. The
south has got no free trade markets abroad.
There is no market for any importoncc in
tho wide world, beyond the limits of o,,r