Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — New Candidate for Protection. [ARTICLE]

New Candidate for Protection.

When men in Florida want protection for their industries they have an oldfashioned and pathetic way of flinging themselvelvcs upon the ground, bemoaning mother earth with their tears, and lifting up a lamentation before tho great McKinley. Here is how the orange men of that State concluded their petition last year: “To you, gentlemen of the North, gentlemen of the East, gentlemen of the West, a sister State holds out her imploring hands for succor, and sends through us, from the bosom of her blossom-laden orange groves, the prayer

for protection on her nurseling Industry. Protect us now and the future will enarble Panama to send her fragrant greetings to every man, woman and child in the United States, holding a penny in their hands, and across the waters to tike marts of the world, we can compete with those that have prayed your honorable committee to grant petitions from them that woutd snean ruin to thousands of our people. ” Now, Florida seems to have a fair prospect to create two new industries which are up to the present unknown in the United States. It is reported that somebody has found a bed of meerschaum in that State, and an attempt is being made to introduce tho cultivation of tho camphor tree there. Crude gum camphor and manufactured meerschaum are both on the free list as raw materials needed by our manufacturers But how long can this continue? Will not Florida’s weeping committee 60on discover that meerschaum comes from Asia Minor, where there are inexhaustible supplies of the cheapest pauper labor in the world —where the poor laborer does not get meat to'eat but once a week and has to make slaves of his wife and chl'dren? Will they not discover, too, that gum camphor comes from Japan, another country of pauper labor? The services of the weeping committee may berseeded again to “stretch forth their imploiing hands for succor.”