Show A TARIFF LESSON USSON material prospects of the united states never brighter 4 40 1 N north 0 rt eh carolina senator tells or of the glories of a protective tariff and the good it has accomplished for this country june 15 in the course of an extend extended eq speech in the senate oday today upon the benefit 1 ot of republican an rule ml mr pritchard rep N C said I 1 the preat great chance change which has taken place in the financial commercial and economic conditions of our country bince since the inauguration of a republican president and the enactment of a republican tariff law directs attention again to the benefits which have invariably followed from the administration ot of the government by tits great party of lincoln grant and mckinley not in many years if ever have the material prospects of 0 the united slates states been as bright as they are today and for this the wise and patriotic legislation framed and by the republican party ia is responsible A predl prediction action made public by the bureau buteau of recently well viell haye have been received with amazement and incredulity by those who have not followed carefully the tren trend it I 1 of our national trade during the year to suggest that the balance of trade in favor of the united states tor for one year could much less would reach the prodigious eum sum ot of seemed like idle folly never before in the history of the nation has the favorable trade balance been naif half that much and ana yet the prediction waa was well founded and unless the law of 1 probabilities fail fall the trade balance which for the ten months ceding april was will be over by june the nearest approach to this extraordinary record was last year when the balance in ir our favor was lilt it is estimated thai tor for the full fall fiscal year the net amount of roin oln rec received elved in partial settlement ol 01 on conr r huge merchandise balance till ill be at least it thie this ie is more than double any pro pie vices cash balance for one year the largest having be been en for the year 1870 1879 1 after describing agricultural and commercial trials through which the south bai has pissed mr pritchard said but a brighter day has dawned out of the wreck of schem and ill founded hopes has arisen a new generation who working with head bead band and heart are rising the southern slates states to a place where prosperity plenty and happiness shall be tile familiar portion of their people in the front rank of states that are working oat a splendid elands stands north carolina no state baa hasi creater greater possibilities none greater need of the fostering care cars that flows from the republican control of the government the citizens ol 01 0 my slate state have no been backward in entering upon the development of her industries and the whirr of spindle and the click cf cl the loom in hundreds of cotton mills ie la daily inic her people the great lesson of industrial expansion prosperity has bas come to north carolina to stay this year there is is a boom farm products are from 15 to 40 per cent advanced lineses are 75 percent per cent higher than in 1807 and few to be bad poultry are per cent above last year the lumbering industry that was prostrated in 97 is active and prosperous tobacco la Is higher than in tn four years such is the news new s that comes to our A ears not only from north carolina but from every part of this great country the sona of an ever deepening ever widening prosperity is in every ear and this after less than a year of protective aarif legislation |