Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-13
Industrial Lengue.

The manufacturers have, as is very right
and sensible in them, instituted an Industri-
al League. Their theory of protection Is,
that if the government takes one dollar from
A, the non-manufacturer, and gives it to Il,
the manufacturer that both are enriched.
As the number Of AS Is very great and the
number of BIS small, it is very clearly to the
interest of the BIS to persuade the AS to pay
the dollar
The reason which the Tribune gives to A
to reconcile him to parting with his dollar Is
that b will buy one dollars worth of his
products. If A cannot see that he is no
richer by reason Of BIS spending the dollar
than by having it in his own pocket he
must he given up as n victim of Ignorance,
created by British speculatists and
preached by agents Of British houses"
OF all the dreadful crimes man can be
guilty of we know none so great as being
speculatist at ALL but it is pOssiblysn aggra-
walton of the ogense to be British specula-
tist." Locke was a British speculatist;"
so was Newton, so was Harvey, so was
Hampden, so was Bacon, 70 was Milton,
so were Adam Smith, Hume, and Ricardo,
so are Spencer, Whewell; and Mill. The
most provoking thing in the world is that
the French intellect has reached the same
conclusions as the British, and that Louis
Napoleon has done all in his power to carry
out the views of British specialists" The
enormous expansion Of French trade would
rather seem to confirm the theories Of the
British specialists" OF course, no argu-
ment will ever prove to manufacturer that
he ought not like Baron bold OF feudal
times, to have tribute money. We do not
aver that we ourselves would be convinced
if we were the recipients of tribute.
Ii may not be in human nature. But we
do not address the BIS; we address the AS.
There are one million Of human beings in
this city, who pay more for the protection
of Eastern and Pennsylvania manufacturers
than the whole cost of the municipal govern
ment. A bank clerk, on a salary Of two
thousand n year, pays not less than one
eight of it 20 make men in the Eastern States
and Pennsylvania richer. Another eight he
pays for negro emancipation Ostensibly, but
"A anti-slavery was the dodge of the protec-
tionists, one-quarter Of his salary goes to the
mill owner. The farmer, the artisan, the
widow living on annuity, the oTphandepend-
ent on a trust, are taxed TO an extent never
dreamed Of by the moss arbitrary monarch
that ever existed. The day laborer, who
gets two dollars for ten hours hard work,
pays proportionally twenty times ~ much
tax TO government az Mr.. Aston OF Mr..
Stewart
But it is not alone by protective duties
that labor is swindled paper money swim
dies him as much. A man who meets ano-
ther in thestreet and forcibly takes his watch,
goes 70 State Prison for seven years. A legis-
lalor who practically eonfiscates one quarter
of the credit or interest Of community IL
an honest man and IL he enables the few
to 1--we off the many in purple and fine liner,
ia a statesman-provide the many are white.
" Handy, dandy, ehange-which il the jus
tice and which the thiefY' When found
make a note of it, that the justice belongs TO
the Industrial League"