The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-24
COEUtJ1M MBIA, sc.
Sunday morning. April "a, 1870.
Bound visvvs--..Preteotaon."

Bound visvvs-- s--..Pretectaon."
Referring tosan able speech of Mr..
Marshall, Democratic member of Con-
gress from Illinois, on the subject OF
protection" the New York World thus
explains the principle of ''proteotion:"
1.-The principle of protection is this:
that, whereas in an untrammelled state
A can sell q certain article for 81 and 3
can only afford to sell q like article for
$1.50, some power exterior to and b is
to step in and Say that, while may sell
at $l.5O, no one is to buy from A save
on condition ofpaying ST for the privi-
lege. Under these circumstances. as AS
wares are made to cost 81, Isl cost and
81 privilege, and BIS only cost $1.50.
of B. Thip is 'protection.' and the
process indicated the one whereby B is
'protected.against A. The price of the
protection, or that privilege tax which
the exterior power prescribes in its in
termeddling with A and BIS business
transactions, falls, of course, actively on
@, the consnmer, and only passively on
A, since the effect of protection quoad
a, is merely to keep A from selling Mt all.
but, rquoadsC, to force G to pay $l.50 to
B rather than 81 to A, under penalty, if
he ,OiA bny from A. Of paying fifty cents
more thanis asked by b.
Mr.. Marshall takes the proper ground,
that all taxation should be limited to the
necessity Of providing means for the
support Of the State, and then shows
that projection is matter alien to the
necessary lend of taxation. He next
shows that, protection" or protective
tariff, is the enemy of commerce. The
World, analyzing Mr.. Ms speech, goes
on to say: ~
Commerce is ordinarily held to sig-
nifty business intercourse between foreign
Countries That this intercourse should
be as easy and full as possible-that the
tropics, for instance, sho lid send us pine
apples, and we send the tropics ice-has,
the wide world over, been held as an ap-
proved maxim; and yet protection or
the hampeting or shutting out of this
exchange, lis, as Mr.. Marshall very we'll
says, the santagonizing of commerce.
AS such an opponent of free interna-
tional exchange, it subserves the same
ends as do mountains, or marshes, or
dangerous and rocky seas; That is to say,
the ends of hindrance, delay, obstruc-
tion, and exclusion. With the use of the
compass, the steamship, the submarine
telegraph, the ease of commerce has been
wonderfully served; and yet, if inimicul
legislation forbid the just fruition of these
great discoveries, the world, so fur as
such legislation operates, is put back
into that condition of ommercial pupil
age which existed before the mariner had
the needle to guide him on tue wave, or
the potency of steam to mock the vola-
Ia I, of f1,au
~ ~ "
"'Protection' hides itself under the
necessity of raising taxes for the sup
port of the Government; but this is the
way the thing really works: Of every
dollar paid out by the people for cotton
fabrics, 80 cents 60 to the protected
monopolist mill-owner, and 81 cents
only to the Federal Treasury. On every
dollar for woolen goods, but 10 cents go
to the Government and GO cents to the
monopolist; on refined iron, 5 cents to
the Treasury and 50 cents to the pro
tected' forge; on mems wool hats and
women's 8 balmorals, on all our ordinary
blankets and carpets. iron, steel, woollen
goods, and cigars, every single cent of
the tax goes to the protected classes,
and not n dime into the Treasury. Here
there is not even bare pretence Of the
money gong W VIC suppoit VI Luo No-
vernment, but those who neetle in the
fat places of protection get ALL"
TRUE AS GOSPEL great aim and
end of reconstruction, outside of plum
der. is an attempt on the part of the
radicals to divert attention from the
North to the South. So long as the
Northern heart can be fred by Ku Klux
outrages ut the South, the day of reck-