The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-08-26

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borders Ohio. aud the Influence of
their views ought to be felt ID the
Ohio canvass. Stop discord, di-
vision, and defeat
The Equal Rights of Industry.
From the Courier-Journal
While the politicians are rub
bling hay seed into their hair. pre-
tending to be Changers, and the
candidates for office are all trem-
bling before the retributive mystic
ries of the Patrons of Husbardry,
it will be well for sensible people
to consider the singularly just
resolution passed By The Maryland
democrats in their convention at
Baltimore. Agriculture, manu-
features and commerce should be
the equal care of all well-regulated
governments, say the Maryland
democracy and the distractions
today Of them should be removed,
but no favoritism should be ex-
tended to either at the expense of
the others"
The burdens under which the
farmers. are Iaboring are suffi-
GENTLY palpable to arrest the at-
tention of every one who interests
himself in the material develop
ment Of the country but the
farmers are not the only sufferers.
by the burdens of which they
complain. The farmer counts up
the cost to him of his products,
and when he comes to send his
products to market he finds that
the cost Of transportation eats up
most Of his profits. The farm hand
or the mechanic knows exactly
what he has received for his labor,
bat when he comes to purchase bis
clothes and other necessary arti-
cles of life, he also finds that he
has little left. The farmer says
transportation is too high, the
farm hand Oh mechanic says wages
are too low. The farmer pays
heavy transportation charges on
his products, but the man who
works for wages pays like heavy
transportation charges on the
clothes he wears, and in addition
pays an enormous per centage
to the manufacturer under the
disguise Of a tariff for protection,
The workingman pays for his
clothes in a lump; if he paid the
actual value of his coat and then
paid a separate bin for transport
tation, and then had to hand over
TO the manufacturer the per cent
age tackled on under the tariff pro-
lection, he would soon raise a
noise in which the growls of the.
Changers would sink to a gentle
lit is only because we
can not 50 readily calculate the
exact amount of the imposition
put upon us that we are not at all
complaining like the Changers,
The farmers need relief, and we
all need relief, from some Of the
many burdens that now rest upon
us, but there is no clearer truth
than that agriculture, manufac-
lures and commerce should be the
equal care of all well-regulated
governments. In commerce is to
be included transportation, which
is the great means Of commerce
and a government that should fail
to give equal care to manufactures
as well as to the interests Of con-
sumers {; to railroads rs we'll as to
farmers, would certainly be far
from being well regulated. To
leoislate now in the interests Of
the men who wear the coats disad-
vantageously to the men whose
capital furnishes them, or to legis-
late for the farmer and against the
railroad, would only be to reverse
Che evil against which we are now
all complaining.
Labor and capital, and every