Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-10-09

cheap, sbll cheap; buy high, you
must sell high. Protection raises
pricess all around. Protection In
creases cost all around and lessons
consumption all aroundW a Hem
nv Clay advances and the Senate
feels q tidal wave towering ana
then overwhelming in IA war oil
tariffs is as bad as war of powder
and steelv' A Calhoun then shakes
hands with Clay and Webster,
and with emotion turns to the SEN
ate: "Another Simeon is ready to
depart In peace, for mine ears have
heard answers to my hitherto vain
ly repeated question, (which Is
better, abundance or scarcityT"
The American eagle now rises
higher than ever toward the sun
and sights foreign chips coming as
galleons and going as laden mer-
chantmen. He beholds facts COM
ing as squadrons and rising out OF
the ground as locusts for number,
and all as fine gold for value. And
then comes the Queen of Sheba
from the uttermost parts of the
earth and Uncle Sam smiling from
ear to ear CALAMITY swings wide
open the grim old tariff doors to
close no more on Sheba's barge in
the offing, nor upon merchantmen
any more than upon the queens
and kings of the earth come to see
the wonders of the Republic; nor
upon coming merchantmen any
more than upon galleons come to
balance free, untram Eaoled COM
merce!!
The repeal movement does not
proceed from the planters. The
sugar planters Of the Gulf States
claim that the existing tariff in
effect discriminates against them
and in favor of the sugar refners;
that the tariff In effect gives to the
refiners the monopoly of the sugar
markets. The Hon. VIM. q. LIE
Due, U. s. Commissioner Of Agri-
culture, regarded the
ALLEGATIONS OF THE SUGAR
PLANTERS
or sufficient gravity to induce him
officially to call to them the atten-
ton of the President of the United
States. Possibly the fifty sugar re-
finers of the United States occa.
sionally concentrate the prestige of
their enormous capital Orwell,
say on % telegram.
It should not be forgotten tn at
we pay Cuba and Porto Rico near
ly sixty million dollars a year for
sugar; that Spain levies practically
prOhibitory duties on our exports
to Cuba and Porto Rico; that
Washington's Secretary of State,
Thomas Jefferson, officially ASSERT
ed that the Spanish tariff affected
the United States very much and
other nations very little; that this
has been the burden of diplomacy
between the United States and
Spain from Secretary jefferson to
Secretary Evarts; that the last
mentioned Secretary Of State, on
the 18th of November, 1877, in
structed the United States Minis
ter at Madrid that the burdens of
the excessive and increasing exac-
tons imposed by Spain upon
American commerce were becom-
ing "well nigh insufferable to our
merchants and shippers;" that
England, France and Germany ex-
port to Cuba and Porto Rico sixty
dollars worth of commodities for
every dollars worth exported by
the United States to Cuba and
Porto Rico; that the Hawaiian
people buy nearly nine times as
much from US in proportion to pop
ulation as do the people of Cuba
and Porto Rico.
Then let the Hawaiian treaty
peacefully run it's allotted period Of
unconditional existence. At the
expiration of its unconditional and
at the beginning of its permissive
existence, IL the treaty be found to
operate unequally or as u practi-
cally half-comatose or hemi pleglac
reciprocity treaty; if the sugar in
dustry of the United States, present
or prospective, is substantially
prejudiced by free trade with the
Hawaiian Kingdom; If the wealth
of the nation is seriously lessened
or its increase seriously hindered,
why then Misrepresentation, the
first law Of nature, should be per-
mitted to mark out the repeal of
the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty.
In my next will be further shown
what the treaty has done for Amer
lean commerce, how it may be
popularized, and how it may be
utilized by Southern California,
and especially by Los Angeles
county and city.
JOHN H. SHIELDS.
Florence, Oct. s, 1879.