The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-31

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thess industries, as in England, beget pquper
labor, therefore Protection produces pauper
wages. Again, assuming to be true the
proposition as stated, then the low ages of
the foreigner workman would be disadvantage
to all consumers at home, including all our
own lab rers. But it is not true. rs the fact
is that the poorest in the scale of living in
Great Britain are the sgriculturist class. la
the atmosphere of free action the laborer
will best interpret for himself whether his
labor shall be sold to the manufacturer, the
merchant, the transport r, or the farmer.
This American world of ours is too full of
diversity of every sort to permit any man TO
complain that he cannot make more than
living.
b. On the fifth proposition that "Prottction
necessary TO produce skilled labor in manu-
lures" the response is here, as before an
nounced, sit is free competition that incites
to swell the sum of human comforts and lows,
aud to impel every branch of the
race to improve to the utmost the conditions
of human living Let commercial thought
and action be as free as religious and politi-
cal thought and action. Let no "pent up
Utica conLne its powers" and what may
thus be evolved there is no predicting. The
social organization is from day to day evolv-
ing new and startling things, so that "what
would our fathers say to this" is common
expression. Life in factory or mill, the
tread mill Of the northern manufacturers
operative, is scarcely the place to nurse in
Ventive genius or be adaptive to the working
out OF problems that benefit mankind. 1t
may make drilled machines of men that do
the work with the regularity of the engine,
yet hardly anything else. But the argument
proves too much for the appeal to the labor
er ear If he would stop to think of it, for
the very fact that skilled laborers in this
country are required is the fact that will
bring them from Europe hither under the
alleged higher pay here, and thus by COM
petition reduce the wages.
This, we believe, answers seristim the
propositions Of our correspondent. Let us,
however, add something that may make the
case clearer still and will answer and repel
the positions of Mr.. "Pig Iroa Kelly" We
insist that Protection is the prolific parent of
the worst of politca and correspondent evils,
because:
l. 1t bsgets antagonism between the diff.
ferent industries OF country
z. 1t produces an antagonlsm with the
nations it ought to be our policy as it is our
interest TO cultivate.
o. 1t detrimentally disarranges the gen.
eral commercial plan and is the fruitful
source of psnics,
1. 1t is species of taxation most une.
quail and unjust in its effects.
b. 1t dimiuishes the legitimate revenues
of the government
D. 1t ia mostco lily and corrupting in its
operation on individuals and officials
1t is admitted that every branch of indus.
try l. O., the farming, the man ufacturing,
the mercantile the marine, and the dis
'nouting, ETC., cannot even. be protected by
government, much less equally and equitably
So And where government favors one in
cnstry NJ The expense If another, II taxes one
portion OF the community 70 favor the other.
lake the case OF coal. A duty of say % per
cent, en- the importation would be in the in
ter0st OF the owner of the coal mine in this
country o; the producer, but would be
against that of the consumer whether he were
an individual at his home freside or large
steam-mill owner, OF the iron miner and
Others, the Same is true. The uool.grower
finds that the duty which protects the wool
manufacturer, increases the cost of bis cloth
Ing and keeps down the price of his wool by
competition of cheap woods from abroad.
Inc protection on iron, which is now 3s per
cent, t" before stated. means that poople
shall be for ed to build old time vooden
ships II any at all, as we cannot compete
with the iron ships built where the main mn.
terial is 20 per cent. cheaper than with u,.
ms likewise enables us to build fewer rail-
ways and those which are built are compelled
10 increase their rates of charges TO tina
farmer, the merchant, the m, chanic for
transp lrtation to and fro.
= In the second place Protection ALLEVIATE
us from the other nations of the worlds
Japan and China may DO equally happy
with the more civilized portions of the globe
yet we are not disposed to exchange places
with them in their selfish isolation, nor have
they our sympathies or aid when embr ,iled
In trouble. Nor in fact are such people y,
well oil as those who miuglo in the common
commerce ofcivilization Politically, socially
and financially such peoples are at the base
OF the ladder. If this is true through total
abstinence, 1t is proportionately true through
partial.
o. 1t detrimentaily disarranges the gen.
eral plan ofindustries, by interfering with
the natural and proper division Of labor a,
prompted by a country's resources, climate,
soil ETC. the capabilities OF individuals, and
the wants of communities. Protection can
never enable France to equal England in the
matter of coal su,rl, - A.