The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-24

even the workman nor the manufacturer
whose labor and capital were thus degraded
and enticed from the remuneration that i'm
partial nature offered, TO the average level OF
compensation that artificial work effected.
And certainly the nation is no. benefited, for
we have just seen, as was properly conceded
by w. C.S., that it is the aggregated whole of
the individual units, and the greater includes
the less. AS consumers, therefore, they have
all been subsidized to tho new industry,
mulcted in the difference between the
former low figures at which they used
to procure the article from the
foreigner and the high price they
now pay to the native. And yet again
certainly not even the nurseling industry, the
plant of hot-house nurture and protective
care 1t exists only like aparsste by feeding
Ca those that support it, and existing by
partial fat, it is liable in its sickly, puny,
propped.up condition, to receive at the hands
of the same legislative well-meaning but
slort-sghted, would-be patriots at any hour
death warrant, and unfortunately that rs
things are now with us, throws whole COM
munities into mourning by topping over
Legitimate establishments that had TO be cor
related or attached to their rotten girders,
sills and sleepers. And who ever saw one of
these sucking creepers strong enough
of its own volition to stand alone, any moro
than the ivy or the moss or the barnacle or
any other dependent species after the order
of "Mams, buckle my shoe" "mama, tie
my pinafore," "Mams, friz my hair" COM
plexion. Whoever heard of such a lusus
naturw as a monopolist wishing or willing to
let 60 his grip frem the throat of an entire
community who were by law laid under con-
tribution to him? The man facturer as well as
the banker, seeks to secure the highest at
tain able interest. This is business. And
when il shall become known that merchant
is transacting his affairs from the philans
thropic standpoint rather than on strict
business principles, then quickly comes the
sunset of his credit, to be followed
by the sunrise on his bankruptcy.
2nd. To the End proposition of W. @. S.
the answer is obvious. While we should
welcome English capital and labor to our
American shores, yet the fact OF our not
their products will never drive
her psople hither. The world is her market.
She was far, worry far from being in as good
a condition when she naugursted free trade,
and when she stood almost single handed in
the contest against the world. But barely
had she begun the good work when her
and manufacturing and mari
time glory began to eclipse the narrow
policy of her more selfish neighbors. By
way of illustration OF the effects of this free
trade operation We will submit the following
table, on the principle that an ounce
of fact is worth several pounds of theory.
For be it forever remembered that when Sir
Robert Peel's bill was submitted in 1916, it
wss assailed by populace, press and pulpit ms
a fatal blow to Great Britain's commercial
supremacy and tho beginning of he" down
fall amidst universal resultant panic and
crash. And be it further remembered, for it
is on record, that the very same objections
were beated out as are urged by the rrotec-
ton theorists of to-day, who arc in this sup
posed Gland of the Free" befuggling the
people while laughing in their sleeves at the
credulity of simple minded ignorance that
has not explored the historical! experience.
Here ia the table