The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-31
THE TARIFF-SOME LEADING PRINCIPLES
MADE PLAIN-JUDGE KBLLBYS
DHMAG0GUERY.

lew days ago we looE occhsion 10 ek =
press some views on the tariff question, and
now by way of reply comes our correspond
emit B. F. g., whose communication appears
In another column, and who airing lest his
own arguments be insufficient, undertakes TO
demolish us in advance by hurting at US the
great speech of Judge William d. Kelley, of
Philadelphia, delivered in Chicago one week
ago before the Industrial League, ard
wherein il was attempts to be shown that
the success Of democracy day after to.mor-
row would be the ruin of all the industries
and the prosperity of this country. Proba
ting the masses ard having more determin
ing effect upon the minds OF hundreds of
thousands of voters this hour than that oi
the tariff. And yet no question issn little
understood in lis nature, history and results
and none wherein the democratic party is
more inexperienced and misreprosented
There exists Il notion that If that party shall
pass into power, the manufacturing indus
tries will be made seriously to suffer, II in.
deed they be not ruined. The devices on
banners and transparences that were carried
by the eighteen thousand workingmen in
Chicago one week ago, and thosr that were
in procession IN New York city
short time previous, evidence
the idea and the feeling. Imperiled,
as they believe their institutions to be, EN-
ployer and employe, though otherwite demo
Gratis perhaps at heart enlist in campaign
to defend them against the suspected as
sault. So long.accustomed to be so power
fully sustained, those people have
come to look upon what was de-
signed and permitted as temporary
privilege, as y legally vested and ndefeasible
right whose continuity it is an outrage to
disturb or to threaten even by discussion.
Their behavior is that of the Protectionists
In Sir Robert Peel's time, when, in lS43, he
moved the repeal Of the corn laws, their ar
guments tho same, their pre- lotions the
same. And yet there is no cause for slsrm
to other capital or labor, no more than
there was then. The democratic party very
well understand that any sudden alteration,
any undue suspension If system to which
capital and labor have by such large contri-
buttons accommodated themselves, would
lead to fearful disarrangement or destruc-
tion, which policy would dscountenance
though justice were deaf. A democratic ad-
minist alton would scarcely follow thu I'M
precedcnted example set for the first time in
the worlds history vt wiping out of existence
in moment any institution that had grown
up under the laws of the land, as a repub-
% can congress and president did IN 1868. In
deed, they have so announced themselves, to
graduate tho modification of the evil within
such time and manner, that those who have
Investments in protected industries will not
be damaged. But the root of the trouble is
so deep, and the branches of the wstered hot
house tree of Protection so various in size
and hue and elsewise, that it is difficult to
nave some people 10 comprehend the true
nature of the remedy aud it's final
results. They have been so long
in the case of Plato, 80 long in the narrow,
dark walls a of protecting Chillon prison, that
: the daylight of truth is not only dstasteful
but binding. The truth Is that national Pro
lection like national debt, is Il national
curse and not national blessing, as 30
m'ny people were not long since deluded
. into believing.
by way ofenlightening those who sincerely
desire enlightment on what is sometimes con.
'cslvsd to be complicated question, we pro-
pose to answer our correspondent seriatim
and categorically, and at the same time nav
our respects 70 Judge Kelley on the positions
with which he tickled his deuded audience
last Saturday. Judge Kelley, as truly stated
by b. f. g., claimes for Protection tho fol-
lowing:
lst 1t Is necessary to secure that variety
of Industries which are essential to PEOPLES
prosperity.
"a. 1t is necessary means of maintain
ing national independence, and perhaps the
only means.
ID. 1t is necessary for the creation of home
markets fora nations agricultural products.
4th' 1t keeps up the price of wages for the
common laborer and the skilled artizan.
9th. 1t necessary to beget and to increase
1he supply of skilled labor in the country.
l. This lst proposition ..wO deny and an.
peal to history for our veriHcation. That
Protection secures the variety of industries,
we admit but that II is necessary, or even a
desirable means TO such end We will most
quickly disclose to the candid mind. Great
Britain, which is "free trade" country ia
one of the most prosperou, as well as most
powerful to-day in manufacturing, mero,n.
tile and moneyed aspect, dependent neither
now nor in the past for this condition.
TO any protective measures. BY A
nooler aad a surer means she has reached
and BY it she maintains that enyiable emf.
nency' and that is by permitting to every one
aperieet freedom to invest his capital or hi,
labor as his own good bushes. sense sballdi.
rect, AS desire is the stimulus to sction in
the individual, so must every social orpani.
zation have ma agyraooto % 1t,