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

tnat tue inhhuIhCluTers tnus purchasing IL
could undersell us even with the excessive
tariff Then came the suf ring to the sheep
rasers, who had gone largely into the busi-
ness of fine bucks at fancy figures, etc, to
supply the American demand. Then came
the demand FOR still higher tariff Then
tho conflict between the manufacturers
and the wool growers, the former wanting
foreign woods admitted free. or At a nominal
lmpost Then followed an over stocking of
the market with all sorts of wooden goods
and consequent p mic and prostration, all to
the int est of only a few wealthy factories.
Mechanics machinery, labsrers stood idle in
consequence of this disarrangement. And
B. II the iron miners and the man
ufActurers, and throughout the whole
catalogue of protected industries, until
general distress upon all classes, protected
aid innocent unprotected, were hurled into
the stme conditi N.
Hence we sy Protection is a
species Of taxation, unequal, I'M
uniform, unjust, 1t has its foundation in
that illibersl, false, silly idea that "wbst is
one mans gain is anothec mans loss" thai.
evory nation must build up its own indus
tries by pLlling down those of other; that
commerce is n swindling operation. 1t is n
relic idea Of the old feuda isolation ystem.
What right has the government to take my
property, obtained by my labor, skill and
selt-denial? And what else does the govern
ment do when it c)mpels me to pay 81, $50
for iron that | need when some person offers
1t to me for $1,000? Such compulsion is
conhscation Of $3.50 of my money. What
right has it to make me pay S25 to the New
England manufacturer of suit of clothes
when by stepping across the Canadian Dor
der can buy the same suit for $l5, What
right has it to compel nearly 100000 con-
sumers or users of AGRICULTURAL implements.
carpenters tools, blscksmth.' tools, nails,
potts. tiles, etc, ETC., TO pay tribute at the
rate OF 80 per cent. TO few favored men,
and 80 en- down through the entire list?
o. Protection also diminishes the lie.
climate revenues of the government In all
inst we have said we recognize, nor have we
Ioat sight Of the fact, that some tariff is nee
e'''Ty' We have only objected to the indis.
crlmination of its imposition, which after all
Ia 10 the great interest of neither the manu-
t"cturer nor aborer as we will show further
on Last season there were imported into this
country SS3 5000 of wooden goods, and of
this only S5O32 in value represent the blank.
o. importation. OF blankets we use annually
IN value some 500, 10000. On blankets the
duty is 20 cents per pound and 35 per cent
Ad Valorem, The average duty amounted
to about 100 per cent. This is the dutv that
the poor man had to pay, and this is the duty
mat his representative, that Mr.. Garfield, for
instance, puts or helps to keep as n standing
tax upon one of the comforts, the necesssries
OF life, to man woman, child and little babe.
Now, the United States revenue vas lust
$l'2So' Again, in England, W ,rsted warns,
Mr. Wells tells us, cost 81 cents per
pound, and are charged with duty of
~ cents per pound and 35 per cent. a!ys-
loren, equal to 100 per cent. So that last
season, the total revenue from this sourc,
VIVA just 1880 F~oro thot which oos, IN tho
sane country 40 cents, subject to duty of
90 cents per pound and IS per cent. adya.
lorem' equal to SO per cent, wa imported
Just SlO8 worth and received revenue 500 a.
This is sample in which the people ara
'a1ed' robbed, without being known of the
manner or indeed, of the fact, and thi, is
tho political and financial honesty and
SaCacity which rule the republican
councils. 1t is this restrictive
policy that arrests commerce and
trade the ponny-vise and pound foolish
IDEA that keeps down the incomes to the
government as in all other cases. Who does
not know, by way of modest example. that
the receipts OF street car line at s cents per
RIDE or those from newspaper at cents per
copy are not more than double what thew
would 90 IL twice tho price were charged :
inc principle involved is the same. When
hngland's corn law went into operation. rI.
SlIying every evil prognostication, simils, to
those OF to-day, her business in wheat ran
up from an importation of 100000 bush.
els decennially to 100000 in the oe,. decade
Snd 100000 ia the next following. Opr
own experience is that the hea West ts,ss do
not always give the largest revenue, as note
our whisky tax some years ago.
g. That Protection in lis cumbersome
method of imposing duties on l, 600 articles
Is eorruping, one needs but attend ono Of tho
congressional sessions and sec the lobby in
nuehee at work, where money /. freely used
"neTe bargains are made for elections or to
suo erVe selfish interests. Or lot him attend
the Augean stable, known as the custom.
mouse in the port of New York, for example
wnere at one time honest importers had to
abandon the attempt to bring in foreign
silks paying full duties, because the markat
W" so flooded with Struggled goods, SNUG.
gled in by the collision and partnership of
oinemls, who were charged and oathed with
puoIlc trusts Place only a revenue IA,
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