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

in mechanical trades ,7a -.
100000 in manufactures. Now %
latter 100000 were excl.iyeulv . '4s''
legged to supply the other ~
OOoOOO of workers with their famiro, ,.,s
nearly all their physical wants. Itba. h 1''u
shown that the aver &c annual e1p0Da;,n.
OF a farmer family in the United s,,,..,
about 500 year. This, therefore. siva.
total aggregate annual expenditure bv Ia, ~
say for 1880. $1,000 agriculturis,,, ofs, Am
100000. Now, Of wcolen, cotton, lima. .n
iron, tin, leather, esrthenware, ETC. n.na
features, we imported from Europe in lo-o
SloS,6OOOOO, with advalorem dutie, r,Dai,
from 30 to 76 per cent, the AVERAGE 8on1 s
being near 66 per cent. for woalen gooS,
in other words,the people ofthis country ,0ns.
AZ 100000 then, had to pay 800 for WIN,
without such duty, they could have po,,0'
for VIZ. On cotton and linen goods II.
average duty being near 50 per cent tbav bss
70 pay ~ for what without such duty ,b..
could have gotten for Sc. Nor is tbi, All.
the railroad companies. Ms we have seen ,b..
'Spsported from the port of entry IL n,
place Of consumption, had to pay duty A.
80 per cent. for their iron from abroad or 4,
equivalent to the home producer, and heno.
these had to charge proportionatoly o,cs,
sive rate for conveyance to the consume,
Now this import duty has been levied =,
no fewer than sixteen hundred differor, =.
tlcIe', at an immense cost for its collection
this being now from our total Of eicb,r
Sven customhouses, just about 6 per can,
Here, then, is loss of4O,per cent. by our ueo.
ple this being indeed less than the sversoo
ms IS stupendous loss to the large amount
OF consumers to crafty "a few producers Of
certain articles. 1t averages over s4OOOOo.
! oOo annually. Now, the table exhibits a,
stated by Mr. Spoford in the American Al
msnac, the aforesaid Sl30,0OO0OO duda..
to this amount the farmers alone contrib
uted about $60,000,0O0 Now, what has bS.
come OF the remaining $40 900 900 OF lon,
why, it was simply squsndered, thrown
away. Ii the European manufacturer b,S
gotten the $40 instead Of our eastern
producer, he would have been CORRESPOND
lngly enriched; but the FIRST received onlv
living profit, and the latter insists that it "a
CURES this 40 per cent. to enable him 10 A,
Ihe same thing, since it costs him thus mucb
more to produce Will. nov
Judge William d Kelley arises and or.
plain where this $34O,0OO,0OO COS To, who
receives the benefit of a Protection that nm.
duces such an anomaly as makes. saw SIO.
VoV'OOO pay S34O, OOO,0 900, for the benefit Of
no one not even tbs Protectionists, whose
capital can always find lucrative employment
IN something in this grand country Of wide
diversity! VIII Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, solve
Inc problem to the ship-bulding interests in
thaI natural ship-building section! viii
these learned gentlemen together inform
these sufferers of $840, 900 900 annually, that
mat amount if put, for only in one year, into
shipping, our tables will not show. as now.
suGh an exhibit as last years, viz:
Imports and exports value, in round 40.
! ures, carried: 3
In American vess Il, $3130OO.00O.
In In, oreign vessels, SS77, 100000.
When under the last democratic admins.
trston, in 1860, the case stood thus:
! In American vessels, S507, 100000
In foreign vessels, S255,OO000 and
IN Folks time going to 80 per cent. in
American bottoms! For Judge Kelley TO
state, as ne did, to that large Chicago audi.
ence' what the country is, has, ana is doing
underline reign of Protection, is absurd and
:aiemagogicsl in two respects, because arst,
1t does not follow that such protection il =
cause rather tbsaa coipciienl; secondi II does
not follow that our prosperous condition il
not In despite of and moi the consequent Of
protectors hamperings. A Comparative
relative review Is the only honest method Of
asEertainment. But, alas, the masses are not
suhc'ently enlightened nor rejecting. Too
large class of people are like the hog that
WIN eyes down, is content with the fact Mai
.he scorns lie upon the ground, regardless of
daily food. "'' '"'''' 'H0''
sad we not truly, then, that tbi,
protection busine s, like national debt. il A
national curse, and not a national Rio s;n,