The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-07
HOW THE POOR ARE ROBBED a
BENEFIT TIVE RICH.
What Representative Frank hnTd
had-to Say 10 n N. Y. Herald
Reporter.

"The question Of free trade and prolec-
ton, or perhaps, better stated the question
of tariff for revenue emily and protection
belisvo that no greater wrong and injury
has been done the people Of the United
States than has been accomplished througl
the Morrill, tariff in levying tax which tn,
government does not receive and FROM which
the manufacturers imagine tu.y ar,
enriched thereby. A protective tariff
bases itself upon the thought that
tho government. should dtvslsp home
industries and thus give employment 10 men
engaged therein. Experience must have
demonstrated that the protected industries
do not grow permanently strong under pro-
toctivo tariff. l think can show that in tho
last twenty years the state of Ohio has paid
for the manufactured goods of Pennsylvania
nearly $S0000,000 more than such goods
we're intrinsicslly worth. AS | have said to
eur friends in Ohio, had no objection to
paying this amount TO the state of PenRsyl-
vsnis # il would only do Pennsylvania any
good, but sho has become the most bankrupt
state in tho union in the very industries
which have been protected 1t has had mere
tramps, moro men u.g., Z, more
riots OF worldngm0n or diBturba ces o labor
than any other state in the union. PrOtec--
ton has only overstmulsted some OF Penn
sylvania'b industries no IL ovGrslimustCs all.
In this overstimuluS many people have
engaged in the enterprises protected,
who otherwise would not have gone
into them at all. This has resulted
in ovetproducti,n, which has oyerstocke /
the market and brought down tho prices, TO
the dctrimont of capsule aud s,rOog cspltsl
ists eugaged Ia the business. Protection has
failed to project, US these experiences have
shown. Second, n protective tariff finds lts
strength in TITO proposition that the balance
OF tAde is in our favor when Stockport more
goods th0n We import, and therefore those
who advocate n high taria Insist upon 70.
atriG'ons which would prevent M imporla.
tiou foreign goods The truth is that tho
balahee OF trade IS teen against ne, and ia in
our laSor when We import more goods than
we export. This is demonstrated by %
simple illustration. A man from Portland
goes out with vessel loaded with slaves.
Tho slaves arc registered ut the custom
house rs worth only $1,000 lie goes to the
West India islands aud exchanges them for
sugar and mola,ses Slaves are needed there
10 export these commodities. He returns to
the United States and the sugar and molaspes
will be registered as worth $4,000 less the
duty, say 81 900. Eight thousand dollars
more have been brought into the country
than have been taken OUT of it, Ths proteo-
tlonists says tho balance of trade is sgainst
ui$S,00o The free trader says wo have
added TO the wealth of our country $4,000.
haI .r, "a
last possible position on either side /? IL wa
would export everything and import nothing
tne pr5tectonlst would say that tho balance
OF trade Is immensely in cur favor, and vet
we have scarcity, poverty ard death. Hx>
port nothing aud import everything AID we
would have all tho wealth OF word IN our
lap aid At our feet. Protection builds up
barriers around our ocean coast and lake
shores TO keep the world out and keep u, in.
1t prevsHb our manufacturers and pro-
dueert from reaching the markets Of the
world what America noeds in order 10 give
her free opportunity for development is the
breaking down OF all these protective barriers
and the bringing Of oil the markets of tho
world close to US. Then, with our prod cts.
with our vessels carrying these produces
everywhere. 1t will only be a short time until
II Will become tho richest nation ia the
world.
PROTECTION Is R0BRERf
protection operates rs & robbery of the
laborng man and the man recsiyipp wage,
Inc agrloulturist has no protection, excent
pretentlouAly, on wool, while ha has to nav
10 to lOO per cent on the wooden goods he
must needs have. The day laberar receiving
wage, or the mechanic, carpenter shos
maker and mon on salary all have no nro
lection, and all are compelled to pay from
twenty hVe to sixty per cent. Of what they
receive IN the increased price Of ZOO 8 which
are projected and which they arc Obliged To
BUY, visited the house of friend Of mine
IN Toledo the other day who had family of
seven children. tic had wspe of
81 90 day, bringing him, in a yesr,
nm income OF $500. | asked him hoy.
much he paid for his stove. He said
500. told him that no could have NM
CHASED as good stove in Windsor Lau.}a.
for $50 asked him how much he uni {. =
the clothing of his family He said 500 i
least l told him he could have boucht
those clothes in Canada for SIS demon.
strsled to him that no paid in a year nearly
S20O nero for articles required by hin,-1f
and family than they could have been mr.
chased for in Canada. told him that ibis
was the nesrious result of ~ protective tariff
he said that this was now light 10 hin,
and that no would toll all his neiehbors and
friends that the protective tariff was taking
nearly ono,hNf Of their wages, which the
government did not receive bscauSa thssa
goods were manufactured in America, and
therefore paid no duty to the government.
put ws'eh went into the pockets of tho home
manufacturers Tho result of n protective
Nrln Tor twenty years has been tho robbery
Oh AL men on wages of from ono.thitd
70 onehsIf of what they have received,
WIN no advantages to compensate for
the loss to any, unlets 1t DO these who ara
employed IN the manufacturing industriea
whose products are protected. But There
men are out OF employment great portion
OF tho time, and for the lsst ten yesrs. I will
undertake TO show, the average wages of the
men IN such manuts curing industries have
been less daily than those of the same nersons
similarly employed for the ten wears prs.
eedIng 1860 under revenue tariff. Prot,c-
i've legislation can mako no wealth in n
country IL creates nothing. 1t may do
veiep some resources in a certain locality
but all sales that are made from that locality
must In tho protective theory, be to Ameri.
oan citizens and, therefore, II will end in ibs
transferring Of money from one American
pocket into another.
AMERICAN GOODS IN FoRRioN MARRHrs
The reports of the consular service chow
nM American goods are being sold in small
quantities IN the various ports Of the world
II American goods, therefore, can be trans,
ported across the sea at an ocean expe,ss