The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-08
FREE TRADE.

The Tariff system to Perish--Cotton and
Where II is Raised
OF the fourteen hundred and fifty mil.
lions Of human beings on the inhabitable
globe fifty miitons inhabit the United
States. By class legislation, Congress pro.
hibits the latter buying from all other ma
tons, in that, under the tariff laws, it is
not to the interest of foreign
countries to seek their trade.
Goods manufactured in the United
States are not intended for foreign markets,
as the tariff levied ON imports is such as to
authorize the manufacturer to levy such
prices upon the people in the United States
as his lust may inspire. The trade of
foreign countries is but little benefit to the
farmers and laborerS in the United States,
only in the event of famine or bad crops
which are incident to all countries
when money, for time, flows to this
country for provisions Bad crops in the
United States and good crops abroad, re-
verse the situation, and though money be-
comes scarce, the same tribute is habitually
levied by the monopolists upon the COM
mon people, The various monopolies are
not only thoroughly organized but act
conformity. The railroad mSnopoles buy
their rails from eleven various manu-
featuring mOnopolies, and pay tariff
OF thirty per cent, and pay it willingly,
knowing that it will come back by reason
OF transportation and travel out of the
pockets of those who take their labor under
the heat of the sun. Congress and the
newspapers favoring monopoly, have been
duped and bought up, and
THE PHANTOM HOPE
of the South and Southwest, becoming A
manufacturing section, is held up in
favor of protection. Powers & Weightman
now make as much quinine as they did
while the duty was upon it, and still they
compete with foreign markets, while the
bed-ridden buy at 81. 10 less per ounce. The
same principle obtains in an increasing
ratio, with relation to all other
manufactured articles. Monopoly
has profited chiefly by tho I'M
just and discriminating laws passed
by Congress. They have practiced and are
practicng a system of legalized robbery,
and have no desire to come into honest
competition, with foreign countries, for the
trade OF the common people, The South
faithful slaves of monopoly for
half a century. They have labored
faithfully, not even taking time to think, in
order that the letter of all unjust tariff laws
might be strictly filed Now that a flood
of light is pervading the minds of even the
common. people, upon this subject that
monopolies have been enriched, educated
and rendered the power behind the throne
in the land it is well that the tariff
laws bid fair to be the future question to
engage the attention of the common people.
Texas has more territory than France with
her thirty-fve million inhabitants, and is
prominently the cotton and wool growing
section, and reason points to it as the
great natural locality for cotton and woslen
manufactures. Let the whole fabric
of the tariff system perish as felon.
Cotton and wool will be eventually manu-
featured where it is raised The South and
Southwest are not able to engage extern
sively in manufacturing, while her people
have been robbed until there is little left to
steal. With the repeal of the tariff laws,
trade will spring up with foreign countries
foreign capital will come, and cotton and
wooden manufactures will spring up where
the staple is raised.-[Hopkins County
Echo.