Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-12-08

THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1881.
THE MoNOPOLIsrs.
The tariff conventions recently held
at Chicago and New York were main
~ composed of manufacturers and
operatives, who desire all other per-
sons to tax their property, and pay
high prices for their necessary sup
plies, in order to continue to them,
the monopoly of the markets of this
continent. To hearken to their de-
mands would be simply suicidal.
Our present extreme tariff was a
war measure, and was adopted under
impending monetary pressure, amid
great doubt u to the %propriety of
the course pursued. Among the re-
sults ~foreseen was exactly what has
happened, the development Of such
hot-bed industries in our midst, as
can not be permanently sustained
without perpetuating odious and
burdensome monopolies such as are
now demanded by protectionists.
No other English speaking nation
has long submitted with continued
prosperity to such exactions al are
now borne by American populations.
Long ago Great Britain opened her
home seaports and manufacturing
centers, with great benefit, to foreign
competition, and the Introduction OF
raw material abroad. The advan-
tages of such legislation are visible
everywhere-at home in increased
industry and production, abroad ip
large commercial and national fleets.
To accomplish their objects and
retain the advantages in the struggle
Of life conferred upon them by the
existing tariff, these beneficiaries are
anxious to join hands with all other
monopollsts, and thus increase the
already too heavy burdens of tax
payers and consumers. Hobnobbing
with them at both Chicago and New
York were shipbuilders labor leaguers,
greenbackers, bankers, and members
of the late syndlcates, with the view
OF uniting forces and log-rolllng to-
gether at the present session of
Congress.
The introduction of foreign built
ships into participation of American
commerce is absolutely prohibited,
and the monopolists are not satisfied.
Notwithstanding the hot-bed stimu-
lation applied to this industry, it does
not flourish. Does any one seek to
know why? The ready answer is:
There is abolutely no demand for
more ships, and the monopolists look
to subsidies and mail contracts to
create employment and desire for
them. For years, the development
of this country has been of its unoc
cupied territory, reached by rail and
not by ships. If England has most
vessels, America has most locomotives
and cars, employed in a home CON-
merce far more advantageous than
any foreign trade that a be galvan-
lied into existence, and what is need
ed to-day is removal of all obstacles
whether of monopoly or otherwise to
its further beneficial extension. Give
our people cheap goods, and cheap
implements, with cheap railroad
transit, and they will take care of the
national prosperity and make it gu
perior to that of the other nations of
the world.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The President reviews our foreign
relations and the condition of the pub
lie service. Commencing with the late
assassination he passes on to foreign
countries, sandwitching Sitting Bull
and the Arizona cowboys between
Great Britain and Mexico. He dep
recates interference with the three
and a half per cents as funded by
Window, favors abolition of internal
revenue taxation, excepting those of
malt and spurious liquors and tobac-
CO, recommends tariff and the appro-
priation of the proceeds of the public
domain to educational purposes. He
would fix the numerical force of the
army at 10000, and extend state
laws to the reservations within their
bounds. He endorses the improve
ment of the Mississippi, and devotes
much space to the civil service re-
form. He also alludes to the magni-
tude of the amount required by the
arrears of pension legislation, and
recommends an appropriation to de-
tect and prevent fraud connected
Besides the above which,
a. scarcely stated, meets the expecta-
ton of those on either side of these
questions, and avowed hostility TO
silver dollars and certificates, the at
reader will look in vain through
the message for indications of the
future policy of the president.
The Mexico Dramatic Company
will, sometime this month, present
this play, with the following cast:
S. S. Mills Baradas, J. G..
Trimble Joseph, Harvey Smith; De
s. O. Lawder; De Maui
pr.t, C. H. Grasty; Hugret, G. H.