The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-11
"RATHER INCoNsIsrENr."

charge the HERALD with Inconsistency be
cause We took issue with Mr.. UrsoS on his
tariff views, and at the same time advocated
the establishment of cotton and WOODEN
mills in the south, and especially Texas
We believe the Express Is about the only
paper in the state clinging to protection,
aud yet there are none of them but favor
the establishment of manufactures, ii we
should advocate manufactures UNI
able to live without protection
and at the same time inveigh
against protection we should indeed be de-
cideily inconsistent. This we have never
done. 1t is the common cry Of the capital
list, we well know, to declare that govern
mental aud is necessary for manufactures,
but it is just this proposition we deny in
the advocacy of free trade. There is no
reason why manufacturing cannot be done
upon safe and profitable basis in the
south simply because capital and power
have lostered it in New England until the
few there have grown enormously rich 1T
the expense Of the masses. IL does lot
stand to reason that cotton and wool can
not be manufactured almost AS cheap
again upon the fields where they
are grown, as they are after
transportation, assortment, brokerage and
transfers, in bleak New England. But
then, even there, enormous profits are
made so much SO indeed, that capital has
b Ell tempted in until il has almost pro-
down to reasonable figure and the addi-
tional costs of manufacture are saved by
erecting mills in the south, the tariff could
be taken Of and without discouraging man
ufacturing protect the masses against cx-
tortion and the infringement of their nat
ural rights. The Express is pleased TO re-
fer to the raising and manufacture of wool,
IL which its section is especially interested
Here are some facts and figures from the
Chicago Times which we commend to the
Express: Last year the ad valorem eauiva.
Tents Of the mixed duties on wool ranged
from 2h.63 to 76.i per cent. On wooden
manufactures they ranged from 80 to lO2 6
per cent. In 1868 and 1869, says Pho.
rEssoR SUMNER, we saw mutton Il dfug in
the city at and 0 cents, when beef was 20
The farmers who had been deluded into
relying on tariffs to produce wealth found
that they haa to send their sheep to slaugh.
ter. The wooden interest profited no bet.
ter. They had to import dirt from Aus,
tralia when they wanted wool. If the
price advanced, or any turn of exchange
or item of cost carried the total
cost above II cents, they found II
higher rate of duty oxacted, and the impor
tation Improbable When they turned to
the home supply they found that it was all
in one grade, and that they were deprived
OF the advantage OF mixing WOO to make
various fabrics. The Times is well aware
that the protcctionsts clam that any quail
ity Of wool may be produced in this coun-
try. This may be true, but as II matter of
fact we are importing large quantities of
wool-l2S 900, geo pounds last year-which
1t sufficient proof that if every grade ofwoo
can be produced here it is not produced
here as n matter OF fact, though its proluc.
ton is encouraged by the high duties above
stated. The facts show plainly enough that
protection has not protected the wool.erow.
ers, and that the whole wooden industry has
been depressed rather than stimulated by
the Syracuse tariff There is, however, n
mixed and not altogether creditAbc in.
dustry that has been stimulated by that
tariff. In lecture delivered last February
Hon DAVID A, WELLS said; Owing to
the comparatively high prices of wooden
fabrics in this country by reason of the
tariff, and the temptation thereby created
to dclraud, We have learned to mix
shoddy and cotton with wool in its manu-
tacture to an extent and degree Of skill
that cannot be surpassed To fortiiy this
statement, Mr.. WELLS turns to the census
statistics for 1850 and finds the materials
used in the manufacture of wooden fabrics
that year as follows; Wool, rs received
from the car Is, l690O0,0OO pounds; shoddy,
oi0ll 900 pounds; cotton, 81 ,07S,00O pounds
The effect of the wool tariff on the agricul.
lrist is evident. lie does not produce 3,
much wool nor get 50 much for what he
does produce, On the other hand, he has
to pay very much moro for wooden goods,
and when he buys them he runs the risk of
getting three, seventies cotton and shoddy.
Surely, he ought not to lie u very staunch
defender of the tariff on woods aud wool.
ems" The same facts may be found in
Sermons to the ProtectioniSt Manuac.
turcrs," published by purNAM's Sons, New
York. for the n. y. Free Trade club, com.
piled from the official records. If this is u
superior wool aud cotton state, under nat.
ural and not forced conditions, they will be
chiefly grown here. II grown here, It is q
law OF common sense to say that the mills
for their manufacture will seek ultimately
the natural home Of the pro lurt, and being
necessity, must flourish whether pro.
tectcd or not. Now in view OF the above
facts IL We are working in opposition to the
establishment of factories in Dallas, are not
the Express aud Mr.. ursoS In opposition
to the intcrcsts-tho one to the majority of
its patrons and the other to the majority of
his constituents who arc woolgrowers,