The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-24
.rHou SHALT NOT STEAL"

literally, viz: "Sir Your prejudice
against western men has, think, caused
you 10 do Mr.. Dorsey an injustice. The
manner in which you have often referred
to him leads one to suppose that you con
slider him, butlittle better than thiei, when
h, has simply followed the example OF men
whom You delightto honor. In my BUSH
ness of farming use barb fence wire to
fence my field, and wire to bale my hay /
have to pay twice as much for these articles
as they are worth, because Mr.. HoAR, Of
Massachusetts has entered into conspir-
acy with other officers of the government
to enable some of his constituents to get
rich at my expense, by compelling
me to pay more for an article than 1t Is
worth. This is Just what youfharGe MR.
DORSEY with doing. When three men stop
me on the highway and vote that ! must
give them my money, it is called robbery
When the people vote at an election that l
must pay the Massachusetts, manufacturer
twice what his goods are worth, it is merely
protection, yet the result is the same; do
not get a fair return for my money. con-
fess that feel more respect for tho man
who steals openly than for one who gets
unjust laws passed to protect him while his
hands are in my pocket, Were it not for
your prejudice against western methods,
you would think, have taken the ground
that DoRsEY's infant industry was entitled
to protection" This is forcible, but not
inaccurate way of putting the case in a
practical light. II reminds us o! an illustra-
ton somewhere related by MIR, BAsTIAI, viz:
A poor laborer of Girarde, France, had
raised with the greatest possible care nur
sery of vines, from which, after much Ia
Dor, he at last succeeded in producing a
cask Of wine, and forgot, in the joy OF his
success, that each drop of this precious
nectar had cost drop of sweat to his brow.
will sell it, said he to his wife, and with
the proceeds will buy thread which will
serve you to make rousseau Tor our
daughter. The honest countryman, arriv.
| inS in the city, there met an Englishman
and Belgian, The Belgian said to him;
Give me your wine and l, in ex-
change, will give you fifteen bundles
of thread. The Enslishman said Give
me your wine and will give you twenty
bundles, for we English can spin cheaper
than the Belgians. But custom-housc
officer standing by said to the laborer: My
good fellow, make your exchange, if you
choose, with the Belgian but il is my duty
to prevent you doing so with the English
man. What! exclaimed the country.
man, you wish mo to take fifteen bundles
of Brussels thread when can have twenty
from Manchester Certainly so; do you
not see that France would be loser
If you were to receive twenty bundles in
stead Of fifteen? | can scarcely understand
this, said the laborer. Nor can | explain it
| said the custom.house officer but there i.
no doubt of the fact for these protection
lists insist that people is impoverished ir
proportion rs they receive q large compen
sation for any given quantity of their pro
duce. The countryman was obliged to con
cludo the bargain with the Belgian. Hi
daughter received but thrce-iourths of he
rousseau; and these good folks are still
puzzling themselves to discov, how IL ear
happen that people are ruined receiving
four instead of three; and why they ar,
richer with three dozen plows instead OF
four dozen. And this is always the result
we reach when We reason logically ON the
bottom principle of that protcctionists
party, whose creed is tho absurd one thai
"labor is wealth, and hence the govern
| mcnt must not only force the labor, hui
dictate its direction. This may be further
| illustrated by the ROBINSON CRusoE case
Having no saw on his lonely isle hc set tC
work to make u plank with his axe
| He cut down u tree and heweI
the trunk on both sides until he got it dowi
ut, the thickness of board, which require,
some fifteen days. But see another thing
Just as Robinson gave the first blow will
his axe, he saw plank which the wave
had cast up on the shore. His first i'm
pulse was TO run and pick it up. But h
had once had companion like the Chicag
Inter Ocean man or the editor of the Woo
Growers Magazine; and he checked hin,
self, reasoning thue Ii go after thi
plank, IL will cost me but the labor of carry
| ing II, and the time spent in going to an,
returning from the shore, Now,
l make my plank with my ax
shall in the first place obtain work for ii
teen days then shall wear out my ny
which will give me an opportunity of r,
pairing ii and thou shall consume m
provisions, which will be a third source q
labor, since they must be replaced. Now
labor is wealth therefor will ruin my
self il take that plank from u lorcig
: shore; and now while think of it, | ca
create myself additional labor by kickiu
this board beck into the sea, and thus m
labor will be protected by prohibition, An
all these nonscnsical positions come fro,
compromising labor with its result, the On
, with tho means.
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