The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-12

4, The millions Of customers, Lot US
Look ut this by M illustration OF WOO
hats. Assume that 81 apiece Is laid on
foreign made hats, and that The home mar
set Is one.half supplied through home pro-
duotion, the market taking 100000 hats
Thus $40, Ooo,O 900 are paid by consumers Just
TO encourage hat making by u few hundred
In this country. Is not this an iniquity
Yet because they and some few hundred
others in the wooden manufacturing busi.
ness have protection, the raw material
men insist that they must have
IL. And then the machinery
men must have it through the same argu-
ment. And so, too the iron miner must
have 1t, and so on nd minimum But the
poor farmer must pay all these in the buy
ing of his instruments and tools and imple-
ments. while he is left out in the role oil the
beautiful protection business, rs his wheat
and other grain and cotton have no
manner of such aid, for their
values are assessed in foreign ports.
No, this thing of protection is an infamous
wrong, because, list, it is no part Oh the
proper province of governmental uhuer'ahe
to redistribute the rewards OF industry
every man having the right to the returns
from his own toll ID, because it is a
matter of fnesse, for if all interests were
Unprotected" and protected" alike, the
issue of all the distributions and redistrlDu-
tions would be that all would stand rela
lively as before, but worse oil by the losses
of the processes which are wastelul
wav to reach the end ostensibly
proposed. Because, Sd, it gives Dlrth u
, smuggling and all other frauds upon the
. revenue. Because, 4th, it introduces ana
fosters antagonism between the different
: interests of the country, just as exemplineo
, in the wool interests above named. be
) cause, 9th, it gives an unnatural stimulus
, and leads to reproduction, stagnatiot
7 and failure, extending promise 1t never
/ redeems. Because, 9th, it diminishes the
legitimate revenues of the government
whilst it levies its heavy tax on the people
3 Because, 18th, it tends to demon
, alize and corrupt the natlona
| legislation where purity should prevail
7 Each and every one of these proposition
r can be here proved to demonstration IL w
l had space by actual facts and figures
JUDGE JOHN HANCOCK is a predetermined
/ honest hearted statesman, and he Kno"
all these things. When in congress he IN
tends to strike this robber outrage, ana M
: does not propose to be inconsistent an'
/ compromise himself in this contest. I'M
D immersion that because the manuiac
1 turer in the north has grow
i, rich under the scandal, the soutl
/ NAV become so likewise, il
. fallacious. Cut off all this ''protectlon" ~
e and as aforesaid you equalize things al
i around; and then the south with her Goa
e beds in nearly every state OF this section
: with her iron mines, and above all VIII
e her raw material, cotton and wool, on tint
: spot, and the north could not pegih u
=. compete with us. AS for labor, it is only
: small per centage of the value OF the PROD
: net. the census showing about as follows
r Labor 20 per cent, value of the mate
Q rails 81 per cent, while the remaining z
# per cent. is for the buildings, profits, etc
+ All honor to JOHN HANCOCK Tor his praV
y and intelligent stand against this genius o
g evil that hides itself behind sophistries AM
e seeks to corrupt even our sectloh' In
d cloven foot will one day be seen' ana IN
S people OF the land, while they will than
t their honest champions, will scourge thos
: who played upon their credulity and dupe'
them by rush lights.