San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-02

principle is asserted that the Sie"V
Government is not bound TO protect
an industry so as to foster and sustain
it in locality not the most favored
Applying that principle, who shall de-
eide what is the limit? The ONO
men NAV truly say that Texas does
not produce all the wool that ONO
and Texas and other states need and
that altogether the country does not
produce enough wool to do without
importing. The Texas wool men are
therefore selfish if they do not employ
their zeal in getting more prote.ctioh
TO enable Ohio to compete with them;
but if Ohio goes out of the business
and the same argument will apply to
a great deal of territory like Ohio in
agricultural and pastoral relations
Texas gains. If, then, Texas gains
with a tariff at its present figure as
compared with a tariff at figure nifty
Der cent. higher, who shall deny that
Texas would not lose, and would per-
haps more surely gain by a tariff two
thirds, -fourths, on possibly less,
in comparison with the present tallii?
Imagine the chance of buying up the
flocks of northern sheep that would
be for sale if the tariff on wool were
definitely determined to be made no
higher, but say 30 OF III per cent
lower. Imagine the demand Tor grass
lands Oh which to raise sheep. I'M
acine the value of mutton, and Texas
having a monopoly of mutton to sup
NV the northern market. The pros
pect ought to be enough, on the prln-
cciple of pure and unadulterated sci,
fishness = which governs mankind
where political economy and the wool
business have gotten rid of barren
ideality, democratic crotchets and ira
ternal sentimentality-to convert eV-
ery Texas wool grower and every
Texas land owner into missionary
for the cause of a slightly lower tariff,
not a greatly lower tariff, but one ]ust
enough lower to starve out the ohlo
and other northern wool men and
throw their property in sheep into the
hands of Texans. Railroad wrecklng
not the vulgar, aimless devlltry OF
placing a rail across the track to de-
stroy train, but the grand art OF de,
pressing stock and acquiring control
of the franchises of a roads a hlgh
art: but there is more in this sheep
business, for Texas, properly man
aged, than there is in wrecklng half a
dozen railroads. There are millions
in it-not merely millions of dollars,
but millions of sheep. The Ne~s has
not taken time to make an exact CAL
culation, but it thinks there may be
at least $500 in it for every wool-man
in the state, as much for every owner
of a section of land, and twice as
much for every land agent who does
business enough to justify CHASING
him as respectable that is, who keeps
a buggy and puts up at livery stable lao
when he is away from home. The
sheep-men, however, have another
motive for not advocating the higher,
but the stationery or lower duty. The
Ohio sheep-men threaten to betray
the cause. The head that rises above
the crowd is marked by the rabble
that throw brickbats. This is free
of an oriental proverb, and
therefore conveys an especially veneer
able truth. All ordinary truths are
ordinarily venerable. By being mod
crate the enemy is not invited to at
tack. The bull that sees no red rag
is not SO much inclined to make
rush. The shrewd silk manufacturer
who appeared before the tariff com
mission and asked no increase OF duty
ON silk goods, but would rather be
content to submit to slight reduc-
ton. was the shrewdest fellow that
has yet spoken. That man is most
certainly one who keeps a lightning !
conductor on his dwelling, and who
keeps everything insured. If ever he
loans money he takes one-halt OF l
per cent. less than the usury laws
prescribe. and he will live when the
grass has grown over the graves. OF
younger men who were so much IN
,ent on business that they would not
AXE time to eat.
The Mysteries of a Hair Brush.