The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-26
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New York Nation sends communication /
10 that paper which we here ttonsodoe
literally, vlk.i "sir Your prejudice
against western meg has, ! think, ceuscd
you 10 do Mn. Donsfy an injustice The
manner In which you have olton referred
to bin leads one TO suppose that you con
slider him but little better than q thlel,whcn
h, has simply followed the example Of men
whom you delightto honor. In my busi'
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 Mn. HoAR, oil
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 you charge 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
must pay the Massachusetts, manufacturer
twice what his goods are worth, it is merely
protection, yet the result is the same; DO
not get fair return for my money. con-
fess that feel more respect for the 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
practical light. 1t reminds us of an ilustra-
ton somewhere related by Mr.. BAsTIAI, viz:
A poor laborer of Girarde, France, had
raised with the greatest possible care nur
sery of vines from which, after much la.
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 a 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 a trousseau Tor our
daughter. The honest countryman, arriy-
ing in the city, there met an Englishman
and Belgian The Belgian said to him:
| Give me your wine and !, in ex-
change, will give you fifteen bundles
of thread The Englishman said: Give
me your wine and will give you twenty
bundles, for we English can spin cheaper
than the Belgians But a custom-house
officer standing by said to the laborer: My
good fellow, make your exchange, If you
choose, with the Belgian, but it is my duty
to prevent you doing 80 with the English
man. What! exclaimed the country
. man, you wish me to take fifteen bundles
of Brussels thread when can have twenty
from Manchester? Certainly so; do you
not see that Frahce 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-h house officer but there is
no doubt of the fact for these protection
lists insist that people is impoverished in
proportion as they receive large compeni
sation for any given quantity of their pro-
duce. The countryman was Obliged to con-
clude the bargain with the Belgian. His
daughter received but three-fourths of her
trousseau and these. good folks are still
puzzling themselves to discover bow it can
happen that people are ruined by receiving
four instead of three; and why they are
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 protectionists'
party, whose creed is the absurd one that
"labor is wealth" and hence the govern
ment must not only force the labor, but
dictate its direction. This may be further
illustrated by the ROBINSON CRUsoE case.
Having no saw on his lonely isle, he set to
work to make q plank with his axe.
He cut down tree and hewed
the trunk on both sides until he got it down
to the thickness of board, which required
some fifteen days. But see another thing;
Just as ROBINSON gave the first blow with
his axe, he saw plank which the waves
had cast up on the shore. His first i'm
pulse was to run and pick it up. But he
had once had a companion like the Chicago
Inter Ocean man or the editor OF the Wool
Growers Magazine; and he checked him
self, reasoning thuc: If l 90 after this
plank, it will cost me but the labor Of carry
ing it, and the time spent in going TO and
returning from the shore. Now, il
/ make my plank with my axe
| shall in the first place obtain work for fit
teen days, then | shall wear out my AK,
which will give me an opportunity of re-
mailing II; and then shall consume my
provisions, which will be third source OF
labor, since they must be replaced. Now,
Tabor is wealth, therefor l will ruin my
self if take that plank from foreign
shore and now while l think of it, / can
create myself additional labor by kicking
this board b. OK into the sea, and thus my
labor will be tected byprohibition. And
all these nor Musical positions come from
compounding labor with its result, the end
with the means.
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