Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
NEMPTS APPEAL
-: APRIL /. 1852
FTION PROvINa FATAL.
PR knew a manufacturer who con.

PH knew a manufacturer who con
Wie idea that it would be a profitable
ceio print, in his own establishment, the
ferrous labels that his merchandise re.
.Ired. He bought small press, type and
INK, and set one of his young clerks to dc
the work. OF course the work was done at
greater expense than the printer could do
1t, but 1t was done at home, and therefore
was regarded as profitable. Can anybody
see where the profit came in when the labels
produced cost more than they could be
bought for? Yet what that merchant did
was exactly what protection" does in the
case of baby business, infantile enterprise,
and protected helplessness, such as the bust
nesses carried on by some Of our manufacture
ers are represented by themselves to be
without backbone and protected" like de-
pendent cripples in an hospital. Would it be
good sense for us to put heavy tax on foreign
grown coffee, and erect immense hothouses
and grow our own? If it would not, where is
the sense of growing or making other things at
home that we can buy cheaper somewhere
else? The system defeats itself, for we can
not compete with free-trade rivals in the
worlds markets, except with free-trade arti-
Giles of our own. Our unprotected grain,
cotton, tobacco, provisions, petroleum, and
SO on, are what we can meet the worlds COM
petition with and support our government
out OF. The protected things, like sickly
plant in dollhouse, die as soon as they 60
outside the protection" on which they slav-
ishly depend. France is beginning to dis
oil ubot
lated protection trade will at length be COM
PEELED to learn on large one, that she can
not with impunity demand tribute on the
goods she imports of those who demand none
on their own importations. The free trader
can go into markets where protected" mer-
chandise has no chance, and apprehension is
beginning to show itself in France that if
they refuse there to consent to the treaty
England demands, England will find other
places to purchase from, and that the loss of
custom will be more than the gain of protsc-
ton. The French are discovering that they
have more to lose by refusing to make a treaty
than the free-trade country If. The Paris
Chambers of Expectation has petitioned the
government for something more satisfactory
than the present arrangement, or, they say,
fatal consequences to French trade will
ensue, and that nothing less than treaty or
convention with England can enable French
industry to hold its own against competition
abroad. off the present precarious circum-
stances are TO continue, it is certain" the
memorialists assert, "that the French export
trade will be paralyzed, and that by degrees
French goods will be replaced upon foreign
markets by those of other countries" There
has been long struggle between the two
countries upon the subject, but this step of
the French merchants shows that the protec-
ZIONIST is finding the free trader the stronger
party. 1t is so with ourselves--the free
trader has absorbed our shipping business
and keeps most of our manufactures out of
the worlds markets.