The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-30

Our Infant Industries What u care They
have been 10 the government How tlio
great republic has had 10 sweat and groan
to keep foreign competition FROM running
our manufactures has been told 10 the
country foreears, aud many good, sympn-
thstlc people think that the effort 10 rodacc
the tariff ~ one Of unmingled injustice and
will drag the United States into the very
depths Of despair. On the other hand re-
putable journals and authorities who know
exactly whereof they speak, have been.try-
Ing to impress upon the masses that they
were being robbed and that through the
iniquitous policy Of protection millions of
dollars were being taken from them and
thrown in to swell the profits Of the mon
opolists and manufacturers. In such
cases where there is such vast difference
OF opinion, few wholesome facts are often
worth lengthy argument in establishing
the true inwardness of the subject at issue.
In very nicely and ably written editorial
in the st. Louis Republican of recent date.
three or four illustrations are used, and the
facts and figures submitted, which throw a
flood of light on the matter and prove con
clusively, if they prove anything, that the
cry from the manufacturer is sham, and
that the idea of any further consid.
Grafton at the bands of the govern
ment is a fraud upon the part of
the grasping manufacturer. In view of the
systematic and shameless robbery so long
perpetrated through the forms of law,
against the real bone and sinew of the
country, it is source of satisfaction to be
able occasionally to show these sharks up
in their true light. In the article in the
tinent information is furnished: 'Tbe
capital invested in the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements in the country is $62,-
10000; the value of the materials used in
one year is $31 ,531 ,000 the amount paid in
wages is $15 ,359 900; and the value of the
manufactured product sold is $6S64O,O0O.
Adding the wages and the cost of materials
together we get SAG 800 600, and taking this
from the gross product we get $4,000, 600,
which is the net profit of the years bust
ness, being 80 per cent. on the capital in
vested $62, 100000. In the boot and shoe
business we find the capitalinvested is $42,-
994 600; cost of materials used in year,
800, 442 900; wages paid. $4,000, 900; gross
product, $166, 100000. Adding the wages
paid and the value of materials used to-
gether and taking the sum from the gross
product, we get, as the net profit on the
years business, $2l 900 600, which is 90 per
cent. on the capital invested. In lumber
ing, the capital invested is $1S1, $4,000;
value of materials used, STAG, 155. 900; wages
paid, $31, 45, 600; value of annual product,
$233 1857 GOETHE net profits being $56. OOO,-
coo, which is so per cent. on the capital. In
paper manufacture the capital employed is
$40, 241 ,0OO; the value of materials used,
$33 1881 900; wages paid, 1924 600; value of
paper manufactured $55,000,0 net
profit being $14,COO,0OO, which is 80 per
cent. on the capital" The illustrations
used are but few it is true, but they ar
and as we run through the
list of over 1000 taxed articles on our tariff
books, the same fact is met with at the
very thryshhold-an extra price on every
article sold and protected by the tariff
of at least 40 per cent. In dry
goods and groceries merchant
thinks himself exceedingly fortunate if he
succeeds in realizing from 10 10 % per cent.
on his sales in the legitimate channels of
insist upon a profit of from 20 to 60 per
cent, outside of the usages and returns Of
a bona fide trade, and given to them cxclus
lively through the wonderful generosity of
the government. There is no earthly JUS
tice in this manner of managing our rev.
enues and commerce, and it is against such |
a practice, such an unjust discrimination,
that the HERALD has been all along con-
tending. 1t is absurd to say that the gen.
eral government has the right to give abso-
utely and without recompense to individual |
an extra profit such as the
,ariff renders certain, of so per cent, When
hat profit comes directly out of the pockets
IF other and equally as good and reputable
,itizens. The few illustrations which we
hus publish from the Republican speak
yolumes and teach lesson that the DEM
,cracy, the real friends of the people, can
lot afford TO ignore. II is most devoutly
o be wished that the Forty.eigh congress
will take charge of these overgrown boobies
nd let them understand once ard for all
hat the country is awake to the absurdity
f their demands and at last alive TO its own
interests.
THE republican journals are using every
10 advertise and foist up
m the democratic party BEN BUTLER as a
residential candidate. The scheme viii
lot be likely to work as there are too many
oble Romans in the democratic ranks
rho have stood by the old party
through evil as well as good report, and de-
erve their reward when it can be given
hem. BENJAMIN may do splendidly as
leans, an eIpedient for revolutionizing
but the presidency is quite
n)iher thing.
Arrest Of an Alleged Cattle Thief
Saturday night sheri- Smith received a
slegram from the sheriff OF Navarro county /
, arrest Ben Fry, who had taken the north
ound train stating that he was wanted 10