New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-01
HENRY CAREY BAIRD ON PROTECTION

Henry Carey Bard, of Philadelphia, dellv-
cred lecture before the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Cup
last night on The Necessary Foundations OF individual
n ID National eBeing, and OF CIVILIZATION The lec-
ture was delivered in Art Association Hail. before an in
terested aud intelligent audience IN beginning MS "o
dress Mr.. Baird said
To hear certain school OF political economists and their
followers here and in England, dogmatealy lay down
the law and even insist hat Tue cas- Mas os b lin
would hardly imagine that their deglnasms cne With
DEPARTMENT OF knowledge III wnlch nothing Mha'SocNcl
WAS placed beyond db puie. But IN ponuca eSonoiHy
not even the definition OF Slngi- importan ply
lea; economy itself, for Instances settl'd III Iots
LeOuincey believer IN Ricardo theory OF renl, one VI
the orthodox pLlholples str % can be demon,
Nothing be poStuiated, nothing can os -
struted for anarchy TO the earliest principles
prdomuant" Nothing is to be taken FOR granted LUIS
iart cannot distinctly impressed upon your ihus
and memories The professors are not even hstesa as 70
both upon the proper and legitimate range Oh sq 10
iect Therefore Is IL that they are 40 WhC morally de
barred from the practice oil dogmatSn; ana et VIII al
of these causes impelng toward m0desty me 'Si1So
nrinons and certainly overbe lring ana arrogant
m the expression them. than any other manner Oh III IN
England in what arTogaes TO Itself the name Oh le
trade-merely foreign trade-ior Instance. anee
I'm This fetish Is regarded. tpSO tdct ms an evidence .,
such ignorance in the disbeeyer That u Is as Useless Ss
hopeless to argue the question win nun b anu onnioS
that the argument Is complete aud the question @
and that he Is a1 II need hardly be- urged tGa this
is NOT the spirit in which TO approach the nNesuGatos
anainsjve THAT these philosophers and their followers
sck mi faith IN truth OF the doctrines "hlch they
wonld thus without reason force upon the acceptance
OF mankind.
Mr. Baird said that he stood not on the defensive Tor
protection but assumed the aggressive. Ricardos
theory OF rent and law OF population were he
asserted founded on false principles The Pennsyi-
yana system OF protection had furnished the true law o
the occupation OF the earth and that of population No
country could be rich powerful ana independent with
out diversified industries which were the frtof tue pro
tective system. He added;
The artificial and inhanonious deyelo ment OF the IN
dusries other nations calls In turn Tor ARTIFICIAL pro-
sions against any movements of these Industries IN tho
of the destruction OF the more or esshappy pal
once of industries existing trying 10 e1fst among our
selves this lance being measure OF the power Whicn
we ourselves have actually developed Inese PIOts-
ions are especially essential the 3rd over AGAINST tne
Connecting Industries Great Britain. the well recog
nIzea and even ayowed selfish and wicked pohcy OF
which is industrial warfare, with view 10 tue cehtIa
ia;ion of wealth I'm the wOuldbe workshop OF the world
These against the destruction OF the nhfihon
o balance of industries known under the name OF
nrotsction policy which not merely rests upon round
tons of Justice but which indicated by all history
wnether that history he of England France, Belgium.
has been built up by this policy. or OF Ireland turkey
Tgvpt Portugal, India. Japan or Jamaica. which mas
been destroyed by the absence OF It, IL is yindicated IN
our own history from the settlement Jf the colonies III
The present each period OF free foreign trade nav
Ing canscd mpOyerishment OF the people, the COLO
MES the states the Nation, and each period o protec
ton after protection became possible by independence
having caused the Of both people and govern
mehts from wIetchedness, bankruptcy and despair