The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-27
TARIFF ROAD TO ROYALTY.

CHluot IeaTail Ioln thSiihS a schAAuca eS'
over the horoscope and noting. with emo
/; tons of decided apprehension, the tendency
OF our government, as at present. admins
! tered, towards the aristocratic or monarch
there is any immediate danger, or thai
there is any prearranged conspiracy tC
wrest from this generation the holy
heritage bequeathed to us in
the testament sealed by .anc stral
blood and valor. On the contrary, what We
fear is the insideous use of instrumental.
ties and agencies that must eyentuate in
giving character to our government by
slow and -impercepiible process. Among
the most baleful influences to be dreaded in
this conversion is the Capitalization OF
wealth, which is but Il synonym of power,
in the hands ola comparative few. 1.-THE
greatest good to to the greatest number, is
the sound ard healthy shiboleth ofrepubli'
can faith, and the further the departure
thereirom, the nearer we approach the
quick sands of destruction to popular
| liEhto. ~ ~ lut HNINlbl
of wealth and knowledge - those
two great aims of power that retains in the
hands Of the people the rens of govern
ment. "Lumps in the leaven," said a dis
tingulshed statesman, make but poor
bread for the people, The two nations of
the world with whose history we, as an
English speaking people, are most CONVEX
SAINT and instructed are England and Frame.
Spain, perhaps, would more truly exem-
pity our theory, but the history Of that
country has peCuliarities which would re-
quire explanation, ami are not. appreci-
able by the casual reader OF
the record of the past. But
ia the two first named countries we
find that the power Of the realm has been
doled out by some supreme authority to
certain great heroes or influential and
marked men in such a way as to constitute
grand and overshadowing district lords aud
grandees From CHARLEMAGHE TO the
latest LOUIS we see instances OF franchises
granted in the nature Of monopoics on
wool, salt and other necessaries of life,
which the people had to pay in the way oil
Indirect but most oppressive taxation. In
England the same practice has prevailed
from the battle of Hastings even down to the
reign of The GEORGES, dukedoms, earldoms
and baronetces were created by this
mode of popular oppression and the re.
suit has been that u large proportion of
the territory of those countries fell into
tho hands Of a few leading families. The
law of primogeniture continued them, il is
true, and that does not prevail in this
county but the accumulation of wealth
by men who have partaken of the rich re-
suits Of fayoritism creates desire 10
hand down unimpaired the vast iortu mes
of which they were the founders to some
one OF their children who will be most likely
to add to, rather than subtract from its i'm
Notably, see the cases of the
AsroRs and VANDERBurs of New York, and
the ApBoTs, of New England. The spirit IS
on the increase, and money can be so rap
idly made in America by parties who have
reached the title OF mill ionaire that the
great bulk of huge fortune may be en-
trusted to one son. and the other members
Of the family still more than amply pro- |
1ded for. Now, We fail to see the difference |
in re effect produced upon our political |
system, whether the franchise be granted by |
KING LOUIS, KING CHARLES or KING |
CAusus. A dominant party may create
franchises in the way Of silk, iron or cotton
arilf, which results in the enrichment of a
ew manufacturers, as well as an autocrat
IAN give the monopoly on the importation
,f those fabrics. Has it not done so? Have
not the western states, represented
by republicans, gone into caucus
md deliberately voted upon their
people most oppressive taxation, which
benefits only class in one section of
he land, remote from and having no COM
non interest with them2 1t is only few
hundred families that secure the enormous
sums which in the name of protection are
wrung from the people, and il is base dc.
,eption insisted on by the advocates of this
system of legalized piracy that the wages
Of the operative are thereby increased
show that working man in an
old England factory receives fully as much
as laborer IN New England factory, and
The grandchildren of the founders of these
concerns are still crying aloud in the name
Of the poor working man" for that protec.
lion under which their progenitors have
become opulent and purse.proud. That
wealth is power" is a proposition |
which requires no profound knowledge
Of political economy for its under.
standing. A trip through the sterile dis,
tric's of the north will point the traveller to
dukedom every few miles, whose central
capital is indicated by the protecting smoke
stack OF some factory where southern pro.
ducts are moulded into northern fabrics.
1t Is apparently true we might have taken
advantage OF the same general tariff laws,
but 1t is not true in fact, as neither the eli.
mate, labor nor genius of our people have
admitted of it. Hence, with fertile soil
and abundant streams and waters, we
have been compelled to be hewers
of wood and drawers of water
for the money kings of the north. The
proud strutting LORD Roscoe has even
dared in his grandiloouent style to taunt us
with our poverty, but has only given voice
to the purse'proud sentiment OF class of
blooted nabobs who rule the masses of the
people with n golden sccptre. The great
leveller and commoner is irec.trade. Asst