The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-02-15

showing that you are wasting your corn By
feeding It 70 your cattle and hog, when .
few ounces Of strycbnine would fattsn then
ne well, and save nearly the entire cost: how
long do you think 1t would be, after you had
given them the first dose. before every sni-
NAL would be stiG and dead? Hard-pan facts
70 farther than theories; and the two *.
amples given above are fine illustrations Of
the Free Trade fallacy. The fact hss proven
itself, time and again, that under . protec-
tive tariff, manufactures fOufish, and while
manufactures flourish, the farmers sre pros
porous; that when manufactures ianguisb,
general depression ensues, ard the.prices Of
the farmers produce tumble down N quick
Iy as the mercury in the Thermometer ut the
approach of northern blizzard.
Break down the tariff, admit British cheap
goods free. compel American manufactures
and bodybuilding TO suspend. send the IA
borers on the highways ~ trsmps, or on
farms to Increase the products for which
there is already no price. andmake US wholly
dependent upon England. Then let England.
in our helpless condition, get on one Of the
tantruns she is in the habit OF doing in such
cases, and provoke a war. What nice tx
we would be in. from fooling with Demo-
cratic tariff for revenue only! Why, We
had an example OF that very thing In this
country and, although We have no reason
to regret the result in that one case, yet 1t
was natural and inevitable consequence OF
the dependence upon others that follows free
trade. The South was always intensely free
trade, and constantly kicking against being
taxed by a tariff to protect New England
manufacturers. She had scarcely man ofac-
tory Of any kind in her domain; but, wrap
ped up in the selfshness that is inseparable
from free trade theories, she thought she
could make more money by raising cotton
and selling it to England. and buying from
that country her manufactured goods cheap
er than they could be made ut home. She
rebelled, intercourse with the North was
stopped, and her ports were blocEaded
az ainst communication from abroad. There
sue was. q Nation, helpless. As soon as her
supplies on hand became exhausted. she be-
gan to fail, and in the short period OF four
years she was PROSTATE and conquered.
Would it have been possible to conquer q
country Of such vast extent and population,
had she not neglected to foster her own i'm
dustries, but depended upon others for the
very neeesssries Of lifet She was victim
of Free Trade; the conquering North had
grown powerful through Protection.
Why, look at the operations OF this Free
Trade League that is backing the Democrat
ic party in its war on Prote ctiOn, aud that Is
flooding the country with its literature. Its
very get-np should convince observing per-
sons that it is not seeking the welfare Of the
Uni'ed States. The great bulk Of the money
used in keeping It going, 10 furnished by
English capitalists The arguments printed
and circulated against the tariff are from the
pens of English, French and Scotch Free
Trade writers. Does anybody suppose that
those foreigners are furnishing their money
and their brains out OF pure love for the
United States, or desire for her prosperity =
The great danger. Of this pestilenre spread
ing in America lies in one Objectionable
Professors Of Political Economy in nearly
all our large Universities and Colleges are
Free lTdutTs, uIsCtptcb W SorC tostt8o
theorists, and are bending all their efforts
TO poison the minds Of the students. They
are feeding the youth OF America upon the
Free Trade hotch-potch of Europe. spinning
out obscure aud dresry homilies, intended
to puzzle and confuse the student, SO that
while he is fioundering to get through the
complicated cant, he may swallow the nasty
substance unaware. Why, even here in Re-
publican Kansas. the Professor Of Political
Economy in our State University Is one OF
those Free Trade prOselyters, paid good
salary by the people for teaching their sons
un-American heresies. Every one Of them,
in every college in the Union, should be
hustled out more unceremOniOusly than
Christ drove the money-changers from the
sacred temple-yea, for he only rebuked and
scourged them, but these should be taken by
the nape Of the neck and the seat OF the
breeches, and tumbIed out until they fairly
whizzed, and make their heads swim 30 that
they would not know which end was upper
most until the middle Of the next college
year.-7roy Chi9f.