The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24

enormity OF purchasing II, putting IL on
once In order TO swear that he has worn H.
and that covers the case. The defeated In.
spector growls that he thinks three over.
coats Ia good supply for August, but the
affidavit OF the owner that he has worn NIL
three settles It, and when that Connecticut
man reaches home ho lets his friend have
one OF the coats at half the price the Hart
ford dealer charges, and, nevertheless,
ca argos his friend a fair profit. Such ca,ss
occur In over 5000 instances annually.
There are more smuRgled than impost
watches worn. Two.thirds Of the jewels
that blaze on the bosoms Of beauty at balls
are emuggled gems. Arc their serene rays
less identifying owing TO that fact? Ladies
are led on the ilooi by dude In smuggled
kids, and as she trips the phsntastic steps,
her Struggled slippers fall on smuggled
carpet TO the music ola piano, tho keys Of
which are made Of struggled ivory. The
d cit fingers Of the player lash with Emug-
gled diamonds, and when that came dude
leads that same lady to the marriage altar
the minister reads the service from
/ bSNA luLi uN pOttAF
London because It WAS cheap aud thereioye
ne smuggled II. The child cuts its teeth on
struggled gum-riug, learns TO cipher on
smuggled slate, plays game of cards,
when he grows older, with Struggled
deck, iorges with . smugglod per, is tried
aud sentenced by a Judge in pair OF
smusRled spootaoles who reads the law out
OF tmugg!ed book, and II the case b.
murder the culprit is hanged with II SNUG
gied rope, preferred by me sheriff
because It Is softer and better than the
grass cords American twisteis twist. There.
fore is tmueP ing Il respectable expression
oil opinion because nine out OF ten justify
II, and ! practice It whenever opportunity
10 Concurrent with desire, aud IL Is the ma
J jJilty that 10 right according to the Amerl'
can idea OF liberty. Mott persons who
smuggle escape according 10 evidence that
cannot be disputed, but some do not, and
there the pity is. But before discussing that
division OF the argument we paufe 10 call
attention 10 the fact that protection breeds
smuggling and that the duty charged,
slipped into one pocket OF the manuiact-
urer by his friendly government, slips out
at the other pocket by the smuggler's art,
because the foreign goods are sold in spite
OF II all, and thus is the home market de.
prived of the trade. This is the effect OF a
high protective tariff. Such conditions would
not arise from a tariff for revenue only.
A moderate excise would be paid, because
| II would be easier than smuggling, which
has its risks, and beside, such tariff would
meet approval ard not resistance. But
all that is trite. AS well might we
state that twice two is four.
And now, in support OF the remark that
pity Is tor he isolated cases OF detection,
and not for the fact that many escape, We
have simply 10 refer to the manifest ty-
ranpy of On act that taxes foed, clothing,
fruits, sugar, syrup, liquors, books, matches
works OF ant and iewery, at once every.
thing that human ingenuity has devised 10
appease human necessity. Az the sick
child raises its psll'd hand TO receive q
taxed teaspoon filed with taxed medicine.
AS the mother dons taxed mourning in
order 10 follow her dead baby to the
grave, that baby sleeping in q taxed
coffin. AS mother tears are taxed, aud as
q fairfield BURN cuts her infants epiteph
ON marble that is taxed. AS the spade that
dug the grave is taxed, the pity we declare
is that night does not always lend Il
blanket impenitrable TO hide the smuggler.
Again: The restrictions at the New York
custom.house ora indecent in their admins
tration. COLLECTOR RcDgRTsoH's sesrchers
are licensed to seize upon male and female
alike and investigate their persons as far as
the skin. 1t Ia pity then that such infamy
finds sanction in the land OF the free and
1t is pity that exposure should bring the
tears that daily fall when ladies detected
are rudely handled by the female detec-
tives maintained in this Ubiquitous service.
Foreigners linger on distant shores longing
to come here, deferred by stories the mails
bring them OF the brutality OF the customs
officers at Castle Garden-that haven phil
lanthropy built for their protection, con-
verted by the government into trap
where Federal searchars pilage the forlorn
immigrants by forcing them to pay brlbes or
surrender their goods, Advanced thinkers
see light dawning. Another decade will
witness the change. Canada is shaking
hands with Mexico across the lattitudes
that divide them. Every public school
built ia new factory wherein opinion Is
nodded, and a. last the pilasisrs OF the
New York custom-house, those pilasiers
bnilt no doubt Of marble, struggled by the
contractor from Italy, will support dome
beneath which goods will be piled that no
government harpy ever laid finger on.
The colossal freebooter is the Federal gov
eminent. Tho nmugslsr is the protest,
simply.