Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-01-24
HOW PROTECTION EFFECTS
TIE FARMER.

TIE FARM Elk.
| An address delivered before tn,
New Jersey State Agricultural society
at Waverly, September %, 1852, b.
Hon. Thomas ii. Dudley.
No civilized country has been or ev
er will be prosperous and great with
out a diversity of industrial pursuits
You might as well expect prosperity
for the farmers of country if they
were all TO grow one crop, corn for
instance, and nothing else, ) as to ex
pect nation to be prosperous and
great il all the people were to be en-
gagged in one industry, even il that
industry should be agriculture. The
capital of a country should always be
so employed as to yield or make the
largest return. The more productive
it is made the greater will be the pros
perity Of the nation. Tie productive
ness of capital marks the nation pros
perity. If an excess of capital should
he thrown into one industry there
would be an over production in that
industry ard prices would fall, and
loss ensue and all the other industries
would be 10 greater or less extent ef
fected by this loss. If, however cap
ital should be so distributed as TO stinl-
ulate and develop all the industrie.
alike and in this way give employment
to all the people, there would be gain
instead of loss; and the gain would be
high wages to labor, and prosperity 10
the nation, whilst the loss would be
low wages and natural ruin.
Especial care should always be tax
en- in every system so as to pay the
most that can be paid to labor. Tho
American system Of protection aims
ut this; it's main object being to pro-
tect labor a:.d TO give The largest pos
sible return-the largest that can be
given consistent with the cost of pro-
ductisn. IT. effects are to civide csp-
ital and distribute the largest proper
ton of the products of earth among
the people. This is done at the e1.
pense of capital for the benefit of la
bor. And thi is as il. should be, for
it enables man 10 be q man, and live
us II human being ought to live, as
GOD intended he should live.
The English system is the country
OF ours it does not ainl to protect la-
bor but TO protect c:rital as distin-
guislrd from labor; it does l. OF di>trib
ute wealth from many, but TO the few
at tl.e expense OF ih- many. It's effect
has been TO accumulatc.wea { in the
hands of capitalists, To MAKE the rich
nan riclicr and tic poor man still
NOR po-r, until they have arri el in
England at a condition in society
Which quite justified one Of her most
able and gifted statsnen when speak
ing Of hcr people, in saying that they
had on one end a gr. nd and magnii
cont arristocraey ard on tie other {
double headed pauperism.
Farmers of America. if you desir,
this than listen to these pretended
I'm; lish friends of yours, and adop
their system "a tariff for revenue only
or gostill farther, and adopt free trade
pure and simple, not "a they have j.
for although their wr.ttrs have recon-
mended it to other nations, they them
selves have never adopted is, and ~
civilized nation ever has; and you vii
then have taken the first step towarC
attaining result, if not the ssne 4
theirs, still more disastrous to your
selves and your country. If, on tn
other hand you wish to preserve you
own prosperity, and desire AFRO to Sc
your country prosperous and great
stand by the American system Of pro
? lection which has placed the agricu
, turalists of the United States anon
tho first in the world, has paid and ell
waited labor, and made your orn M
ton not only one Of the most ciyilize
r and prosperous, but one Of the i.oi
a powerful and great, that exists on I'll
earth.