Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Theory OF Southern Protectionist
Newspaper--It False Philosophy
and How II Originates.
One Bright Spot, at the Cost of Universal
Gloom = Natural Laws Of Trade
Better and Wiser
Than Artificial Systems-v ultures and
Lambs-Death OF Denison-- Vest
and Garland.

Special Correspondence OF tho Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 25.--The Ava
lanche tells the country that the New
South" whatever that may be, is un-
dergoing the sure process of trans
formation; that mines are being
opened and mills built, and that these
"infant industries" mast have the
fostering care of government" How
absurd! There are 100000 negroes
and 100000 whites IN the South
devoted to agricultural pursuits.
These are they who are
entitled to the fostering care
Of the government, and all they ask Is
to he let alone. The less they are
coddled or protected or taxed, di-
rectly or indirectly, the greater their
prosperity. They constitute the great
substratum of all prosperity. They
are the sole producers, and whatever
Is taken from them, and this fact rem
dered IL necessary to devise the tariff
scheme of revenue, in substitution for
honest. direct taxation. The few are
thus enriched at the cost of the many,
the latter never knowing when or
what sums each pays. The great bulk
of government revenues are paid at
last by grain and cotton and tobacco
prodmcers. Not only do these pay the
5000, OOn. 900 that go from custom
houses and internal revenue collectors
into the treasury, but they pay the
augmented prices Of protected goods
and wares and minerals, and the sum
of fifteen hundred million dollars,
transferred from delivers In the soil, by
force of law, to "infant industries Is
taken by stealth and indirection from
grain and cotton growers Therefore
their poverty. Therefore the rags and
penurv OF farmers and the
splendid opulence of the pro-
tected classes. The Avalanche
would expand and perpetuate the sys-
, tenn Tf we can't have mills aud mines
and furnaces i'm the South without
Lowing burdens by law upon cotton
and wheat growers, the condition OF
these will he improved il. nothing and
their poverty only aggravated Dy the
establishment of an enforced artificial
scheme of industries. If cotton mills
are drawn to cotton fields by natural
laws, and the furnaces roar In Central
Alabama because ores and coal are
cheaper there than elsewhere
i'm the world, then cotton
NV the coming of these "infant indus
tries" and these cotton planters will
voluntarily expend money and toll In
creating mills and furnaces and forges
Let the government keep its hands off.
The instincts of dollars are wiser than
congressman. The South Is dcsolated
nv the tariff, even as Minnesota and
Kansas use wheat IA fuel because the
tariff makes 1t cost more than 1t IL
worth.
A SPLENDID DIFFUSION.
A flourishing cotton mill in the
midst of cotton fields becomes
with scnouis and cnurcIies. r.
, gives employment to women an.c
: children and begets market for PROD
D ucts of farms. 1t stands beacon
9 light attracting universal attention
= and admiration. In narrow spher
: its beueficence is confessed. But II
a cost farming populations 80 per cent
i more than its products are worth, IL
n maintenance by sheer force OF law
It outright robbery and wrong ant
Is the general loss Is ca
Is lamity greater than the conspicuou
|
4 local and conspicuous benefactions.
j. village or neighborhood Is enriche
rs and beautitied to the detriment an
positive loss of 2O,0O0,0O0 of people
Infant industries" born out of tim
or indicted into life by the Cesarea
operation of the heroic tariff code, pr
claim the surgeons skill and cunning
|; bnt never tell of mothers woes of pa
- turition. They are silent, perhaI
unconscious sufferers, who endu
~ with unnatural life protecte
~, w Gears who finally rob the people
40 their fortunes and liberties. In trut
y, the ultimate difference between pr
W. W. ectionist and free-trader-if there
60 free traders-consists in the fact IL
y protectionist would aggrandize the fey
Ia the free-trader the many. "Let
AZ work out our own salvation" say u
people; "let us work 1t cut for you /
artificial systems" say the protectio
lists. and they do give the mass
that "protectiOn" which yultures gi'
he to lambs.
ty THE INDIAN COURT QUESTION.
We The Culberson bill to establish {
lie Indian court ut DenisOn, which pass
IL the house almost unanimously, W
NJ signed by the astute Garland the We
srs moment 1t came into the senate, al
nd sent. most strangely, to the commit
err on Indian affairs, of which Mess
Garland and Vest are both membe
or course 1t is Mr.. Garland's purpf
that the bill shall die there, and 4
there it probably will.
mo- THE CRIME INVOLVED.
hss or course Mr.. Garland Is toiling
w, n the tavern-keepers and whisky sho
tv and gambling hells Of Fort Smit
liyy into which the people of the Indi
~ nation are corraled twice or thr
ats each year by the stupendous f!
'' Smith federal court. Last year u
court was sitting 29l days In II
Smith and spending directly and in
rectly among Senator q
lands rollicking constituen
zen $40 600 daily to the exquisite delight
Us. the good constituents and the admiral
rye senator. Garland, you will observe,
,rd Arkansas and Arkansas intends to
he tain the court in its entirety.
lay ISN'T THE sENAT DR. WRONG?
mt That delicious court at Fort SIM
costs twice as much as any like IL
IS, the United States, and then 1t procet
after thus plucking the fede
IN. treasury to go for litigants u
,as In manner and with q feroc.ty
terly unknown to all other judlca
ries. Dwellers In central and west'
districts of the Indian country, WI
summoned AZ witnesses or culprits