Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-04-17
FnEE trade is doubtless the n:itu~

i people Only when the same cond
Z tions prevail between the coun;rit
DONG business. But when through
ever~populAlios, wages are at III
loves possible living point in on
country and through paucity q
, population the wages aud cost q
living of the aIt;zan are from nv
TO ten times as great in anothe
country, it stands to reason that FIRE
trade between these two couutrie
must shu. up the work shops Of th'
one and drive the laborer from hi
tools. for there can be no demand
for the products of his skill ut til,
s-rice ut which he eau produce them
To such an extent is commerce and
the manufacturing interest stnsib: e
to this condition of afftirs that a
mere rumor or possibility OF the
withdrawal of protection i'll part
would cause capital to withdraw
from the manufacturing interests
and shops to shut down aad skilled
welkmen to go idle. The impor-
taiion of cheap foreign material
shuts off the resources of tie labor
er while it does not decrease his
cost of living for the simple Re ason
that provisions are not imported,
or by any other means made more
abundant in the high priced country.
The habits and other conditions of
the laborer in the one country IN y
be such that with Cd at the same
price, or, even more costly in the
ovcr-populaied country, he is still
able to subsist on very small wages
while the habits and circumstances
surrounding The laborer in the
country whose trade is pi otected
might produce great distress when
reduced 10 the condition of his
fellow laborer in the other country
These varying habits and conditions
of men seem to run in accordance
with certain fixed laws OF society
that can only be changed very
slowly, if at all, withou, disaster in
the shape of the entire overthrow of
and anarchy in society, followed by
all The evils that would attend su ii
condition of affairs.
In the natural course of everts
the iuhaiitGats of Ike United States
may scarcely expect TO .te fee
trade within the next hundred years
or al such IA time as the corditions
of production in al: its branches
are precisely the san-e in The old
and in the new world.
S, powerful has been the ell. It
upon labor, in the United S'ate~,
of the conditions which we have /
above indicated, that practically II
great ID imperative demand has
been made, not tor tariff on the
products of labor, not for such in
direct protection, but, practically
for Il tariff upon labor it>cif, de-
manded almost at the pOiat of re-
bellion by all rartiess upon the Pa
cific coast and more moderately by |
almost ali parties all over the coun
Try to the extent that bill has been I
passed by Congress alf'orling the
desired protection against Chinese /
labor. Never was protection more |
absolute The particularly obnox-
ious article is entirely shut out OF
he country end the demand most
ferccly maintained, by whom? by /
the most rabid clement Of the DEM
ociatic party while curiously |
enough portion of the champion
party of protection is in favor of
free trade in this instance as evinc-
I'd in the fight against the bill in
Congress.
The arguments during the discuss
sion of this matter were that the
Chinese laborer carried away the
coin, drove out white labor by the
,heapness of his own, Precisely
he same may be maintained Of an
English locomotive or gallon of
French wine; they draw on our
coin, they drive out the labor en-
gagged in the manufacture of like
products in this country. When
he habits of the peo pie become SO
simple and inexpensive as those Of
he Chinese the country will no
longer be in need of protecti n in
hat direction for there will be an
in labor which will
hold the Chinese hords upon their
own side of the Pacific. Unfortu-
lately the tendency of human ma,
.nro ;ndnad The nntur.l col1rse of |