Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-08
. IARIEF IALk."

Under this heading the Dodgeyille
Star of last week contains a very
sensible article on the tariff question,
which is now occupying the atten-
ton of the American people. The
Star says:
The tariff question is driving the American
people insane That which one man wants is
abhorred by another man. One man raises hogs
| and his neighbor raises sheep; the hog man
thinks it oppressive TO lay tariff upon wool, and
make him pay it, simply because nature has
been pleased to disregard the speculations or
mankind and create hogs without wool on them.
One man raises cattle and another man poultry.
The poultry man does care how high the tariff
might be on salt, because his chickens don't
eat much of it; but the cattle man wants free
trade in salt because his durhams and alderneys
have no feathers on them. One big, sleek fat man
with red cheeks and rosy hair, don't care how
much tariff is laid on quinine, while his thin,
sallow faced neighbor, who is shook all up into
tangles with the ague, complains more from the
cost of his medical prescriptions than he does
from tie disease itself; and so this individual
and personal interest view of the tariff question
continues until the American people becomes all
confused on the subject of tariff, and we fail 10
look any further into the question than the
depth of our boots or the hight of our hats. So
it was in the Gays OF slave labor; one man had
one hundred acres of cotton and he had twenty
slaves TO cultivate it. If his slaves were taken
away he would become bankrupt; but his neigh
Dor over on the hill got along first-rate and did
ell his own work But when wise and far-Seeing
statesmen began TO look into the subject, they
comprehended in their view not only the one
mans hundred acres of cotton, but the thous-
ands of mems Ten of thousands of acres, and de-
termined that the whole multitude of people
would be mutually benefited if there we're ne
slave labor and to this view they directed their
attention. and the sequel has abupdantly proven
that the statements view was the correct one.
the cotton fields to-day are in better condition
than they ever were before. We want statesmen
of broad and comprensive views to take hold of
the tariff question; such men John G. Carlisle
and VIM. r. Morrison and host Of others, who
will teach such men as Pig Iron Kelley, of Penn
sylyania and Wool Monger Anderson, OF Dane
county Wisconsin, that this government was in-
stituted among men for the benefit of the gov
erned," and not for the special benefit of iron
puddlers and wool greasers. The most profound
thinkers on political economy, agree that though
what is known es Free Trade. might work tenn
porary injury to a few who are pursuing par
ticular line of business but that in the settled
event of the doctrine, the great masses of The
people be largely benefited, and all those who
have been temporarily injured, would eventual,
ly be permanently benefited. This is the broad
view taken of the matter By foremost American
statesmen, and any political theory that falls to
embrace the good of the whole people, is uuwor-
thy the support of q just and generous nation.