The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-07
THE SPREAD OF AN INJECT ON

people 1t large Is not measured by I'll,
receipts for customs, bu. the spplica
ton in all the ramificstions OF trade O
the principle which the people nav,
been taught by long practice of tn,
government, is a money-making one
adds In numberless ways to the cost o
living. That which has been familia
policy Of the government for lonI
years insldiously affects publi
thought, IL 1t is policy of protectiv,
and not, so far as outward appearance
go, an oppressive character, and peo
ple begin unconsc!ously TO apply tn,
principle in their every day business
and dealings. 1t has come to that pas,
now that protective policy, tariff
rate, bonus, is exactod by woll-nigt
every kind CT enterprise. Ifa factory
Ia to DO ostablished In town, no mat
ter what the amount of capital back
ing 1t, bonus by the citizens must be
raised to assist the "infant industry
to grow strong and powerful. If 4
railroad with tho bost Of prospects
through the richest section 10 TO be
built, and with unlimited capital be.
hind 1t, q few thousand dollars to star
with must be raised by tho people who
are to be tho patrons OF the road and
perhaps pay oxorbitant passenger and
freight rates. Agricultural, mining
and grazing sections insist upon gov.
ernment creating or maintaining q
special market for each, until every
Individual getsto believing, no hardly
knows why, that some special consid
Grafton by the general public should
be shown to him or his business,
This Idea PROFESSIONALLY grows cut
of the long continued assistance the
government has given 10 manufac.
turers through tho medium of the
tariff. Why should the government
or the public, mon reason, grant to
iron or WOODEN or cotton manufac
turers special privileges and bestow
special rewards upon them and not bu
equally generous toward all kinds of
trade or labor? Have one class of CIT
liens and certain lines of business any
greater right TO public bonuses than
all others, or any Others? The an
swer ia always tho same, and dissatis-
faction results.
Trade and labor have their laws, and
any interference with them but pro-
duces inequalities, discord and un-
natural growths. Whom once GOV
eminent has undertaken protective
policy, unless 1t is applied To tho cou-
sumner as we'll as tho producer, to tho
laborer as well as tho capitalist, injus.
tice and Partially are sure to result
The community that, Initiating the
Federal authority, undertakes by
bonus policy to build up
in its midst, has TO follow
Its policy to tho last and most i'm
partial extremo or iDjuro some as 1t
assists others OF its citizens. Those
and lines OF business
That build up on their own merits and
by the simple laws of trade are the
hardest and most to bs desired, Just
as seli-made men arc tho strongest
md tho most useful and
desirable citizons. But tho protective
Infection, the bonus system, has per-
meated all sections and clasaes,
and those who sec and re-
greet this principle OF operations
arc forced In solf-defense to adopt il.
Business OF all kinds has grown de-
pendent and begging and relics upon
rather than natural oondl-
ions.
The ieaven of the tariff has loavened
he whole lump! The laws Of business
lave boen dropped and success PIE
licted upon tho extent of donations
and public favors!
The protected classes ought not,
therefore, to wonder at tho demand Of
abor for equal attention and assistance
by tho public. Labor, too, has caught
Ihe Injection. IT has been repeatedly
Told that protection was u means TO Sc
cure better wages for tho workingmen;
but In spite OF these high dutios,
these generous bonuses TO The
rich, wages have been steadily do
creasing. 1t sees every body, every
business protected" but labor, and 1t
naturally complains. "If high tariffs
are maintained," they reason, "then
give us the wages promised under IL.
If wages arc cut down, reduce all trade
to business and natural laws and lot
competition and the law of supply and
demand protect and feed u.s."
Hence 1t Is that tho inequalities, the
Partially, the hot-house plans OF bust
ness! which have spread over all the
country, are now beginning In n most
marked manner to produce tho CON
fusion and dissatisfaction aud loss of
which we have spoken. Mistakes,
broken promises, failures, strikes,
scarcity of money, have resulted from
governmental and community tutor
ference with tho natural and hoalthful
laws of business aud trade, lust az
sickness overtakes tho stronges, man
who departs from the natural laws OF
health.
The disease arises from tho extern
sivo application OF tho pstornal idea Of
government. No class feels strong
enough to stand alone, and the public
must be turned Into great 'oundling
hospital 10 take caro- of Ill kinds O
Infant" establishments and liuos OF
business. GLANDS oilln Lot ngrioul-
ture, manufactures mud commerce
look out for themselves, ur,or their
own laws and by business methods,
Active, healthlGl business competition
Ia tho channels OF trade, IN country