Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-13

W0aAN RNA~AAA8 AANM VIZ AAAN-NA9
Bile competition Of a foreign rival, who
lis placed, as 1t seems TO us, In a COndi-
ton so infinitely superior to ours for
the production Of light, that he iaag1-
dates our national market at a marvel
lousy reduced price: for AZ soon as he
shows himself our sale ceases, all
consumers apply to him, and a branch
Of English industry Of which the
rami6cations are innumerahle is
Immediately thrown into a state of
complete stagnation. We pray that
you will be pleased to make a law Or
deriDg that all windows, skylights,
inside and outside shutters, curtains,
fan-lights, bulls'eyes, carriage blinds,
in short, that all openings, holes, chinks
and crevices should be closed, by which
the light Of the sun can penetrate
into houses to the injury Of the
Nrishing trades with which We have
Endowed our country, which cannot
now, without ingratitude, aban-
don us to so unequal a contest.
"In the first place, if you shut out
as much as possible all access to
natural light, if you thus create the
necessity for artificial light, what Eng
lish Industry exists which will not in
some measure be encouraged?
IF more electric light is needed,
more machinery must be constructed.
If mor gas is required, more coal
must be raised.
IF more tallow is consumed, more
oxen and sheep must be bred and
reared, and, in consequence, nor
meadows will be cultivated; there will
be more meat, more wool, more hides,
and, above all, more manure, which is
the foundation Of all agricultural
riches.
"The same results will follow to our
navigation;# thousands of vessels wall
be engaged in whale. fishing, and in a
short time we shall have a greatly
strengthened marine, capable of up
Hding the honor Of England against
Il corners.
"And further, in articles af London
and Birmingham manufacture, con-
slider how many gilt, bronze and glass
chandeliers, lamps, %lustres, and Candida
bra must burn in the sp tcious ware
houses which will then take the place
of our present shops.
"Consider the matter, gentlemen,
and you must be convinced that there
will be scarcely an Englishman, from
the most wealthy coal-master to the
most humble matchseller, whose condI-
ton will not be ameliorated through
the success of u petition.
gentlemen, we toresee your obJec-
lions, but you will be unable to bring
forward one which is not to be found
IN the works Of the partisans of Free
Trade.
eff you tell us that, although We
may gain by this Protection, England
will be no gamer, because the 60 lsum-
er will be burdened with the cost, we
SHALL reply, that you nave no right to
consider the interests Of the consum-
er. You should sacrifice them in all
cases where they are opposed to those
1~0f the producer, in order to ~eRcoIr09e
5nduStry-to extend the boundaries Of
industry
"Do you say that the light of the
sun is a gratuitous gift, and that to
reject gratultous gifts is to reject
wealth itself under the preteXt Of en-
couraging the means of acquiring it?
But this is the very reason why we
desire Protection to nadve industry,
and the more so M proportion as for
eign produce appgOGjmateS to gratui-
tous gifts.
Labor and nature are united in
different proportions, according to
country and climate, in order to create
aproduction
"The part which nature contributes
is always g%ratuitous; it is the part
which is added by labor which gives
to the production its value, and re-
quires payment.
eff a Lisbon orange is sold at one
twelfth of a Cornish orange, it is
because a natural and therefore gratu-
itous heat ripens the one, while the
other is forced by an artificial and
Sefore expensive heat.
10 Consequently, when an orange
.rives from Portugal, we can say that
eleven-twelfths of it is given to us
gratuitously. and one-twelfth as a
return for labor; or, in other terms,
it is given to us for one.twelfth the
price relatively TO those Of Cornwall.
"Again, when a product, tin, sugar,
wheat or cloth-comes to us from
abroad, and we can obtain it with less
labor than if we made it ourselves,
the difference is a gratuitous gift which
is conferred on us. This gift is more
or less considerable, in proportion as
the difference is more or less great.
1t will be the quarter, the half or
three-quarters OF the value of the
production, according as the foreigner
asks US three-quarters, a half or a
quarter as much as it would cost if
home manufactured. 1t is as complete
as it can be when the giver, as in the
case of the sun giving light, asks no
payment. The question-and we put
It formally-is, whether you wish to
i've to England the benefit of a gra-
itous consumption, or the supposed
: rs; v~antapes of a laborious production ?