The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-06

10 entitled 10 have his interest eonsidsrsd hs
We have seen, protection is OF no advantage to
him; he is the victim OF protection; he is In.
jured by t. Consider for a moment the argu-
ment used By the friends Of protection. They
say that unless the high rates Of duty now ex-
listing are maintained some Of the nourishing
factories in this country will be forced TO close
and their business perish because protection
forces people TO buy goods from them at
higher price than they can obtain them from
| foreigners.
! These factories, they say, can not prosper
| IT, for instance, we should reduce the tarin
| from 50 per cent. 10 Is per cont on the bagging
| IN which the farmer sends his wheat TO the
| Liverpool and other markets, because the
| farmer might exchange some OF his wheat at
| Liverpool for bags which he can buy for far
| less money than he IN this country. In
order to maintain the prosperity OF the homo
bagging factories they demand that We shall
prevent the farmer from so doing by forcing
| him to pay 81 per cent tariff duty on the bags
! when they come into this countryi or in other
| words, on each 800 worth Of bags that he may
| buy in Liverpool, or exchange his wheat for ~
| is necessary to make him pay penalty OF ga
| for doing 30.
In this way although he is forced TO sell his
wheat in the cheapest market Of the world, 10
buy his supplies he is forced In one OF the dear
! est markets OF the world. BY this method he is
denied the right TO purchase his supplies from
| his own customers and compelled 20 purchase
| them from some folks in this country who VIII
| add nearly all the tax which is laid on the sup
| plies to the other profits they make in manutact-
| uring them. This is called protection to the
| American bagging manufacturer. To the agri-
cultor, 1t is the protection that the wolf gives
| TO the lamb.
1t is the means by which monopoies, and
| those colossal corsars the monopoly trusts
! are engendered, fattened and MANI tained. IL
| makes tramps OF men and paupers Of women;
| faN,r mia
| content, foments strikes, ruins business ana
| fosters anarchy.
All the experience OF thrifty nations goes TO
| prove that foreign markets are more impor-
| tant. and would bring more wealth to our peo-
| pie than any others Our situation is one that
secures TO US the greatest natural means ot
| controlling the trade OF the world. Eastward,
our commercial front looks toward Europe;
westward. toward Asia Japan and countless
| islands OF the Pacific; southwark. We stand az
the door OF the most fruitful Of all the tropical
| parts OF the globe. Occupying, between the
| great oceans the midway grounds on the lines
! OF the worlds commercial transportation, our
| commercial position IS uneQualed Dy that OF
any other country on earth. Our people are
| the most enterprising, our farmers 3uu me-
chanics the most skillful and most energetic in
the world. We ought to have no fears OF com
petition with any people on the globe. We
certainly possess advantages doubly greater
than any other nation our flag should be found
above the decks Of our ships laden with com
merce in every port on every sea The stat s.
tics OF the world should show that there is a
larger tonnage OF American register bearing
the products Of our farms and workshops than
can be shown by any other nation.
And it would be 30 If 1t were not for the mar
row policy OF protection which has erected a
Chinese wall around our land, and closed our
| ports against the riches OF the world com
merce. In 1855, under revenue tariff, the
! | prosperity of our merchant marine was one oi
, the proudest boasts of the American citizen
Over 20 per cent. Of our exports and imports
/ were carried in American vessels. Since the
enactrIe Mt OF the war tariff, our shipping has
steadily grown less, until last year less than Il
, per cent of our imports and exports were
| carried on American vessels. II is our tarll
system that has maintained England in heI
suprem acy of the seas, her control or the trade
, | OF the world. Our western port Of San Fran
cisco is, In comparison with the distance tC
England at the door Of China, and yet England
1nonopolizes the trade with China. Out OF the
nearly $500, ,OOOOO0 Of foreign commerce year be
fore last with China we had but s20,0000O0 Of it.
We are on the coast line OF Southern couu'
tries, and yet out Of about s7J0OOo,OoO Of com
merce there, England has about three times "a
much of it as we. We have all the raw uate
rails IN inexhaustble abundance within
our own borders, the best and most intel
ligeut workmeu in the world IN our
midst, yet the little island OF Great
| Britain mas OutSlFlppGu Us IA al INC uloI Ac "
OF the world IN the sale OF manufactured
articles. She undersells US everywhere. She
sends her ships to our ports. She buys cotton
of our planters, transports II back TO her
| shores, manufactures the raw material into
articles OF commerce, then comes right 10 ouI
door and undersells US in Mexico, Central
America and South America; yea, even passes
| contemptuously beyond US to the other great
ocean and wrests from US the trade OF the
Pacific Why is it so! Is it because the En-
glishman is more enterprising or energetic
than the Amer can? All the world knows that
is not true. 1t is because she has established
friendly commercial relations with the world
has cast down all her barriers OF protection
and opened her market to the products Of
| every country
| can we hope ever to become the rivals OF
our British cousins for this commercial su-
| premacy OF the world! Unquestionably-nay,
il is as surely in our National destiny as 1t ls
| that, as a nation, we shall advance in strength
and greatness. But TO both these ENDS, one
| thing and only one, is necessary. we musI
| strike from our limbs these shackles OF taxa
| ton, which, of every five dollars exacted
| from the earnings OF our labor ana SKILL
transfer four TO the Golfers Of men who have
| not labored for them, who have not carmel
them We must substitute for policy that
| incloses us in a casket Of iron. represses the
| free play OF our enormous energies, sunocates
| US dwarfs our body and withers our members,
a policy that will give to all classes and all
| men equal freedom in the struggle for exist
ence. - Richard w. 7OtcRshend, {" Chtcdgd
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