Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-26
road that dares to use foreign iron, free

road that dares to use foreign 1ronS Tree
Of tax.
"All high taxes are the right bower Ct
monop poly. Why did Lorillard & Co,
stop Congress from repeating the tobacco
tax? They told US Why-'Because il to-
bacco is free, our common hands can
compete against US. Now we know just
what We can do with 100000 worth Of
tobacco, and it tEkes great capitalists to
manufacture under such tsX.' These
things, great taxes, give power to money.
They tell lsoor, You cannot enter If,
except as our hired man. The bigger
the tax, the bigger the monopoly.
Every man oughG to be able to see this.
II every publisher had 10 pay $1,000 sd
vsnce tax on his office, niue-tenths OF
themlwou go out CT bushes and full as
many employees must fad other work. II
every timer, carpenter, blacksmith, was
obliged to pay . like tex, their business
must fall into very few hsnds. Do
monopolies favor their employes? Ask
t ose # street cars; Of coal mines; ask
the tobacco workers, the sugar field hands
of Louisisns. Mono o Y never has been
the friend Of its employees, and never
will be.
"And now Just think OF the condition
Of eny business that has been built up
SO contrary to nature as that the least sp-
pearsnce OF competition shall shake II to
the very foundations! IT'S poor ho.-
house plant ready to perish the moment
OF exposure to the free airs Of heaven.
"Were our ses ports held under scme
other government, We would not for one
day submit to such tariff on the COM
modities we trade our exports for. How
we would laugh II the strange govern
ment pretended 1t was done for our bene-
fit-to encourage our home factories
Why can we not see the evil when II is
done by an enemy planted right in our
midst2 That it is done by our ueighbor
makes it the worse. And it Is continued
in spite CT all the facts Of experience.
The generation that grew up since our
War is told we cannot manufacture with
oct this oppression, in spite Of the ctnsu 8
report Of 1860 that shows we did
vastly more in proportion from 1850 to
1860 than ever since. II snyone doubts it
let him Just get copy Oar manufac-
lures increased some $4,000 in numt e.
from 1850 to 1850, whereas, during the
ten yesrs-'70 to '90-the Increase was
not 1900 Nor could free trade, If sud
denly adopted, produce one-tenth Of the
vast, wide spread ruin and utter destruc-
ton caused by home competition in 8
market shut out from the world between
1870 and 1880.
"Just reflect on those figures: L,ss
than 1900 increase in the number CT fac
tories in ten years, with al average Of
50, O00. 900 of people, new states growing
up, new cities coming into existence,
where not soul lived before, as sgaiust
! Is, 600 increase from 1850 to so, in Pop.
uIstion of some $4,000 900, slavery in
half the land and no railways west OF
the Mississippi Marvellous indeed !
Why, during those years from 1879 to
| 1880 New York City added some 5000 TO
her fkctories-thousands sprang up in
Kansas and Nebraska slone-yes, tens Of
thousands Of new factories sprang up in
new places, yet the average increase was
but little over 1900. How m shy tens of
thousands went out like q fash in the
old settled regions2 Protection blessed
Pennsylvania lost thousands, amid stsrva
ton, murders, hangings, burnings, riot
| Ing numberless.
"With sll the warning ard examples
of our own history ana those of other
nations-that pioneer free trade nation,
the United Provinces, evlncing the
grandest prosperity the world ever knew
then old Spain, under protection falling
into decrepitude, her manufactures al
destroyed-then under new king adopt
ing free trade and reaching, in ten years
the highest SUBMITS of prosperity-sgsin
under another reign, returning to pro
lection and sinking into depression
where she has ever since remained; then
o. little England, With tariff to pro-
tect her farmers, seeing her highways ar
cities filed with farmland tramps, with
scenes to appsI the stoutest hearts, lual-
iy, by the Intelligence Of her manuf.c
turers, forced into free trade aud enter.
ing on an era, OF prosperity never before
seen in all history. her exports growing
froH $50 900, 600 toSl 500, 900, coo per year
| ours, with twice the people, is hardly
| $500 0eO, 0O0) Surely these examples
should ct least teach us not to fear the
trial once more of free natural CON-
MERGE"