The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-10-01
BUILDING UP A MARKET.
Every Mans Inherent ri ght to the Results
of His Labor.

X. III. Joucs, of Atlanta, H., writes
1t takes time to build up "A market even
in this progressive age. But after IL Is
once built up at the expense Of muscle
and brain, of individual and national
struggle, il is ours, and no man who be-
heves i'm the natural right to defend
what is his can object TO the tariff fence
Every man is supposed TO be possessed
of the inherent right 10 the results of his
labor. The free-trader alone, like the
old slave master, evidently does not SO
regard it.
Here is farmer who has by years of
toll and sclf-denial achieved compc-
tency in the shape of a farm. He takes
an honest pride I'm the cultivation of every
foot capable Of growths yielding profits.
He has field for corn, a field for wheat
and "A meadow for pasture. 1t is clear of
weeds, under fence, and well stocked.
Among other things he keeps cows,
makes butter and cheese and sells milk
To his free trade neighbors and
friends No man in the community de-
MES him these rights. Society is organ
lied upon that principle-the security of
his national rights. Now there are some
who overlook this personal idea of gov
eminent. Their ideas of right and
wrong, OF justice and injustice are but
fecbly developed. They are told by the
calamity orators" who visit them oc-
casionally that this farmer is charging
them too much for butter, cheese and
milk; that they could get these desirable
products cheaper If this farmer was COM
PEELED to tear down his fences and let in
other cows To Craze upon his succulent
pasturage. To be sure, with free range
il would cost but little 10 furnish these
articles. and they could afford to sell
butter. cheese and milk for less money.
But the farmer is not freed from
the burden of taxation on that
account. He must lay by the usual
fund for state and local taxations
yearly falling due. while he is denied
the right 10 the use Of his capital for
that purpose. While his own cows are
taxed. his free trade friends are cx-
emptcd. This can not go on long. He
sees very clearly the less he has on his
place in the shape of stock the less his
tax charges will be. So he sells off his
stock and lets the freebooter take the
pasture and the market But what Is
the result? Why. butter and cheese and
milk and vegetables and hay and grain
and meat and poultry and everything
else advances in price. The farmer,
''likc the bees in the fall, is smoked out"
and the results of his busy life stolen and
himself reduced 10 the condition of va
grancy. Now, what is the difference be-
tween the case cited and the real one
urged by the free traders? The manu-
facturers are the only classes not fully
protected. His money is invested i'm
buildings and machinery, and if the plant
is idle, his capital thus locked up in
earning no dividends nor the laborer his
wages. Besides this, there is a dead
loss from the non-usc of the machinery.
The help scatters and is forced into un-
natural channels unsuited TO their capa-
bilities. 1t never can be collected again,
SO that the former perfect organization
and efficiency is partially lost and the
cost of production relatively enhanced.
When the furnace fires are out there is a
lack of energy-a destruction of ma
terial both i'm the decay and I'm the
rehabilitation of energy. Mr.. Edward
Atkinson says: "The writer has known
mills 10 be stopped by the bankruptcy of
the owners followed by litigation among
the creditors. which kept them idle only
for a few years; but when finally dis
posed of they could not be restarted
without such requirements OF new ma
chinery. and such reconstruction of
buildings, that i'm some cases IL would
have been better to burn them than to
remodel them"
1T is significant fact that the demo
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