Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-31

| ing them protection increases the duty, some
| times over 100 per cent. on nearly every article
| they buy, and practically denies them market
| for the surplus products of their labor.
thus placing them soul and body in the hands OF
Mr.. Chairman, the thought that gave rise to
the protective system may be Hkened unto that
of the kind and devoted father whose son is just
beginning the battle of life. The loving father
not only aids and assists the son by his advice
and counsel, but gives him substantial aid BY.
advances of money until such time as he is firmly
established in business, when, If he is wise
father, he will withhold further assistance and
let the son rely on his own industry and energy
for success.
Such was the thought that prompted the early
statesmen Of the republic to give protection to
manufacturing industries during their infancy,
but the thought of making this protection per-
petual never entered their minds.
But, Mr.. Chairman, under Republican rule,
or misrule, these infant manufactures have
grown to be giants, and not content with the
patrimony that has made them rich and indie
pendent, they have continued from time to time
to increase their drafts and demands upon the
hausted, and unless this condition Of
things be speedily changed and this
drain upon the people OF the country
stopped these cormorants will soon, with their
surplus capital, become the owners OF the entire
country, when they viii, like the cruel and
father-the people from their homes into the
midnight storm.
But, Mr.. Chairman, protectionists tell us that
this bill, notwithstanding the facts that have.
stated, will protect labor.
The experience of the past shows that . pro-
tective tariff does not protect the farmer pre-
sumo therefore, when Republicans speak of pro-
tecting labor, they mean the labor employed in
the mines and factories. might grant that this
character of labor is protected for argument sake
but not as fact. During the last fiscal year
there were S4S5, 900, 900 OF dutiable merchandise
imported into this country from foreign coup-F
tries, which paid an average duty of fOrty-seVen
81 must pay in addition forty seven cents as duty
az our custom house, making the article cost
the importer Sl.4I
Now, Mr. Chairman, as this article is sold in
the market at or about the same price that a
similar article manufactured st home is sold,
your theory Is the laborer IN the home factory
makes the forty-seyen cents, rather this SUM-
is given him as bonus by the government ub-
der this protective system.
II this was true, your theory would be correct.
Grant that il is true. Who paws the bonus? OF
course the consumer pays 1t. Is it right or hon.
est to tax the farm labor Of the country TO pay
this bonus to the mine and factory laborf Is
that the kind of protection that Republicans,
propose to give TO the farm Iaborers OF the coin
try.
that every sane man would see not
only the injustice but the iallacy Of this theory
We all know that the commemorative producer
of cotton, grain, meat, and dairy products,
well as the poor deluded laborer in the mine
and factory who votes TO perpetuate this system
know equally as well that the latter does not re-
ceive it. If he did, he would not be eternally
engaged in strikes, demanding higher wagesss
poverty as we find him to-day.
Ny friend from Tennessee Mr.. Enloel when
speaking the other day Of Mr.. Carnegie, whose
Pennsylvania mines yield him $4l29 per day,
while he lives in luxury and ease in his castles
in Scotland, read touching description of the
home OF these so-called pretended laborers,
which read:
''They are filed with psllid humanity, 80
black with age, paintless, carpetless anen5H
comfortable. In summer they are dreadfnl
places to live in. The bare hills
tower each side, making q
sort of urn, in which the hot sun
turns the dense air fetid. The sewerage runs
through open cutters walk through
the streets tells all.
There are no DISCUSSES. The bare, brown
doorsteps, the tables seen through the open
doorway, the frowsy bed standing by the open
window, all bear their testimony to comfort
less life in plain view of the passer-by. You
may know how much or how little the families
have to eat Courtship and marriage,
sickness and sorrow, deaths and births all go on
in the purvisw Of men, for poverty can afford no
secrets. and the cliff jewellers Of the Mononga-
heia are very poor
This pen picture OF the homes Of these poor
wretched laborers tell in tones more eloquent
than can use who are the bsnefciaries Of this
protect tive system. -
s'Instant Lung Cure, >, 80 f.06;
cures worst cases OBJ lung diseases
instantly. Caa olives should order
bottle sdiately. DR.. Cheek, Put