Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-05-15


children. The rank injustice Of
such scheme is obvious. The
colored men pay large taxes indi-
rectly. When they pay rent, or for
clothing or any thing they buy, the
purchase money includes full pro-
portion Of the taxes paid by the
white property-owner or dealer.
The colored man may pay no taxes
of his own, but to the full extent Of
what he buys Of white men he pays
the white mems taxes. The trouble
is that the white men Of Georgia
are so afraid Of the progress Of the
colored race that they wish to de-
prive its members Of any school
benefits.
WmTEwATHR Register: 1t is said
by some that there is no need of a
law requiring the education Of
children in Euglish--that in fifty
years everybody in the state will
speak and read it without the assist
ance of compulsory laws. Very
likely this may be true, but what Of
the children that are now growing
up in ignorance Of the language of
their state, and who might with p
little help be led into the broader
| fuller life and more useful citizen
ship which a knowledge of English
will give? 1t is said that there are
thousands of them; but suppose
there are only hundreds or even
scores, are they too insignificant to
merit the notice and helping hand
Of the government? The greatest
teacher sand that sparrow falling
to the ground was not forgotten by
the creator of all; is not then the
welfare of even few children be-
tween this period and fifty years
hence, worthy of the thought and
sympathy Of the states lawmakers?
lr is commonly assumed that We
have tariff laws because We have
manufactures, while the truth is
that we haye factories because of
the tariff. When protection was
first adopted, niuety-seven per cent.
of the population were farmers.
They saw by experience that home
man ufactures were essential to their
| prosperity, They began manufac-
turing in a small way and they made
this discovery, that they now had
what they before lacked--a home
market for their produce. The
farmers became the greatest friends
of projections, and the result of the
last presidential election does not
indicate that they have changed
their minds. The farmer is inter
ested in the relation of price TO price,
while freetraders, like slelght-of-
hand performers, keep the attention
| rivlted on one side of the account,
and assiduously labor to prevent the
other from being seen. Protection
holds that, where the raw material
is converted into the manufactured
product, there the prices of the two
come nearest together. If all the
paper mills were on the Delaware,
the highest price for rags and the
lowest for paper would exist there;
but across the Mississippi, the price
of rags would fall and that of paper
would advance. Beyond the Rockies
rags would be worth almost nothing
while paper would be very hlgh'
There is always = point at which
| prices of materials and finished
products converge. Free-trade
would remove that point across the
Atlantic; protection would keep 1t
here at home. The advantage of
this proximity of material to the
place where they are converted is
| illustrated in the case of steel rails.
1t is noteworthy fact that railroad
men never ask for a reduction in the
duty on rails. They appreciate the
importance Of not having 70 depend
upon Europe for their supplies, and
the fact is that the railroads in this
country with taxed rails" give far
lower rates Of transportation than