Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-23
benefit Of the protected interests of

benefit Of the protected interests of
the country without equivalent there
for. They obtain, however, for their
country and the world the advantages
of a vast natural trade. America also
receives, without tax of any sort from
all the world by immigration, Q con-
slant influx OF capital-the greatest
element Of production and wealth and
at the same time allows that immigra-
tion to prevent or qualify to her work
men the monopoly she grants to her
capitalists and draws upon her vast
resources to bear the deductions that
prevent results from being greater
still. Among the resources that en-
able her to do this are vastness of ter.
ritory and domestic exchange ON q
scale hitherto unseen. OF all the
staple products Of industry there are
few that In one or other OF her count
less regions her soil does not yield. No
other country has similar diversity
or similar choice of pursuit or
similar option to choose the
best. The mineral resources of
Great Britain have doubtless contribu-
ted vastly to her commercial predomi.
nance, but compared to most Of
America they are as Lilliput to Brob-
dingrag. The coal fields of America are
to those Of England as S8 tol. But by
Protection America makes a bad move
and enables England to clog her feet
so that while she Is unquestionably
able to vastly increase her foreign com.
merce the most timid among US even
do not dread her competition In the
international trade of the world. In
most elements of cheapness America
greatly surpasses us and is greatly
which cheapens everything in which
labor is concerned, and is the road to
national wealth, aud she is free, also.
from all class legislation except that
which is termed Protection.
THE MORAL ASPECT OF THE sUBJECr.
The tendencies of Protection act
variously upon most persons aud
certainly that system cannot be best
that causes any one to diminish what
duty to others demands. The habit OF
mind thus engendered is not such as
6eiits = free country or harmonizes
with independent character, and the
more Protection Is developed, the
further must it cause deviation from
the law Of equal right. The econoIni-
oai part of this question dwindles into
insignificance when compared with
the paramount one of Americas future.
Here there opens upon the mind
q vista transcending ordinary human
limitation. There Is the vision of ter
ritory, population and power surpass-
ing experience. The exhibition to
mankind for the first time of free
institutions on gigantic scale is
momentous and have faith enough
in freedom to distrust all that is alien
to it and hope it will work for good.
And together with and behind these
vast developments is the coIresp pond
ing opportunity of social and moral
influence to be exercised on the rest of
the world. And the question for us, as
trustees of posterity, is: What will
be the nature of this influence? Will
it make the children of the senior races
better or worse? Not what manner OF
producer and trader, but what man
ner of man Is the future American to
be? Doubtless he will be affected by
wealth, but will he maintain with u
high hand natures God and laws, or
| will he yield to the temptation of gold,
| or will he be leader and teacher to us
of the old world in rejecting all
miserable and degrading sophistries9