The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-08-18
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try, is a blessing t0 any community or
country. No one will dispute this state
ment Few also will dispute the alter
native statement that every pauper
man and every pauper industry Is
curse TO community. to country and
To mankind. The only cases in which
helpless human beings are not consid-
cred detripcnt 10 the community and
"A burden To the state are during child
hood or old age. or during impairment
by accident or disease. During these
times the state often co-operates with
parents or guardians To assist in tiding
over the dependent period II is con-
ccivable'that new or infant industry.
temporarily depressed by flood, fire.
earthquake. war, or other disaster,
might repay the state for extending a
helping hand.
1t has. however, been mainly to en-
courage Infant industries" that states
have 50 often given assistance to
various industries. The assistance is
usually considered to come from indie
pendent and self-supportng industries,
and is granted only in hope that the
new industries. as soon as they have
become established. will not only pay
their own way, but become so vigorous
that they will. in various ways, return
with interest all that the state has adj
vapced to them. In the light of these
generally accepted arguments. let US
see what we can learn from history and
practical experience
Before our country got started in
business on its own account, several OF
the federal states initiating the policy
of the mother country. attempted to in
troduce and foster certain industries
mostly manufacturing ones-by levy
ing duties on certain industries Thus
Pennsylvania in 1855 passed an act en-
titled AN act to encourage and pro-
tect manufacturers of this state by lay
ing additional duties on the importa-
ton of certain manufactures which
interfere with them"
This system of protection worked SC
poorly. and was such nuisance to
trade between the states that all were
glad to abolish it with the adoption OF
the constitution in 1877. immediately
thereafter the manufacturers began t.
ask for national help for their strug
Cling industries. Some attention was
paid to their appeals and the first tariff
act gave slight protection 10 certain
industries. Instead of making then
self-reliant this charity only made
them clamorous for more assistance
, Duties became higher and higher al
the industries grew older until the non
!. protected industries were forced to de
fend themselves from the hungry ant
ungrateful pauper industries
, The noisy infants were weaned ant
were thriving on solid food when oul
civil war made il necessary to put then
on the bottle while they were beini
bled to produce war revenue. III
! bleeding process lasted but few year
and the bottle should have been dis
carded long ago. hut the sucklings-
now mostly centcnarians-not only re
= fused to let go. but have demanded AM
obtained bigger bottles. Throug
: their cries and screams they are inform
ing us that they are incapable of exist
. ing on even the high tariff Of % or ,
per per cent. and they lay claim to pei
manent support on the ground that we
: having for So long fed them on pap an
brought them TO their present helples
y state. must not now desert.
The wooden and glass manufacturers
actually have the audacity to tell II
: that the assistance which we hav
n given them has made them INDECENT
I careless and slovenly. so that they car
not exist on the same government ra
r tions as might have suffced a few year
q ago. Thus confessing that they lied
r us when asking for temporary help I
Q make them stronger
p The illogical structure of protectio
. is thus falling from its iron weigh
v Just as the corn laws and the paups
n rate system of England fell. Indu
L tries, like men and plants. are mad
o strong and hardy by being compelle
/. to stand or fall unassisted and not b
= being allowed to lean upon governmcI
> props. They must face the cold wind
Q of adversitv and not be hot-hou'
4 products IL they are to do credit
a themselves and their country.
n Protective tariffs. then. not only r.
" strict and disturb trade. tax and d
h press legitimate industry. and burde
Il the consumer. but they curse the i
3 dustries they were designed to encou
a age This is the lesson of protecti'
tariffs. The sooner we are done wit
~ them the better for all
q The effect of granting aid by meal
1 OF government bounties or subsidies.
u almost as great a curse as protection
"a Our shipping industry never decline
,r as rapidly as when we were trying
r. aid il by means of gratuities, and
d. shield il from the severe competition
a. Europe's unassisted lines by prohibi
"a ing the importation of foreign bu
= ships The continued use of both
8. these methods fails to wean back an
ID considerable portion of the carryir
m trade Of the world which was once on
: when our ships asked no aid from al
quarter.
The bounties we are now giving
sugar producers are having the sal
weakening effect. 1t is for this reas
!, that Gov. Hogg. on behalf of the sta
=: of Texas, spurned the bounty 10 viii
Texas was entitled rs a sugar produc'
% He knew the evils, industrially and I
litically. sure to flow from Cover
ss mental encouragement to industr
40 properly the subjects Of private emit