Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-12

IVA So AIAANAAAtr NAl lNNVAt tNAiNNlNnN
to 2QlUQ0,ooo, As compared with the rcst
OF the world, England included, we ara
equal as market TO ii5,oo0,ooO
But all these questions Of wages are TO
be met, says the gentleman from New York
(Air. Cookranl. by our superior civilization.
aud heaccuses me Of "coniessing thet civil.
zatiun At the highest level is incapable OF
meeting the competition OF civilization 40
its lowest level
Now, it is great truth that civilization
can successfully meet barbarism, but IL
must do it with brains and not with rhet.
oric How often have heard this and sim.
ilur eloquent outburats about our SUPERIOR.
~ and therefore inevitable conquest OF tho
inferiorl Survival Of the superior That Il
not the way the great naturalist put It,
Survival OF the httest" was his expression.
Survival Of the fttost to survive; not the
superior not the loyeliest, not the most in.
tellectual, but the one who fitted best into
tue surroundings
The Bun md tho Smeit.
Compare the strong bull Of Bashan with
n salt water smelt Who doubts the su.
periority OF the bullt Yet II you drop them
both into the Atlantic ocean, / will take
my chances with the smelt A little tom
tit, Insignificant MS a bit of dust In tho bal
ance, cannot compare with the domestic
swan either In grace, beauty or power. Yet
II both We're dropped from a balloon hung
in air, | would rather be the insipnihoaut
tomut than the graceful swan, II had a
job to dig on the railway, the competitor iot
that job whom should fear would not ID
my friend from New York, but some child
of sunny Italy, 30 newly imported that he
had not grown up to thewagos Of his adopt
l ed country.
But IS not it dreadful business to tax
! peoplei Not necessarily. Taxes raised tot
I good purpose-like a schoolhouse, a road,
an army, for payment OF pensions, for the
] public debt aud indeed for all the purposes
Of free people-are not only not bad, but
very good Taxes 10 build apAlaoe for thu
kings mistress or to plaoe barbarian
queen on deserted throne would be dread.
full, but we are not likely, owing TO a serici
OF fortunate accidents, TO be called upon u
do even the last.
But eau y VI accomplish anything but op.
I precision by taNesi Oh, yesl The gentle.
man from Missouri (Mr. Hatch viii tell
| you that taxation has regulated oloomar.
garlneAnd can regulate stock sales AT leas,
so he thinks.
! On the question OF the coustitutionality
OF tarin taxation shall spend no time. |
have not been here as long as l have with.
out learning that "consttutionalityn aud
"uncunstitutlonalityn on the other side Of
the chamber are mere phrases, and thaI
when gentleman OF the other side, with
swelling voice, denounces the tariff AK un.
constitutional he merely peans that I'D
does not like IT,
lnasmuoh as nobody in hundred yeari
has even asked the supreme court to pass
ON that question, it seems hardly worth
while to discuss 10. II the Father OF Hil
Country, fresh from the convention, Ia sign
ing the first tarll tax bill, signed an un
constitutional net, the gentleman from
Georgia (ir Turner and the whole Demo
cratic party are better than George Wash
ington-a thing not hitherto changed upon
them.
Who Pays the Tax?
But do not the people pay the tariff taxes
and do they not 20 into the pockets Of mo
Aeolists' Do you believe the consumer
pays the tax or the foreigneri Well. an
going to be perfectly frauls about that and
answer sometimes one aud sometimes th,
other, and sometimes both Tho lrst thug
the foreigner does when a tariff tax il laid
Is to see II he can get into our market with
out paying anything II SO, then he will
not reduce his prices. II he cilnuut, he look.
over ms margin OF p1oiit ahd se's u ne Gun
| py hua'ihg some pars OF tnese pronts' ke'
ms goous IN. 30 ier ~ ne 9oes amaze tnenl
nc pays the YAK. % i9r as nc uoes not th'
II the foreigner pays all the tax, ther
within the limit where his goods can circu
lAve there may De pFoyeollIp or tuete my ny
NOT II altpr pAyihs the WhVie taA nc SUI
mas margin OF pfohe 10 SAcflhce 10 the III
duhIriai war there WIN Do no proteotioi
OF very ntnltou pfoteclluh. Dut II there %
Only slisht uafkin Wnien ho v.'niiot Aho
nnee without rendering inc il'rkeI worm
leas' tNeh there VIII ne competition th
same rs II ne nAnuiaetuFsu mere In IN
latter case ne at Least cannot smut up GU
victories
IN these cases the prioe VIII not oe raised
but "hete inc consumer pays any part
tne TAX ny much rs Tue price raised I'M
tne general RUE uut oiten " uoes no
Woik 30 Alter Tue ACT Oh l9'o n'rse I'm
porsttlons IN antiolpau91 oi lilke pronI,
antlclpatlons frustrated py .le Daring iAll
ure panic MAIZE great chahses IA tne case
many prices ulu not flso .. ~ ~ anu ys
manufacturers showing may thore woul'
DC certainty ~ ieHst mat theY couiu no
DC oauiy uhuersoia' began ""fA'
a Fighting Chance
IL often happens that men VIII bcgii
manufacturing under taria that does no
raise prices because they know that such