St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-16
INFANT INDUSTRIES :"
They Will Cry for .Succor 1000
Years Hence.

~
strange people who live in remote
mountainous district near the borders
or Western China. They are called the
Wa tribe. Their manners and customs
are quite unlike those of the general
run of human beings. They are race
Of drunkards and opium eaters and ex-
traordinariiy filthy in their habits. They
bring water with a good deal of skill
from long distances by means of bamboo
aqueducts into their villages, but the
waller seems to be used for little else
than making liquor. Although dirty
absolutely beyond belief" they are
said to be neither licentious nor
ferocIous, nor are they exactly savages,
for they live i'll permanent houses
and show unusual skill in their fortifi-
cations. ''They are exceedingly dill
gent cultlvators of the soil. but they are
very occasionally SOBER" Outside of
every village is an ''avenue of skulls"
These skulls are placed on poles. set in
line in groves, strips of primeval
forest left standing where all the re-
naming country has been cleared for
cultivation. The number of skulls run
as high as hundred. This peculiar
custom gives to this people the name of
the Head hunters of Burmah." To
procure the supply of skulls they often
make raids on one anOther's villages,
and sometimes a victim is taken from
the old people VINO are no longer OF
service in daily work. There is no en-
trance to their villages except by a long
fupnal IN On ION faot in, ionrth
But what struck me as most peculiar
among these people was their ideas of
cause and effect. as applied to produc-
tive industry. The missionary says:
"They cannot sow field of peas with
out cutting off the head of somebody as
an offering to the spirits to allow the
crops TO grow WE'LL" 1t is this practice
of head cutting" that the good mission
airy most strongly deplores. But in;this
the Was are quite as logical as the wage
worker who believes he can prosper by
protection" which makes him pay
more for the goods he has to buy, but
puts no tariff on the one thing he has to
Sell-labOr.
have jndulged in this depression in
order to make more plain the truth of
the axiom That right thinking pro-
duces right action" When these poor,
degraded Was, through the efforts of
the good missionaries. can be made to
see that there is no connection between
the decapltatiOn OF human being and
a good crop of peas, human life will be
safer in their villages, and the crops of
peas will not be less abundant. SimI-
larly with the American workman.
when he clears his mind OF the super
stit!On Of protection, he will be enabled
to put forth Intelligent, logical measures
which will result in securing for him
the full wages of his labor.
By the way, this recalls to mind the
manner in which the levying OF pro-
tective tariff came to be mScalled the
American SYSTEM" The word tariff
is said to be derived from the Spanish
town OF Tarifa, near Gibraltar, where
the M0orS in the days of their power
collected duties, but there were tSrffS
long before that time. Augustus
Caesar levied duties on Imports into
Italy. aud this method of raising reve-
hue was i'll vogue long before his day.
While speaker of the house of repre-
sentativeS. Henry Clay made an argu-
ment for a protective tariff in the inter-
since foreigners shut out our agricultu-
raj products, we not only should
create home market for them,
but, since imports are I'm
lied by exports, we must either
manufacture or do without goods. In
this speech he introduced the term
American SYSTEM" by which his tol-
lowers have endeavured to so character
ize high tariff legislation as to appeal to
the national pride of our people, relying
upon the ignorance of those who were
to be influenced thereby. This has
been one of the most potent of the
means by which latterday politicians
have endeavored to fool all the people
ali the time"
Daniel Webster warmly resented this
designation, and when he spoke in op-
position referred to it as follows: And
allow me, sir, in the first place, to state
my regret, if indeed 1 ought not to eX-
press warmer sentiment, at the names
or designations which Mr.. Speaker has
seen fit to adopt for the pur-
pose of describing the advocates
and the OpposerS of the present bill.
1t is question, he says, between the
friends of an american policy and
those OF foreign policy This. sir. is
an assumption, which l take the liberty
certainly intended nothing invidious
or derogatory to any part of
the house by his mode of de
nominating friends and enemies. But
there Is power In names, and this man
ner of distinguishing those who favor
and those who oppose particular meas
ures may lead to differences to which no
member of this house can submit. 1t
may imply that there is more exclusive
and peculiar regard to American inter-
eSts i'll one class of opinions than in
i,,a,x lion fin,, &c, l,,
resisted and repelled. Every member
has a right to the presump-
ton that he pursnes what he
believes to be the interest OF his |
country with as sincere zeal as any |
other member, l claim this in my own |
case; and while | shall not, for any |
purpose of description or convenient |
use terms which may |
imply any disrespect to other mems |
opinions, much less any imputation upon |
other mems motives, it is my duty to |
take care that the use of such terms by |
others be not. against the will of those |
who adopt them, made to produce a |
false impression.
Indeed. sir, it is little astonishing,
if it seemed convenient to Mr.. Speaker, |
for the purpose of distinction, to make |
use of the terms American policy and |
foreign policy, that he should not have |
applied them in manner precisely the |
reverse of that in which he has in fact |
used them. If names are thought neceS- |
Sarv, it would be well enough, one would |
think. that the name should be in some |
measure descriptive of the thing; and |
since Mr.Speaker denoininates the policy |
which he recommends "a new policy i'm |
this country since he speaks of the |
present measure as new era in our |
a Tn
us to depart from our accustomed |
course, to instruct ourselves by the |
wisdom of others, and to adopt The /
policy of the most distinguished |
foreign states, one is little
curious to know with what pro- |
priety of speech this imitation
of other nations is denominated all
American policy while, on the con-
trary. a preference for our own estab-
lished system. as it now actually exists
and always has existed, is called for.
piUn p0Iioy, This k,,o,;ao,.