Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-17
NEXT GREAT BLUNDER.

| tolly which we have now thank God,
nobly shaken on,
NEXT GREAT BLUNDER.
The next great historical blunder. In
| spite OF which, strange to say, we have
as ] cannot too often repeat prospered
right along in every step of our history
| win now and then temporary drop
BACK, was the immolation by our ances-
tors Of the nations industrlalism upon
the altar OF free trade within the COM
mon domain, Notwithstanding already
existing state lines furnished convent
ent place, opportunity and temptation
| TO establish custom houses--those 20.
tent encouragers OF commerce. What
we ought 10 have fought FOR during
colonial days was a high protective
tarin 10 keep American products out Of
the British market: thus anrichlng both
Britain and America Then, after we
had accomplished our independence.
and each state had become a separate
sovereignty, South Carolina ought to
have protected herself against PENN
sylvania and New England. Pennsyl-
Vania ought to have seen TO It that a
line OF custom houses prevented the In.
Naslon OF her sacred soil by the pro.
ducts Of the Jerseyman, the Maryland
err and the Della wareau We ought 10
i'"N' NHNNbitN'h AllARlNldAb lIhlt DV
stopping II as much as possible. thus
pursuing in that regard the en-,
lightened policy which prevails
In regard TO our international
trade, Then, after forming the
present Union, the Constitution itself
ought TO have prescribed to the states
mutual protection, by mutual taxation
and consequent universal prosperity"
What an enormously rich country
lA 4
have been now but for the influx Of
the cotton raised by the pauper labor
OF South Carolina and Georgia, slave
labor for n long time and therefore
worse than pauper labor, How rich
Florida would have been. II. instead OF
raising pineapples and oranges and
such products as an unreasoning sun
seems to recommend, she had kept the
rye and barley and wheat and wOlen
goods Of the northern states out Of her
confines and had Created at some lit
tie expense 10 her people, IL Is true, but
still, with much pride and self gratjh-
cation, purely "Floridan industries" OF
these and all other things Each COM
munity On the surface, OF the earth. sir.
should "raise everything and make ev-
erything which II possibly can" re-
CARELESS OF the cost TO its people OF
making and raising It, and II they will
not make and raise everything, OF their
own accord, then the people ought TO be
taxed, until somebody consents to ac-
cept the profits Of newly created indus
tries for the altruistic purpose of giving
them away to American Polish, Hum
garian and other labor.
NEW JERSEY BANANAS.
have known people foolish enough
a
Created" n great New Jersey banana |
industry, We win say. (because bananas |
could be easily raised there under glass |
and In forcing beds) Il would have |
made bananas very much more costly |
than common people would like and |
that perhaps II is better for New Jer- |
sey TO raise potatoes and peaches and |
manufacture various things naturally |
profitable and, with the profits Of cap |
ital and labor thus plebiany employed, |
buy bananas" But the men who say |
that, OF course, arc lacking I'm patriot
ism--"a cheap banana make n cheap |
man." and we hurl foul scorn At those. |
who are SO lacking I'm self-dopendence |
as not to be willing to pay whatever IL |
necessary 10 be paid out OF the pock- |
cts of consumers In order TO prevent |
the pHiper banana raised by pauper |
labor. grown on pauper soil, nourished |
by pWper sunshine-vile foreigner. as |
It ls-from invading New Jersey | |
know there are n lot of old fashioned, |
out of date people, principally Demo-
Gratis. who say that the watchword OF |
Industrial progress among communities
is not isolation and independence OF |
productivity but reciprocity and inter-
dependencoi that isolation leads to |
feelings OF cstrangement and inimity |
among the people; that industrial IN
ter-dependence constitutes a sort "
world-effectiye bond 10 keep the peace.
I need not stop to tell YOU that such
men are mere theorists" one OF them |
might be granted plenary power for a
thousand years and az the end OF that
period would not have given any |
chance NJ occupation TO such capital
lists and workngmen I'm Maine, as are.
or might be made to be, DESTROYS OF
raising sun-kissed plants, The base
Cobdenite would leave the workingmen
of Maine and New Jersey "unprotect-
Cd" to devote their labor selfishly to
other things, merely because the cultl- |