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JliNCUKhcd l>> H«Miator Vaiuc.
Un • l.*ri I I?!r i'. t■ ■ '■ M'lr • » li*
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It w..1 i 1"? 1)'-  1 •-tii* 1 11 jll in
fllC of ft ColllltlV. tho-*' I/ieas
-I »• Ji 1 I>#- pi *ftll '1 w hirh will
I Oil! el t ..f gl e lt i-1 goo 1 «! l till'
ite-t ni.ml •; . In oui c . :!: 11 v.t
.t- i" >: ji«- aln t\i i'ii. i faithful say
ng, and worthv of ai" acceptation
ft -in,] !;, in* an s that the g tibial in
• n-t must ty\♦•! rule the particular
!lt lest O}' i/ldl\l liJ ;11 . It I>V 11 »
a ins implies a sacrifice oi iij 1 ivi  1 -
l interest, for, a- M Ba-tiat -a}-."
>ii i ntial element of each man -
;• i »- j" lit y is the general prosterity.
J'hei efoi e.' whilst each out- is more
.)• i - - benefited ly the general wel
ire, it is not true that the general
welfore is to the same extent promo
• •■1 l>v tin* advancement of a few.
hi short, the prospeiitv of nine men
;s of moie value to the tenth man
than the prosperi y of the tenth ,
man would be to the nine. The
naxium is to obvious to doubt and
too humane to a-sail. In our le r is-
O
lation, then, we should unquestiona
bly be guided by it, and ask, first of
ill, what is the general interest and
how can it be best promoted !
The tirist grand division of our
people, or any other, is into produc
ers and consumers. I his division
lias reference to tariff taxation, for,
in the general sense, all human be
ings are (onsuiners. So. in one
sense, ;ili the 1 7. 000,IH)0 of persons
put down in the census as engaged
i o r>
:n gainful occupations are producers
or doing work which assists produc
tion. But we are to consider only
those who are engaged in tlit* pro
duction of articles which are "pro
tected from competition by tariff
duties. Farmers and those engaged
on
in all branches of agriculture are
producers, but with slight exceptions
none of their products are protected
or can in any way be increased in
pi ice by the imposition of tariff du
ties. So of builders, of those en
gaged in transportation, personal
■service and all the rest of the vast
army of toilers —none are protected
I he direct recioients ot the benefits
•»t tarifl legislation are whittled
lown to those encaged in creatin-'
n p o
manufactured products alone. It is
not necessary to claim, as in fairiuss
I might, that it should be mther
eut down to the factorv owners.  \
eluding th" opcrati\ c>.
I'uttmg into the count all persons
employed in manufacturing, the case
stands thiis. I hat we legislate for
si»me two and a half millions of pro
■ luce/ s, and against some fifteen
millions of men who are both con
sumers and producers: or counting
the entire population, our laws are
made for tie interest of less than
ten millions, and r.gaiiist the interest
• more than fifty millions of ou.
00. pie ' The conclusion is unavoid
abl» 4 hat the major interest is that
1 i.« consumer, whilst that o: the
pi odiit e: Ist he minor. and ! lit i t f. >re
tll .'t law s are foi the bene; 11 »•! the
'•' > v. am; are hostile to tin gt at in ;
j«>rit x
\v ho is injured by protect ion .'
lo t:iis question it mav be aiisw
» ii 1. evci \ « lie wh • is not bt netite 1
1 'r >t ect it »'i can onl v benefit an vbod v.
is has been shown, by increasing the
j>rices of those things which tliev
i\  t > si 11 Now. if it i;a• l ea-t . 1
ikewise tlie price of that which thev
i 1 t-> bu\. t e one u ■i. 1 s, t • fl
the other, an 1 then wou! 1 be no
benefit at all. S irelv r his self
\ ident. 1 o make prote tion a ben
'it to somebody, t herefcre. it must
n iu necessity of thing . e.tLer in
*.l ease the pi ice of other products.
a :..g tin p.] ice of their i ? :rcha>t s
tia same, or :t must maintain the
»• ' e of their sales atd lower that
of their purchases. If it does neith
er it dots nothing ; if it does eithci
it injures somebody. Every man.
therefore, in the I mted Sfates is iu
jured who. l.a\ing 'by protection
tbe cost raised of a'l which be has |
to buy. does not also, by the same
law. have the price of ail that lie 1 f+
to sell inci rased to the same extent (
Fii st and foremost, then, it injures
ail who only consume and do no* ,
produce. As they have nothing to
s'-li. but a.l their transactions aie
purchase, it is impossible to compen
sate them for their losses by the in- ,
crease hi prices. Thi- large class
includes the j rofessions. merchants,
all ] ej si ins er:gaged in tt ansporta
ti'-n. j>ei sona' and government ser
vice, women, orphan children, and
all who live on tixtd incomes, and
the like. I'ei haps h wevi r, their
injury is not so great a- that done to
the farmers and planters, for tiiouhg
the expenditure of the fust-named is
incKased by orotection. their i:i
comes are not necessarily diminish
ed. But with the farm-r b >th are
done. The price of his purchases is
increased, and being compelled to
sell his surplus products in the mar
kets of nations who cannot exchange
wilh lis on erpial terms, the prices
are necessarily lowered ami his in - ,
i come is thereby lessened. He is
wasting at both the spigot and spile.
There is no proposition more obvi
ouslv just than that when the farm
er is forced to semi for sale his
wheat, his meat and his cotton to
Europe, when the price is fixed for
him bv the competition of the world,
he should be permitted to buy his
supplies of wool and iron and the
I like m the self-same markets at pric
t 1
es regulated by t tie same comp ti.
tion.
I have seen it stated bv reputable '
authority that in many portions of
India recently opened up by rail
roads wneat is profitably grown at
a co-.t of live shillings per quarter of
eight bushels ! In competition with
this "pauper" grown wheat our Wes
tern farmers have to sell their wheat,
produced at a cost at least tbree
times as great. British capital was
' put into these railroads, and these ,
cheap w heat lands of India were de
veloped because England could not
get her bread from our prairies in
exchange for her manufactuied goods
the tirilf wall forbiding. She would ■
1
gladi\ have iVd her people from the '
i idies-. ot our plains if she could, but
ail f-'ieign commerce is exchange,
;an 1 | lot.'Ctioi: 1 >rbids exchange,
fhe story of cotton is the same.
Flic plantei selis it m Liverpool in
j competitiiin with that grown in all
parts r| t-i ' ' ■ . "it tic low est fig
uit- 1 u \\ ii:c 11 iiumau Mbor can be
• induced b> gro.v it. But he is not
' permitted to buy e\en the jute bag
g ng and the iron ties which envel
ope it m t lit same ma>'ket cheapcii
-1 ed in the same way The price of
those tilings j.-, Ji\ed by having tariff
duties to suit the American manufac
turer. So it is with nearly every
thing produced by those who till the
earth and creite food or t'ne matt ri
al of rainier.t They are made the
patient \ icti ms i>f taiiff taxation,
wh' se toil goes t i t nrich the few
who control oui legislation. In or
-11 el keep tilt 111 ill quiet Sllbiuis
sion tht' keeut-st intellect of the land
is einplowd and paid f•)r with tlie
farmers own money. '1 iiey are pi it d
with a thousai d false arguments ain't
t\plo led theories: tlieir national
pride is api>t aled to, and mean { rej
udices si e excited against f >reign
nations simply because they ha\e
som- thing t' • sell : t'ae t i m "j auper"
is applied to evei\ laborer upc!
earth i xcej i ti. -p employed it: cur
; ] 'l'C'tec\t 11 i O'.;ntr\. a" 1 " F»rit>h
gold is s ti ,l by tin 1 slave-trader.-i to
bribe i-vei\ n o. who rt fuses t i.t j
them stt a. it »enue tanfl ast'
call. I "free t! 1 It 1 s." 1  Id has bt -
come l i \ that l.onestv h 4 s thus
becoim a reproach, and political par
tisan hostility is freely and s .ccess
fulh invoke 1 In this way il.-ese iti
iquitit s lia\cbeen enacted and n.ain
tained in.til the task of ren:o\ii ; "
them has lt> tin a rcvclutioi. which
it wi'l require a generation of stub
born agitation to accomplish But
l it will be dote. To doubt it is to
[question the stiength oi justice and ,
mir civi.i/. iti"H EvtMi tbe
* 1 a j J ti. it i. i ~ 11 i c i' Xll *" 11 \
>f vest»-tl interest, w 1:i«■ L
it >Q 11* ii A**# V\ i 4 i \' J* ) -.♦* it"* l
powei t » tlit- l:;iM (,f reform.
I'or uen wi.l c*>iiifc t ' a Tee with
i»i-tiat 111 11 i>eeau>e \vi »ii«_f lm> been
jjL'i iuitti 1 to e \ ist 1 i a moment i.»
IJ » 1 ♦•itsOli u li\ It -4jO 11M en iui to
• ternity. N'»r -I tea the fact that
\\ i-profitable pi eparatoi *>
it any further oi stronger sanc
tion to immortality. li tith ami ji>
t. e are entitled to *i ve forever.
I tje iijo-t feaMbie n [e of tin> u
! iiuation appears t» lue to lie in ti c
\Ve>t ami South. The?,,, «>f
(ijrcount'y are natural allie-. vsho
are only kept from co-operation b\
lingering wai memorie> ami the pal
tisan political feeling which Ka>teru
protectionist republicans so artfully
invite
lli3 chief interest of etch i- agri
cultural, and their productions sup
plement each other. Their pursuits
engender the same ides and suggest
the same conservative policy. If
once the inconsiderable harriers
which separate them could be brok
en down and unity of action secured,
their power would be sufficient to
reform the evils of tariff legislation
vsitL ease and certainty. In fact
their might would only need to be
seen ; it would scarcely be required
to be exercised.
It is not a pleasant sounding thing
to advise the combination of sections
or classed against other rcctions ui
classes of a common country, but
\ -
as they are already formed for ag
gression it becomes not onlv excus
able, but a positive duty to form
them for defense.
The manufacturers are few in num
ber ; they are persons of great intel
ligence and energy, and they are
grouped together in the great busi
ness centres of the country. With
them, therefore, concert of action is
■
easily effected, and interest naturally
prompts to these combinations to
regulate prices, smother competion
and influence legislation. Those
, who are to be fleeced, on the contra
• iv, are many in number, they em
brace all the poor and the ignorant:
are widely scattered far and near
throughout the broad land, ami with
communication rare and most imper
fect. With them combination ;ml
ummimitv of action are next thing to
the impossible. It is the ot a
small but compact and org'am/.t d o
it.y destroying a great unarmed. nn
oiganized mob. Jhe only possiole
wav in which these incoherent vict
l-m of unjust and unequal taxation
can m ike their united might felt in
the legislation oi their country is to
, align them on principle by indoctrin
. at in" them with the true theory of
O •
taxation, such as is befitting a coun
try that orofe-ses to be free, aiid by
disseminating those linmutab.e prin
ciples of political economy which
have been established by the expen
ence of mankind, and which are
much God'.- laws a- the law oi grav
itation, for they are true, an 1 all
ttuth is His. An able man has said
that our motto in thi-* great, hght
-hould be sit iu\. Let us give the
jco]il»- light indeed, and esj ecia .y
the toiling ma-se- ot the great West
and South, who are fin there >t i
moved from those which
obscure the light, and good result
will be seen, h'l no man tire  '
"talking tariff Let no man we oy
of ui ,4111 g tin \ Aiii l.t-ct s-;l \  f l •
t l m in taxation on hi- oi un
til this \e-ti;_'«' of -iaveiy >hai; i •
abolished and the commerce  f the
jjreat republic shall be a- free a
the necessities ot the government
wiil permit. and its laws loo* t _
other interest under heaven save on
lv that of the public.
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court-plaster. -Well, she break- me
all up. too. iemaiked tie peanut
candy.
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