| Show HOW providence injured US HAS INJURED INJURED the new york evening post continues to make its tree free trade arguments spicy and amusing here is an example what are called the bounties of nature are likely to be the death of us in this country and unless w we e can manage to knock in the head the geologists botanists nud and mineralogists whom hdm our colleges have been training up of late and who go about discovering now deposits of what 1 is s absurdly called mineral wealth we shall presently go near to be ruined por tor lor instance emery i is s an ah articie article of great reat ecat use and necessity ju u various arlous hi in lately we have imported it from abroad iid ild and lid have begu been able to obtain it in spite of the distance it has to be transported at a tolerably reasonable rate but not ion lon long iong since a natural deposit of emery was waa discovered in massachusetts and thu the owners of it desiring to work it immediately demanded of congles to laya lay iny a heavy duty on foreign emery by way of protect ing them the result is that all who use emery will have to pay a higher price for it than before simply because we are so unlucky as to possess a natural u supply of it at home the same is true of borax an article of absolute necessity in many useful industries dus tries until lately we obtained borax from europe not long ago some prying mineralogists found a supply in Califor california illa lila aud and ard instantly congress is asked to jay lay a heavy duty 0 on 11 foreign forlin borax to protect the owners of t tue e home bome supply this is to say bay because providence gave our country this element of natural wealth tin tinsmiths and others are to pay double for all the borax boras they use the same is true of several earthy coloring materials chromes which have lately we hear been discovered and utilized in maryland the manufactures there have at once demanded 1 protect protection jon by a heavy duty on the foreign fore laa 1 articles in all these instances we have v reason to complain that the creator has cursed ua w with this which people call natural wealth 11 if we had no supply of emery in massachusetts our workmen might continue to buy cheap emery abroad if california had bad not a supply of borax we might continue to buy cheap borax and so on to the end of the chapter if the geologists and mineralogists do not stop discovering things in our soil we shall presently have to pay double for everything it f t is already one of the greatest calamities which can happen to the country to discover a new bed of salt orf off other important mineral the richer we are the poorer we are likely to be made the more bountifully providence has blessed us the more thoroughly we are fleeced and the geologists in searching out our mineral wealth pr promise to make themselves and their science a curse to the people |
