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that a rapid development of varied industries, instead of maintaining soil fertility, tends to more rapid exhaustion by making more probable the consumption of cruder products of the farm in villages and cities too remote for return of fertility, although within the same country. The development of natural resources under stimulant of a tariff is admitted by its opponents, but represented as a waste of effort, since the tendency is to withdraw capital and labor from more productive industries into less productive, and that, too, at the expense of the more productive. If factories cannot give an equal profit with farming, it is absurd to tempt capital away from the farms into factories. So, although wealth may be accumulated in showy enterprises, the people, as a whole, are less thrifty and bear unequal burdens. It is further contended that the total labor of the community, when a part is used in unprofitable development of resources, is made on the whole less productive, and therefore the people are less able to buy their neighbors' products, and must live with diminished comforts. In that case all the haste in developing natural resources is actual waste. If, on the other hand, the restrictive tariff invites capital from abroad for the sake of gaining the trade of a country, the diminished profit of labor in some foreign country compels emigration, and such emigrants are likely to follow the capital. Only the poorest of foreign laborers will be compelled to help themselves by emigration, and only those will gain by the change of location. Thus it is said a restrictive tariff encourages the least desirable form of immigration. This is illustrated in the development of the mining industry through the fostering effects of the tariff. There can be no question that any restriction upon trade may foster the contrivance of combination to secure monopoly. Hence it is often claimed that the existence of trusts is due in great measure to tariff restrictions, preventing the competition natural in the commercial world. It is certainly true that the restriction of a patent right may make possible the abuses of a trust. If trusts were confined to protected industries or to countries maintaining protective systems, the weight of the argument would be stronger. It is certainly true, however, that the wider the range of competition without restriction, the greater the protection against combination for sake of monopoly. The monopoly
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