(Note: The following opinion piece first ran in the Dallas Morning News and is reprinted here with permission.)

by Richard Parker

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f the first casualty of war is truth, then the first casualties of trade war are the working man and woman. And first among them is about to be the iconic Texas rancher.

Here in the rolling pastures of bright, green spring grass at the edge of the Texas Hill Country, the handful of large spreads prosper from a wet winter. The short-horned Charolais br...