The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

ANOTHER MATCH SUGGESTED.

Lora Echo writes to the papers to make the follow-

ing—euggertnina :
Looking at the great Interest envied on both sides of the
Atlantic by the recent Internet' nal rowing contest, and to
the iriendly feelings of 1 ... too ably rivalry in manly sports
that have thus to-en, we ma) hope, I.stingly e-tallehed
between the two great represew wive nations if the Anglo-
Saxon race. lam tempted to ark a bether the vine urght. it
he made auxiliary to the oar m strensthening there feelings
and drawing clover our p.otlcal relations
The rifle used to he the far,emed weapon of the Atne•i
eon; by ite help the now world has been ..uhdued alio
civilised ; by its Ili' Arnerioa became a free S'ate Mid
or e lolly A lowa natiot . In the mother c‘mtiti y a lew
years egor fie thin). ing wan tO Waited lady by the 41 Al stalker,
it i 4 now a tganonal p.li ie, and we 11 di, r ourselves
we have not Only the hest rifler, but tha hest rine stove
in the world Ti what ev,ent rifle sho.iting is hon prac-
tsd in America we know not. We have seen excellent
Atomic .n m liters hreectil .adore and tenratrre hot we hear
of ro match rifle. or American Wlnnardon. It Cannot
hotteVer, he that in thew dela . f long rense the skill of .
American r ifl-ttien Is stid only shown in batting squirrels at
.ixty yard., as de.crined in cooper's novels. Toe race of
old .. Li wher-steckner " and ' Hawkey° " dountless sur-
vives and it is pethans not too much to hope that a team
of American mark-men, following the example of the
II ervatd crew, 11311) be tempted in cross the Atlantic and try
the mettle of our crack shots. Should they honour its by
so Mang. I mg venture to say that nowhere would our
cousins he more heartily welcomed than before the butts at
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WiuIIdOU.

THE PRESENT STAGNATION OF
TRADE AND ITS CAUSE.
The following letter from "Lancashire Employer"
appeared in The Times of Tuesday :
Durng the Parliamentary recess, and while the country—
Immesh ire in especial—is labouring under • severe and pro-
longed depresdoli el trade, it behoves every one interested to
consider if there is airy other cause of stagnation than
• i reply a recut rence id oroutary panic But it is egitally desir-
able iti our sthviiy to he cautions that We are not led astray
by airy bras or hobby, or any plamibly arranged statistics,
and so ...rive at nostrum' and mischievous cimclUsions.
The necessity of care in this flintier is impressed on my mind
more int toner lately iiy the e ppearsi we of sundry publreations,
iii un.don and ,loewhere, boldly threwitig discredit upon our
sy 'tem id free trade, but monde, withal, to exclude from their
re-owning facts a loch I hope {Reseed, to Ohms point to the
erectly opposite requirements—viz., that we want our trade
still more tree than it is.
Lancashire, it is generally admitted, mutt stand or fall by
her cotton la *de; and though all will allow that no perma-
nent beers of prosperity cart be retard hi this till cotton be
again foithcoming in full quantity, an uneasy feeling pre-
vale that meanwhile our Contotental mid Transatlantic
friends are fast becoming independent of our markets, and
even proving our keen compedtors. Hence the unquel.
tonally increasing murmurs against "free trade without
reciprocity."
A greater calamity than the American War has proved for
this country could not have occurred, for besides the de-
rangetirent of our staple inanufmnure there has resulted a
spirit of speculation, or rather or gambling, which has Witted
many torinerly steady business toes for sister, though tamer,
pursuits ; hen dal-winced a thirst lot rapidly artplirlng such
fortuttes as before were niade only by years of penevering
and litalOnrattle oCcUpation ; has Mooted eXtravagalice,
which forCen teen lido har,rdolle tramacdoes ; and has
deadened the sense of h inour and shame of failure once
characteristic id the ftii isti traction community. And all
toil, we rosy be sure, has not happened withoUt he effect
'woo the great ouisstrstitin--the writing Cloattea,-who call
hardly be firmer in restating temptation than their haler
educated ntighboltra. Accordangly we find them exhibit-
ing • greater impatience of control, a stronger aversion to
labour, and an thicressitig desire for shorter latUre arid higher
wages Not that they del,) being much better off than tor-
nicely, hut th, y seem to Iwo conceived the ittea of being at
ones toaaters slid serealltil, artioane and legislators receivers
of singes and 'tubers if the destinies of trade." Some years
age, Nir. Baxley, Al P., celivered a lecture at one of our
mechanics' institutions, entitled "Labour the foundation
of Westin" a lecture, as we call imagine from its title and
ettr knoWledge Of its author, well calculated tin Inspire habits
of self-dependence, industry, and coononly in his bearers, as
the meals of their advancement to pr. isperity. But by a
singular perversity, not altogether witiout parallel in the
better instructed classes, the mat' I nit from that and
all shriller lectures and addle, s in the artisan's
mind would ap;iear to have been thii Urination of an Idea
that as the tOnlidation is nee, tsar y tonuperstructure, on
are the waking cases necks's, y ; r and I'..•re-
-10re are Inky st inert), by any ~;- cliitirce tints
they may tlituk proper IA the noinationS of labour. it this
is net the creed of all working men IL barely expresses the
aims it the trade unionists, as may be seen any day by mixing
among them. Watching them work, and listening to the lan-
guage of their club delegates. And their eftorta are as
done of a traitn, d army against an undisciplined mul-
titude when brooght to hear on their non-tlitiOn fe11"...
l"... We all remember the revelations which the
extraordinary power of the Royal Comniimalon elicited
both inn Ymkshire and Lancashire a little while ago, also
the defective int mot sea, faulty biaik-kerping, and general
ttr tattiest, strut leririr bind, Ity el msiny of these societies now
darns SO Ittindy fir epeeist it atelattoll in their favour.
West ion he a .of c :afar 1.04 a lim.e lawless system of pro.
teetioll, hone the le,s real for being MI theist, nor effective
tine being tract? When we think of the (VW leteittiolla penis
taken by the Royal Commission, and the astounding facts
proved, the steps taken by U.S authorities seem ridiculously
inadequate indeed, to a stranger the employers would
every where seem the suresson and the unionists the pose-
'slog elms.