The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 15, 1848

Marichest

Guardian sometimes throws off

some funny things, with a nonchalance and gravity
of manner, which would fain indicate, on the part
of the writer, a perfect conviction in his own mind
that he is not joking at all. Perhaps, however, if
peep into hiS editorial sanctum
estation of one of these articles, we
1e to discern an occasional twitch of
'ties, or a wicked wink of his eye,
licate, with tolerable distinctness,
ngaged in forging a few argu-
'ut both ways, in order, for the
ie good easy public of the
isequently to be enabled to
sy public the ready tact with
-,ay positions, which more
be enabled to destroy

bamboozle tl

would o

ins publication on
headed the West Indies and the
if not a piece of the wicked
we rt. srked upon, is one of the most
we may almost say, impudent per-
ms or which we ever knew a journalist of
to be guilty. After a quarter of a
';nape introductory about things in
Trade in particular, our con-
to twit, amongst others, the

.eneral

which

id. we r

fiction

ng to be guilty

remarkat

badinagf
nd Free

roceed

party upon the failure of their pre-
would be the result towards
e trade in corn. He says :

ar, of u

o what

e of the repeal of the corn-laws, and of
on of cattle and provisions, have proved
)les of the falsification of predictions.
ountry party' gloried in their sliding
!ultural distress

was a ' condition' of as
r changes in the undustrial

last few years have pre-
Aion of agricultural pros-
le means which free trade furnished
he losses and inconveniences of bad
ne, bid fair to restore the country to a
iealthy and prosperous state, and thus to
t least materially to modify, the distress
which has hitherto always followed cora-

1 misfortur

lete falsification, he says, has

I other c

needs to account for

T could perceive an analogy.
sified,—when free trade pro-

inced re ri

iey alv

s discovered some

,ecial causes. The iron manufacturer in England sur-
ved competition, only through the accidental introduc-
ed by improve-

hinery ; the growth of wool by the discovery
wool could be worked to a greater benefit in

in like manner, agricul-
t two years, is attributed to a

lure of corn harvests, and a rot of potatoes. There has
ways been some special cause to account for the success
free trade."

Now, it is not very clear to us on what grounds
advocates of protection may not very fairly
1 special circumstances as having warded off
)rarily the injury which they anticipated from
Take the first case put by the Guardian
the case of the farmer. That class is not ruined
Prices of grain have not fallen beyond a pay-
' point. They are, on the contrary, just now
T a shade below the average attempted to be
by the Corn-law of 1842; and they have
ring the past year, a point nearly,
i; average. The advocate of the agri-
Aerest will urge, as the cause of its being,
, in a condition 'of comparative pros,lerity,
fact that continental harvests have been de-
ficient; that Ireland, by- the loss of her potato crop,
has had to be fed on a better kind of food at the
expense of the State, and from private charity.
Again, the vast hoards • of the New World have,
instead of being poured into these islands, been
liffused throughout the countries of Europe, whose
lessities have been as great as our own; and
,he American agriculturist and the English
,ulator have been able, by combination and
,rtuitous circumstances, to force up prices, a large
portion of our farmers, the sensible portion of them,
-_!d the opportunity of realising their stocks
musually advantageous terms. They may also
that to meet the rush of breadstuffs from
rmous prices were paid—as much at
95. per barrel of flour from New York, i
inch can now be imported for is. 3d. to Is. 6d.
Has not the argriculturist a perfect right thus to
account for his temporary prosperity ? Of course
has. In denying that he has such a right our
contemporary either forgets, or wilfully suppresses,
the fact that the Free-trade party have a few little
falsifications of their own prophecies and promises
to account for; and that we find them adopting,
in the efforts, precisely the same reference to
" special pauses." We all remember, during the
Dng agitation for repeal of the Corn-laws, the pro-
se, constantly- held out to the working classes,
a cheap loaf," "a big loaf," &c., &c. Now,
neither had, during the average of the first
Trade, either a very " cheap " or a
We have neither at this moment.
die reply of a Free Trader to admit of
mointment would be a recapitulation of
- - --(red by the farmer. We

Free 'l'rad

touched, du

as yet

e sea

me time as

or course
this disai

e causes a

re pror

ed, as tt

_cult of our admitting the
Jrn of other nations to consumption in the British
ales, a vast extension of manufacturing industry
And of employment for the working classes—in
We have had instead
ned or working short time ; the con-
-ays all but suspended ; mercantile
Ind tradesman's bankruptcies taking place on every
side ; confidence between man and man destroyed,
and the interchange of commodities for money re-
stricted to the bare wants of our daily consumption.
Of course, for all these sad falsifications of the
pledges of our philosophers, we have, once more
"special causes" pleaded. Most consistent Free
Traders, in the magnitude of your offences of this
sort, as compared with those of which you accuse
the. Protectionists, how well do you illustrate the
dage, that "one man may steal a sheep, and another
hanged for only looking over a hedge!"
With respect to one important result of our
it policy—the infliction of serious injury upon
iperty, and alienation of the feelings of their
'in,—the anticipations of the Protectionists
nroved to be in every way correct, whilst
-‘Thining apologies,

fpit. of

factories st(

ion of .ruilv

the Free-trade party are driven to
and even misrepresentation of fa
The Protectionists stat
drawal of adequate pro'
would spread suffering,
and ultimate ruin among
the colonies, who had e. Jarked their capital in
those colonies, on the faith of the security afforded
by British laws ; and that with respect to another
great rising state, we should find, should we ever
unfortunately have to claim aid of their loyal
services to protect the interests of the mother
country, that our approaches, if not indignantly
and altogether rejected, would be met by coldness
and the utter want of that noble enthusiasm which
its inhabitants have hitherto displayed towards the
Country of their birth. The first portion of our
colonies referred to are our sugar-growing pos-
sesions in the West and East Indies. The other
portion is our British American colonies.
The Free-trade philosophers, on the other hand,
either denied, in toto, that such results would oc-
cur, or else hedged themselves behind assurances
formed upon the data of men utterly, the bulk of

boldly that the with-
on from our colonists
e of property,
3s in some of

•st a large cl