Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-10-21

contending numerous body of f1esb.and |
blood monopolists, whose exactions are al
together too real and palpable, and we put
1t to yourselves 10 tell us whether YOU will
Will maintain that the eighth command.
ment is only theory and abstraction p
Oh, of all others give me man for an
opponent who will grant that am right
In theory. We knew well that we had
settled the matter with the ectionis,s.
the very instant that we brouugh, them to
acknowledge the justice of our principles
in theoryw
We commend these pity sentences of
the great free trade leader to those Ame
rican doctors in political economy who
avowedly in the face of all theory, would
make another desperate rally for the tariff
of 1912.
In commenting upon the reception of
Mr. Cobdens at Paris. the principal Pari-
sian journals have taken occasion to de-
lne their own positions on the subject of
free trade. The organ of the presen: mi.
nstry-the Des Debats-Ied the way
Somewhat Unexpectedly, at least to US,
that influential journal gives in its full ad
hesion in principle and in practice, TO the
doctrine of free trade. This is a maniles-
tation of French opinion at once sIgnif-
cant and important.
The Debats reasons with great force in
favor OF lis new position. 1t shows that
liberal commercial policy involves in it
self "the holy and noble cause of univer-
sal peace" 1t urges that freedom of
trade is the means through which each
country may furnish itself with all that it
wants-may produce what it is best fitted
to produce at the cheapest rate, and with
the best opportunity TO dispose of its pro-
auctions advanta geously. 1t shows, fur
Their, that under system Of protection, all
the operations of business become COM
plicated, and perverted, expensive, and
difficult. "Finally,'' it adds, "the protec-
tive system results only in economical de-
ceit and delusion. 1t profits only few
branches of human industry, controlled by
men more opulent or more deXterous than
their fellows" The Debats concludes It's
article by exhorting the government forth
with to commence "a new era of CONNER
cial liberty, undaunted by the clam ors
which such a policy will awaken.
Two other Partisan journals, the Sie-
Gle, and the Constitutional. representing
the old liberal party in France, hold a
similar language with the Debals. The
other sections of the opposition, represent
ed by the Esprit. Publique, and the Ma
tional, express distrust of the new conner
cial policy, mainly, it would seem, because
that policy has been advocated and adopt
ed in England.
A somewhat singular spectacle is thus
presented in France. The organs of the
government declare for free trade. The
organs of the opposition oppose such re-
form. But the inference is inevitable
that free trade opinions are fast gaining
ground among the French statesmen and
the French people. 1t is not too much TO
say that, ere long, in all probability,
France will enter upon that career of Ii
beral commercial legislation, which is i'll
harmony with all the tendencies of our
times, aud which has already achieved a
triumph, and begun to dispense its bles.
sings in the United States.
Mr.. Golden has since visited Bordeaux
where he met with a cordial and distin'
guished reception.
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