The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-07-22

we copyIrom she NORM American, is recon- |
mended to the careful perusal Of our readers:
The FREE TRADE HUMBUG.-When is this
miserable illusion of Free Trade to end? 1t isl
true that England-when her harvest failed.
and she could not supply her wants from the
Baltic and the Black Sea-did temporarily OPP
en- her ports to our American -four and corn.
But was that free trade? No! No sooner did
that season Of scarcity pass by, than her wise
Sir Robert, forgetting all the sycophancy of our
Sir Robert, applied the screw-again revived
his famous sliding scale-and so effectually
drove our breadstuffs from her market, that the
export of lS47 was not one-tenth part of the
amount shipped by US in 46 and now, in 4s
threatens to shrink to one tythe Of last yeor's
tenth; in spite of our daft Sir Roberts prom
ised grand total-for the millenium-of nine
hundred millions per annum.
Agsin-Great Britain condescends to admit
our cotton duty free, while declaring "that to
put arms in the hands of the Southern slave is
a fair business transaction" Frazers
Mag. but she does this only when our better
fabrics threaten to drive her coarse goods out
Of many foreign markets.-protesting all the
time, most virtuously against using the "blood
stained products of the guilty Southland
spending millions for the svowed purpose "of
crushing the Southern staple" by and through
the Stree labor produce" Of her ryot slaves Of
Hndostan, or her convict slaves of New South
Wales. True, she will receive our spirits and
tobacco at 1900 per cent. duty. This is Free
Trade with vengeance! But as if to put our
supple Sir Robert to shame, the true Sir Robert
issued an order commanding the Lord Cham
berlain to announce TO the ladies' who shall
attend the drawing room, and shall be honored
with an invitation to Buckingham Palace, that
her Majesty, ever DESTROYS ofgiving encourage
ment to the trade and industry of the United
Kingdom, and particularly at this time of com
mercisl depression would wish to see them in
dresses Of British manufacture" As the Queen
had expressed the same wish the previous
month, this reiteration can only be regarded in
the light of royal order. We can hardly be-
lieve that Democratic American Ambassador
though representing British free trade admin.
istration at Washington, could tamely submit
to his lady appearing at court, clad in British
costume, at H. B. Majesty command. AS lit
tie can we conceive one Of our Eastern mer-
chants-after paying discriminating duty of
300 per cent, on his cottons at Calcutta-rel-
ishing snch comment on ourSir Roberts doc
trine Of free trade as to find his wife excluded
from court, unless rustling in British silks-on
compulsion. Yet such; after ruthlessly sacrifi-
chg the iron, wooden, and cotton manufac-
lures of our country on the altar of this Mo-
loch of free-trade, robbing orr operatives of
bread, and our farmers Of the British markets
promised to them by elevating Polk and Dat
las to power, are the sad truths forced upon US
as bitter comments on the celebrated Kane
letter, which will, ere long shroud the furna-
|ces, FORCES and factories of Pennsylvania. We
commend our readers to an attentive perusal
oil MIR. Niles speech IN the United States Sen
ate, IN which the speaker, warning his brother
Locofocos OF the coming evils OF the British
Tariff, admits that the balance OF trade against
us in 1913 will be at least s42,OOO,OOO. But
MIR. Niles warns in vain Senate SO hopeless
ly inimical to home industry and national in
dependence. There, party rules, and the coun-
try is forgoten--Locoiocoism has powerful
majority, and the republic none; here we find
may politicians, few statesmen-lost great
men and perverted patriots Of the Goldsmith
school, who hold the interests of faction suPe-
rior even TO those Of mankind--a Senate
with an impractical bic Locofoco free trade ma