The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-09-21
"BRITlSH FREE TRADE" A DELUSION
To the Farmers, Mechan ics and La
bO-ers of the West and No rIhw


bO-ers of the West and No rIhwest.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
Why did English capitalists spend 81, $50, 600
in " ashington to break down our tariff of
1872 1T WAS The INEVITABLE RESULT
Or THEIR PITIFUL POSITION. COMPEL-
LING THEM, IF POSSIBLE, TO RULE OR
IRUIN THE WORLDS MANUFACTURES.
A much larger sum they will spend aga
if necessary, to make tributary to them, hold
ing out the promise of larger markets in their
ports for our grain and provisions, promise
as we have seen, never redeemed in the past
nor like to be, as the currents of trade set, in
the future. All the while is the free trade cry
kept up by these needy monopolsts, the Brit
ish manuf ,cturers because ii helps greatly to an
settle the minds Of oar and other countries, and
preUents the adoption of~ stable policy of fair
projections TO home Industry.
With our broad extent of fertile soil, and our
vast wealth of mines, we are under no necessi~
ty OF seeking T" crush industry the world over,
TO save ourselves. We wish no such wrong to
other nations, but simply desire to protect our
home interests, and leave them fair scope 10 do
the same.
ALI the worlds experience and the present
condition Of nations show the protective policy
to be the only safe and wise means for national
growth and tue highest culture; that is, where
it is carried to the extent of simply fostering
home industry and stops short of efforts to mo-
nopolize and crush down all industry else
where. This latter course as we have seen, is
that to which FREE TRADE ENGLAND is
driven by the narrowness of her territory, and
the poverty Of her resources, aside from capital
and skill in manufactures and trade. il er poll
cY has made millions OF her people paupers, has
wrought ruin and starvation in her Irish and
Indian possessions. and has well nigh ruined ev-
cry nation which has been induced to follow it.
In her colonies England has full sway. Is the
phlanthropic free trade policy, so kindly com
mended to other nations, carried out there? No.
The constant aim has been to discourage and
prevent man ufacturing among them; TO bring
their raw materials to Eng and to be wrough,
INFO finer forms there, and sent back agar.
Fearful. indeed, has been the ruin wrought in
this way.
In Bengal, sixty years ago, looms for making
cOttons, were in weli-nigh every household.
Thefine musIins of India had a world wide &C.
ebrity. Calicoes and coarser stuffs were made
not only for nome use, but hundred mill n
pounds OF cloth were exported yearly.
Maculay, who would not overstaie the case
ag ainst his "wn countrymen, said
"lhe misgovernment of the English was car
lied to point such as seemed hard y compati
BILE with the existence of society. They forced
The nations to bug dear and sell cheap They
insulted with impunity, the tribunals, the po-
lice, and the fiscal authorities of the country.
Enormous fortunes rapidly made in
Cacutf4, while 30 900, 600 human beings were
reduced TO the extremity of wretchedness. They
had been accustomed to be under tyranny, but
neveI such as this
"Under their own masters they had, at least,
one resource; when the evil grew unsupportable
The people rose and pulled down the govern
ment. But the British government was not to
be shaken off Oppressive as the most oppres-
sIve form of barbarian despotism it was strong
with all the strength of civilization
The importation OF machinery into Hindostan
~aH forbidden, and down went The VAST manu- |
features of cotton, for hand lab could not COM
! ete with power looms, and wide tracts of the
best cotton lands in India ran to waste and wild
jungles.
England gained thereby for time, but ma
ii"nS make no lasting gains by injustice, and |
Hlnd1stap, made poor by British monopoly is |
lar less valuable customer than she might have
been with lair treatment.
These horrid evils are partially remedied, but
too late to save DEATH and haggard want, aud |
pltiGi sofferings of millions of poor Hiudoos
The Sepoy rebellion, but few years ago, i'll
which, babies were tossed down the mountain i
gorges OF HIndostau from the bayoneIs of Brit
lsh soldiers, was OF the iateet tragedies in
that unhappy cruntry. g-es 81
II may be thought, too that the late ''opium
war with the Chinese fought to push that bale
tu drug down the thrOats of The natives at the
bayonet's point,ior the sake of the traders gam
is not the besr illustration either of oh liam
throPy or free trade
Look ct England's course toward Ireland |
Irish wool manu- features, once Furnishing, dis
couraged and broken down; IRISH shipping cut
If from equal privileges, Ireland must send her
aw materials to England in English ships, and |,
take back fabrics wrought in English shops. -
Der soil grew poor, her famshed people were
kept al the rudest labor, and while want ruled i
there, one-third Of the surface, including the
richest lands IN the Kingdom acere lying aouste
Irelands suffering is largely owing to this grasp
ing policy of England
Free trade indeed The colonial policy of
England is prohibition Of that association of
man acahhis tellowS, an pared 1a5ors, chach
l1ads to andluaduai groaeth and culture and |
'rfaHh. Her course toward the West Indies
has been marked by the same features, mitiga-
ted somewhat of late to save utter ruin Cana I
da has been better treated
Let US look at the condition of other countries
that have come under this so-caled tree trade
policy.
Portugal in l703.sigued the 'Methuen Treaty.
With England, by which, in return for favors
given her wines, she cut off almost all protec-
ion from her wool, food, &c Her manufacture. {
we're ruined; British goods poured into her ports;
he became purely agricultural country. poor i
With population decreasing, bad roads, and !
nails carried on horseback. Such is the condi- .
ion of country naturally rich, but made poor
~ her miserab'e policy.
Turkey has produced wool, silk, corn. and | 9
cotton, in large quantities; coal, IRON and con- ri
yer abound Two hundred years ago her trade t;
With Europe was large and her uernbon+s ;t /