The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-10-03

Free Trade - Panacea.
The New York zsnses' London CORES :
pendent in q letter Of the 7th inst,, talks
as follows:
| The correspondents Of English papers
give melancholy accounts of dull bust
ness in commerce and manufactures in
America; but the remedy for this is SO
clear as pointed out in leader of the
London Times, that it is only necessary
to call an extra session of Congress and
adopt it. That paper says:-sYou have
only to remove all obstructions upon
Free Trade. Repeal all duties upon i'm
ports, and evory ship yard would be
alive with workers, every factory in full
operation, and the whole country pros.
porous and happy! But the trouble is
that nobody in America knows anything
about political economy. Under the ac-
tual tariff, it is said that American man.
ufactures are undersold by those of Eng
land and Germany-a Free Trade would
bring all right again.
w" ~ A0PPVuSs nOWGscIs tuot Eng
dland with Free Trade. is scarcely build
ing any ships, and that she is in serious
danger from Continental competition.
How is this muddle to be disposed of?
With Free Trade, half the laboring pop
ulation in England lives upon wages just
above the point of starvation, with no
resource in sickness or old age but the
workhouse, and Ireland is in state OF
chronic poverty and discomfort With
Free Trade there is perpetual war be-
tweet capital and labor, and the enor-
nous burden Of pauperism is increasing.
Americans may be ignorant OF political
economy, but cannot see that the Eng
lish are overburdened with wisdom, or
that the practical results Of their system
are Of very enticing character. The
workingmen Of England believe in Pro-
lection, and the English colonies prac-
tice it to the great annoyancs Of the the.
orists at home.
After all, Free Trade is proved i'm
possibility. Parliament is constantly
interfering with what, according to our
philosophers, should regulate itself. The
Poor Law system is itself protective
measure. So are all the laws limiting
the hours and ages. and regulating the
conditions of labor. We have acts of
Parliament forbidding the employment
Of women in coal pits, where. few
years ago, they worked naked like brute
beasts; acts forbidding the employment
in factories Of children of twelve years;
and, during the last session, laws have
been passed for the protection Of chill
dren in the numerous trades and in the
agricultural gangs which would disgrace
Dahomey. There is need of abundance
more Of such interference. In the back
north Of Birmingham, there is
q large population engaged in making
nails by hand labor-especially horse
shoe nails On an average, three fe-
males are employed in this work to one
male. wonder if, in all America there
is one female blacksmith. Even the
strongest minded Of the advocates of
rights have not claimed fer
women the trade Of blacksmith But
here little girls from = to years old are
set to work and kept at work as long as
they can stand, hammering at the anvil.
by the forge, blacked with SCOT,
never seeing school house or play
ground, but employed their whole lives
making horseshoe nails for bare SUBJ
Absolute Free Trade sets wo.
men and children to work at forge and
mine and reduces wages to the lowest
possible standard; and that is the sys-
tenn against which humanity protests,
md with which Parliament, in spite of
theories, finds it necessary to interfere.
Free Trade, as ultimated in England, is
he most debased ignorance, the most
lbhorrent cruelty, the most disgusting
1ice, and the most heart breaking misery
hat can be seen in any country calling
tself civilized and Christian.
Indians Pstents.
The following patents were issued to
[ndianians from the United States Pat
mt Office for the week ending Septem-
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