The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-11-07
The Free Trade Swindle.
IFrom the Irish Republic. ]

has been SO frequently quoted that we are
half ashamed to rproducez it, of ssthe
vaulting ambitien''i9 which oyerleaps
itself and falls on the other side
The leader of the fallen angels is suppes-
led to have attempted to contest the SUI
preinacy of universe with the Eternal
himself. The daring act and the dread
4 full doom of the offender were asclosely
Il connected as substance and shadow, or
4 of cause and effect. SO has it ever been
I with those men and nations who serve
) the king of evil OH this earth. The pun
iishment treads cloSson the heels of crime.
4 For the pittiless tyrant there is the saw
age assassin Hence, witty Frenchman
4 said that 'sthe Turkish empire was a des-
potism. limited by the bowstring.' Of
this eternal and Interchangeable principle
no more significant or pertinent iliestra-
ton could be quoted than England S rule
in Ireland. Has 1t not consisted of force
and fraud, of hypocrisy and injustice, Of
robbery and murder, from first to last?
And is not ireland Englands weakness
and terror to day? And is not the hour
fast approaching when the victim shall
be the avenger? More than a million Of
as brave aud true men as the world con-
tains have sworn it, and they will keep
their oaths.
/ On late occasion we proved that such
a thing as trading on equal and impartial
terms with foreign nations does not exist
Ill England, and by her present ruling
class never was intentcnd to exist. For
those articles which are absolutely neces-
sary for her own wealth and aggrandize-
ncnt, there is free admission. Against
all others a protective tariff is leveled, so
rapacious and exorbltant IN its terms that
the introduction of them tends only to
enrich the British treasury and to I'M
poverish the foreign manufactures. -
American corn and -four are admitted
free, because Saxon stomachs must be
filed. American tobacco is taxed and ia
riffed to the very verge OF absolute eX-
clusion, because the admission of it would
enrich the people and Government of
this country. And this we are coolly
told is free trade .s
But the whole thing is rotten from the
foundation. Even with regard to the few
articles which they have permitted, for a
few years past, to be imported free into
their country, the English have already
found out that they have committed a
grand mistake. Take iron, for instance.
and every intelligent person will admit
that for this article there will be an hour
ly increasing demand iii all civilized coun
tries Well, foreign manufacturers
men whose homes, and factories, and
work >hope, are in France and Belgium
and North Germany-are at this hour
nRae4-seHing TIE British iron merchants u,
their osen markets. 1t is IA positive fact,
they have not only beaten John Bull out
Of the markets of Spain and Russia, but
that they are sending over from Ostend
and Rottcrtlaln to London and Liverpool
the machinery for English mills, and the
| locomotives which are to run on English
railroads. ~ 9l' zA- tl haa
Let this go on and it requires no su-
pcrnatural ,,enetl alton to foisee the Inev-
liable issue Those nations which protcct1
their native manufactures from ruinoGs
competition and the interest Of their
honest workers, will inevitably become
'thc workshops of the world, y while
those countries and peoples who are So
insane as to adopt the great free trade
swindlc will, as inevitably, lose their trade
and become the homes of poverty and
ignorance and crime. Such, if England
pcrscvcre5 in this intensely sciiisn policy,
which, sa5an-like, has woefully overreach
cd Itself will be her inevitable fate. The
DltccSS Is atttdiS III dCUiNC piJClttlOif, duh
even if America and Ireland were new
cr t. fire a Shot, or strike a blow to
avenge their wrongs-free trade alone
will prove 4 disease powerful enough to
secure F,nsali;ls decay and dissolution.
Some eighteen months ago, Gladstone,
who is the great British medicine man
of the free trade nostrum, was proving
hy all sorts OF 9abstruSe and elaborate ar
IL, bn,,ub 6oul xpac trf,Ip
out OF England tdnthe Europcan contl-
nent at an immense rate, and although
the island was small, and the stock. OF
coal limited it never could, would or
should be exhausted. And all cockney-
dom was satisfied and said Amen. We
tiink that BY this time Gladstone and his
baulboozled client, Bull, are beginning to
smell mice y They arc finding out
for what purpose so much coal was want
"a. II was to make and manufacture
IRON. Id- r-A cheap and nlentful, |
thar the foreigner ra.. l.. :. ( it Jack - IA !
place where he got the coal, and beat the
English In their own country. Verify, |
Bull S chickens have come home to roost
with vengeance!
Certainly, MIR. Bull, buy your iron, your
boilers, and locomotives and ships where |
YOU CdI SCO GllClu CDCdpCSO-iiI
and Belgium. You can also buy your
cutlery in Prussia cheaper far than you
can get it in Sheffield The only draw
out of your pocket and out of your cuun-
Your workmen will be idle and hungry,
and your manufacturers bankrupts F!
Grand discovery, this free trade ism t it
Mr. Bull? I1j s naa
Tha English have forced this accursed
key And it has ruined them all. Are
the people of America going to add their
country to the inglorious list? Such is the |
policy of the Democratic party We say
so deliberately, and we know, and so do |
all our readers, that when we say so we
speak the truth 1t is their policy now,
Just as it was their policy when James
Buchanan and jeff Davis were dong |
their traitor work in Washington. We
appeal once more to the Irish working
men of America-and they count mil |
lions--;lre you about to give your votes
to those who will introduce British free
trade? who viii make America another
ireland, nay, worse than ever Ireland
was? For ireland, at the worst, was only |
the victim of the British swIndler and
murder But America, which conquered
England twice on the field of war, and
can and will do it again, will, the day she
embraces the free trade swim le of Eng
land, fall sacrifice to the guile of her
enemies and the treachery of he- 3wn
children. That day never can come, it
you will only do your duty, and that is
simply to act on the motto Of your illus
trious countryman BURN EV .IRYTHING |
THAT CONES FROM ENGLAND-ExCEPr
THE Coal.