The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-11-06
THE PROTECTHvE PmENOM-
ENON.

II we may trust such light rs the
Oregoaaan sheds upon the subject, the
workingmen of Great Britain do not
flourish under the free trade system.
And the reason given is that English
goods are not admitted into other coun-
tries without heavy duties, and the
goods of all other countries are ad-
mitted to competitionin England with
out duty. There is room for sophistry
to show why the people of one govern
ment should ask protection from the
cheap manufactures of another gov
ernment. But, pray tell as how this
is that all governments should need
and demand protection. America, for
instance, putsa tariffon English goods,
because England makes her goods so
cheaply that she can undersoll Ameri-
ca. And who shall give the reason
why England should put duty on
American goods? Why should Ameri-
can industry be dangerous to English
interests ON English soil, when it is
incapable of competing with those in
terests upon her own soil ? But, per-
haps some one will say that it is only a
class of articles that England finds il
necessary to protect. So then, the adj
vantages of protection are not wholly
one sided England must protect
against America, while America is pro-
teeting against England? Now what a
dilemma your protectionist gets into
here? Do we not all see that since
supposing the fallacies of the protee-
tionist to be truths-what one of the
two trading parties loses, the other
gains, and since both want protection
there must be a reciprocity iii the adj
vantases of free trade as well as in It's
disadvantages. Who is it that gains,
since everybody loses? What absurd
ity can be greater than that of all the
nations of the earth building walls
around their commerce-each for it
self-for fear that they shall do each
other harm. The Oregonian says that
the workingmen of Great Britain do
not flourish under free trade, and
'sare now clamoring loudly for protec-
tive duties" Truth, is all that is want
ing IN this fine talk Protection is not
an untried experiment in England, nei-
ther do her workingmen clamor for it.
The actual results of such q system
are still recent enough to linger in the
memories of men living 1t had long
existed in England and held its ground
there, until, as has been forcibly said
''it had starved and ruined almost
every branch Of industry agriculture,
manufactures and commerce alike. -
Here is description of the condition
to which it had brought that country,
in 1912 just previous to it's overthrow.
We quote from Miss Martineau His
tory of England, Book chapter 5:
Serious as sas ;he task oi the Minister (sir
Il. Peel IN every view, the most Immediate fym,
paihy felt for him account Df the fearful
stlte 0l Tie people. The distress bad deep
cned ia the manufacturing disF cts as 10 render il
CLEARLY inevitable thai many mast die, aud q mu-
tiudc b. lowered - q state Of sickness and irrita-
biiity from want Of food while there seemed Io
chance Of any member ol the manufacturing class%
es eoningout Sf the struggle at last with vestige
OF property wheFeWith to begin The world again.
The pressure Lad long extended beyond the lBter-
ests nrsi Affected, and when the new Ministry came
into power, there seemed to be 40 class that Vas
not threatened with ruin. In Carlisle. the Com
nit c. Of Isquiry reported that furlh Of the
population was 10 slate bordering starvation
actually certain TO die Of famine unless rci yea
By extraordinary exertions. In Stock.
port, more than half the master spnners had fail
ed before the close of 1872 dwelling houses to the
number OF 5000, were shut up; and the oecup ers
Of many hundreds more unable TO pay rates
at all. Fiye thousand persons were walking the
streets in compulsory idieness, aud The Burnley
guardians wrote to the Secretary of the State that
the distress was far beyond their mana cement: so
that a government commissioner and government
funds were sent down without delay. Ia
families where the father had hitherto earned g2
per week and laid by portion weekly, aud
Hncie al was gone but the sacks OF sha9lngE they
slept on, cxertions made to get blue milk
Tor children to moisten their oatmeal; but soon
they could have it only On alternate days; and
water must do. At Leeds the paupcr stone
heap amounted to 10000 tons and the guard
iaDs offered the paupers Is. per week for doing
nothing, rather than rs Cd. per week for stone
breaking. The millsrights and other trades we're
Offering premium emigration, to induce thei.
hands to go away. At ifinckley, onc-third Of The
inhabitants pauper; more than fifth Of the
houses stood empty and there was not work enough
in the place to employ properly One-third Of the
weayefs. In Dorsetshire man aud his wife had
for wages 3 Cd. per week, and three lOayes; and
the ablest aborer bad 6s I'd. In Wiltshire, the poor
peasants held open. air meetings after Work-which
vas necessarily after dark. There, by the light
Of one or two faring tallow candies, the man OF
the woman who bad story to tell stood on Il
chair and related bow their children were fed and
clothed IN old time-poorly enough, but rs TO
keep body aud soul together and now, how they
could nohOw manage to do it.. Tho bare detaiis Of
the ages Of their children, and what the little
things could do and the prices Of bacon and bread,
and calico and Goals, had more pathos in them
than any Oratory heard elsewhere"
A BIG DOSE COMING. Mrs. Stowe is
about to launch q second installment
of the Byron slander upon the world.
1t is said that advance sheets have al
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