New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-09
BRITISH TESTIMONIES FOR PROTECTION,
LOW WAGES.

coal Of Lancashire held recently at Manchester
| the chairman Mr.. Halliday referring to the rate OF
the present rate of wages earn the common
of life, and the miners, as class, were not behind the
of their fellOw-countrymen in their wish 10 2o
in the pound. over-production had been the baDe Of
reaae te laws Of supply and demand Il
fact that had gone down 40 per cent recently bat
they must not only work for the eight hours but sse 70
get good security for the preservation Of their iiyss
while they were in the mnes He then called upon the
deputaton from the various districts make their re-
| ports. ... -
free trade correspondent OF The Manchester Gudrdfrn
explains that he proposed to the Chamber OF COmmercs
to circulate Mr. Brights speech solely with DO
heresy which has latery tainted very largo portion
our Lancashire cotton manufacturers and knew OF
means 80 likely as the circulation OF Mr. Brights abs
and lucid speech. In the letter he says: Our
spinners are now paying l3d pound for sura cotton,
chinery when such cotton selling at I'D. pound
and i TO be feared that many of them ondy dreamed
surats would never rise higher than AID We are suffer-
aBd IL most Sear spnner saying on
and Blackburn Exchanges that we ought to prohibit
aCnsS ~ ng Gsan s ads and the
men who are infected those who yet to
subscribe their first guinea TO promote cotton CULTIVATION
| in the various parts OF the world
BRITISH JEALOUSY
correspondent OF The Manchester Examiner admits British
jealousy the progress Of manufactures in other ooun
The chief for apprehension to the future in
the OF ay eT is oTeen come se
petition for cotton and customers they say the thing
to be feared That there steady increase in the mum
Der Of factories abroad fact be neither overlooked
nor over estimated Notifications OF the British share OF
the whole trade must be anticipated and prepared for But
that mod6cafion does not necessarily involve dminu
ton The maximum OF the worlds demands Will not %
Of our Merchants has swept the globe there VIII be hops
for the industry of our manufacturers IL Is quite true
that the former will be sent further field with yet fuller
scope the hghquaites withwhch they are justly ac
credited" =,
bad times" in America and few manufactures in
India, it seems, would be deemed advantageous.
"Our competitors" he continues {" have by no means
a clear course. The pressure OF bad times Is not unIet
America despite the protection OF the tarh and the
factories of NewEng will not be in full racing con-
don until the crisis is passed which must attend the
adoption of sounder system OF trading Inc dlmcuHes
C CO them 6umeTcaiy within the ias Of some En-
gsh manufacturing villages The danger Just sun
and to unSieepng watch over thing which
can yet be made cOntributory to success; Dut tne
strife has not assumed form so menacng as 70 JUSTIFY
DfsiSTEREsTED EFFORTS OF SIR EDWARD wATKS.
In the long address chiefly free trade, which Sir I'd
watkn delivered at Aderly Edge on the 10th ult
he disclosed project OF his to render hign tarin IN,
possible by encouraging smuggling on the Canadian IRON
tier Having referred 20 his efforts to consodate Brsn
power In North America, he continued lie had
thought and II he was wrong It in the company Of
Of the greatest colonial statesmen we ever hadthe
lea could be united under CustomHouse. and gov
erned under the authority OF the crown and we could In
open the great lakes and that magnificent river the St
Lawrence TO the commerce OF all nations higa taIin IN
stance Of the mpossibty OF maintaining nigh duties oy
Canada and the states was shown during ana AFTER tne
late war. when articles OF dress being very heav.
the number OF people who crowded the border INTO
Canada wearing the most shabby clothes and went
glory was not arrayed like one Of these" lIaughter
Whether that the way 10 obtain mitigation OF inc
United States tariff not they would agree upon one
thing, viz: that it would give great stimulus to our
manufactures il could induce the Government OF the
United States to admit them at moderate duties They
could not, however obtain this most desirable boon
without the consent OF the people Of the United states
nd NI a
bring such desirable end aboutf Two or three years
ago when n Wss ss S Se Ssd made the snsson
through mutual friend 70 , hotd 9'an ea VINO
wise and polite as the people of the United
states had sent to US ambassadors whose missions
and only one man, in this country who had the
and had the heart of the people OF that country
Bright cheersthat If he could be induced TO under
take the mission 10 make peace and establish CONNER
ca arrangements sound principles with the United
States he should be asked to undertake. that
duty, and he would be almost certain 70 succeed
Cheers He would not perhaps be Jqstinea IN Ewing
them the text OF the answer he received Dut II Mas 10
the effect that the Conservative party coud hard DO
induced to accept proposition OF that kind Langntett
aud cheers As knowing perhaps sueent Oh TUG %
States, and OF the feeling existing there he SAID
most sOlemny that If that suggestion had then been
followed out would not DO now IN tne mouths
Of Conservative gentlemen 10 say that thero was
hostile tar IN America 6 Ssyeui been no trading upon
fair terms with the people OF the United STATES.
American Constitution which called into operation
after every decennial census u would lnialDy happen
that the Southern and great western states NOuu oe III
maority-that say that those who produced the
material, and who had no protecuye duties Wonlu
be majority, and it was hardly TO be believed thas
they would allow the system OF substituting the New
England and Pennsylvania manufactures out OF tDe.
pockets continue for moment longer tDRn they cOu
help II we did disturb the current OF events by
rash ignorant action, we might expect 10 see te sys
removed and i'm that case he believed there would hardly
be mill or mandatory IN Laneasnirs or Cheshire ,aa1
would not be set agong immediately Oh fun tie at II"
munerative prices. Cheers
A DIssENrIENE ...,, Ella.
On Of Manchester
while expressing his admiration OF Sir Edward "athlht
speech he unable to accept his u9rsse'sa sxpr9s
suggested that much of that prosperity which ATTENDED
mSt have arisen from the discovery OF the CALIFORNIAN
and Australian gold mines, and the great ADDITIONS tnat
MEDIUM In the course Of oGg speech he contended
that 1t the duty OF all English statesmen TO see that
queDce of undue advantages given to foreign manu-
aoturers of the same article Ihus IN the case OF the
French treaty. the import duty on silks coming INTO this
country was removed whereas our silks going into
France mere Was d tnrend tb Oh INK Se9 Yarn ~
they used to speak Of dferential duty" with thls
difference, however, that the foreigner was charged
nothing while the native manufacturer was charged
great deal.
The following passage from MI Jacob Brghts recent
speech at Manchester proves the inconsistency Of In
glands so-called free trade policy:
The he said, who seeking for reciprocity
began at the wrong end Instead OF asslling foreign
There were many countries where we stu imposed very
heavy duties. He would refer TO China, where we ni'
quality ON tea; while our cotton goods were admitted
into China at duty OF per cent Brazil he believed,
had high tariff but he should think nothing high
the tax we imposed upon Brazilian sugar Then take the
West Indies the enormous tax we put upon sugars
lie would not for moment that there no ground
for tie labors OF the Reciprocity Assoeiaon but be-
fore 1t began teach other governments ought 10 get
our own into proper order.
PROTRCTIONIsT DOCUMENTS
Under the head of the 'oAntFree Tradei Movement
The London Daily Nsws Gree Tradel says
Now that the protectionist movement has ed
vaneed beyond the patronage OF poor reyvers and re
become
the Tory party may be worth while TO ask who are the
persons who for time past have prompted speakers