The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-07-07
FROM the Philadelphia Press.
British Trade Dcpcndeuf OH
American Legislation.


American legislation.
Better sense never was written than
the subjoined letter, addressed to
Con. W D. Kelley, the Representa-
tive in Congress from our Fourth ds-
trict, By an American gentlemen resi-.
dent abroad for several years and
more recently soiourner near Liver
pool, England. Deeply as we are
interested in protecting home labor
the English manufactured is more
deeply interested in its destruction
Eneland's greatest single customer i.
the United States ; and every demon
stra;ion Of the nitcd States Con-
grcss towards free trade. or lower du-
ties, adds 10 the power and the wealth
of the British government at home
aud abroad, ,rHiom IN hC di1Lbsl
dgree reducing he prize Of he tobra
pJudaced Thus our froc-trade lcgis.
la'ion helps nobody but tho English
Read the remarkable evidence OF the
letter we copy on this point. $,
that, while paupcrizing our own labor
and paying taxes in lieu of revenue,
gathered from foreign imports, We got
no goods cheaper from the British
market. Observe, also, the startling
appeal to the Irish n America. II
seems to be impossible to expect tha'
these people VIII ever truly under
stand that the best way 10 strike Eng
land is to oppose free trade in Amcri
ca, and to support the party that pro.
tects American industry but thi,
does not dctrnCt from the force Of lbC
appeal of the letter we copy Pom.
dcring these views and comparing
them with the theories OF the rcycnu,
rcicrmcrs in Congress and elsewhere
itseems almost impossible 20 uccoun
for the blindness with which certain
American newspapers and leaders in
sist upon establishing in this countr,
~ system which has produced so mucl
dcstitution in every land that ha
adopted it but as the English man
uiacturers must have market here
they do not hesitate, doubtless, at al
sorts ol convincing Arguments
LIvrRIooI.. June Il, 1870
DEAR SIR: Your letter has bee,
duly received am glad that thcr,
are some people left who think a
much Of their own country and thci,
own countrymen as they do otthe Eng
Eah II ,b, T.,a ,r,Iaro .,nI, l,,, 4
on this side, and see the interest TAX
en- and the cxultation manifested n
mopg their English friends here n
every move they make TO break dowr
our manufactures and render us de
pendent upon England, ! think the,
would pause in their efforts, unlrs
they are entirely destitute Of patrio,
ism, or have sold themselves to th,
English manufacturers. These me-
are doing more in our Congress 70
the protection OF England aud Eng
sh interests than it is possible TO
any English Parliament TO do: anC
there is no Ya'siion here either bcior
the Parliament, or that is agitating III,
people, that receives hal! part tn
attention, or is regarded as Of one
halt part the importance Of the free
trade question in the United States
1t is of all others the great and lead
ing question of the day among them
for they see and understand that upol
il, depends not only their commercial
greatness, but their strength aud DOW
er as one of the leading nations of tn,
world as well. We take now from
Eugland about one 9th Of all IL,
manufactured productions which sh,
sells 10 foreign nations. Stop thi
sale to us, and she becomes bankrup
and ruined, and ceases to he n lcadn,
power among nations. Double thcs
SAILS, as you wonll if you adopted tn
policy Of the free traders, and you 20
only sustain her in the position sh,
now occupies, but you add To her mn
tcrial wealth, increase greatly lor re-
sources, and give her additional pow
or and strength as nation. 1t is he
material wealth alone that gives he
the strength and power she now wields
| uecd not say to you, for you under
stand it as we'll MS myself, that wha
England would gain by the adopiio,
by us Of this policy, we should lose
IL would take from US, and accumu
late and heap it up in London. Th,
people here see and understood thii
fully, and are patriotic enough, what
ever their politics, so far as our coun,
try Is concerned, as to all pull togeth
er, and discreet enough to keep thei
feelings upon the subject within bound
knowing that any demonstration l.,
them, or seeming exultaton in Eng
land, would damage their cause apt
destroy the influence of their friends
the free traders in the United States
and liberal enough to spend aay
amount Of money through their agent,
10 New York, Boston, and other ci
ties. that may DO necessary TO buy up
and demorslizs the press and our poll