, 1871-01-05
What Protection is Doing Bot the United
States

The following article is leader clipped
from the British COlonist. The structures
may be OVerdrawpaaYthat paper is great
ly given tO-exaggeraiing the short comings
Of Uncle Sam-though we believe the pub.
Usher at one. time boosted loadly on bis
Ameicauism bat that don't fill his peck
ct now--but the thing Is not altogether
without foundation. We, as terriicry,
can have no hand IN the matter, however
it may tend to crush one Of our best inter.
es.s; we can, at best, bit look on and bids
our time --f.-.f
"The press Of the United States of
America is at last awaking 10 the fatal
effects of the mad protection for sometime
INDUCED in, and Is warning the nation Of
the inevitable consequencesOf of Q continued
persistence in that policy. The Fiaaaeial
Chronicle Of New York, no mean authori-
ty on such subjects, has bern compiling
and Publishing data which clearly demon-
strate how terribly tho nation is suffering
from this psuedO protection. 1t is clearly
shown that the carrying trade of the Uni
ted States il being rapidly driven into
Canadian channels, and that the latter
country is really reaping rich harvest
from the stupid laundering Of the former
we may fnd,' says the ChrOnicle, that.
under system to which the name Of pRo.
lection is q fraud which no protecIionist
ever advocates which was created upoE
the plea of q temporary provision for
war which ceased six years ago, and Ot
heavy domestic taxes now abandoned )
which lays duties solely for the pufposeof
increasing the cost of things ;which pre-
tends TO protect the laboIer by raising the
price of everything he uses, and the Gust
Of evsgythingrh he produces, we shall have.
80 weakened our industries that Canada,
which we have lUoked down upon as lack
ing in enterprise and dragging along inl-
mrasurably behind our splendid progress,
will be stimulated 10 wonderful grOvthby
the industries and trade we have driven
from us, and will shame Us by her unpro'
tected energies.' This from the commercial
mouthpiece Of the meiropolis!y Statistics
are produced to show that not only has
Canada taken the lions share Of the carry,
ing trade properly belonging to the Uni
ted States, on land. and water, by rail- and
canal, but that it ID rapidly graphing the
manufacturing trade and monopolizing
those foreign markets which the republic
has so efficiently barred against herself.
The once great ship building interest Of
the States has been crushed, and thus has
American labor been deprived Of not less
than thirty millions year in wages alone,
besides robbing the country of an amount
10 pay freight to foreign ships, which has
been ettimated By tho highest authority at
thirty millions more. The Chronicle thus
concludes an article which, for frank out-
spokenness, is credit to the New York
press rf, -.r.-s.lt - d
"'Whilc our politicians are devising
monstrous schemes for boun;ies to revive
our shipping. and while Journalists and
politicians, who have bolstered up the sys-
TEN which has prostrated the shipbuilding
and the shipping interests, are proposing
schemes to lay their itching fingers on the
public lands 10 pay them for the patriotic
work Of I" flying the Aags Of the Union "
on one forlorn line Of old hulks, and while
the United States has not single steam>
ship running to Europe, Montreal boasts
that shipping firm in, that city evns the
largest feet Of steamships held by any one
company in the world, not excepting the,
Cunards. 1t has regular weekly mail
line Of the first class to Liverpool; a
freigh. line to Glasgow and Liverpool,
aud other lines to Liverpool and London,
and is making an experiment in the direct
trade with the Mediterranean. AID this
trade has not been without correspond
ing increase in the trade of the Canadian
railroads, which, with the same advantage
Of wiser fseal system, offer direct route
to the trade Of the Northwestern States of
this Union. A trip on the Grand Trunk
Railway from the Detroit river, where it
has its line Of steamers to western ports,
to Montreal, will open the eyes Of an OBJ
serving traveller TO the fact that the busi-
ness Of this road is rising 10 dimensions
which will juetify its imposing name. '"'o
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