, 1874-11-08
PROF. BONAMY PRICE,
What He Has Seen in America.
His Views Of Republican lnstitu-
tions.
Why They Succeed Here and Fail in
France and Spain.

| Donnmy Price, Of Oxford University, at the resi-
| denco OF Mr. r. Hall Mccormick, No. 619 Yves
+! Adams street, with view of obtaining some o
his impressions at America. The Professor re-
ceived him with the open cordialitJ for which ht
is distinguished, and the following conversation
| ensued:
oBJECT OF HIS v1sTT.
Reportcr-Was the object Of your visit tt
America profcssional,- il, educational,-o1
merely tour Of pleasure aud recreation?
Mr.. Price-1 had mover been in America;
felt great interest in tho country, md wanted to
sec her people and her institutions; and had
some feeling that might be useful in discussing
the present state of tho currency.
Reporter-Have you travelled much since you
have been hero?
Mr. Price-I have been necessarily going.
I have been to New York, New Haven, Spring
field, Boston. Cambridge, Cleveland, and now
here.
Reporter-What are your
IMPRESSIONS or THE COUNTRY?
Mr. Prlce-I cannot now give you all, but can
give ono or two impressions that struck me. I
wished to sea repub1icanism At work, and am
very much pleased, but rather surprised.
At tho great conservative strength which
find. By the side Of the marvellous
progress which the economical conditions
Of American life cnable her to achieve,
I perceive strong indications Of great practical
and political sagacity. Tho people seem to mo
to bc full OF sc1f-heip. to display @ remarkable
political cohesion and power Of rosnedy1ng. in q
practical manner. what theoretically might have
seemed only tho origin OF wildness and possibly
Of violence At the bottom discern tho old Anglo
Saxon rnOdrrntiOn and practical knowledge pf
ho a.,;oa. 1;,za rooathar na,,,,,,,,, T.,
Nv" o"'4one 4'o tuso"o' 4'etao'1 ~ 1A1e.'c
ls an utterly olncrent thing from HepuDllc
either in France or in Spain. There are no an
tasonisms here which toar society to pieces
Differences Of paft'hs 81 and 9nuta Of parties nnd
here is that there is q
which prevents the germs Of vioouco from
E1penine into fruit. It is impossible not to dis
ce1n things greatly to be ree1 cited; but thore is
no political society in the world that does not
present such objects. And, more particularly.
ursetting machinery ca'led ''ideas" which is
pcrpetually threatening revolution iu Eu-
rope. find none here crying
out thas property is 'lc't; that .it
Ian Ind mus. M be divided out in equal stases TINT
ist, is tue enemy Of the working classes tnat
the property belongs to the man who owns the
fingers that made it. or other Comm ohistic doc
trines. do nos meet those general assertions.
called in England and elsewhere - obvious p.i-
nothing nut the '' inner consciousness " OF the
speaker, and are convenient generalZa.ions for
him to get ont his ends. 1t seems to me there
ia no country whore the sense Of the
IMPROVEMENT OF PROPERTY roR HurA. LIFE
is more thoroughly established in the minis and
feelings OF all the population than in America:
and tho result OF it Is to give political stAbiiit
which many countries of Europe lauontably fail
in. And yet, By tbs sido of these erea: qualities
find the existence OF d fact Of tie most absu-d
AMERICA PRACTICES Protection,
thereby declaring political economy to be
folly, pronouncin:; Adam Stni:n to be
q wild man. and that the principles
upon which frce-trade countries hnre cou-
etlucted their vast traffic to be pure
error. Ptotectionist America does not perceive
that trado is exchange OF equal goods, and that
it is impossible for nation to buy from abroao
goods to import without selling M equal quantity
3 goods to export in eashaase for ho;s
profitable for her people to set them to work on
things where the labor Of the dav, and the cost
of the machinery, and tho emallncss OF
the produc:., gives the smallest reu,uner-
men. She acts deliberately on the
principle that it would be a wise thing for Eu-
gland to grow VINEYARDS under hot-bouses to-
stead of Bringing wine from France. simply be-
cause tue hot-nouses would be English. and the
OF France wouli be French. The
follr of such a proceeding would ba rnanifeat at
once to an American mind bnt ho dops mt ner-
ceive thas tho sans folly IS contained IN
maSurAcruR1Sa corroS on IRON oooDs.
America does not zee thai nrotect,on dona the
Same thing in substance AZ askine each MN 10
make all iha clothing he vcars not remar|;int-
ond Tawor clotho. .,a yevo~ .Laoa o.d
smaller wealth made for all tho community.
Neither ia It felt in America that
ia nothing short of charitah1e con-
trbuiion taken out Of tho pockets OF the Deonle
to support aud enrich small portion Of ,beir
fellow-cltizens--thas tho coueumer. who il an
American. is the only loser. The FOREIGNER
SIMPLY loses diminished trade, but the Amer
Ican consumer rays out of his rocEes eubscrio-
lions for the malntenapco Of particular mnnnfar-
turers- Il would bo wall for Ame,ica to feei that
Lzade knows uothinr of tho places or nations
where tha Goods ara made hut onir of thc mod.
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