The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-13

iNew York World, Dec. sd

the Administrator, tired of Grantism, dis
gusea with and sick aS s seu
The change goes deeper than this it is deeper
than Grant, Butler, Dawes, Blaine, and poor
boy spd
grown ship-y ards. 1t is q change to belief In
the principles of Democracy-a faith in Free
Trade. Hard Money, Home Rule; and 1t Is a
conversion which, slowly made and upon con-
yctioD, is certain to be enduring aud positive:
Blaine could not see this, aud so went
keep the people from thinking Of their '.dis-
contents" with Republicanism by assalhpg
the reciprocity treaty-never was such small
it, however, last winter, and tried to avert the
wrath to come from himself by attacking tne
Committee of Appropriations and the Bureaue-
he declined running for Congress. Senator
| Sprague saw the trouble coming more than
four years ago, and prophesied remarkably
| about it in his speech on Capitalization
| The fact is, New England had not 80 far TO
come as many suppose to find herself In the
Democratic congregation and member Oh
believed in, though quite willing to do
speculative business in rag money as long as
it COULD be made to pay. Her communities
the beess sort of Home Rule, and it was her
habit to compel all Admin strations to respect
the local popular will in the matter OF Federal
| poiutments, which made her take such
alarm at the case of Simmons and other In
stances of Buffers Dictatorship. The recent
elections show that New England has now
finally become converted to Free Trade, and SO
completes her Democratic profession OF faith:
1t is no wonder That New England should al
last open her eyes to the necessity OF sweeping
revenue reform, for every one OF her industries
is just now either starved or congested by the
, absurdities and inquities OF our whoie tarin
system. New England to-day is almost NOR
, tally i'll of general disease whicn may oe
called trade-sickness. 1t breaks out in thou
3 sand different ways, always attacking each
system at it's weakest point, but there is an I'M
mistakable family likeness in the symp:omss
Q and the disease in every case determines itseii
\ in the same way: general social and industrial
q PARALYSIS. Intelligent New Engianders nave
q no difficulty whatever in recognizing SnaS sne
2 same fundamental disorder underfies all the
3 most conspicuous present depravities OF tue
New England political system, and all the
!. growing checks and distinctions to New Eng
: land industry. They see that their trade
sickness" is to blame equally for rotten and
ID uninspected mill dams and for rotten and over
J. inspected State onstabulary-espionage with
!. out efficacy, without honesty, without sense,
- without decency. They see that this is the
a cause of that goverDm mental incompetency
which can no more check moral or social evii
10 than it can construct a safe and respectable
q public work. They see in this the cause winch
enabled Butlerism to gain its unabashed ascen'
e dency in spite of the popular Indignation
ia They see in this the cause OF the decay IN
ar public virtue and public spirit, in general In
= dustry and individual prosperity. They know
" where to look for the causes of the grass-gro
ship-yards of Maine, the dwarfed and dwin
In dling commerce of Massachusetts,, and tn
q sickiy and impoverished manufactures OF tn
I'd whole section. =,
a The trade. sickness" of New Finland, wheth
O er marasmus or a congestion, is duo to on
or disordered currency and our oppressive tariff
M and every New Eng fander is coming to under
- stand that perfectly we'll. No man who cal
~ put two and two together, but can UNDERSTAND
D. the cause of the distresses of Fall River sn
OF Manchester, of Lawrence and Pawtucke'
when he turns to the records of our shattere
u commerce and sees how completely the fol
AZ eign outlets that formerly relieved our mani
lr, kt,o,p mt n
,ly When Lord Mccartney opened China to til
ay '.outside barbarians," he proudly announce
ors that he had gained his countrymen admissi9
rtv to a country with trade so vast that ali u
~ mills of Lancashire, by run ming night and da
could not make stocking-stuf enough for OF
, of it's provinces" Shrewd New England So
ne the truth and force of this, and made haste
IN. profit by it by getting the start of Manchest
re- and Liverpool. So successful was she that
the 1851 133 4ol pieces of American drills and jea
on were sold in the single port OF fd us
In been sold, but the supply was not equal
80 the demand. In the same year at the san
ted same same goods Now, this business, with all
OF increase, is entirely in the hands of the En-
per Iish, and "cotton manufactures form
ia present the largest part of the direct ira
ma. between England aud China. and Tientsin
md already become the largest importer OF Eee
925 articles in the empire" This means that En-
ono from China, pays for half of them in colt
sfs' goods of her own manufac:ure, instead
de- Mexican silver or Rchardson's trade dollar
by If New England had not lost thls trae
ach leqtimately hers; if she had regained it
and 1866, the financial disasters of 1873 would n
Re- have occurred. Every Intelligent New En-
ra- lander knows that his section lost this ira
To- through the war; but, also, that the tai
nv alone has prevented her from regaining it.
inc Turn to Singapore, Malacca, Penang. HI
,tb' are settlements of which We buy ann1a
ten s, 900 900 worth of goods, where we sell
s t sold in 1922 only $19,226 worth OF goo
ates chiefly coal, kerosene, and canned provision
GUS There time," the Consul writes FRI
hir- Singapore, 'swhen American cotton-drills q
ON other goods found ready market here VIII
ase, preference to any other and such Woulo
nth the case yet if they couid compete with
ght bcltisn prices: we can SCI d nnr ot uro5rcs
I aS- bring into the market such plug tobac
eas, petroleum, oars, ice, canned fruits, and a +
tod | oo,