National Republican., 1875-06-28
THR CENTENNIAL.


The Pail Hal Gazette, CLondon,) with
It's chronic disposition to criticise unfavor-
ably whatever is American or Of our insti-
tutions, has published a correspondence
Crcgulsr) on Centennial Performances.
We have not for hundred years had good
reason to expect that the barnaCled class Of
John Bulls would find much in our Con-
cord, Lexington or Bunker Hill Centen-
nislS 20 excite their friendly sympathy, and
we only regret that this acerbity has been
able 20 find so many New Yorkers' to
confirm his favorite theory that there was
no patriotism excited hy the near approach
Of the occasions referred tn or instigsting
their celebratun.
This regular correspondent attempts to
be terribly prophetic and tolerably ferO-
cious over Centennial, the account Of
which he found in the Now y Nork Herald,
"not held for the purpose Of Commemorat
ling anything connected with the history
"of the country, butte celebrate the dttsin-
"meut b. venerable citizen of the hun
"dredth year Of his age. Speeches were
"made and hymns sung, and the occasion
event off very pleasantly, and was not
"uDnaturally followed by the death Of the
cod nan who had been honored by his
friends and neighbOrs in this serious way,
"and who caught a fatal cold on his own
Centennial birthday" Thus the wish
appears to have been father to the thought
in the mind of the writer that to him and
his New York Democratic eympathizers
the disagreeable history of our country
would terminate in 1876. And, as if to in
sure the necessary ''fatal cold, " he throws
cold wster on the Philadelphia Centennial,
and suggests to his British readers that they
also shall turn a cold shoulder upon it.
We can well afford to let this Individual
have his fling st our patriotism and the
future of our institutions, knowing as We do
that he writes for journal notoriously
published for and read by the nobility and
gentry and the merchant princes Of his
country, not ours; for we do not even feel
alarmed when we see q large minority Of
our citizens politicians and presidential
aspirasts) once in four years abandon useful
labor and run after shadows for brief pc
Rod. They return to their useful and usual
svocations again immediately sher the polls
have closed. But the reference of this writer
70 the tariff, as another reason advanced to
our British cousins for not taking part in
our Centennial Exhibition Of Industry, sf-
fords US an opportunity to read useful
lesson. In this connection be says: '"Thc
"other day dispatch was tclegraphed
from England to the effect that John
Bright had advised the Kidderminster
"carpet manufacturers to send no goods to
Philadelphia, on the ground thst it was
ian sbsurdity for Pennsylvanians to ask
ga free trade country, like England, to eX-
hiblt Its manufactures, when at the satns
"time competition was prohibited by law"
Now for our lesson. This specious srgu-
me1t is addressed through their organ to
tie governing class-the nobility and gen
Try and the aristocracy Of Englsnd-whoso
efforts are always directed to the encourage
nent Of labor, as they claim, but the de-
grsdat'or Of the Iaborer as We think, and
their policy is Free Trade. The govern
ing class in this country, the people, is to
encourage immigration (for which there is
room) and increased compensation for the
lsborer, and our experience shows US that
by the aid Of the tariff we secure revenue
and high wages for our workmen at the
same time, for it is well known that carpets
and some other manufactured articles do
como into this country from England ac-
cor"i1r to law. and are, therefore, not pro-
49, e. l,n b,,v-
and t.. e imported carpets pay the reve-
nue., AM those who buy and use the home
made article pay the liberal wages
10 the worhmen which enable them
10 live comfortably, rear, support and edu.
cate children. The English landowners
(aristocracy) by their system have not only
obtained lands but they keep them, while
they find fault with our vote-youcself-a-
farm system. We do not complain; why
should they, especially while We continue
to buy their products Of serf labor! Thus,
il can be seen our governing class is not
more selfish than the governing class Of
England. Our system promotes the good
and happiness Of the million" theirs that
Of the upper ten thousand" But ii is
saiG-aBd by this same correspondent
Pennsy ivania and the East is enriched
through the speculation Of the tariff at the
expense Of the Western States, and the
manufacturer at the expense Of the agricul-
turist To this we say, no. Pennsylvania
is enriched principally by her natural pro-
duct of coal, and the promotion of emigra-
ton by the tariff increases home consump-
ton for,'aa icultursl products. No classes
are injured by the tariff except the retired
rich man, the merchant princes and the
bankers. The FIRST Centennial will come
of az advertised. The English vesYers will
exhibit at Philadelphia, and other Ceuten-
mails will follow in their regular order. not
withstsnding the efforts of the correspond
eDt of the PaEI-AaH Gazette, or the pell-
nell disasters TO English merchants and
credit through tie daily failures we are
now reading about.
''THB EAIE STANTON FAMHIsTRRK CLUB''
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