Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-07

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other machinery necessary to extend
the manufacturing industries of
France.
Let a competent, impartial reader
decide which had the buttered side
of that bread. My friend, NJ. G. P.
Desroehes, before writing again,
should reflect upon the domestic sit
uatiou of France, as stated III the de-
bate in the French Chamber IN 1870,
Monsieur johnson said: "Our exports
to England are four times as large as
our importations. i" And still, III the
face of all, and facts such as these
we. find free trade orators and free
trade penny-a-liners calling Oh the
producing classes to be thankful Tor
the blessings they derive IRON free
trade. That would be the kind OF
free trade for any nation if wages
were twenty-five per cent. less than
in England, and they could export
four times the amount IN manutac-
tured goods to England than Eng
land exported to them. France is as
we'll situated to compete with Eng
land as any nation | read of, buC
the profits of protection she is dis
posed to bless her own people with.
We are told free trade principals
are spreading! Why, in Prussia,
Austria, Belgium and Switzerland
the idea of opening their ports and
markets and inviting competition
with their own industrial population
has never yet been mOoted and
France, the promised land OF free
trade, is already trying to withdraw
the nominal facilities dOled out to
England in the treaty-the only man
in France who is at heart a free
trader is the President himself. All
the light labor of France employed |
is 5000 glove makers at one or two
francs a day. They live snug and
frugal. Only one language to learn
af, er bed time; our children, many
of them, must learn at least three or
four.
ith all the facilities and nation
al advantages of France, we should
suppose they could afford to have
free trade with England; but they
are too wise and intend to take care
of their own people. There is no
danger of the influence of any writer
at work for the medal, as there is no
heart in it. AS to wages advancing
in France, that was no evidence to
their treaty benefits but to stop emf
grafton to England and other cOun-
tries where wages were higher.
Protection is as firmly drawn
around all the industries of Europe
and America as it was twenty years
ago, and generations will elapse be-
fore there is any sensible move in
the opposite direction. The Free
Trade paper called the Nation is no
! nation at all unless better informed
, in the history of France as well as
, other nations.
Sir Edward Sullivan refers only
, incidentally to the decline in the silk
. industry under the treaty with
!, France, for the reasons probably
:, that the facts were so well known IN
England that it was unnecessary to
enlarge upon them, while on the
other hand those who favored the
, treaty regard the facts so damaging
to the cause that they seek to sup
i. press them. Some pertinent facts
: and admissions leak out in the re-
ports and journals of commerce,
, which only serve to supply the
l the omissions.
In the work before us, memorial
:, to Lord Stanley from the Working
! mems Association at Coventry rep.
resents that thirty five firms in the
:. rlbon trade at that town bad sue
: | cumbed since 1860, and 200 houses
/. are vacant. In seven years before
the French treaty 98, 900 were giver
> by the parish for out door relief; IL
= seven years succeeding the treaty
h Esq, 900 were given for parochra
;, relief, for the simple reason that the
. importations of French ribbons dur
ing corresponding periods had more
than quadrupled, in consequence Of
:, the treaty. Cheap labor, cheap liv
. | ing, cheap money-the French beaf
The English that time.
? Let all free traders and free think
T. ers read the treaty before calling i
20 free trade-it is not an appropria'
ID name. France will, as Ihave Away
lie believed, take care of her people
as In france in 1868 the exports ant
b. imports balanced within twenty mil
lions; in England the excess of i'm
N ports was over sixty millions, an'
r in 1869 it will in all prObabilit.
,e reach one hundred millions.
,e The increased commerce of tn
h. world mas been caused by the III
n or sed circulation of gold and tn
Y. increased facilities of communication
r by land and sea. 1t never has bee
Dt and never can be affected by paltr.
legislation, either in one direction o
Of the other. Local legislation, lik
as that which has made England fire
50 port, may affect the trade of Eng
$, land, but to suppose it would natul
- ally influence the commerce OF tn
to world would be preposterous; it
n only our national bumptlousnes
r. that renders the idea possible. A
1e the nations of the world have IL
lv creased their commerce; the chic
ce causes OF this large increase of Brit
m ish exports are undoubtedly to b
found outside her tariff laws. Tha
A. they are causes of general applies
= ton is shown by the fact that Eng
v land was not alone in this experlenc
9. of prosperity; the foreign trade Q
ID France, under tarff highly protect
of i've, increased during the same per
re cd IN ratio greater than that c
IS. England.
A Remarkable PetrIfactiOn.
us The Portland OregOR:Gn of Aus
Il tx CONTAINS this unbelievable al OrX