Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-19
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England was an advocate OF free trade
20 long as 1t meant that that nation should
be the workshop Of the world, aud other
countries were producers Of the raw ma
terial. Tie concentration of manufac-
turing industry in one nation is in effect
paying it tolls upon the produce Of the
world, and such . process must, Of course,
result in IN immense accumulation Of
wealth. The battle for free trade in Eng
land, fought some thirty years age, was
really . struggle Of the manufacturing and
commercial interests Of the country against
the agricultural interest, which was rela-
lively uncomfortable and owed it's strength
In the legislature simply to the fact that it
was the interest Of the aristocracy. The
Tory or Conservative party never forgave
Peel for the abandonment Of the interests
Of the land-holders, and Disraeli first came
into prominence through his marked abil-
tty for taunts and sarcasm directed against
the great lsader who had turned away from
the policy Of corn laws TO free trade. The
leaders Of the Liberal party, men like
Gladstone and Bright, have always been free
traders, but Lord Beaconsield began his
parliamentary career as a champion Of pro-
lection, and he has never since embraced
free trade doctrine, bnt simply accepted it
a. one Of the fixed facts of the situation.
Free trade in England at first worked ad-
mirably; the industries Of no other nation
we're sufficiently organized or we'll placed
for there to be any fear Of competition in
the home market except in the supply of
grain, and the fact that England could not
under any circumstances take rank as an
agricultural country was obvious. If Eng
land could have persuaded other countries
to have followed her example and permit
her to take complete possession Of their
markets, the development of their home
industries would have been practically inn
possible, and England's control Of the
business Of the world would have been abb
solute.
The necessity Of protection to home in
dustry was early perceived by the leading
minds of this country. and although our
tariff regulations have not been always
wise, and are now in many particulars car
ried to lengths which defeat the true OBJ
jects Of protection, yet under their shelter
ing influence an immense manufacturing
interest has been built up, whose products
are now invading even the English market.
This fact is rapidly effecting a change Of
sentiment in regard to protection in Eng
land. According to the free trade doc
trines so ~assiduously preached by England
to other nations, the fact that you are be-
ing undersold in your own markets is sim
ply a proof that your industry and enter
prise is being directed into the wrong
channels, md should be diverted to more
productive uses. But now that it is the
English home market that suffers, this doc
trine does not seem to bring with it any
consoling influence. While the coarser
grades Of American cottons are I'M
dersclling English goods in Man
chester, while the iron trade of
Sheffield, Birmingham and Wolverhamp-
ton is demoralized by American compe-
tition, while even government supplies Of
locks are Of American make from the On
coded fact that they are best n cheapest,
while Belgian steel rails undersell English
rails in England, while French beet-root
sugar is displacing the product of the Eng
glish retineries. and while many German
products are driving out similar products
from English manufactures, English bust
ness men do not take readily to the free
trade argument that this shows an unnat-
ural and unhealthy development of their
industries which competition will correct,
but are beginning to move in the direction
Of . protective tariff. They do not like the
word protection, however, and prefer to
style 1t reciprocal duties. The Butionist.
. leading financial journal, has committed
itself to it. The present proposition is
that the same duties shall be laid upon the
products Of . country as are laid by that
country upon English products. The per.
feet fairness Of this is indisputable, but II
strictly adhered to it will enable other
countries to promote their trade at Eng
lands expense by taking of the duties on
goods in the production of which they are
superior, while retaining them upon goods
in which England is superior. Such tao
tics would inevitably force England into
the protection policy pure and simple; but
while it might secure her a monopoly Of her
home market, that is far too narrow to
afford employment to her investments in
manufactures, and whichever way she turns
she cannot avert the period Of industrial
decadence on which she has plainly en-.
tered.
ACCORDING to the statistics of the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau, our people have
smoked no less than 1905, 0G3, 900 cigars
during the past fiscal year, which, at ten
cents each, would make the aggregate cost
$40, SOC, 200. In addition to which, u.s.
Sl3, 438 pounds Of tobacco other than ci-
CARS were consumed, at an estimated cost
OF SIS, 900, 900 more.
"KEEf it before the people Of California
and Nevada" says tie Washington Post,
"that lightweight Democratic Represen-
tatiyes voted to pass the Chinese bill over
Mr.. Hayes veto, and only twenty-one Re-
publicans. Keep it also before them that
the Democrats were as six to one in favor
Of it, and the Republicans four to one
against it,"
The Irish Language I'm Ireland.
Early in the present century the Irish
language was spoken more or less in every
county throughout Ireland. 1t is esti-
mated that one-fourth Of the gross popu-
latiop, or about 1000, 900 people. spoke
English exclusively, while probably an