The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-01-19
ENGLAND rs. TARIFF.

EN l. rs. IA IFF.
One little sentence in an extract from
the London Times, printed elsewhere
on this page. indicates that all is not
moving smoothly with proprietor Wal
tiers and Mt. Disraeli. The Times sup
ported the government strongly in its
eastern policy which eliminated in the
Berlin treaty and the Afghan war. And
Sc thoroughly were the services appre-
ciated that B~eaconsfeld manifested his
intention of knighting Mr.. Walters as
a partial recompense. Be this as it
may the honor has not yet mantled the
Times proprietor. And if that paper
continues to lay the cause of starvation
in England at the door of the present
government, it will not be forthcoming
in any great haste.
Now that the Times has admitted the
aus of the sad state Of affairs in Brit
ain the people will soon be forced to the
same conclusion, and they will not long
hesitate to demand the removal of said
cause With England during the past
few years, everything has been outgo;
the income has been sadly deficient. As
no nation can stand q continued drain
like this the dregs are soon reached,
and the poor of England are drinking
them now. The worst of it is that
there is no apparent hope for the re-
newal of the prosperous times of a de-
cade ago. England is a vast workshop
and it cannot possibly consume all of its
manufactures. Hence foreign markets
offer the only hope of trade and pros
perity. But when these are taken away
by the superiority of American produc-
tions as well as by their cheapness,
England finds itself cramped. 1t has
more power tiin is wanted; it lies idle;
suffering ensues; and that is that is the
position Of England to-day.
As the LEADER once before showed,
the prime cause of the commercial stag
nation is England's blind following Of
the ignis fat,ats Of free trade. Being a
manufacturing nation with a supposed
ability to supply the world, and with
a further power of producing things so
cheaply as to prevent the world from
supplying her, she naturally champion
ed free trade, for she had everything to
gain and nothing to lose. With this
policy in view she established colonies
from time to time and fostered them
that they might become rich markets
for the wares of the mother country.
Free trade was still the ruling idea and
England laughed at the inability of 9th
er nations to compete with her. Her
protection was cheap labor. But there
arose within the past fifteen years the
most ingenious nation of all. With
high priced labor, but with labor saving
machinery, products r turned out
better and cheaper than they can be in
England. So Australia and New Zea-
land, Cape of Good Hope and the vari-
other colonies of England were sue
~cessfully invaded and they are all good
paying markets to the United States.
What this country gained England
lost. Then our merchants entered
other foreign markets against the mo-
nopoly of English merchants and the
result was the same. Finally ''coals
were sent to New Castle" for Ameri-
can steel and cutlery are sold in Shelf
field, and American cottons are sold in
Manchester, while finer goods find ready
sale in London. Labor is higher priced
in the United States than III England,
but it is our improved machinery and
the employment of the best brains that
triumph. Our merchants have no tar
if to meet in English ports, and thus
the British find themselves undersold
at home by products from across the
Atlantic. 1t is plain then, that Eng
lands best policy is to establish such a
tariff as shall exclude all foreign i'm
portations, except the necessaries of
life. That would give employment to
many thousand men. Then she should
get similar laws passed in all her colo
MES, with an exception in favor Of her.
self. That would employ the remain
der of the idle men. Then when all the
labor is employed, the country is pros
erous.
We hope that England will not thus
exclude our productions, but her condi-
ton serves admirably to teach another