The Portland daily press., 1880-10-28
THURSDAY MORNING. OCT. %.

brethren who monopOllZe nineteen milllCn four
buadred and forty thousand acres of the fer
tile land OF England and Ireland to quietly
pack their carpet-bags and emgrate to the
places whose men work for their own living
and try what effect that will have on the ag
ricultural depression.
But the noble earl has found time to study
something besides the agricultural dis ress in
England. He says that 100000 people have
been compelled to migrate from the manufac-
turing eastern States to the agricut" raj re-
gions of the west because of manufacturing
depression here. He omitted to mention that
more than treble that number have at the
same time passed into the manufacturing east
ern States to take the place of those who have
gone. Can not the noble earl see the conse-
quences of his own statement? The instincts
of men are at least as sure as those of birds.
While under our American policy their work
lngmen are leavingfree trade England to find
homes IN the manufacturing east, the lot of
the northwestern farmer is more attractive
still.
Earl Spencer had, however, been meditating
on another matter besides agricultural depres-
sion. He wonders why it is that England gets
on so badly in India:
''Now should like TO know why it is that we
are now IL such an unfortunate position we are
in that country? Why is it thas We fad ourselves
occupying neighboring country whose constitu-
ton we have unfortuna ely upset. whose authority
am Jaw we are unable at once t, ienstate? Why
Is IL that we are in the unfortunate position that
should be glad to retire with honor from our occu-
pati'n OF tn It country?'
Why is it? 1t is because, my lord, you un-
dertook by force of arms in dealing with
weak nation just what you are endeavoring to
do with your money in dealing with strong
one. You tried for the selfish purposes of Eng
land TO NEEDLE with the internal policy of a
people whose interests you neither understood
nor cared for.
mes was M. Minasse Tcheraz the secretary of the
Armenian patriarch, who uttered this senti-
ment, which must have had a strange sound
IN the ears of the subjects of the empress of
India:
ct do not doubt gentlemen, that some day all the
world will be converted your idea. But per nit
me TO tell you that day cannot before the tri
umph of another pr nciple-the freedom of the peo-
people who have not even the freedom of producing
aud that in 'untries larly favor Il by nat re,
which have been the or dies of intelligent and
tive races. oppression condemns the producer to
ruiz and the consumer to famne''
We give our answer to England in the senti-
ment OF the Eastern sage. When you cease TO
be an obstacle to the triumph of the freedom
OF the peoples, when you lift your heel from
ireland and from India, when you give as we
do to the farmer the ownership of the land he
tilis. when you pay to the agricultural and the
manufacturing laborer the wages that we paw,
we will open our doors to your competition
and Will ask your 'dvice in deciding the poll
cles which affect the comfort of our homes.
know that the gentlemen who now adm n
lister the government in England and most of
those who constitute the Golden Club are
what are called liberals But none the more
for that are foreign countries to expect either
justice or mercy where they come in conflict
with her manufacturing interests. 1t was
Lord brougham, the anti-slavery leader of his
day, who said in parliament:
England can afford t, incur some loss on the
expor OF English 60 ds for the purpose of DESTROY
Ing foreign manufac ures i'll the crade.'
1t WAS J,,Sanh Hu,na tho ra ,Iio,I raforr,o,
who said he desired to see foreign manufac-
lures strangled in the cri dle."
A late report to parliament of a royal COM
mission to enquire into the state of the popula-
tlou IN the mining districts, sNs:
"Auth-ntic ms ances we'll known of English
employers in Zines OF depressed prices who fried
on their works at a loss amounting to three or our
hundred tiousan pounis / three four years
IL the efforts OF those VIII encourage the c,,n,b,a-
ton {" restrict the amount OF labor and to pronuc.
stf1 es We're to be successful for any length of time
the great accu, ulations could longer be ma {
wnlcn enable lew OF the most wealthy capital sts
to overwhem all foreign competition In times of
great depression The arge capitals of this country
are I'll, great instrument ut warfare a saiurt the
competing capitals of TO eign countries and are the
most essential instruments now rema ming by which
our manufacturing supr macy can be maintained"
This is the British blade of the shears which
are to sever the locks of the manufacturing
Samson of America. England, confessing
that her policy has brought ruin to her own
agriculture, paying fifty one cents day to her
worklngmen on her farms, clinging to her on
pressive system of land tenure, volunteers her
advice and her contributions of money to us f.,
aid US IN reforming our legislation She
stands with her hand on the throat of an Ash
attic people, and breaches to us the doctrine of
peace aud good will among NATIONS She
stands, her heel on Ireland, and demands that
we shall put our adopted Irish citizen. who
has escaped from her. again under her woke,
and that his wages shall come down again to
her standard.
What response has come from America to
the English manifesto? Gen. Hancock. who
SAID IN his letter to Blanton Duncan, "If 1
were nominated by party, 1 would be gov
erned by its platform or l would not accept
the nomination." says in his letter of accen.
lance: THE principles enunciated BY the
convention are those that have cherished in
the past and shall expect to be governed by in
the future" Among those principles is this.
Tariff for revenue on W
BY this doctrine Gen. Hancock is twice
pledged to be governed. What is its meaning?
1t was penned by Henry Watterson of KEN
lucky, the state whose Democracy las been
most violent in its denunciation of the system
OF protection. 1t has its origin in the DAYS of
South Carolina notification. 1t is affirmed in
the constitution of the confederacy in the fol-
lowing language:
CONFEDERATE CoNsTITUTIoN.-ART. l. s.
The congress shall have power: 1, To Law and
collect taxes duties, imposs and excuses for reye-
nue. necessary TO pay the debts, provide for the
common defence, and carry the government of
the confederate States; but no bounties shall he
granted from the treasury; nor shall anv dntes or
taxes on importatons from foreign nations he laid
to promote or foster any branch Of industry
To that constitution more than four-fifths of
the Democratic party in each house of Con-
gress has sworn allegiance. Not one of them
will pretend that his opinion on that subject
has been changed by the downfall of the rebel
lion. Have the free traders any doubt what
that plank in the Democratic platform meant
uathxt x.rxfs l,fu, fouO
ana was put mere Tor! Mr. Care tt, the presi-
dent OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. a
Southern Democrat. told the Golden Club:
at is anticipated that the subject of free trade in
many asp-cts and OF tariff for revenue and not for
protection " IL be largely discussed in the ap-
proaehlng Presidential aud Congressional canvass
In the United States. The agricultural Interests an
prec ate the advantages that will accrue to them by
the INTRODUCTION Of competition with domesti, man.
ufacture. The recently adopted platform of nrnci
on this subject. -1"'
Listen now to Mr.. Sterne, the president and
delegate of the New York Free Trade ASCOT
alton.
1T was two years ago that had the honor
last to dine with you, and since that time
breach has been made in the protective ring in
the United States (hear, hear,) by the placing
OF quinne upon the free list, and that notwith.
standing the most persistent and energetic Az
ertions on the part of the manufacturers to
prevent this entering wedge to free trade in
drugs. 1t must ever appear an inexplicable
anomaly to you, gentlemen, that a people SO
generally we'll informed as, without being az,
cused of national prejudice, 1 may be permitted
to say OF my nation, should be SO welded IN
theories of trade which we know to be- mn.
sound. and to practice which is felt to he
mischievous lt must not be forgotten that
people are educated to the point of adopting
sound economical and governmental theories
and practice through two channels, one the
head, the other the stomach.
IAN illustration worth a hundred arguments
was the ole used in the free trade movement
OF 1874, in this country, when you took large
loaf of bread and called it the "free trade
loaf, and small LOAF and called it the ssprotec.
tion loaf" Your hearers, who were then fa.
milar with the small loaf of protection. or the
half meal which it implied, looked longipgIy.
aud worked vigorously for the big loa, of free
trade. That was an appeal through the sto.n-
achlc channel to right action and was effec-~
tive because the stomach appealed to was
empty, (Hear, hear) In my country there
are only large loaves, and therefore there ara
no half or small leaves to make the comparison
with. (Hear, hear)
I'VE are, notwithstanding protection. so gem
orally prosperous community, that we lose
the pressure of the stomach for educational
purposes, and must appeal TO the head alone.
II IS only few who are guided by purely in.
tellectual processes, and hence our proSress
must necessarily be slow. We cam # saw ihat
protection has ruiued baeauSa WA arc not