Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-10

degree and l think we are never leSS wrap i ped in the national flag than when we encoun ter English soldiers. The other day was i walking through one of the parks, when came upon some sort of little barrack, where two or three privates, being tempor- arily debarred from Irritation with the nurse- ry maids by the duty they were on, presented themselves purely and simply as my tradi tional enemies. But far from wishing to offer them battle, I could only think of that whimsical and remorseful passage of Flaw thorne's ''Septimus Felton," in which he describes Pitcsirne's men as they marched into Concord after the affair at Lexington, dusty, wsaried and footsore, but needing only 8 half-hour's rest, good breakfast and pot of beer apiece, to make them ready to face the world. Nor did their faces look in any way rancorous, but at the most only heavy, cloddish, good, natursd and humane
 "Oh heavens, Mir. Felton !" whispered Rose;
 ''why should shoot these mon, or they
 us. They look kindly, if homely." 'It is
 the strangest thing in the world that we should
 think of killing them," said Septlmus.
 Indeed, it was monstrous. l realized then
 as never before the tremendous moral dis
 advantage democracy is at in any war With
 8 royal or eligarchic power; for whereas
 portion of the republican idea is slain ill
 every American who psrishes on the field,
 the poor fellows who fall on the other side personally express nothing while the real enemy remains safe at home. It was no longer a question of shooting at the King and his ministers from behind stone walls, as it had been hitherto, but of picking off such amiable and friendly looking folk as those l saw Something in my heart-no doubt the 1 brother plebeian-stirred in their presence I with & novel pain and if could have hoped l to make these honest men in anywise cogn1- l zant of April 19 1775, might have wslhed 1 to excuse 1t to them.
 New England Senators on Wages. | From the New York Tinnes.l
 l Senators Frye and Hoar have recently been 1 making speeches in Massachusetts in which
 they have claimed that protection is simply g l question of higher wages That Is to say, | with protection come high wages, without Ii low wages. This wholly absurd notion ex ] hibits in painful light the mental short ! slehtedness of some of the men whom the 1 New England States delight to honor witE l their confidence. There is no fallacy whicE 1 is moro transparent, and none which has st 1 many facts to confute it on all sides. lf we are to suppose that Messrs. Hoar and Frye are honest in the assertions that they make 1 then the only conclusion to be drawn IS tha they are densely ignorant of circumstance l which all should know who assume to spt al publicly upon this question. The fact tha the wages of all classes of working men ane | women in England are from 100 to 300 pe
 cent. higher than the wages paid to those en
 gagged in similar occupations In the countrle
 on the European continent which have pro
 tective tariffs should raise a doubt ln tn
 mind of any reasonable proteotionist as t.
 the effect of this trade policy on the rate l wages But, then, some have said that Eng
 land is an exception. It's enormous capital ] the experience of it's workingmen, the sup l ply of coal and the extent of it's commsrc1a relations combine to make the manufactur 1 and distribution of goods exceedingly cheap
 1 thus allowing greater amount to the opera 1 tives There may be something in this; bu ! E,,~o yaT ho substantially free trade policy, but wh1c } does not possess great capital, coal, or an eS } 1 tended commerce. This is Switzerland. Shu
 ] n by foreign countries, the Swiss manufat 3 turer is compelled to bring in his raw mater ] al at @ large expense, due ts railroad trans l 1 portation and the charges incident to tn l passage of goods in bond In spite of thi
 cotton is imported from this country an
 Egypt and when manufactured IS sent fo = sale to the markets of Germany and Italy l paving in its new form heavy customs dut when entering these countries. Inc assamI tion of the p1otectionist would be that tn ] Swiss cotton manufacturers were able te sen 7 their wares into these foreign markets be cause they paid their mill operatives sue
 low prices that they made their goods cheap } 1y. How false this assumption IS Is snow bv the consular reports on the rates Of tn ) operatives in European cotton mills. A
 compared with the prices paid to mill hand in England, the Swiss spinners and weaver
 do not receive high wages; but whom thel
 pay is contracted with that given to the ope r ratives of Germany and Italy, the chief fo, eign markets for Swiss cotton goods, 1t
 found that they given about 20 per cent higher than the former and 80 per cent } higher than the latter. In other words, tn ) only country on the continent of Europ
 with the possible exception of Turkey, whic r has not protective tariff, pays to It's mi } operatives the highsst rate of wages, and } able to compete on more than equal term ) with countries where the mill hands are pal l at much lower rates. The conclusion, an
 the only one, which can be drawn from suc 3 an exhibit is that protection has very little t
 do with the rate which manufacturers can ai . ford to pay their mill hands.