Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-12-23


10000 less of turnips, and 10000 less of
clover! A farm / wOt of in Yorkshire
was sold six weeks ago for just S3 per
cent less than 1t fetched in 1861
Nearly every person l have had any
conversation with has had word to ga y
FOR OR AGAINST FREE TRADE.
When have met a prOtectiOnist | have
been a free trader, and vice versa, for the
sake Of learning as much as could. The
result on my mind Is this: | believe
there Is much to be said on both sides,
according to the stand point man takes
at starting. If he argues with an eye
to the present comfort and profit of the
individual, free trade Is the thing. If
he thinks of the present prosperity OF his
country and the future prosperity of his
cOuntry's children, then protection is
better. There is hOmely Saxon prOvert,
"YOu cannot have your cake and eat II"
If you adopt free trade you eat your
cake. In nv poor opinion, land i am
only fOreigner), free trade might bene-
! tit the individual, but IL so it would be
run il would cripple the country. Yet,
benefit or no benefit does not a good
patriot sink his individuality in the love
of his country -
| As Ihaye. already said, 1 arrived with
strong free trade procliyities, and my
bias was strengthened when saw that
| cOuldpurcbase the majority of Ameri-
can-made goods cheaper in England
than here. American-cured bacon, for
instance, have bought in London at 10
| cents five PENCE per Id. Clocks that
have seen sold here for $3.50 are in Lon
don $1.25. Harper's monthly is 80 cents
here, and although printed in this cOun-
try, is published in England at l shill-
ing ga cents and sold Is cents. And
might go through long string of SINH
lar articles. Here one sees perhaps some
advantage to the individual, but the ad-
vantage Is not so great as IL at first sight
appears.
| COMPARE OUR WAGES WITH YOURS.
Roughly speaking, you may say that the
agricultural labOrer's wages here, ex-
elusive of board and lodging, are equal
| to what the Englishman gets inclusive
of those necessaries. Then consider our
taxation compared to yours. When you
get free trade believe the two items Of
wages and taxation will be about equal
| in the two cOuntries-Ours will be where
they are now, while yours will have de-
creased In the one case and increased in
the other.
But have drifted off into matter
that may be considered to have no con-
nectiOn with an Englishman's impress
siOns of Americans. Yet, | make no
apology, for
THIS QUESTION OF TARIFF
must interest every thinking man, be
he native of this country or foreign
er. To sum up my own opinion, those
who favor free trade are too gO-ahead.
Wait two or three hundred years. Wait
until you are no longer new country,
but an old one; not sparsely populated
country of II to the square mile, but
fully developed country, with say dem
sity of 200. Wait until you have the ac-
cumulated wealth that England had
when she made the experiment land
even she Is beginning to cry. Woe to
that day., and then, and not before, try
the experiment too.
AMERICAN sOCIABILITY.
All this long TRADE was aprOpOs (or
NAL aprOpOs) of your business" COM
pared to ours. In one respect you leave
us in the shade. Imagine that despised
member of society, book canvasser,
going into Glynn's bank in London and
asking to see Lord WOlvertOn. who is or
was one of the partners. Even were
his audacity and perseverance strong
enough to survive the questiOnings of a
dozen clerks or so. one after the other,
as to what he wanted, he never gains an
entrance into the sanctum sanctOrum
where the pOtentate sits. Here, if he
goes into any Office, no matter whose,
and asks for any one, no matter who,
he will be told at once, "There he is.
That's HIM with the straw hat and the
big cigar" And when he has said his
say the probability is he will be asked to
"call again when he is passing" l
know that the very first stranger l call
ed on in this country surprised me with
his hearty slow do you do, sir? Take
seat" before had opened my mouth,
and the first half dozen or so, begged
me to "call again any time | was pass
ing" were so particular in making the
request that | thought they really meant
it. And this leads me to
THE ITEM OF HOSPITALITY.
Here l humbly think we beat you. Not
withstanding all our insular reserve
and.our shyness of making chance ac-
Gnaintances, we are more hOspitable
than your are. Whether other English
men, better looking and more presenta-
BILE than myself, have found you the
more hOspitable nation of the two l can
not tell. am speaking only of my own
experience. lam delighted to find one
feature at least to grumble about, or I
should 60 home too enthusiastically full
of admiration to. be believed. To wind
up a long letter will only say that /
had long wished tOvisit this country as
have visited many Others, and that this
is my. first experience of q foreign land"
that deserved One-half the encOmiums
that have been written or-spoken of it.
Yours faithfully,
Gro u MADrIN