Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-27

he mutt finally become almost as soulless as
the machinery he guides.
And vet into that competition, unprotected,
the gentleman now proposes to force Ameri>
can labor, unprotected utterly on all raw ma
terials and only on certain manufactures by q
revenue tariff. We have already seen how a
revenue tariff protected these industries dur
ing 'sthe golden era from 1850 to 1860.
We are pointed constantly to the example
of England as an illustration of the success of
free trade. For more than five hundred years
England built up her supremacy by protec-
ton, and her so-called free trade now is only
a changed protective system to keep up her
manufactures and her commerce. Her sgri-
cultural resources were inadequate to support
her population and keep the cost of labor at
its lowest price; duties could no longer be
levied on provisions az raw material. The
wages of e;heT farm laborers are down to the
starvation poipt ard Ile-by, at a public meet
ing held foF oieH rei,ef. recommended as their
remedy eniarG.i1n Ia america, A few weeks
ago the Pal Nail Isaza te said:
There mus oe something wrong in things
when thousands OF unemployed workingmen
of London have 10 sOiicit the lord mayor to
assist them in emigratlng 10 Canada, while
scores of ff rus are lying uSelsss and untitled
| at home.
| Hear also what one of England's best known
scholars, the great John Ruskin, says of the
condition of the masses of her people:
Though England Is deafened with spinning
wheels. ner people have no clothes:thOugh she
is black,with digging fuel, they perish OF cold:
and though she has sold her soul for grain,
they die OF hunger.
| Suctris the condition to which England's
lpolicy-cruel and crushipg-bas reduced her
people. More than one tiirtieth of her entire
population, by the authority of her own par
liamentsry returns, are public paupers. From
her borders, as they can, they crowd to this
country to find honored labor, free homes, and
open schools, and prosperous industries No
tree trade theorist can make them believe they
are mistaken or that they were then prosper
Gus or happy. During the year 1880 three
fourths of per cent nf the whole population
of Great Britain, iceland, aud Canada immi-
grated to the United States. Last year $780,
41S eXles from these countries, more than
from any other country on earth, came to our
shores. No. with her own children by the
millions seeking foreign homes, Englandis no
example for u.s. TO establish and make strong
her own grasping policy she has ruined her
own agriculture; robbed Neutrality-suspicious.,
beautiful, but now stricken lreland-of its
trsde and its nationality; holds plundered In
dia, famine stricken, in the dust, and TO6ber
nation Of the earth, grasps at our industries,
anu, WIFI uledSuTtleSS duudClty, tellS US uS IL
is to be done, all done in the sweet name and
under the mocking mask of universal brother
hood.
But the United States, under our present
protective system, has prospered as never be
fore-as no nation ever did. Every threaten
Jed change from that system is menace and
a danger to her great Industries. Stability is
safety and confidence is the soul of develop
Iopine enterprise While our intercourse with
other nations is just and liberal, it is, as it
ought to be, in spirit and policy American,
and well may we, in the golden words of our
lamented President, "LET AMERICANS DENOTE
THEMSELVES TO THE WELFARE OF AMERICA"
thus may our country, awakening all ac>
tivites, availing itself of all resources, guard
ing all interests, and alive to the welfare of
all its people in all conditions of life, continue
united, prosperous, independent; and thus the
nourishment of strong and harmonious ma
tional life will enable it not only to go on
grandly in its marvellous growth, bnt commits.
sion it to exert that powerful and benifcent
influence with other nations to which it is so
Justly entitled by both material strength and
moral power [Great applause