New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-03

,h.t r. can he readily followed even by those
who regard economies as a science OF complex
distractions. Free trade Is system winch
bappens to suit Huddersfeld individually. III
Il could be rendered principle of universal APP
nlicatjop. Huddersfeld would revel in prosper
ity. making woollens not only for England ana
ireland. hut also for fifty million customers IN
the United States and for the rest OF mankind.
Understood naturally infers that policy
which undoubtedly would be best for itself
mnst also be best for all nations. 1t wants To
have the tariffs broken down. It cannot under
stand why the nations of the earth are uD"i'-
ing to find out what they can make most
cheaply, or what they can do most p'onVaoS'
and then make and do just that. FOR ihlh'"h
cloth Huddersfeld has the advantages oi POI,
fected skill, enlarged experience, cheap oap''"'
anu cheap labor. Huddelstie is w'i'i"s ~
make cloth for customers all over tne "oi'u =
and receive in return the cheapest prouuots VI
every nation. It could do this now '"o
sinister principle Of projection were ho' :" ''o
wsv Under a comprehensive systeh OIL Tree
trade il is cunGjent that the nations wouid ne
odmitt.d into universal brotherhood, WHOSE
chief concern would be the greatest gOod OF the
,,aa,..t uumber. As matter OF course, IL
would expect TO make nearly all the cloth for
.h'.. f.1.,rot.d commonwealth Of unseltish hu-
r,a,itv and il wonld be willing to do that!
And What n spectacle it would be for gods ana
mani An era of universal peace raVioh'
trafRcking their cheapest products ana man
kind arraved with one consent Ill Huuuershelu
woolens
The fallacv in Huddersield's logic is the as
sumption that what suits it individually VIII OF
necessity be best for governments anu natlonS
undcr all combinations of economic conditions
Huadersfeld and England as well have un :
doubtedly prospered under free trade, ana IL
they were not encompassed by community of
high-tarlff nations they would probably thrive
as they have never thrived in the past
But the conditions affecting Huddersteld are
not universal, and it does not follow that be-
cause England would be benefited by universal
free tryde other nations must recognize an
obligation to incur industrial martyrdom LOT
the sake of an abstract principle. Nations, IKE
men of business, are guided by practical e1pe-
rience rather than by vague and amlaOle theo-
RES. III Bismarck finds that protection gives
elasticity TO the revenue, develops industries,
gives employment to a surplus population,
checks emigration, and in general way pro-
notes the welfare OF the Fatherlnnd, he VIII
not abolish the tariff for the sake OF the ideal
SITS millennium and the HudderSheid cloth
trade. II Canada, IA Lord Lorne admitted
when he was in Washington, has been directly
benefited by protection, she will not return 10
free trade to promote the ends of universal
brotherhood and the profits of Huddersileld.
y r will the United States, which transatlan-
tic traveller has described as forty Eng"n IS
rolled in 10 one,r renounce its economic policy Tor
the sake of glitteling gereralities and Hadders-
field. 1t has done what it could to promote the
greatest good of the greatest number OF ITS own
people. and it leaves idealists to work out their
own dreams.