The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-27

icise the impudence of the Golden
club, but Mr.. Hatton's opinion is
worse than that. He says: 1.-THE
English proposition to America is a
trifie one sided and childish, n"you
farm and we will manufacture. You
send us corn and beef and we will
send you clothing, knives and forks"
America has laudable ambition to
be something more than mere tiller
of the soil, and one of these days if
their cousins in the old country are
not careful they will find that free
trade has reduced the people to be
mere diggers and delivers in the bow
els of the earth, for England is emp
tying her iron mines into the lap of
Belgium and France mot to mention
America and other countries) and re-
ceiving her own raw material manu-
factured into iron goods of all kinds,
which in her own markets under sell
her own manufactures. 1t is fact
that hundreds of Englishmen earn
their Livelihood by getting iron ore
and smelling it into bars for continen-
tai workmen to manufacture into use
full and ornamental articles for Eng
fish markets. 1t is just as we'll to
remind American protectionisb that
there are thousands of INTELLECTUAL
men in England, who are an tffsRe
traders, and who see in the C06den
club the "dry-rot" of a great md glo-
rious country.
Such words are very stroig coming
from an Englishman, and the inter-
views which Mr. Dalton reports are
still stronger.
sour export trade witt America is
dead" said a member of the Bir-
mingham Chamber OF Commerce.
ga large firm of American merchants
who used to do large export trade
in iron-mongery with the United
States no longer sens out a single
article, but, intead, s,lls here Ameri-
can merchandise imported from the
States"
"What is your opinion of Ameri-
can wares ?"
Excellent" rerlied the manufact-
urer. "They incude really ingen-
ious notions. This tap on my gas
burner is an American invention"
"They are chver people," he con-
tinued, land they beat us on our own
ground: but the tariffs kill US. There
was once famous firm here-Van
Wart, relatives of Washington Irv.
ing. They did an extensive trade in
exports to the States. They closed up
their business some time ago. The
trnth is the American trade is over,
and what a trade it was when l was
a boy. Why, sir, the Americans are
actually sending US electro-plated
goods, and there is a French IRON
monger in town. l am free trader,
but l really think we might try a
little protection on the communities
which trouble us most. Spain espec-
tally. Why, they make us pay 20
per cent. more than they do any other
country"
Frank Hurd and his class speak of
the great benefits of free trade to the
American farmer. Joseph Hatton
sees different effect of it in England,
"To day while the American agricul-
turalist is accumulating wealth the
English farmer is a ruined man.
The chief source of nations wealth,
the cultivation of the soil is a played
out industry in England, while in
Ireland hundreds of tenant farmers
having paid no rent at all for years
and on strike against paying any
more at all. To-day Ireland asks for
relief with bitterness In her heart, and
with gun in her hand; tomorrow
England will follow suit, but without
the gum"