New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-25
4 IOOE 1BRO.fD.

If man insists on wearing blue spcctaclcs he
is likely to take n blue view of things most of
the time. So there are men who can never see
things quite rs they are in the world of industry
and trade. I'm their docful lamentations about
the state of business in this country, they man
age to forget that we are much better of even
now than the people OF any other land. Day
after day they thrust upon weary world their
net theories of the cause Of depression III the
United States, and repeat their solemn warn
ings that this or that, or the other thing must
be done if We would escape dire disaster or
WOO prosperity to return Sometimes il Is the
currency that causes all orr woes. aud some
times the tariff; one man traces everything TO
railroad monOpolics, and another to intcmpcr-
ancc. and another to the success Of the wrong
partv i'm some election Each man rides his
hobby and like the unhappy Democrat who
found his ccl-potS empty, concludes that there
can be no prosperity in a country 50 badly gov
erncd.
If these unhappy fcllow-citizens would lift
their ewes. and take look at the condition of
things elsewhere it might occur to them that n
tariff, or a redundant currency, or victory of
the wrong party in America could hardly bring
markets in England, in France, in Germany,
and all over the civilized world. When we sec
that other countries have difficulty in tho very
same branches of business that are embarrassed
here and that their embarrassment Is greater
than our own. what are we 10 infcr7 The
tariffs of these nations are altogether dssim-
liar; their monetary systems are absolutely an
tagonistic their customs and their institutions
are as different as their forms of government.
If any of these things make trouble here, why
do we find the same trouble where all these
things are dillerentl
One man clamors for free trade To his
mind, every industrial and commercial disease
comes from that poison In the blood. n monop-
oily tariff" But England has free trade how
is il with the iron or cotton manufacture, with
shp-building or the export trade in thrice
blessed free trade England Matters are worse
there than here. Another man has fixed his
eye on the real evils of silver coinage until he
can see nothing else, and he is sure that We
should be altogether blessed if We could get rid
of silver coinage and silver certificates. But
England and Germany enjoy mono -metalism,
and do not find it panacca for all ills.
Another victim of one idea insists that We
should have new heavens and new earth if the
Government could only control the railw avs
here and the trcgraphs, rs some Governments
do in Europe. But in what country has the
millennium arrived because the railways or tho
tclcgraphs have less freedom than they have
here 7
We pick up the latest issue received of The
London Economist, and read Speculation is
being restrained in all directions So it is
here. A very sluggish demand for money has
IA depressing influence upon rates." and so it has
where silver circuatcs as well as gold. "Dur-
ing the last two or three years the condition
"Of the English iron trade has been far from
satisfactory, prices remaining very low and
"unprOiitablc.' In this country that state of
things has not lasted so long. considerable
"numbcrs of men have received notice mt the
"shipyards that theirscryircs are not likely 10 be
"rcquircd after an early date DO protection
and free trade in ships bear the same fruit,
then I! " In Germany, there are especial com
plants as to the condition OF The wire trade
and 80 there have been here. In British coal
mines, the w0rkmen have resolved to put
forward claim for II per cent advance" in
wages The miners on this side, mt all events
are not driven 10 strike for n living. Another
article shows that the number of paupers. rcck
oncd upon the same basis nj the two dates, in
creased from S34, IL in 1852 to 1,4S0,00O in