Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-02-16


There had been LONG. long rain. and ne
harvesting had been bc.sln. They wanted ;
shilling to buv some beer Ono young wo
5 man had "A mir of shoes in her hand and sb,
| was evidently proud of the nossossion. anf
p keeping it choice for some great OCCASION
They did NOT want son. door relief " Tho,
> wanted work and probably found itHin Inc
| Work House. They had nassed nv spaciou,
fields of uncultiyatcd ground and in mi,
case, the women who were ready for field
work could moi obtain the boon they sought
They affirmed tbev Ind had M wnri, for NV,
; weeks They Ind nrohoiiv Iivnd On bcr,
and bread. by begging, bnt especially on
beer. They had the asnect of utter discour.
: agcmcnt and stupidity. Ihavc seen the peas.
antry of many countries. Int | know of none
, so far DEPRESSED. so low ms The farm laborel
of England Tho ncasnntrv of Turkey. even.
have more of the ordinary comforts of life,
The future will nrovc whether Free Trade
can reduce them 10 the English level This
condition of agriculture in England. after So
, long n trial of Frcc Trade ia n very insiruc.
tive foct
But who are the English entrants tla, in
yearly increasinr numbers flee from Frcn
+. Trade ENGLAND to Protective AmericaP They
are moi chiefly men seeking land The farm
laborcrs are incapable, mentally and fnan.
cially, of taking such a start In life unless
thew are sent over as paupers. The emirrants
arc mostly mechanics seeking work. They
will become land owners by-and.by. They
leave n land of Free Trade and seek n land
whcrc lnhor is nrotcc,od and where in snita
Of Mr.. Fawcrtt he can have md snnnolt n
family.
Let us now examine another point What
have h, on ihc nct,ml his,oricnl results of Tho
introduction of Free Trade into communities
|
communities rronpd substantial bennfits from
the change
Every reader will think Mt once of France.
CobdeII the great nnostle of Free Trade ner-
shaded Iouis Napolcon 10 adoni The
Free Trade poicy for definite number of
wears
The time eynired Did France make haste
to renew the ,rrntvp No. The French
mind is 50 unpbilosophical that not even ex
pcrience can teach il the blessings of Free
Trade. France fuses TO renew the treaty
The Golden Club, with the consummatc abl.
ity cf men of the highest rank. talent. eyneri.
encc and Diplomatic skill. has utterly failed
| in its missionary work in France. France Inns
made the experiment. and most uunratcfullv
claims 10 know the results 10 herself even
| better than the Cobden C,ub knows ihcm
| Whatever influence France has in science
philosophy and government i, nil zoos
against the the club which is bent ,,non on.
tightening the two rront and hrnirhtnj re-.
pubics, France and The United States: but
they love their own darkness better than the
Golden light.
When | wen, ,o Turkey Mt tbc close of
1888. the poIicy of ,be roySrnmcnt-s 81 far os
it had any financial u0licv-,yos nrotec,ivc
and there were many Industries moderately
prosperous. There we're no rich monI,factur-
crs. but thc numerous worl;mcn in thair
small work shops were much better off than
the similar class in ENGLAND I'm ono quarter
Of Scutar there were five or six thousand
wcaycrs of cotton roods for tho homo mar
kct. Coppcrsniths were very numerous in
this great citv. The notion cutlery. carpcn.
tcrs' tools, horseshoes, donkcy-sh6es. stone
workers tools. combs for the Empirc. chi
bouks and narrhilrys for nil smokers. amber
work, oriental boots. shoes. embroidery. and
many other domestic arts, employed lens of
thousands of industrious w6rkmen in the
great city of more than amillion inhabitants
the products Of their labor went TO all pats
of the Marmora and Black Seas. and TO the
Asiatic and African norris of the Ncditcrran.
can England. under Cobdcn's inspiration.
after many fruitlcss efforts introduced Tur.
kew TO Free Trade. All the industries have
mentioned and many others. disappeared or
were reduced to insienilicance with asionish-
ing rapidly. The cotton stufrs of Scutari
were initiated in Manchester, with II nicer
look, and poured upon the aslonishcd people
at less than half price. Every loom in Sou
tart ceased to work. The long, narrow build
ngs where they worked have rottcd down.
had occasion in 1870 TO hire one, but it was
too much dccaycd 10 be easily repaired, and
rot and rats drove me cut. That large pop
ulatlen persisted in wrctchedncss and misery
extreme. Fawcctps favorite remedy for
checking population came in with ven
gence, There was no need of forbdding
marriage. There seems to be fatal lncapaci-
~ in the uncducated oriental to change his
employment. But lie can suffer and die with
the flrmness OF Il martyr Enforced idlencss,
rags, squalor, filth. want of food, prepare the
way for all destructive epidemics, of the
East. Malaral fever, cholera, smallpox,
soon disposed OF these dcsparing wrecks of
humanity, thrown up by the great wave of
English Free Trade. So of all the other in
dustlies in a greater or less degree. This
change has taken place, not only in the Tur-
kish ports, but the disaster extends far INTO
the interior. Even the excellent notion work
in cOttons, so far east as Diarbekr, on the
upper waters of the Tigris, have succumbcd,
and their fast, unfading colOrs cannot be
found. Cheap, gaudy, slazv goods have
crowded them out, at half their price and Il
quarter of their durability.
But will mention n SINGLE industry moro
particularly as an example of ,hc whole In
ls4l | visited Brusa for the first time lis
most istcrcs,ing industry. after lis silk works,
was the WEAVING of the Bruso botlr towels
| Ii was n lorre and tl.urishinr industry sun.
portinr thousands Of bnsv hands Free rrode
royn Manchester n cha,cc ot Ills os voli nc
Inc Scutari works yThr sham towels If Brnsa
came nourinr ;nto Rmso itsr,f Thnv were
moi durable Ike the native nroduct I'm, Ills
was moi then know Thev we've sold GO
choon thot every nr'Ieo loom had ,o ston
After tho i,,us,rv ,yns thnr,n,a,iv lillod ,bo