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

country sometimes IL is SAID tnat II we
had not had these helps we might have got
along faster Well, we tried going without
them three or four times since we became in
dependent, and we did get along as fast, but
it was in the opposite direction. APP.
parently the European nations, and notably
our great rival, Great Britain, are really dis
trcsscd that we should stand SO much in our
own light. Do you suppose that English
manufacturers and merchants and ship owners
are really suffering because we are not as
rich as we ought to be? | think that won't
do and think the counscs that we receive
from over the water must be tested by their
good sense and their wisdom rather than any
notion that we can trust to the Genevolence
OF the motive. What is it, then, that so
greatly interests our people now? Why is it
that they are SO quick to perceive that there
must be something more in this matter than
mere question of shifting $50, OOO,0 900 or
$50, 900, 900 a year from this or that subject
of taxation to another? They know that our
Government would be ms if founded upon the
sand il our laboring people are not different
from what the laboring people under the
system Of the European government were
and are, They know that they must be ed
ucatcd, and at the public expense, to save
anybody from the excuse of Ignorance. They
know that the marriage relation and the ties
OF children and parents as Of Christian fami-
lies are to be maintained throughout the land,
and that the Government must see TO it by
such methods as are at its disposal that the
fruits OF honest. sober, faithful labor through
out the length and breadth of the land
shall be adequate to support citizen and n
citizens family. Applause.
Now there comes this question, whether,
having established onrpolitical independence,
having possession of a territory adequate to
the production of all that we need for food
and for raw materials, aud also the pos
session Of n population in numbers, intclli-
geuce, and education adequate for the higher
forms of industry we shall undertake to
preserve the independence of our labor, or
whether We shall allow it to be confused, re-
duced, degraded to the common level of the
labor OF men who are not citizens and not
masters of their Governments abroad That
is one question. Do you think, that the
great statesman Gladstone, twhsn he pronounc-
ed our constitution the greatest Government
ever struck ont at single blow by the hui
man intellect, had an idea that it was meant
to be torn to pieces when anybody wished TO
do 50 inside, and overwhelmed by importa-
tons when anybody outside wanted TO sink
it under them. The objection is urged that
protection don't protect-well we are not in
favor OF it if ii don protect-then why un.
der heaven are they not in favor of it ii it
don't protect: What developed our indus.
tries ii protection has not Have they been
nursed by the revenue system of England
and France and Germany: Do these Par.
| liamcuts sit TO make laws in the interests OF
the United .atcs? Would it be II satisiac.
ton ulsJ to those who say that protection
carries wealth t. the capitalist and to the in
| tcllgent American labJrcr TO know that the
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his pocket has also carried it out of the peck
cts of his fellow cOuntrymen, and that the
whole of it has gone into the pockets of the
British laborer and British capitalist! Then
We have n wider and more sweeping objec-
tiOn-lhit the working of these organized in
| dus,ii,s is such as to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer. That is jus. as true OF
the Industries that are not protected us of the
industries that are. think there are quite
as many dispartics Of fortune between the
owners of great railroads and the biakcmcr
as there are between the heads of manufac
turing establishments and the puddlcrs in
the iron or the spinucrs in the cotton Tina,
is part of the disparity in the race OF life
which we cannot change by any method
which shall leave the freedom without which
nothing can succeed wAatcvcr. 1t is sac
further that the protective system is a mon
the system Of protected labor gives mouopOl,
to the labor OF this country in its own affair
instead of a monopoly to British manu-
iactureis over American affairs. Al
you going 10 commend yourself L
the favor Of your fellow-citizens by such
play upon the word monopoly as that :-i
mOnop Ily to Americans of the profits ant
d the fruits Of their industries rather than thei
industries made hunting ground for tn
monopoly of II foreign nation. There is ye
another objection that is worth considering
and that is these free-raders are greatly dis
tressed that we should object to the princi
pie Of free trade with foreign countries whc
the principle Of our Constitution and til,
habits Of our people make free trade anon,
all the States of The Union the necessary AM
absolute condition of traffic But are we no
citizens of one country: Does not GU
patriotism include all the States and all til
people? When we say that America pros
pers, do not we mean that the whole of
prOsl crs, and do not we know that whe
Missouri has its zinc protected it fills wit
gladness every citizen of the State OF Ne'
York.
When we possess our own markets, an
the growth of our industries enable us t
compete With foreign nations and when, III
der the benign influences Of the Emerca
system, we lave made ourselves as great {
England made herself under the came sy
ten for herself so that we can see that
!. proclamation for free trade to all the nation
. of the world means that they shall buy ever.
thing of us and We nothing OF them, we sha
; be free traders. Applause.
President Cyrus Hamin of Mlddlebul
a College was the last speaker. He said:
: President HannIin,s Speech.
a am not expected to appear before you
producer or as u capitalist, not even as
: mechanic, although have been mechani
f nor yet as farmer, although have been
V farmer, but am to speak TO you briefly
d an interested observer in foreign lands of Il
/. effect of English free trade on the native i
!. dustries of foreign countries. | liv,
e for thirty-fvc years in Turkey and 81
the native industries of that eupi
d before England came in with h
q free trade principles, and the disasters wifi
d the introduction Of those principles produce
n | was acquainted with many Turkish man
n facturcrs when the Manchester goods enter
Conslantinope. Manchester sacrificed tho
g sands and hundreds Ct thousands Of dolla
n. in placing her goods in the bazars of Il
il city, and she completely crushed the natl
al manufacturers. She copied the Turkish pc
10 ularilies and sold the goods at much low
In prices than the Turks could make them
n. The imported goods had finer look, but w
less serviccablc than those formerly sold
vi the bazars. And what was the result Eve
r. loom was stopped, and squalor and paup
n ism prevailed. | could mention thirty
n dustries which persisted while was n fr
~ trader, so | began to study the question M
NJ closely. English free trade made Turk
nd bankrupt, and the commercial benevolei
in of England has also made Egypt bankru
Az There is a curious thing about Engl
If free trade. 1t is this Not an Engli
m speaking community outside of England
ha licves in free trade. Every community
ri colony that has sufficient brain to learn
In English language has too much brain
oonnpt fraa trnIa A ypinn from, thu