Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-03
Shall English Policy Prevail
In America?

W ItCOSulIc lulS country WIN III
glorious victory won by AndreV
Jackson at New Orleans in 1915.
Hostile as England always la
been to this country, in nothing
has she been moro inimical than
in her commercial policy, and il
her attempts to promote British
influence in the directions of tn
commercial policy of the Unite'
States. Even during colonia
days the home government interfeT
ed to repress the infant industrie
of America, as it has done in illfat
ed Ireland for centuries past. TIL
Philadelphia Press of late dat,
gives some interesting facts as t.
inquiries made by the British
Parliam ent in 1919 to demOnstat,
that the growth of manufacturer
in the American colonies tended t
make them Independent of thu
mother country. The Press repro
duces from the report made by the
British Board of Trade to Parlia
ment, as follows:
BY late accounts from Massachu
sets Bay in New England, the AS
sembly have voted a bounty OF
thirty shillings for every piece Of
duck or canvas made in the pro
vince. Soma other manufacturers
are carried on there, as brown hOl-
land for wOman's wear, which les
sens the importation of calicoes
and some other sorts Of East India
goods. They also make some
small quantities of cloth, made of
linen and cotton, forordinary shirt
ing. BY paper mill, set up three
years ago, they make to the value
of goo sterling yearly. There are
also several FORCES for making bar
iron and some furnaces for cast
iron or hollow ware, and one slit
ing mill and a manufacture for
nails. Great quantities of hats are
made in New England. They also
make all sorts of iron for shipping.
There are several still-houses and
sugar bakers established in New
England.
Commenting upon this extract
from the report of the Board of
Trade, the Press says:
Immediately the expectation Of
hats from one plantation to another
was prohibited, and soon after
wards an act was passed which
prohibited the erection or continu-
ance of a mill or other engine for
Sitting or rolling iron, or any
plating forge to work with a tilt
hammer, or any furnace for making
steel in the colonies under the
penalty of $1,000, and every such
mill, engine, forge or furnace was
declared to be a common nuisance,
and the colonial governors, upon
the information Of two witnesses
upon oath, were required to order
the same to be dbGted.
More than a century has passed
since American manufactures were
adiudged a nuisance by Great
Britain and the order given to
abate them. Abou: the same time
the manufactures of Ireland were
likewise declared a nuisance and
But, alas for poverty
stricken Ireland, England has been
able to continue her policy to the
present time. American indepen-
lence cut short the abatement pro-
,esS, and our revolutionary fathers
wisely started our manufactures
with the republic itself by enact
ng the American policy of Pro
ection to native industry and
labor.
Let the voters of Virginia who |
ire 50 much interested in the policy I
# Protection, in the pro.American /
ather than the pro English policy, |
that every English or.
,an in this country, the entire
'ress Of London and every advO-
ate of British ideas and British
interests in this country advocates
election.
"Our hope,' said British manu-
lcturer not long since, "is in the
Democratic party. Once in power,
ny agents in New York assure me
hat q bona fde reduction of the
resent tariff will be made-a re-
uctiOn of 90 per cent, at the least,
D begin with" And this is the
lethod of abatement. With the
borough organization of centuries
18th labor tOeing the line Of pau
erism, ready to work for half the
ay and content with a standard
living far below the American,
ngland proposes to accomplish,
it'll the sO-called Democratic par
: and its Free.trade leader, what
did in 1850, by act ofParliament, !
lmcly, declare our mills, our en- I
mes, our furnaces, our workshops {
nuisance, aud abate them by |
rec Trade. t
Beecher and Cleveland.