Daily Republican., 1884-01-24

sirable to lower the standard of q
nations life ? II 10 a fact. deny 1t who
can, that "cheap places" in all fully
sestled countries have hitherto been
those In which the working poor have
been the most degraded aud depressed,
and cheap times those In which they
have been the most wretched.
THE FOLLY OF Gil EAPNKss."
In the West Indies, for instance,
food for q week can he grown with two
hours' labor. Are the negroes Of the
West Indies prosperous They are
idle aad miserable beyond belief.
Amongst the monjiks of the Don,
wheat used to be 80 cheap that 1t was
burned for fuel. Their misery and
squalor was without parallel In Europe.
Hut 1t IL not necessary to 60 TO the
West Indies or to the Don to illustrate
this argument. Take America and
Ireland. America is essentially dear
country, where very high rate Of living
prevails high wages! high expendi-
ture. ireland IN cheap country,
where wages are low--very low, and
the rate Of living as low ~ possible.
The worker In America gets high
wages and spends them he tolls, and
sows. and grows, and works, and buys.
The worker in Ireland does none OF
these things; he neither tolls, nor sows,
nor grows, nor buys--he does without
Now, which conduces most to human
bappiness--.he high rate Of living In
America or the low scale OF living in
Ireland p? Which, again, conduces most
to human happiEess-cheapness or en-
ployment?
The Golden Club tell the operatives
that wheat Is los. a quarter cheaper
than 1t was thirty years ago, and that
this alone is complete reply 10 any OBJ.
lection against Free Trade. Suppose It
is--and believe II is--what does this
prove? II proves that railways and
steamers, and the development II the
great grain districts Of America have
brought 10 our very doors stores Of grain
that we're before inaccessible, or did
not exist: but this has nothing TO do
with Free Trade. II IN true wheat IL
cheaper 10s. a quarter than 1t was forty
years ago and NO II would have been
If Free Trade had never been heard Of.
Free Traders make a great deal Of the
fact Of wheat being cheaper, but they
carefully conceal the fact that meat is
90 per cent. dearer than IL was forty
years ago, and fruit and vegetabl and
all dairy produce, milk, butter, good
cheese, are 10 to 80 per cent. dearer.
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