Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-21

rron.,rode In the United States weni"
,yo,,s GO great an injury to Industrial
interests as to prostrate ihar"'"o''
and enforce our consumers to pay ui"-
ute to foreign producers, ieaVil'H '"o
country helpless to supply us ""u
wants, then no American party cou"
afford to countenance free-traoe' -''
Marty would dare entertain friend'hip
for policy of government whose c"i-
sequence would be go dire. me co"h'
try would he unit of resistance 10 any
.uch policy; and the party identihed
with il would be us eh'i.e'S
anuihilated rs the ola feu-
eralist PARTY was by its genesis
of the obnoxious alien and seu''i'ii
laws. That the Democratic party
which is aud has been free-traoe' vi
at least a low tariff'party, has not zee"
80 annihilated, hut has survived war
and folly, has grown steadily ana mas
nrospered most and won its chleiesl
victories upon free-trade declarations
is clearly convincing that hnal"fi'y
of the American people do not resai"
surh n Motley rs un-American. oul'e
to the contrary, tariff retormer7 mann
tain. with every evidence OF historian
experience TO support them, That their
policy is the true one TO ioster our
manufacturing industries ana extehu
orr foreign trade, chiefly mt the eX-
peuse of England, by making produc-
ton cheaper and putting our manu-
facturers in position to contend WIN
England in the foreign markets oil the
world, where her supremacy IS now
undisputed and unrivaled. III must
be evident to the dullest comprehen-
sion that We can never disturb Eng
lands foreign trade - long AS we I'M
pose such tax on the raw materials
of M ,nufactuie rs to make the cost OF
production higher than in England,
where raw materials are untaXed III
wages were the same in the two coun
tries, and the cost Of materials tha'
enter into manufactures HIGHER in this
country, made 70 by our heavy tariff
taxes. il must follow that the cost OF
making the same class of goo l. viii
be rs much highe' in the United IT ties
~ h cost al M ,t-rlals II hgher than
in England. England can undersell our
manufacturers -, the amount of thu
difference, and no Il her foreign trade.
Under our high tariff system
the only way to meet and
overcome this discrimination against
US is to cut down the ages of work
men until The cost Of production l.
eouallzed. Revenue reforners would
overcome this difference by relieving
the raw Substances Of manufacture of
their burden OF taxes, thus reducing
material cost ins,ea of wages
If the Irish in this untry desire to
eff ctually interfere with E"gland'S
foreign trade, ii C al not be done BY
supporting IA system that restricts AnI-
erican manufactures to the "home
Market but by system that will put
VI. on an equal fooliug with England
| in the open markets of the world.
| England now sends abroad annua, Y
s., 400, 900. 0O0 Of manufactured good
the United Stats beggarly $ll2 0O0.
100 worth. This means thai for, igf
nations contribute every year s. i0I,
900 600 to the enrichment of England
while the Uni ei States recei\ Is les.
than one.twentieth pnrt OF thuI
q Mount Can ANY way be devised IN
which a greater injury can be intlicte
upon England aud II greater benefit
conferre upon the United States thai
the adoption u; policy thai will pu
our manufacturers on AN equal with
those Of our strongest competitor en-
able us TO cut into and appropriate i
large part of this rich trade, destroy
the commercial supremacy of II power
full rival and build ourselves up at hel
expense?
So strong Is the feeling that England
fears the effects al frce-trade in this
country more than she does protection,
that "Bradstreet's" Newspaper, pro-
lection lIaie journal, OF Jane %, 1888
WAS driven to use tie following Ian
guage in sparkling of free trad
MANY iute ligent and very observing
manufacturers in Great Britain ar.
beginning to feel thai free-t ale in the
United States means stagnalion {,
British manufacturers. a very oh
servant American, who has resided in
Europe much OF the time for ten years
does not hesitate to shy that tn. estal
llsh nent of free trade IN the United
States would result in war between the
couutlie-. While this view seems
very far f,om the condition hat might
be"Xp Q ed IL gains standing when II
is remembered that all of England
war; for many generations, have beer
wa "d upon commercial grounds
With iree-lrade in this country ther,
wil' b. mosI gigantic struggle for in
dus'rial aud commercial supremacy
and lieve that struggle will drive
England into IL condition of feeling
AID temper that will only stop shol
of war from strong convection of it,
fuliiity and folly"
The Irish Of this country are, as a
class, poor. They are nearly all con.