New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-07
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10 the lower and lower cost, and the lower
aud lower price, Is The march Of competition IN
the rinducIiun aud snlr Of manufactures
Warfare il 10 both production nnl sale nnd
wat cares not iut Tho wounds II incis not tho
deaths Having the advantage of all either nhs
items ia lhe elements at cheap production hnd
distribution, the capitalists and merchants al
Great liritain seventy years ago determined 10
make il the workshop Of the world, A requisite
condition was that aher nations should supply
il with raw materials aud let II do the manuiac
turing. The universal policy of the freedom of
trade had to be taught and accepted as a gospel
Therefore British free trade was formulated
and taught ms books, pamphlets, tracts.
speeches. newspapers and the resolves OF public
assemblnges No equal amount OF labor and
money has been expended III the establishment
OF any creed, not religious, as has been poured
out TO teach the deadly lie that people which
has sheep, but no cloth mills, is morally bound
to abstain from building cloth mills and bound
to sell its wool, at anolhcrs valuation, to the
pc0plc which possesses The machinery and
skilled labor TO make cloth. Slavery and
eternal poverty are at the bottom OF that ar
rangement
But a lust God rules this world and in lIn
expected ways Furnishes the crimes OF nations
Almost instantly the strongest States IN the
world saw the economical truth carefully
covered over at the bottom OF British free trade
that manufactures were the royal road to ma =
tional wealth, and that a system OF diversified
industry was necessary to the independence
and development Of States. So Germany lset
I'D q tariff against the British, and behind it
went to work making everything; and Russia
did the same, and the United States, and
France, and Belgium. and Holland, and Italy,
and Austria, and (hOrrd ingratitudc , so did
Engands colonies, Canada, Victoria, New
Zealand and the Cape.
The sequence was certain. Great Britain has
been prccipitaed into struggle for the exist
ence of it, manufactures. The cheapest wins, it
cries, and plunges into the fight. 1t inycnts
quicker and better machinery, and dcvises new
contlivanccs to get rid of hand labor. 1t
searches out and diScards all that wastes. But
its great preparation for the struggle is the
duction of wages. 1t is forced to accept the
competitive prices paid for labor III Belgium
and Germany, and 1t does SO remorselcssly.
Therefore the cost of this war of scii>huess falls
on is own men and the poor women and little
children who, in rags and hOloweyed discon-
tent, slave to the huge engincry of production
that rattles third of England. Down and
lower down go prices i'll this international labor
warfare, and down and lower down 90 the
wages of laborcrs. Free trade is steadily
pauperzing and imbruting a large portion of
the British people. 1t will destroy them by and
by They will disappear. For temporary sal
walton the British are scheming and! screaming
to get possession of the rich American market.
10 accomplish this they support the Demo
cratic party and pray for the election of Grover
Cleveland If he be elected, and Democratic
Congress gets full reach at our protective tarin,
the laboring men 'aud women of this country
will be flung under the wheels of the Juggcr-
naut of British manufactures and ground to
pieces. Voters, protect yourselves