Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-29
COMMUNICATIONS.
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More From ssRIechanIe.''
To the Editor of the JOURNAL CoURIER:
Once more will you indulge me at. T.
B. in his last communication turns too many
corners, and makes too many gymnastic
leaps, to be followed in detail. ''B" ignores
facts which I advance. and propounds CO.
nundrums which if answered would throw
but little light upon the subject. The pith
of the whole question sum up thus: Our
great growth under high tariff, which "B."
DOES not deny !; second, that we do buy goods
for less than when we depended on Europe
to mansfacture for US third that wages are
to-day twice as high as they were under
low tariff fourth, that he who says wages
would not again come down to nearly the
Europsan standard under free trade saws
what he ought TO know is false A ten-year-
old schoolboy who did not know better ought
to be whipped. But says che returned
American who has resided one or more years
abroad, could hire two servants abroad for
what one costs here, and does not this make
some people advocate free trade who have
money and want cheap labor.
Please read an article in your paper of
March 26th on shipping. See how quick
practical common sense sets so-called science
back into the shade. very important fact
bearing on British gold is brought to light in
that article. The author says English lobby
lists in Washington are now advocating bill
for the revival of American commerce. Oh
England, how magnanimous! Advocating
bill for the revival of our commercei l
would give a kingdom for some big Latin
word to express my astonishment, but hold,
mark the lions paw beneath the velvet. The
article closes with these words: They of
course are trying to get what we have left of
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our coastWise and river business" English
lobbyists wonder if they come here for
nothing and live on air and sleep under
bridges. 1t must be so, for England never
sends gold to America to influence our people.
Let us again look at England's free trade
bantling by daylight and see what kind of
pap the child is nourished upon. 1 quote
from DR.. Cyrus Hamlin He says: The
inferior nations upon which she has forced
free trade, instead of being regenerated,
have been impoverished and drenohed in
blood" In forcing opium upon China he
says English cannon swept the streets of
seaport cities with grape shot and the cutters
ran with the blood of women and children.
In one case five thousand men were sent be-
yond the reach of opiates IN ten minutes,
and one of the 1udicrous art O es in the treaty
of peace was that the Chinese should never
more call the English barbarians. Again, he
says, ''Great Britain stands isolated among
English-speakiDg communities. Not one of
the children she has brought up will rock
this cradle of her old age" Emile"
(whoso letters are published in the JOURNAL
AND CoUR1ER) says, writing from Saigon,
Cochin China: The most scathing charges
of moral rottenness contained in some of the
passages in the Bible which the reader will
recall would be altogether inadequate to ap-
ply to these moral lepers who go about here
arrayed in purple and fine linen and clothed
with the dignity of official position. I had
never dreamed that nominally decent society
could be SO corrupt L almost marvel that
these worse than Sodoms and Gomorrahs are
tolerated on the face of the earth. Surely
fire never came down from heaven of old
upon more iniquitous cities than these aristo-
cratic foreign colonies in the far East. OF
course tbs English are responsible for 1t in
the main, since they are the dominant people
in nearly all the eastern colonies. 1 can al
most fancy that it will puzzle infinite justice
to find retribution awful enough to meet the
deserts of these offenders" Is this the love
feast We are invited to if we accept Englands
invitation to go in for free trade. and also
into commerce forcing our goods upon an
unwilling people at the cannon's mouth We
will return our answer next fall with an em-
phatic Mo- Great Britain has hundreds of
thousands in her workhouses, and millions
of her people are on the ragged edge of des-
titution. The people of the United States
do not go abroad to conquer and rob, but
live peacefully within their own boundaries,
on the fertility of the soil and honest labor,
the true source of all wealth, and there is no
man greater with us than he who earns his
living by honest toll. would legislate for
American, not European, workshops. 1
would keep wages well up. What consti-
tutes the wealth of any people but labot?
The earth even will not yield her harvests
without it, much less can men be housed and
clothed without it. Laboring men are the
backbone of our country, the bulwark of our
nation. There is no larger percentage of
religion, morality or humanity among any
class than the Industrious class. If any have
right to be proud it is he who has earned
an honest living. Such as he are natures
noblemen.
. England wants free trade with u.s. She can
not drive, therefore she must hire, and
persuade. Golden clubs are formed, tracts
distributed, great men sent to enlighten US.
They are received with open arms, feasted,
toasted, and made much of. They deliver
make speeches and return home
enriched in purse, make speeches at home
and say we are rather crude people, but
after all rather promising child of mother
England, but they could have done us much
more good if We had been less Grade. With
me it can make but little difference, tariff
or no tariff. but I have as much
the spirit of workingman as
when forty-fiye Ito: fifty years ago worked
in nearly all the States, from Maine to Vir-
ginia and there is some fight in me yet (not
with carnal weapons, mind) And I say to
my fellow workingmen, demand of our gov
ernment that they let well enough alone. and
say to England attend to your own people on
the other side of the Atlantic, and to our
dudes who tody to England and ape English
manners and customs, better go out
from us, for you are not of us.
Bear in mind, mot one work of
this is intended for the people of Great
Britain. No nobler people ever lived than