Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-22
COMMUNICATIONS.
EMILE,

Something for ''T. II. BIS" Confederation.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
May trouble you to publish one more
article in answer to "T. Z. BIS" verbose
| article of the Goth inst? First wish SET T.
B." to remember that ours are working
people and breakfast, dine and sup mostly
on facts, and do not mix problems such as
SIS part greater than the whole?" or dilute
facts With fanciful theories. Throwing ST
T. Bs." theory to the winds let us recall a
few facts. (By the way wrote twenty in
stead of twelve years printed.) In twenty
years under high tariff we have gained
twenty millions of people, say from 1864 to
1884. and the assessed valuation of our prop
erty ls, think, fifty per cent. greater. Our
agricultural and manufactured productions
have nearly doubled, and certainly have
doubled in the last thirty years. So much
for our nation. Now as to our city We
have gained twenty and believe twenty-five
thousand inhabitants in that time. This is
more than We gained under the fostering
care of dear old mother England in the first
one hundred and fifty years of our existence
''T. L. B." says to be consistent
We should tax men and women as
We do iron and steel. The old adage, ''None
so blind as those who won't see," applies
here. Do we mot owe our great growth and
prosperity to the hundreds of thousands that
flock yearly to our shores2 1T. T. B." says
that workmen from Europe tend to lower
wages and make everything else higher. And
he also says that the panic of 81 was no COM
parison to that of 1873. Let US compare the
last twenty years, which include the panic
of '73, with 1887. In '37 there was general
bankruptcy throughout the land. OF all the
carriage firms ofNewHaven but two survived
the shock, and that was then the chief man.
featuring business of the city. Workmen were
glad to go into the country and work on
farms to obtain their board. New York
about one-quarter its present size, was said
to have twenty thousand idle clerks The
banks stopped specie payment for years and
from 81 TO Al laborers' wages were from
seventy five cents to one dollar per day and
mechanics, when they could get work, from
one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents
With all the influx of foreign labor, the
wages now are twice as hish as then. So
much for wages. 1t is either true or false
q claim falsel that We pay more for goods
under high tariff. than we did then under a
low tariff. Judge you whether
am right. England paid US about
SIX cents pound for cotton. We paid
her twenty-five cents per yard for calico and
it retailed at thirty-seven and half cents
All manufactured goods according to quality
were higher then than now. Come down to
a later date within the memory of "T T. B ~
A few years ago we paid England one hun
dred and twenty dollars per ton for steel
rails high tariff set rolling mills in
operation and we now buy bstter ones for
forty dollars per ton. Leok at money forty
years ago-hard to get at even high rate Of
interest, now drug in the market at five per
cent.
mo, L. T. B " Notwithstanding we do not
put duty on humanity, and although we b 4d
what you are pleased to call panic in '73,
p1 mo- min of oil hraf kha
suit of getting back to gold basis accompa-
MED by that other English infant pet, the de-
monetlzation of silver, which, thank heaven,
the silver and greenback party defeated (aIl
honor to them). we are yet great, growing
and prosperous people This is fact which
sophistry cannot wipe out. When cannot
do anything better we will turn our attention
to shipping and give England a squeeze on
the ocean.
ST. T. B." says he believes Eng
land ia far stronger now under free
trade than ever before. do not believe
it. Increase in population or wealth does not
indicate it. We have outstripped her at every
point except on the ocean. If it were not for
her wars she would stagnate and stagnation
Is death In growth and prosperity there is
life and health. Look at the unrest of her
people If facts prove aHEkhing we are on
the right track. Do not LET US switch off
Let England grow In wisdom and follow our
the following copied from yesterdays
COURIER, which will bear republishing:
Consul shaw, of Manchester, the center of the
manufacturing interests of Great Britain, has some
thing to say ia his lat report which wilt not please
the free traders. He says that the vement IN ia
of flair trads,' the demand the establish
ment Of a tariff system in Great Britain is called,
promises to gather force enough to change the free
trade policy of England Many Things favored the
establishment al d continuance of that policy, he
says but within the last ten years change
over the situation While 'v6s5 volumes of
features have been turned out the profits have besn
moat unsatisfactory despite the fact that every
pedent has been tried By manufacturers to cheapen
the cost of production - Mr.. shaw also writes
'sIhere is, of course, q deep anxiety manifested in
this country for the early adoption lower tariff
in the United States and the sociude shown in this
respect proves how general is the belief here tRt
English manufacturers would be able to macy
of our mills, If this adopted part"
CoDsul Shaw thinks that for Congress to change the
tariff in view of the present st to affairs in Great
Britain twould be about wise would be the act
of man who ordered his head chopped off to cure
the too hach7."
In view of the above is not all free trade
talk trash, or worse, perhaps, a crime?
MECHANIC.
P. S.-One word on British gold. If men
work as well as some of the free traders do
for nothing and find themselves, they are
bigger fools than take.them to be. III.