Daily Republican., 1885-09-11
England wants Free Trade.

Ther6 eh0ulu nos Uo tuo ioaoe Noupo
that England is doing oil she can to
break down the barriers or protection
that the q nited States has raised ag4'n
free trade. Mt long ago the London
Times declared lliat the Golden club
would never res 80 long as America
remained unconquered, and the ener-
getic manner In which free trade princi-
ples have been advocated shows that
this was no idle boast. English money
and English influence played no small
mart In the late Presidential election
in favor OF the election Of Cleveland,
and ut this mcment the same agencies
are being employed to mould public
opinion in favor of policy that has for
its object the destruction Of American
industries, Ia order that the British
manufacturers may be able to reap the
profits Of the honopoliZed trade Of
America. In this connection 1t might
DE noticed that every free trade organ
in the country is more OF less friendly
10 British in terests, bus these organs
haze never been 30 pronounced In their
advocacy of free trade Is they now are
and haYs been for year or 30 past
- Although IL was suspected, 1t Is only
within a year past that the Every
Evening. Of our own city, was known
to be fully on the side OF feo trade
We have, therefore, q right TO in.er that
these organs have received insractlCns
from London TO insugurate q free trade
crusade in highlands interest Tbere
Is no doubt that highlands trade was
never in worse condition than 1t Is at
the present. time. II the American
market was thrown open to British
goods, England would be able to main
tain her commercial supremacy for
many years to come, and hence we may
understand the great interest she takes
in encouraging free trade In this coup,
try.
This view OF the case Is fully borne
out by an interview which Mr.. Ira
Davenport, who is named rs prominent
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor OF New York, had at
Carlsbad, German watering place,
where he met several English members
OF Parliament, in recent European
tour. Mr.. Davenport thus describe.
his interview:
At Carlsbad thera were a number o
Englisbmen and members OF the Eng
lish parliament. Next 10 the Gladston,
issue their chief topic of conversation
was directed to the conversion OF al
Americans to their peculiar doctrine o
free trade. All their argu ment resol vet
itself into THIS, that with free trad,
England seilS lots of goods, l sugges tex
80 him that England had once been tn
closest protection country on the face O
the globe, and that when, after Yeas Q
protection, she had built herself int
one of the largest manufacturing ns
lions in the world, aole TO manu-
facture and supply goods cheape
than other Countries could make then
she then aboiisbed duties aud adopte
free trade, and that at the present "
were building up. When we reache
the poiut England did, ! told then
before she abolished protection, v
should probably abolish It too 1t seen
30 me to be good rule that when yol
adversary or competitor wants you
do anything there is a strong probabi
ty that it is the thing you ought not
1t seems to US that the true policy Z
us to pursue is to oppose what Englsu
wants us to do. She wants us TO ado
free trade because she knows she CT
with her cheap system Of labor, man
facture goods cheaper than We can, al
can swamp our markets with her chez
goods. Here is something for the
boring people of this country to look
and think about before they again ca
THAR votaa FIR n marty that = In srrp r
thy with English free trade.