Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10


taiiflynot less so. No, my frieDds,
it is not for love.
will tell you why they are doing
it. have lived among them eleven
years, and know them well and
know their motives. England to.
day does not raise sufficient food
to feed her own people She can
not do it
For ten articles of food which |
can name to yOu-liye animals,
meat, breadstuffs, butter, cheese,
lard, fish, eggs, potatoes, and rice
she paid last year over 5000, 900,
900.
In 1870, thirteen years ago, she
paid for those ten articles Of food
1916, 900, O,OOO-less than half what
ohO ID pay lnS hOh'
And if you look over her statis-
tics for the last twenty years you
will find that there is a gradual in.
crease year after year for these
products and, if she continues to
increase as she is now doing, in'the
year 1900 she will have to pay for
those ten articles of food not less
than 81, ,5O0,0OO,0OO. r'I,'-
No nation in the world can stand
this for any great length Of time.
No people understand this better
than the English themselves. And
the question with her statesmen
and politicians is how to provide
cheap food for their people. 3
do not state these facts from
hearsay. / take them from then
own published records. get them
directly from their parliamentary
proceedings. aAeHaai '" -b~.
Therefore you can see it is for the
interest Of England to get food
cheap to feed her people.
Now, if she can break down ON
Protective system, she knows very
we'll that the geater portion of ON
laboring men now engaged in man
ufacturing would. be driven as a
matter of necessity into agrieultur'
al pursuits, and that this would rt
suit in overproduction of agricul
tural products, aud tend to put
down prices, it may be-indeed
most probably would put down
prices of agricultural products Fifty
per cent, possibly even more thar
this. The farmer would then have
to sell Tor fifty cents what he now
gets a dollar for. Who would bt
benefited by this The farmer could
not raise one single bushel more o.
grain per acre than be does now
but he could then only get half lh'
price he now receives for what h'
would have to sell. ..
England would he benefited by
it. She could then buy her food
for half she now has to pay, anC
the farmers of our country would
be the losers. What England would
gain we would lose I; and the loss
would fall on the farmers Of ouI
country. r4...
That is not all. There is another
matter connected with this. You
talk about depression here Why
there is five times as much depres-
sion in England as there is here,
You talk about few men that are
turned out of work here. Where
there are FIVE men turned out here,
there are ten there while there IS
one mill stopped here, there afc
TWO stopped there.
England wants a market for her
manufactured commodities. She
can not sell what she Is nOw pro-
ducing, and this makes. the de-
preston she is suffering. Now, II
she can; break down our manuiac-
tories, or even one-half Of them,
she expects that we will buy from
her what we are now producing,
and in this way that she will make
a market for all her manufactured
commodities, and increase her
business to this extent, and no
doubt this would be the result, un,
less we reduced tile wages Of our
people to the same standard Of the
pauper labor of Europe.
She understands this; every
newspaperin England understands
it, and every statesman in Eng
land understands it.
She would be able to get her food
which she is compelled to buy it
may be at half the price she is now
payins,and at the same time create
market for her manufactured
commodities in this country. This
is what England is driving at; thl
is why the Golden Club is doinl
what it is in this country, and yol
see they are working for themselve
for England, and not for on
country. They are to make by it
we to lose and the loss would faI
upon our industries and our labol
ing people.
A DEFINITION OF PROTECTION.
Now, l feel that have trespas'
ed upon your time longer than