Daily Republican., 1885-08-01
England for Free Trade.

1t is remarkably strange that with
the diretul results of free trade 30 glar-
ingly displayed ia England, that any
body In this country should hArb Dor even
a thought in favor of system that only
leads to the degradation of labor and to
the sure poverty Of the working classes.
1t ought to be perfectly plain to every
man who labers that unless American
labor il protected and fostered by legis-
lation, the cheap labor productions Of
England will supercsde American pro.
ductlons. With . population in our
country OF So, o00, 600, soon to reach 49,
600, ,0O0, we have q home market for our
produca such ~ no other nation has,
and if our markets are preserved intact
for the benefit Of our own people, there
should not be such thing known rs
hard times. 1t should not be difficult
TO understand that mparatively iso-
Il cd - tue United States IL. they have
in the present population more than its
quota to provide for when compared
with all the other manufacturing ma
tions Of the world. Whenever We be-
gin to push our prod nets abroad for the
purpo 'e Of securing trade, we let down
the b lrs and let other nations In, and
eonse luently free trade follows.
The great efforts made by England to
induce the c nited States to adopt free
trade should be looked upon with grave
suspicion. A recent German publica
tion shows from statistics published the
eject OF free trade on England. Having
fallen into that channel she must keep
In 1t, and unless she abserbs the trade
OF other nations her own industries
must fall into decay. 1t appears from
the reports alluded to that in 1867 Eng
land had "a per cent. OF the trade of the
world, but in 1882 it had dwindled down
to 10 per cent and this relative de.
crease still continues.
At the same time the volume Of Eng-
iish trade in Europe had decreased from
"a to % per cent The falling off of
English productions is in coal, iron,
steel, cottons and woollens articles in
which there is an increase in Germany
and other European nations. The St.
james, aR English newspaper, speaking
of these evidences of England CONNER
ciAl decay, says There eau be no
doubt among men of business abroad,
and at home there is constant question
ing as to whether England is not losin z
her Lead in the commercial and indus
trial field whether having reached the
height Of her relative supremacy, she
has not begun to decline in comparison
with other nations, espec tally wish the
United States" Mark those last five
words. In them we have the secret of
the great zeal the British press displays
In the cause Of free trade. A crisis has
come in the case of England, and IL the
d ,cline In her trade that has been
steadily going on for the last eighteen
years be pot arrested, it Is only q ques-
tion of time when her commercial su.
premacy will be thing of the past.
Ii she can only break down the bar
riers of protection In the United States,
she can avert from herself the evil day
that she breads so much. AS 30 much
depends upon her being able to force
her free-trade policy upon this coustry,
she will Of course, bend all her energies
to the work Of opening up our mar.
kets to the free ad mission Of her cheap
made goods, cheap because they are
made with labor ifty per cent. lower
thsn they are in this country.
Tae sree.tra9e element in our own
country can bs relied upon to do all
they can to assist England to carry out
her designs. Iudeed, the Carlisle ~ or
rison and Hurd class of free tr aders
have already shown themselves so ex-
tremely devoted to the interests Of
England, that we need not be surprised
At anything they may do to help her in
her present emergency. There are
already indications that In the next
Congress they will be more active than
ever before, in pushing forward their
free-trade views. The consciousness
that they have the support of the
present administration will have the
effect of making them work with more
zeal and energy. There can be no
doubt that England builds her hopes
for the future upon the success of free.
trade in this country.
The following despatch which we
clip from an exchange will let In some
inportan. light upon the subject
LoNDoE.-A conference Of sugar re
liners at which nearly the whole trad,
was represented was held to. day. 4
resolution was unanimously adoote,
pehtioning the Marquis of Salisbury I
make a tour of the country and brin
before the people the alleged iniustic
OF the American Government in pawn
a bounty through Its tariff laws t
American exporters of refined sugar,
Tue refuers claim that America
running the sugar industries of Gre;
Britain"
Here we have reason why Englan
lis 30 much interested in the trade
the United States Is it not abo,
time that the people were awakenir
from the slumber of free trade, in
which many Of them have fallen