Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-12-24

has been improved and even in Virginia
and Kentucky there are millions of acres
untouched 10y the plough. As all OF these
states have superiority In climate, AN
abundance Of lahor, aud 10y no means az
interior soft, ought This immense dead
capital and ali OF it, cHrth-hldlcu miHiut
treasures, together with the uuriVHllcd
water power of uunumDercd tiVcrs to re-
main forever untouched and undevel-
Oppd
But il viii not he improved unless a
market for the products shall he created
at the threshold, aud this can only he
broadly created by that multiplication
and diversity of empluymehts which Il
protective tariff brings forth ia home
manufactures but, instead OF this, froe
trade would OlindlN SOW Inc the seed for
an abundant crop Of ptuptIlSuI. Most Of
the southern states claim to be i'm need
Oi capital for new industrial establish
menti and for the general deVelOpuI, ut
OF their great natural, but siumbrring.
resources, which would more TEMPT
Northern investments We're il act fOl sOu,e
.Nlotru7L Of their permanent safely, 100
Oiten mendced by the approval with which
some SuUt heru leaders StIil appear To- nail
measures that hand over all such invest
ment, to he icgislatively ctucticd. When
the character Oi pdDlC opinion shall have
become hOSpltJDie and iulI ripeuc!, lup
COusummHtlOu OF the valid hopes and
dem Ind- oil southern States Will not be
long delayed.
EXPORT TRADE NOT DEPENDENT UPON
DUTIES.
The party slogan is, though now here
supported by facts that If turci.n manu-
iaCtures We,c permitted to come tut, uur
ports free OF duties, iorcign ports would
be opened to receive Il greater amount OF
our export trade. TINS Is eVtryW mere con-
tradlCtcd 10y experience, and Is not les
absurd than IT would he for our sailors
when the tide and wind were favorable
for entrance only 10 our harbors, TO start
out for a tempeStuOuS voyage at set. If
manufacturers here have been in some re-
sprcts remiss. in courtng foreign trade,
they have this practical excuse, that the
government has refused all facilities to
foreign markets by declining to establish
on the ocean any adequate mail service
by American vessels.
The argument of tree traders, as already
stated, is that our domestic productions
would find Il wider foreign market if we
were only to open our ports, through a
reduction on the tariff, to a larger intro
duCtlOu of foreign productions. But OBJ
ViOusly the currents of the two streams
foreign and domestic, would then meet
and an oVerlOWing Hood could only be
avoided by drying up Or by entirely sup
pressing the conflicting American indus
tries, which could not maintain their eXis
tence except on the lowest scale of wages
paid to producers of like commodities
abroad.
If free trade leads to prosperity and pro
lection to adversely, how does il happen,
since 1860, that $780, Gi OF British subjects
have emigrated and emjgratcd--not in
GLIDING those to India or any other of the
British cOloules--to the United States
Forty Thousand emigrants came to Us in
September last, and about the same mum
Der in October. But an American emf
grant to great Britain would he Il CuriOs-
lily worthy OF preservation in the British
Museum. There are no tracks III that
direction.
The present sorry condition of Ireland
and of India, where their chief domestic
manufactures have been altogether super
seeded by the superior capital and ma
chinery of Great Britain, is the work of
free trade craftsmen, whose gospel in
both places has had its ripest supremacy
and fullest effect. The average yearly in
come of the inhabitants of India is estl-
mated not to exceed 500; and having
only this pittance, they are still forced to
submit TO the most grinding taxation.
These people, the poorest on the globe,
are made TO pay annually over $50, 1000 900
OF revenue on salt; and this great neces-
slty of life can there only be obtained as
the dearest OF Injuries. Fdmines in India
have long been periodic and how long
its hungry people can escape utter bank
ruptCy is a problem that even Engiishmen
are forced to consider The orange has
been squeezed, and not muCn but the rind
has been left Home rule in India only
lags in the rear Of home rule in Ireland.