New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-26
WHAT DEPEW FOUND IN HOLLAND.
HOW FREE TRADE DESTROYS b PEOPLE.

THE DIFFERENCE CAUSED BY LAUNDERING ihho''-
ISIS IN -FOUR YEARs-DRITIsH PRETENcE AND
PRACTICE.
CHICAGO Feb o5 (specIaD-" oh, I was delighted
with the audience; 1t was ono OF the QUICKEST a"u
most responsive audiences / ever addressed IN my
ufe.. said Mr. Dcpew, yesterday, when asked
what he thought of tho reception Of his speech before
the Union League Club.
How are you pleased with the whole .rea'ihons
you have received In your present visit to the city
al have been treated ecgantly-msgDifccntly. III
had been some great official instead OF private
citizen, and that most unfortunate OF business no,
a railroad president could not have been received
with moro cordially or treated moro magnihcehtiy
than / have been by the committee OF the Union
League Club and by the citizens generally III Is gen
erous and overwhelming Tho people OF the western
cities excel those OF NowYork and the Eastern people
In the expression Of their hospitality. There IS
certain warmth and whole heartedncss about II. we
feel 1t In the East much, but we are not so To
sponsivc.
"Thls Is a good idea OF the Union League CiuD,
the celebration of washlngton's Birthday, ana es-
peciay In the way they do ia formal address upon
some selected topic and then an opportunity lor al
the oratorlcal fireworks In the evening 1t will have
a tendency encourage the study of the beginnings
the fathers 1t IS astonishing how ignorant the great
mass OF people are abont It. Nothing surprises INC so
much AZ 70 sec how the knowledge Of the Civil war
has died ont
al will say in regard to the next campaign that
there Is no question but that the Republican parry
will decisvely and unanimously declare for the pro-
lection OF American industry. Each state has can
ddac, a favorite son, for the Presidency but there
will be no man seriously voted for who Is not loyal To
that principle and in the the thing that
troubles the Free Trader, that nc docs not WISH 10
have talked about, that he would like TO nave W.
norcd IS the prosperity and growth OF the country
under protective tariff lie wants you to st INTO
a balloon and soar above factories, and farms, ana
wages, and prosperity, and such purely maeria!istic
vulgar Incidents of yJur life which enlarge the
boundaries OF wealth and happiness, and then go WIN
him into the pure empyrcan, and after yon get past
the clouds, he viii tell you about the millennium mat
would abClt If only his doctrines were uh'Vcr-
sally adopted and put In practice. when Soh so'
hungry he has no method to satisfy your physical de-
parmcn except to put you to the blush and let yon
roach the earth as best yon may. Four years ago.
when abroad went to Holland "heh
went there found that there was more content
and happiness in Holland than IN any country III h'
rope There was absolutely no paupersm "heh
/ was in Holland LIST summer found great deal
If complaint, stagnaton IN labor, Socialist riots,
labor troublcs-thlngs which had never been known
IN the country before. met one of the most eminent
business men IN Holland, and nc said - me that tho
manufactures Of Holland were slagnan, that business
i'm Holland No longer rcniuncrativc, and there was
n great deal of poverty and distress amcng the me-
chanics and laborng classes said To him: : How
do you account for this changc!' lie said Be-
cause Holland adopted a few years ago free trade,
and the law has ruined u.s.
g. Well | said Il give instances
Wen. for instance. we raise I'm Holland very
superior breed of cattle England Is free trade nom
lnally, but when she found that our cattle coming
from our farms destroying her cattle industry,
when She found that could send better cattle al
cheaper prices than she could raise thcm she was
free trade and, of course could not tax them, but
her Board Of Trade issued ordinance that all lio
land cattle had peuro pneumonia, and have not per
mittcd a head Of cattle to enter England FOR four
years That IS thc ' T WAY EFe'd@G , has Oh
= Well | said why, such Dolpg inc case, uoes
NOT uoIland return to pr0tociionl' lie said: Be
cause our manufacturers ana business mon are mo'
,ur Covcrumcut Our Government IS nohpfOunc-
tm, class and tbcy are all theorists, and they arc
carving out their theories ana running me asrl'u
ursis and manufacturers, and general business ana
labor Of the country T. -
lection than that. OF course when speak OF FREQ
trade and protection In this way speak In pubic
tense and from the point OF view OF business as
a railroad man. | have doubt. II the tarn was
repealed. that fog few years until our stccl ran
mills had been wiped out. we c9uld uhdouD'euIy puS
sieel rails a; % per cent less than VIC pay for them
10 lsy but after steel rail makers had been Wiled
ont Then thrce or four concerns which control inc
steel market Of the world would make us pay Wha-
cvc- they III and we would nave no rclIcI hwy
were charging 1923 a ton for BcSScmcr rails. We put
ON a tariff Sufficient TO enable our people 10 compete
with them. and IN the competition amoIE heneitcs
,bey nut the price of steel rails down 10 $40 Ton
and thcn the English maker imported them. paying
the tariff showing that he could produce them at
500 a ton. Now, there were no conditions thar
made the production any more expensive to him whcn
he was sending it here and charging Sl25 ton IMAM
when he was charging $50 a ton. In other WORDS,
protection, by developing the Industry here, ana ihcn
dompcttion among the manufacturers hero has given
US an enormously cheaper product than II we were
entirely dependent upon foreign producers