Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-17


dropping English industries.
Peoples Journal, Dundee.
great sensation has been created by
President Cleveland's message, and If The
policy which it indicates be carried out il
will produce almost as much effect in thii
country ~ in America. The tariff reform
which the President recommends goes n
far. at least, ~ the abolition or the roduc-
tion Of the duties on raw materials
Should Congress give effect TO this propo.
sal its immediate result would be an enor-
nous stimulus to English Industry.
ILondon Pail Mall Gazette
English free traders would be we'll ad
vised if they moderated the ecstasy OF
their jnbilatiOn over President Cleveland
message. Every word which they say in
its favor will be used as a powerful argu-
ment against the adoption Of its recon
mendation.
That is just what am doing now
Mr.. President, the Senate can
see the close association between
the adoption of free trade and this
fisheries treaty. But find in that
connection that 1t Is provided as a
concession to Canada, in the treaty,
that the Administration will strive
to secure Congressional action tor
the free entry or full interchange of
salt, coal, and lumber from the Do
miniOn. 1t is not fisheries treaty,
it is not only a promise OF the Sec
retary of State, but it is promise
from the entire Administration that
they will admit salt and coal and
other things, and add them to the
free list "when imported from the
Dominion of Canada that this Adj
ministratiOn will exert its best en-
deavors to do this thing" That
draws the line distinctly between
the two parties, between the Ad-
ministratiOn here and the Republl-
cans of this country, as ! under
stand them, and the principles
which they propose to assert in the
coming campaign, and In all time,
until possible circumstances may
bring about condition OF affairs
where they can better subserve the
interests of the people of the Unit
ed States than they can do now by
abandoning that principle.
Mr.. President, In this connection
| present an extract from a speech
delivered in the House of Repre-
sentatives by a free trader, in which
he says:
Even the corsets Of Connecticut, around
which hover so many happy associations,
or the brier-wood pipes of KnckerbOcker
are not safe from the interchangeable pra-
cics Of the tariff oh, the beauty Of recip-
rocal rascality Gentlemen seem to take
umbrage because we call these tariffs,
which take from one class TO give to an.
other robbery. But ] have the best ethics
for the statement that the right Of prop
erty is violated by the individual by
cheating. stealing, robbery, or violation
of contract and universally, just M these
crimes prevail production langulshes, in
dustry dimnishes, and the richest soil
fails these few and impoverished inhabit-
erful grip on the property Of the citizens
to bestow that property on favored enter
priscs, il is none the less robbery because
done under the forms Of law.--nr. Cor
(D,mocrat, Nac York; tariff debate, May IL.
Mr. President, | have here a
book which was written by the
same gentleman who delivered that
speech in the House of Represen-
tatiycs, a speech from which what
| have just read is an extract, and
since have read this book ! have
not been at all surprised that he
should have said Just what he did,
that we were all robbers, all ras-
calls, all plunderers, who favored a
protective tariff. The book is call
ed "a Buckeye Abroad 1t was
written by a gentleman who was
then member of the Ohio Legis-
lature, when he was thirty years
old, written after he returned from
tour of Europe, aud, being from
Ohio, he gave it the title of "a
Buckeye Abroad" lie says in the
book
We took a pilot aboard and received
from him one newspaper, which was cut
into shreds and dcvOured by fourteen pas
-cngers at once. The breath of the fresh
landscape " around.
Now, he was getting away from
Scotland and Ireland, no was get
ting away from Germany, and, as
this paragraph will show to you
directly, he was getting in sight of
the cliffs of England and breathing
the air Of a new civilization. lie
continues:
Now. | can write ike native of this
round earth, for land IL all about us. The
cliffs OF old England stand out IN definite
outline Lighthouses and mansions at
test the presence of superior olviliza-
tion. How many throngng associations
fit through the mind ~ ! recall that here,
not in fancy's eye, but in reality, stands
the little isle of power, the homo of old
Coke and Cromwell, of Spencer and Cow
per, Of Chatham and Canning, and all the
host of glorious minds with whom 10 much
Of life has been passed Ay, in very truth,
my eye has greeted tho land Of William
Shakespeare and Guy Fawkes, John Mil
ton and Titus Oates the ideal realm of
John Falstaff and Little Nell the theatre
of Roundheads and Cavaliers. Yonder
verify, Just over TO my right, actually
grew into life that vigorous feudalsm out
of which rose tho fabric Of our own COM
mon law. These remombranoes come over
INC wildly and strangely. Old England
Yes; God bless her With tears in my
eyes besooch Heavens best bonisOn upon
her. forget her as the land of ruth and
wrong; remember her only as tho land
of noble deeds and generous hearts. Her
literature. from Chaucer's first uncOuth
song to Disraelis last sarcasm, ii0ats
through the memory like a vivid power,
Transforming every prejndice into praise
and every wrong INTO glory.
England
Saws tho author of this book
England, say what We Will, stands con-
fessedly the Christian realm. Hor history,
from the time at least Of Elizabeth, is full
Of her influence upon tho policy Of the
world IN opening the way for the Gospel.
Not satisfied with the politics, &c
observed, and after hoping that
there would he no association OF
church and state, find here what
would not prefer to read in the
Senate, this paragraph:
hope the Pope will create no cardinals
for America. IL was rnmored that Bishop
Hughes was TO have hat. The i'll sue
cess attending the Wiseman experiment
in England will prevent Papacy from
creating any cardinals in Protestant eoun-
tries. His Holiness, who seems to fancy
our charge hore sufficiently to consult With
him, informed him that there was no
foundation for tho rumor Of an American
cardinal, Mr, Cass--
fl.i: .,o, y non,oorot