The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-09-26

Gath in C6ciaEai Eaquirer.
I met here Mr.. T. c. Crawford, whose
name. Is well known 10 all newspaper
readers as having been in Europe for the
New York World during the past two
wears. He came home on the ship with
Mr.. Blaine. and wrote al the reliable in
terviews with him except one. He wrote
the Florence interview, in which Blaine
emphasized his refusal TO be nominated
among the other candidates at Chicago.
When ] was in Europe last summer Mr..
Cnwford obtained FOR me facilities to 20
TO the naval review and other places
had a running talk with him about gen
eral things abroad. said I:
"Do you find the English anxious on
the subject Of doing our trade and break
ing down the tariff"
Il should think 50. But the English
man Is a singular being in his under
standing Of the United States. For a ma
ton so well set up in their " self es-
TEEN as they are, especially in the self-es-
teen Of their superior knowledge, they
are the most incapable race alive 10 M
dersiand our institutions. They Thought
that when Cleveland issued that message
or proclamation il was the end Of the
matter that Immediately the tariffs
would all come oil, aud they would come
in and occupy the land. They were mys-
tilted and mortified when it was explain
ed TO them that the President could not
either make or break any law that his
message was a mere recommendation.
Oh, we'll, they said on hearing this, OF
course those manufacturing States will
have to come in. They may resist him
by force awhile, but a. he is the ruler,
and has expressed the policy, it cannot
be very long
Are the British doing well under free
trade97
"They may be able to show you some
statistics to that effect. but TO the naked
eye and from what Won hear by the ear
they are the most unhappy beings to-day
on the globe with respect to their trade.
As prominent q man as they have in the
country told me that they could not
stand for their free-trade policy more
than five years longer unless some other
nation or nations enlarge their market.
They still insist that their doctrine is the
correct one. provided all the world would
adopt ii. But every nation ON the con-
tinent is living under a tariff, and then
pouring the goods made by tariff into
England TO be sold. The United States
is doing the same. We send no end things
over there, and they have to 60 in under
the law free OF duty. Then the British
colonies have put up tariffs against Brit
ish goods, and are manufacturing for
themselves. The consequences is that
they are stuck everywhere. A grower Of
potatoes, vegetables, and market produce
in the Interior Of England told me that
the French would land their apricots,
grapes, and garden vegetables in London
and sell them cheaper than he could
raise them. He said that his lighthouses
and wall vines, etc, were valueless to
him. The Belgians are sellingthem rail-
road enginE. The nation they fear the
most is the German, which has a very
high tariff and is pouring into England
from Chemnitz hosiery and all sorts Of
wooden and cotton goods.
II is a notorious fact that the Ameri-
cans who go over there are changing
their orders from England to Germany,
where, with a tariff, they are manufact-
uring cheaper than the English with
free trade. 1t has been only recently
that the Americans have looked into the
manufactures Of the continent, and when
they get over there they seldom return
10 Great Britain. There IS variety in de
sign and accommodation 10 existing
fashions among the continentals which
the British are too slow 20 Come 10. You
see that Germany extended It's territory
after the wars with France and Prussia.
and the German cities began 10 grow rap
idly. The government of Bismarck con-
sidered hat il was the first duty Of a
government to set its people to work. SO
they extended their tariffs, gave protec-
ton % their mechanics, supervised the
whole system Of industry, and they have
made Germany an alert, live nation.
That Is the nation the British fear: the
Germans can make bridges and railroad
iron and many other things cheaper than
the English, though the one has a tariff
and the other has not. That feeling OF
anxiety is universe. throughout the Brit
ish Islands. There is a party growing
rapidly into prominence called Free
Trade party, which means nothing but a
reciprocal tariff party, or indeed a tariff
party. 1t represents, in my opinion, to.
day the majority sentiment Of England
did you look into the alleged poverty
in England %
Il did. and Just before I came away
j have been in every country Of Europe
except Spain and Russia. | have been
some halfa dozen times through Holland
France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy.
Their is no nation in Europe with the
amount of pauperism that you find in
England. In the city Of London at this
moment there are 10000 persons in tn,
almshouses there are 100000 nnemploy.
ed men in London. One II the greatest
industries in that kingdom is the pawn
shop. One of our Secretaries Of Legation
told me that upon the house he has
which is no very expensive house, the
poor rate or poor tax alone for the sup
port ~ofpaupers, 81 guineas a year. or abou
Sl60. Thisis merely to support the poo
of his parish. II is equivalent TO nearly
the full taxes on a similar house in on,
OF our great cities"
Mr.. Crawford continued When
was At Manchester one Of my friendi
there said to me on saturday night "
want TO take you to one Of u represen
tative pubs Pub means a public house
This is the night for the mea to conn
there lie asked me TO a drinking
house which had three different apart
ments, frst-class, second-class, and third
class. In each compartment. the price
differed. and the grade OF the drinl
differed corresp0ndinsly. In the low
est compartment you get the lowest kim