Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-11-01
ENGLISH ON The TARIFF.
The London Post Quoted by
Blaine as to the Dangers of
Free Trade.
An Enthusiastic Welcome to the
Old Roman by $4,000
West Virginians.
Lord Sackville Presented with a
Passport Through the
American Lines.

ALBANY. n. Y. Nov. l.-Mr. Blaine
addressed al immense meeting at the
fair grounds. midway between this city
and Troy during the Afternoon. He was
pale and evidently not recovered from
his recent illness but spoke distinctly
and vigorously. He said:
1t is almost too late for argument
but I wish in the moment or two that
am before you, to give you one, and to
give it in very suggestive mode,
not from myself, but from another:
not from an American, but from an
Engislman. | hold in my hand a clip
ping from a recent issue of the London
Morning Post. we'll known and prom
inent organ in England, the organ of the
late Lord Palmerston. an influential
paper advocating hitherto as all English
papers do. the docerine of free trade.
The editorial is as follows:
But for the serious consequences en-
tailed upon our working classes, who
feel every day more and more the pinch
of foreign cOmpetitiOn it would be lie
cidedly amusing to note how completely
every one of the principles assumed by
the one sided free trade school or this
country are negatived by facts and fa]si-
fled by the experiences OF commonplace
business men. We are constantly told
protection raises the cost OF commodities:
that hostile tariff-as Mr. John Bright
said but few days back in a published
letter to one of his correspondents-a
only tax which the community pays to
support the particular industry benefit
ted by it. AS a matter of fact. what do
we find in America: Why. their manu-
factrrrers can actually beat us ont Of the
field on the score Of mere cheapness
only. So far from the protection en-
HANGING the cost of their goods, they can
turn them out at rates with which we,
with all our free trade, cannot manage
to compete. The Yale lock makers can
afford to pay the carriage of their goods
to Engladd and vet 1lndersell the
Wolverham masters in the heart
of the lock trade. Just as the Bel
gians can quote lower rates for angle
iron delivered in Derby than the local
iron masters of tho midlands. The Phil
adelphia engine makers can turn out as
serviceable a locomotive as any English
firm and ship it all the way to New Zea
land for 96OO less than the English
tenders. In South Russia the agricul-
tural trade is said to be passing into the
hands Of American exporters in spite of
English and German competitors though
the latter are nearer by 3,OUO miles to
the local market With the exception
of made up clothing which is dear be-
cause labor is high and not that the duty
on stuffs is so heavy, there is not a single
manufactured article produced in the
United States from carpets to cotton,
from locomotives to steel axes. from
agricultural implements to cutlery and
Yankee notions,'' as many little domes-
tic appliances are called, which is not as
cheap or even cheaper than in this coun-
try
That is a most effectual contradiction
to the story which the free trade orators
have been telling us during the whole
campaign that the people of the United
States are ground down by high prices.
1t is not SO, and at last we get an English
witness to admit it, and say here there
is not one article in the United States to-
day that is not far cheaper than it was
when protection was applied to it-not
one. And the argument that is now
closing between protection and free trade
is the argument which took pleasure in
saving, in the first speech 1 made in the
campaign. is not for capital; it is for
labor. 1t is not one for capital. it is not
one for the rich: it is one for the wage
Garner. and if it is lost. it is lost to the
hurt of every man in the United States
who earns his bread by the sweat Of his
brow.
The remainder Of Mr.. Blaines speech
was devoted to the Murchison letter and
IA repetition of his remarks about Gen.
Harrison and his ancestry. He returned
RI New York in the evening,