The Portland daily press., 1888-08-30
AN APPEAL TO OUR GENEROSITY.
Extracts from an Intercepted Private
Letter Of Victoria, Queen eff Great
Britain and Empress of India, to
Grover Cleveland, President Of U.
s. A.

My Good Friend IL see, with pain and sur
prise, that certain party in your Congress
and certain political editors, animated by
partisan hatred to England, are raising diff
culties about the immigration of British pau
pers into your rich and favored country. If
we do not send them to you, where shall we
send them? They multiply SO fast am dis
tracted. have an excess of about loo, 900 a
year, and to refuse them an asylum is SO con-
trary to true philanthropy that it will sarely
meet with the merited condemnation of yonr
rich and generous people. What is this small.
number among sixty millions, that any one
should raise cry about it? But as it is an
annual increase, the rates" for the poor
would become so heavy that we should have
revolution bye and bye, that would endan-
ger the throne and the nobility. Your coun-
try has long assumed to be the refuge of the
poor and oppressed of the whole world, and
they come by your Invitation. And if we do
send them as assisted emigrants" are we
not fast complying with your invitation?
Besides, Grover Cleveland, / will say
frankly that it is your unjust, illiberal mon
strous protective tariff that causes our pau
perism, and you are under the strongest NOR
al obligation to take all our paupers and lu-
natics under your generous care. When you
shall have accomplished your benevolent de-
sign, as expressed in your glorious message
OF establishing free trade, the pauLers will
come flocking back to us. Then all our peo-
pie will have full employment. For my great
statistician, Mr. Mulhall, assures me that
your annual products, which by the last GEN.
sus were $500 ,0O0, 900, must now reach to
more than $1,000 100000 Seven billions.)
One-half of this amazing quantity we can
manufacture cheaper than you. We do not
pay our workmen quite one-half Of what you
pay yours. Our workmen can live upon half
what it costs yours, and be very thankful for
that. They live in small houses. In my rich
and productive city of Glasgow, forty-fiye
thousand families. as l am told by Mr..
Bright, live as comfortably as possible in
one room to family.
Mr.. Mulball tells me, moreover, that your
national wealth must now be full ten thou
sand millions of dollars greater than the
wealth of the United Kingdom.
This is highly improper, and must not con-
tinue. Give us only two out of your seven
billions to manufacture, and there will not
We will then take back all the paupers which
your absurd tariff has forced us to send to
you.
Do you ask me, dear Grover, what your
w0rkmen will then do? Why, let them ali
go to farming. Every nation should do that
for what 1t is best fitted. This is funda-
mental principle of our great Golden Club.
which has more economic wisdom than ali
the rest of the world put together. Your
great country must be country of farmers
my kingdom must be one of mechanics, mer,
chants, bankers, statesmen and of general
superintendent Of the affairs of the uni
verse.
You will give us bread, and we shall give
you your clothing, your iron and teel goods
Of every kind. You may close all your mines
and stop every shuttle. / admit that your
farm products will be very cheap, but so will
our manufactures. Your farmer will buy
more with his bushel of cheap wheat than
he now buys with his dear. That's princi-
pie of my Golden Club, and what that club
doesn't know is not worth knowing.
moreover, when equitable and just free
trade Is established between us, according to
your great message, we can do all your coast
ing, river, lake and canal transportation at
far cheaper rate than you are doing it. That
will release another immense number Of men
for farming.
see that some mischievous writers who
are opposed to your reelection maintain
thas all that Great Britain takes of your
80 fNo>ANSo0 70 ohiy o pei Ctub VI VIC NuOlO.
l wish You would give to such mischievous
writers better employment My Golden
CLUB assures me that when we get possess
sion Of your industries our operatives and
their families will eat twice or three times as
much as they do now They will drink |
more beer if that be possible. Now they |
rarely have three square meals a week. then |
they VIII have three square meals day. and |
supper at ten O'Clock p. m. And YOU will |
sell wheat maize, barley butter and cheese |
and fruit to all the world. to get |
money to pay for our products. 1t is true
you Will have to sell very cheap but Won will |
have good deal to sell. ' 'ou WIZ
And then you have rich silver and oold
mines. We will take, for the balapcas o aI
your silver and gold. We did So to Sna d,,
and Portugal and they survive. We SbP aua
done the same to Turkey and Egypt and a are
doing 1t to China and Japan. GreenhactS
are your currency. OF what use to Won Is ali
your gold and silver in the vault of vo @,r
treasury. We will take it all, in pavm yen
for our manufactures.
And in this coming millennium all vorr
laborers will be farmers and we shall furnish
you with all the best implements of agricnl-
ture. You will easily undersell the Stupid
farmers on the banks of the Danube and in