Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-09-01
THE COBDEN CLUB.

The free-trade movement has its head in ,he Golden Club. of England, and the hssd of the Golden Club is the British Government. This Golden Clu5 is SD organization gotten gp for the benefit of Enslishuen and not for the benefit of Americans. Its members are made up of some of the most distinguished names to be found ID sny ssssoclstion either ID Europe or America. Among them are twelve English Cabinet MInisters-lesv- ing only four who are not members- ihe Prime Minister of England, the Lord Chancellor, Lord President of the Council, Chancellor of the EIohequer, the five great Secretaries of State, Colo uis5, Home, and Foreign Affairs, and fbs Postmaster General, together with sbout two hundred members of Psrlis- nsnt, The whole power and wealth of he English Government is back of this club. The members are sll men of vast wealth, great capacity, and boundless enterprise, Nearly all of the leading nillionsires and manufacturers, cotton lords, and landlords of England, are members. They all regard the prosperi- iy and wealth of England ss insepsrA5Is from their own, and the protective sys- len of America is, with them, the one grand obstacle to be removed.
 This club was organized for the ex- press purpose of publishing and distri- busng documents. and providing money Ead men to induce the United States to adopt fres-trsds or reduce its tariff. II tsI secured ss an ally in this country the Free-TrAde Club of New York, com poses mostly of New York importers and the professors in many of our colleges and they have offered premiums to the stu dents of these colleges for prize essys On free trade. h has also secured the services of some of our most prominent clergymen and editors. and has several paid public lecturers who go about the country talking up the subject of free trade.
 Millions of copies of the pamphlet be- fore referred to, by Augustus Mongre- dien, member of the Golden Club, hsve been circulated among the farmers of the West with 8 view of influencing them to vote for members of Congress who are in favor of free trade or 6 re- duciion of tariff. Hon. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, circulated about 100000 copies in hIs Congressional District. Documents otVsrious kinds are being distributed Enong the fsrmers, working classes, and business men of this country. with siviev of controlling public opinion in favor of free drsde. It IS no wonder that En. sishmen want this. for such 8 policy would give England the opportunity to food our markets with her surplus pro duets. aud to supply the American peo- pie with nearly all kinds of manufsc- i1red goods,
 What England wants is cheep food snd market for the products of her cheap lsborers. The question for us 10 consider is, do we want the policy of this Government dictated by English men for the benefit of England, or by Americans for ths benefit of Americsnsf The fres-trsders are working for En- Gisnd and the English people, while the pFotecticnists are working for Americs and the Amsricen people. When you fad SD American citizen vigorously shouting for free trade or reduction of duties, you will most likely discover g man who is either ignorant of the princi- plss of protection, or foreign importer ora person in the employ of the Golden Club.-TarrIf League.