Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-29

to down select set of ringsters in Wa
keeney.-[Leoti Transcript.
In other words, to see whether
the people of Trego county have
turned their political business ex-
clusively into the hands of this
"select set of ringsters!"
WHY ENGLAND WANTS FREE TRADE
The police statistics for Scotland
just published, says the Irish World,
show that the number of homeless
wanderers in that country known to
the police as Migrants has doubled
in the last ten years. In 1878 there
were 54,2Se Of this class; in 1888
there are 1O3,622. These Migrants
are what may be called the regular
soldiers Of the army Of Want.
Thousands of unemployed working
men are constantly swelling the
ranks of this army in Scotland. In
England this kind Of recruiting that
has been constantly going on for
many years has rapidly increased
ever since Germany and other Euro
pean countries put up the barriers
of Protection to shut out British
manufactured goods.
As there is no disposition on the
part Of European governments to
remove these barriers, England finds
herself face to face with problem
that she must solve if she would
avert social and political dangers
that threaten her very existence.
The problem Of how to obtain a
market for her surplus manufac-
lures is the gravest that England
has been ever called upon to front.
She knows that work must be found
for her unemployed, or otherwise
there will be an upheaval that will
rend English political and social in
situations to their very foundations.
To-day the struggle for existence
among English workingmen is
fercer than it has ever been before,
and there is no prospect of its grow
ing less fierce unless the United
States comes to the assistance Of
John Bull by throwing open to him
the best market in the world. If
America would consent to do that,
British manufacturers would find a
sale for goods that they can not now
dispose of except at a ruinous price.
A few months possession of the
American market would bring about
a wonderful change in England.
English trade, which is now Ian
would revive, and the
great army Of unemployed would
find employment. The specter Of
social revolution, the shadow Of
which now darkens the future,
would be banished, and England
would have opened up before her
new era of prosperity.
All this, however, would be at the
cost Of the United States. The sac
rifice of American industries would
be the price paid for rescuing En-
gland from the imminent danger
that threatens her from the loss of
trade she has suffered through the
adoption Of the Protective system by
5he civilized nations Of the world.
In few years we would have an
army of unemployed far outnumber-
ng that which is such a source of |
lneasiness to the British govern
nent. The scenes enacted a few
months ago in Trafalgar Square
when starved Labor came out to dis
play its rags and was dubbed into
submission by the London police
would be repeated in New York,
Chicago, Boston and other great
'enters Of population. Such would
De the price we should have to pay
f Cleveland and his fellow-free ira
lers could have their way in the
natter Of relieving England by
throwing open our markets to Brit
sh cheap-made goods.
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