The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-07
democracy and the Golden Club.
From the Neo York Star.

From the Ne,c York Star.
Congressman Mckinley, of Ohio, made IN
his recent speech TO the House this remark
on the attitude of English opinion to President
Clevelands message and tariff controversy
now raging in this country:
All Europe is watching the progress Of THIS biil.
Its immediate promoters are not following u win
keener vigilance and more absorbing interest thah
their foreign sylnpathizers. All trades, all manu-
deepest concern and anticipating the rich harvest
which awaits them when our gates shall be opened,
our industrial defenses torn down, and Tree ana I'M
restrained access to our splendid markets afforded
for the products of their cheap LABOR
Mr.. McKinley's remark is superficial and
misleading.
When the Tory party in English politics bet
all, and risked all, on English protection in
the campaign of 1912 Gust as the Republl-
cans are now betting and risklng their all on
American protection), and lost, the Tory
party went out of power, substantially, for a
dozen wears. Indeed, when the Derby Gov
eminent came in 1866, with Mr.. Disraell as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was under
new name of CONSERVATIVES" and 1t re-
manned in power only two years, when Mr..
Gladstone took the helm and held it till 1874.
Then came six years of Lord Beaconsheld,
with Mr.. Gladstone again from 1880 to 1883.
Now, and since 1886, the Conservatives are
again in power. But for not much more than
a dozen years have the Tories, or Conserva-
tives, held power in England, since they
staked and lost on protection in 1852. The
recent agricultural distress in England, the
sympathies existing between Tories and land
lords, and other causes, do now, in England,
inspire a conservative faction to agtate for
what they call "fair trade" which is mainly
for protection against American farmers; but
the great body of Conservatives, and Liberals
as we'll. stand by the income tax and free
trading for England. 1t is most natural in
this condition of English politics that the
Liberals and the great body of the Conserva-
tives as against the "Fair Traders welcome,
as politicians, the adherence OF American
OPINION 10 their views SO lar as SUCH auher-
ence is o rebuke to the Fair Traders.
Dull 1oiu SaiSouiy anu MT Ni"u .STS
would be glad to be able to condemn tar
Traderst' in ENGLAND by pointing to changing
American oninion = 2 ?
D. 81 m :. a. e .l.o
Duti "nSu we looh az Tue oPihioHS y. thOSe
in England who speak for the commercial and
necuniary interests of English manufacturers,
tbera seems clearly IN he another view of the
effect on those manufacturers OF an accept
ance nv Congress- of President Cleyelaud's
on: =! ~. -, H. e. H. -
ADVICE whlch is 10 put on tne Tree llst WOOL
and the raw materials used by our manutac-
turers.
Our readers nave heard much recently OF
the Cobden Climb and their sseanets " We
ho,,a ono Of the Qualifications nv tho cInh nou,
ic oie VI 80 y ,tIS: n ITIJ ,,
before US, entltleu rair Iraue Ohmaskeu'
II is written BY Mr.. Medley, who has been q
,,roI;6 60 ord ontbor;zad avnonant of tho v;ews
PrOii"N an "a -
OF the cluD. III Is panpnlet OF nearly one
hundred pages, written, as he says IN the
nraf,oa Inv rennest of the committee of the
49,, ~ s.l- 90 IL 81 NJ MAJ, -
cruz. On pages 20 anu u MT. -heuiey anu
the Golden Club combat the proposition that
nnder free trading between the limited States
EIJ .is -: ~, EsII -
and England, the making by England OF
metals and textiles would expand to the
ntr,oot Im;ts of bar labor and cav.
utnosI Huiits vi hei iaooii anu say
Under universal Tree trade We should lose the one
enormous advantage we now possess. that none OF
our products are loaded with duties on the raw
material thereof. as those OF our competitors now
are and that, consequently, they must be-other
things being eQual-cheaper than those others into
the cost of which snch duties enter, We have only
to read the complaints made in Germany and
enter into the composition of WOODEN goods, and
those made in the United States as to the taxation of
foreign WOOL TO show how these duties prevent COM
petition with US in neutral markets. Our people
now carry on this competition, working shorter
do and it is not too much to say thati is by means
of these untaXed raw materials that we able TO
compete and that if this advantage failed us, the
blessings which we now enjoy under our factory
tenn would vanish for we should have to come
down 10 their working hours
LIa, IL, 80 c,uo,
Inc pamphlet concluues as loHows:
Iastly-and this is the most serious consideration
ofa-if universal free trade prevailed it is certain
tnn comd be most cheapiV carried on X we
have to ask ourselves Is Great Britain the cheapest
place for the production Of iron and steel or Of
maebiDery? tTpon the answer to these questions
hang issues of the most momentous kind, At the
present moment Germany runs US hard in many
things wog9 he Pc les For 10 a1 So N on
coal and iron we possess the United States possess
hundred equal in quality and more aee &c Il
me % ocaIie were fSev Wnnd not s
but for the duties, and If they were transferred to
Others in which production can be carried on as
Gneap in sbinbniidng and sbinowninp and ma
chinerys making, and cotton spinning last? At
present, owing to the duties no American ship can