The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-16
ENGLAND VS.. U. 8.

SO-called ProtectiOnists have much to
say about the delight with which Eng
land looks forward to u adopting a
free trade policy, co%mmingled with
cock and bull stories about the Golden
club and the millions it is sending over
to this country.
The CONSTANT reiteration of these
tales is, to say the least, not compliment
AIRY to their readers whom they evident
ly consider to be possessed of an amount
of intelligence that would do discredit
to an inmate of IN insane asylum for
feeble minded infants. But as TO the
first notion, the following article from
BelfOrd's Magazine, affords interesting
reading, as showing conclusively tLat
IL protective system is really III thein-
terest of England, and that she views
with alarm the growth of free trade il
the United States as a most dangerous
menace to her present commercial SUI
premacy in the worlds markets:
There is an Irish tradition of a pig
that was induced TO go to Cork by max
ing it believe that its owner wanted it
to go to Dublin. Americans who adopt
the reasoning processes of the hog are
determined supporters of the protective
system, because they have been i'm
pressed with the idea that E%nglishmen
want us to adopt a free-trade policy.
1t is doubtless true that many English
manufacturers are shOrt-Slght enough
| fn miCh thnt fhn lTrita1 Nf,f,, ,.,,tl
abandon its protective system. They
are thinking of the goods they might
send to this country this month, or this
year, il our duties were only lower.
But there are plenty of Englishmeu
who have observed that we are already
able to export some manufactured
goods and sell them in England and in
foreign markets that England has been
in the habit of supplying, and who
know that it is not Our high wages but
u high raw materials that prevent
u exporting a great many more goods,
and seriously affecting the English
trade with Mexico, South America.
China, Japan, and even Europe They
are far. sighted enough to see that Eng
land would lose in the United States
and in all other parts of the world by a
change in the American tariff that
would promote Il manufacturing in
terests by %cheapening raw materials.
Mr.. William Rathbone, member of
Parliament, said, in an essay on PRO
lection and Communism published in
1882:
at would be a great mistake to sup
pose that at the present time English
men were very anxious for their own
sakes to see America adopt free trade.
There is, on the contrary, a great and
growing feeling in this country that it
is in the interest Of England that the
United States should still adhere to pro-
lection. AS long as they do so it is
thought England is safe from her only
dangerous competitor in the markets of
the world"
He then quotes Lord Joseph Cham
berlain, the eminent Englishman who
negotiated the late Fisheries Treaty,
now pending in the U. S. Senate; as
follows:
For myself" said Mr.. Chamberlain,
at the last annual dinner of the Golden
Club, speaking only as an Englishman,
l look forward with anxiety, not I'M
mingled with alarm, to the time when
Il merchants and manufacturers will
have to face the free and unrestricted
competition of the great Republic of the
West, and when the enterprise of its
citizens and the unparalleled resources
of its soil will no longer be shackled
and handicapped by the artificial re-
strictions which have hitherto impeded
the full development of its external
commerce"