The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-12
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ASKED why the agricultural dlSGrlcCS /
of New England have been deserted !
by their farming population, the |
Troy Chief saws:
Our reply is, that nobody ever
claimed that protection would ever en-
able people to raise good crops on
rocks, or make it preferable to rich
soil.
This, we believe, is about the only
impossible thing ever predicated of
protection by one of its friends and
supporters. There is then at least one
thing it cannot do. The hopes of get
ting homesteads for nothing in the
west. drew many from New England,
to be sure, where the soil
was thin and ungenerous.
But how comes it that the
decline in farm values is no less in the
rich agricultural districts of
Pennsylvania within sight of
the great manufacturing in-I
dustries, than on the arid hills of
Vermont and New Hampshire? Why
does not protection make farming pay
in that rich soil? Why has it permit
ted decline of so per cent in the val
ne of those rich farms in the past ten
years? Does it not seem that there
is more than one thing impossible for
protection?
| But Colonel Miller gets suddenly
very smart indeed, and finding that
our name smells of peat'' wants to
know why we or our father left Ire
land where there is plenty free trade.
Now that is poser isn't it? The an
alogy between the reasons justifying
emigration from protected New Eng
land, and those inducing emigration
from territory belonging to Old Eng
land, is very striking indeed, and
shows us what rare powers Colonel Mill
Ter has as a logicianl Because man
sees fit to leave protected Vermont to
better his condition on awestern home
stead, constitutes no good reason why
Patrick Calhoun, or Charles Carol
should emigrate from the old country.
Neither is it any reason why Columbus
should have come to these shores long
ago. Had they reflected on this matter
as they should have done. and used
their reasoning powers as skillfuily as
Sol Miller does his, they would have
seen how illogical and foolish it was
to think of leaving Europe for the new
world, or any other world, old or new
But seriously, Sol Miller who ought
to know better. but whose besottee
; worship of the socialistic fetch of pro-
, lection has blinded him to sense
! and reason, can see no 9th
other cause for the miserable condi
, ton of things in Ireland but " English
free trade, y as if the situation wer'
! any better before the days of fre'
!. trade. He in common with ever.
: jackass who attempts to discuss thu
: matter, would, if he could, make it ap
Y pear that but for English free trade
s over there, and protection over here
no well balanced Irishman woul
come to this country. Does he forget
. or did he ever know that when tn
volunteers of 1882 were marshalled o.
the Irish plains, they placed OF thei
> cannon carriages cards bearing the lie
gends, Free Trade, orr" The threa
was needed by the government, an
freedom and free trade were bot
: granted, to be followed by unusus
: prosperity. Free Trade" was tn
shibboleth of the embattled hosts i
that day. The trouble there was
and is, that no trade has been Above
, because England refused to tolerat
a the competition it would produce. A
!. we said, Sol Miller is as besotted
his worship of protection, as is j
- ham Most of anarchy, or JEFF Davi
1e of the lost cause.