The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-03-21

Club. with all Euglish and American Ere
Traders having met with a most melan
cholly defeat are now planning for anothe
campaign.
The old slave states are so completed
theirs that they can have nothing TO g.i
there, and possibly may meet with loss
Their .ast hope is with the farmers OF tn
free states. l uss the term to designate
those states that were not cursed will
slavery. The tracts TO farmers, issned b.
the Golden Club Of England, must be new
ly vamped and under new names circulat
ed over ell the land and like the frogs ant
lice Of Egypt beunder your feet andon you
beds. But even SO this Auglo.Americar
party will lose am ong the farmers Just al
far as free trade and protection are discus
sed. That has been the very decided re
suit OF the discussion OF the last foul
years.
The party started in the race with enor
nous advantages that made them conf
dent Of victory. They had the solid south
they had annuled aud set aside by their
shot gun policy more than million votes
OF black Republicans, while at the same
time having the number Of electors increas
ed by the count OF the whole DISTINGUISHED
colored population. The President had a
h,nJ.ol tho,aan1 fa;tbfnl ofI;ca hnl1a,.
to whom no gave q significant hint by con
tribu,ing SIC, 900 to the expenses of the
campaign. He was copperhead himself
and had the whole copperhead rey'nant,
the whole importing interest and the in
huence Of England to help him, and yet
be was beaten because the farmers, for
whose welfare he was 80 anxious failed
him.
But there is one thing the American
farmer needs to know. What has been
the effect OF free trade ON the farmers Of
England? More than forty years Of free
trade have blessed the United Kingdom Of
England, Ireland and Scotland. Abund-
ant time has been enjoyed to correct er-
rors. to remedy any defects and to show to
the world the blessed effects Of the British
policy upon farming interests.
First OF all. the free traders In trying to
defend their theory against the charge
made at home Of destroying English agri
culture do, unwillingly. admit its truth.
At the last annual meeting Of the Golden
Club, July 81. 1883 the speakers generally
admitted the rapid growth Of protection
principles and commencement OF "A cru
sade against Free Trade on behalf Of the
land interest" !"
The chief speaker. G. W. Medley Esq,
took for his vaticiDstion "The Triumph OF
Free Trade" He makes, however, somo
unfortunate admissions. One is that Eng
land is the only free trade country after
forty years Of argument and demonstra
tion. His prophecy Of triumph is reduc-
duced to the problem, III England has not
gained over one power in forty years how
long will it take to gain over the world2
Mr.. Medleys triumph" seems to be far
ther ofl tbsn the millennium. Bot he
must show that free trade is good for sgri.
cnlture. He does not make such propo.
siiion but only that "Other countries are
as badly of as we are In agricultural mat
iers. Even in the United States agrcnl-
ture, as regards tho cultivation OF What
at oil events is in bad way A secoad
bad sign for us Is that Illinois farmers or
mortgaging their farms aud the importa.
tion Of eggs is enormously increasing And
the "Protectionists in the United States
are 10 panic, it having been discovered
that dear clothes and cheap whiskey are
rotten planks in the fiscal platform Of .
great party.
He has noticed one fact evidently, thai
our slight elimination Of wheat is eounter
balanced many times by the marvellous
production Of 1900, O00,000 bushels o.
corn, for he speaks slightingly Of its value
to Englishmenl
After all he only contends tbst 'the nj (
look for our agriculture is by no mausl
hopeless. There are faint elgns II resirai
even here. /, is too much TO ssy thai he
corner is turned, bnt there can be no d. ID. /
ii is being pesred. I"
II this is the best that sn ardent free
trader can say OF British agriculture We
must differ from his assertion that 1t ia
"by no means hopeless" But we have
other and more important testimony from \
the discussions ia the great English per
iodicsls. where patriotic Euglishmen state
the case 10 order TO seek remedy.
An able English writer 10 the Nineteenth /
Century discusses the question of food and
work for the unnecessary population.
thoussnd mouths. every day" That is the
problem. The complaint, is that ia East
London With population Of 9Os. 900 there
are 3li, 900 sho live by c.susl labor sneh
~ they can pick up. Other parts OF Lon
don are 6lling 10 more or less With the
sane nsterial, and there must be moe
Than 600. 900 oi these unemployed 10 the
city. The sad thing is ths. = large por
tion comes from the rural villages. the
farming population Of Eoglspd. The ~r.
Ter asserts tbst 90. 900 to 10000 foss is,o
the cities from the farming dis'ricts every
yea, Distress sends them there 10 had
heir 10. 10 better but rather verse. At The