The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-01-03

Y. II. oEvIs
| Manchester, VI, Jao 2. 1850.
Engii.h Free Trade ~ Taught In Amt
lean COLLEGES.
We publish the follosing extract from .
baecalaurea,e sermon by Rev. DR.. Hamlil
while presiden. Of Middlebuiy College:
.But there is smother less tangible iohu.
euce. which has contributed 10 separate
| thipkiug men from the college. On some
points the college has ceased TO be Amer
can aud has become decidedly Englist.
This is especially the ease on economic
questions 10 explanation il must be re-
mem bered that the college is OF English
origin, and at the beginning its professors
great Engish universities have contained
10 supply as with our scientific textbooks
Unul the beginning OF the present century
al these books were by Eoglish authors,
or reprints with slight alterations, and TO
the present day English or English and
| German thought and authorship largely
rule 10 our colleges But aiter our sepa
| ration ltom Great Britain the national life
diyerged more aud more from is English
origin aud took on new AID Independent
forms. The old CONFEDERATION Of States,
which carried a. tbrou tho Revolution,
Jailed and our PR seut constitution Il 1857
80 was formed. one great original purpote
Of which was TO regulate commerce aud
free ia from ininsliii subj -cii1u q drrnt
Britain. Prosperity Immediately return
a. From that d., oc saf experience by
slow sud painful steps has wrought out
tue American system, which is protection
| for orr home industries. orr agriculture,
aud eur domestic commerce against for
| ei2n Intrusion TO our ruin. EuPlsud ba,
tlkeu another course. the direct opposite
| to the American, aud perhaps size Is neces-
STATED 10 do 30 by her environment. She
| has chosen TO sacrifice agriculture, and to
| m AXE Of little comparative importance her
home commerce 10 order 10 b5cone the
great manufacturing power in order to
become the workshop Of the world aud the
com mercial and banking house Of all M
tions. Free Trade in foreign commerce is
her motto; Protected Agriculture aud Free
Trade IN Home Commerce is our motto.
It is the British system and the American
system, each adapted to Its nation aud
special design. The foreign commerce OF
our country. largely composed OF British
agents aud British capital, espouses the
British system, for thereby comes its
wealth. The great agricultural aud me
clanical Interests, Involving pine-t ,nths OF
/ le people and Observation-Disclosures OF III
eallb, support the American system.
Now, the universities aud colleges have
z morally adhered to the British system
asa 20 the wealthy bni small minority OF
foreign lmm, rec. The f,rmers, mecban
les and IA q. iiaclurers OF our land look to
hs.e grer lghts 10 80 shining
upon lac water neY,r upon the land.
rh,y sre thrm reaching doc,rines which,
n carried out, would either destroy our
chief 10 lns,ii or reiuce oar workingmen
to bs drplorabIe aDl degraded condition
OF l. irlish operatives The colleges have
fallen iato tits great error by sor, OF tat
ar berality IRON Great Britian. They
have continuously received thence an un-
interrupted dow OF text books on all col
iege stables. In some lines Of study cur
learned professors, although over weighted
with active labors, have made great i'm
proyements. aud have made invaluable
al litions to science, yet the science oil
economies is singular exception. 10
those things 10 which our m Material interests
are mos, intimately involved, In all our
universities aud colleges. we have been
conteut To learn Of or dear old mother,
Esgland. We have stretched up our heads
and opened Cur mouths aud she has grs
ciou.ly led u. Adam Smith, aud Ricardo
aud Nautilus. and Fawce,i, aud Mill, aud
Jevons, and Sedgwick and Senior Mcleod
have given US our text books OF econo-
mics oar universities. IL they have done
anything have only r,.tehced this foreign
teaching. Strange examples could he adj
duced OF British books made more British
by American professor. bat | psss them
by. There il much 10 be .ail ~ apology
far The professors Intse economical the.
Dries are neatly wrought ont. They re
anre 90 experience. 10 study OF facts, no
knoEledgc 81 the commercial SHARES often
hid 10 treaties aad 10 the selfish Iivalfies I
Of greedy sad powerful nations. They are
cosmopolitan. they deny na'ionaliiy 4
Thsy belong ~ the milleninm, when there
vill be no bard competition. 90 iierce CON
rnefcisl rivalry backed up by osrrsLeim
las naval power, 20 grssoing Of usilon- y I
seiE, the commerce q the world. i =
delish,iai 10 teach clearly -fashi bed li4eS
ries, wiih 20 perpleriag qaesli 'us gros
log oni Of circumstances. OF oai oi ration
i diasteGces and hoo,e sud iolslsn reia
iious
Eaelish authors have been sstchfsl,
geaeroas. csrinl 10 do our economic thint-
log f5f us Toe eresi Golden Cub. com
pnsine The rsak. wealth, learning. ADD
eeeiu. Of Crest Britain, nov floods the
press The newspapers aud chief reviews
With lie li,a rs,ute ~ political ecs nom'