Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-10-16
PROJECTION I'M FRANCE.
The Destructive Results of Over
Taxing the People.

The Destructive Results OF Over
Taxing the People.
North American Review.
Exports from Italy have fallen from O
mean annual total OF / .053, ,000, ,0U0 of lire
from 1883 to 1856 to $50, 600, 900 in 1889,
and the continuous outpour of migration,
which rose from 1857 ,S29 individuals in
1886 TO $50. .750 in 1858, attests the con-
tinual increase of misery among the peo-
pls. NJ. Vilfredo Pareto, the author of a
remarkable work ON tho economic crisis
in Italy, published in the JOurnG! 6es
Ec0aaou9istes, (May, 1889, and June,
iS90,) says: eth re arc localities in
Venetia and the Neapolitan provinces
where the exodus is complete. Entire
villages have lost their population. The
answer of the Preferts, when questioned
by the government, is unanimous--it is
misery that compels these unfortunates
10 leave cir country"
Doubtless the system of protection can
not be held alone responsible for such q
situation; the increase in the burden OF
military expenses and the general in
crease OF public taxation have contrib
uted their share; but the aggrsvation of
hardships borne by the people incident
to protective rates, and latterly to the
war of tariffs with France, is shown by
inoontrovsrtible facts. CAST your eyes,
then, on the brilliant picture offered by
the prosperity OF free-trading Eng and,
IS sketohed by Mr.. Medley at the last
Cohden Club met ng, and you cannot
fail to admit that the reporter in nowise
exnggerates when he states that II ia the
triumph OF free trade.
These oppo ,its resIlta of two policies,
which official statistics fully set forth,
and which gradually come to the knowl-
edge of the people, begin to sot on public
opinion, and although 10 France, for in.
stance, the protectionists have in the
chambers o crushing majority, we much
doubt whether they care to make such an
Ill use OF their preponderance as they
appeared ready to make short time ago.
For like reason, we do not think, in
respect to the @oKinley Tariff bill. how
sver damaging it may be to French in
duatry, and, however lively may have
been the protests 1t gave rise to IN the
chambers of commerce and the psrlia-
ment, that II will determine the adoption
OF policy of reprisals toward the United
States.
We consulted on the subject member
Of ths upper trading circles of Paris,
who cares little for theory, but who Is
thoroughly we'll informed on questions
relating to industrial pursuits, and espe-
cially in regard to the com mercial rela-
lions between Europe and America, and
this is what he said:
'some speak of making reprissls in
order to oblige Americans to give up
their system of protection now carried to
excesg, and of which the Mckinley
Tariff bill is the crowning feature, but to
what purpose? II is q piece Of work
for which that system will itself furnish
the cure. II protection ends by closing
the market to European products, will it
not by the same stroke as eff ctually
close the European market to American
products? For it is quite Gear that
people only sell inasmuol as they are
able to buy, and that products must be
exchanged for products. .g..5