New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-02
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
MR.. GLADSTONE, Mr.. FREwEN AND MAN
CHESTER ON THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

CHESTER ON THE AMERlCAN TARlfF.
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c,,yrsht; 1890 By The Tribcne Assoe'dHo"'
Jondon Nov. 1.--Mr. GladstOnes McNihey
tariff speech at Dundee has had one remarKaoie
eject. II has reconverted The Times ih'o d
.u,ooist Of Mr. Gladstone and friend to America.
:, ;s not long since that journal said that after
,te passage of the Mckinley tariff. talk about
tirship and friendship with America was out OF
date Now the same authority says: We are
creatlv mistaken il the American people as a
,bole are not pleasantly impressed by the perfect
,.rs and temper of Mr.. Gladstones observations
and by the sincere. ardent and even enthusiastic
nature of the feelings he entertains and which
our entire nation shares with him for the great
rnSlish-speakng republic across the Atlantic. >
No doubt Mr. Gladstone has friendly moods toward
america. but the expression of them in his Dun
dee speech is sometimes peculiar. The Mckinley
tariff is whatever its merits or defects. an Amer
lean tariff, an act of American policy, adopted
ard approved by the majority of the American peo-
ME. Il am not" says Mr.. Gladstone, about to
hiring railing accusations against the American
people" Before he has finished the sentence he
describes the policy of the American people as a
policy Of Ilunder and fraud. Later he describes
il as a monstrous injustice. Later still. he says:
The word Protection is a miserable misnomer
Call it oppression. Call it delusion. Call it
fraud"
The main object however, of this ingenious
address is to convince England that the Mckinley
tariff will do her nc HARM His argument is
summed up in this fine sentence: Gentlemen,
we do not deal with this country or with that
country we deal with mankind The effect
he saws. of this act must he TO raise prices in
America, hence to diminish her power OF eX-
portation, and hence TO reduce her competition
with England in the other markets OF the world
II England is damnifed in one of her twenty
markets, she gains in the other nineteen. 80,
continued the great CoDdenite, even If we go all
round the world it remains true that each country
which gives greater stringency to protection within
Its own borders is thereby, though damaging us
la its own market, giving us more command IN
every one of the other nineteen markets of the
world 1t would be beautiful argument If
the other nineteen markets were not each
Mr.. Gladstone. in any case is tue to his Free
Trade faith. He denounoes retaliation suicidal
and clings with touching fidelity TO his hope of
Free Trade millennium. Evidence averse 10 his
own view overwhelming though it may be, has
not more effect on his mind in fiscal than In
political matters. Yet all he now ventures on
by way of prediction with reference TO America
is that a signal triumph may possibly be re-
served for his frce-tradine friends in the United
States. His free-trading friends here think that
but cold encouragement. Some English Free
Traders go SO far as to doubt the wisdom OF an
this lecturing of Americans One remarks: II
an American were to call Mr.. Gladstones COM
ments impertinent, could hardly object.
Mr. Moreton Frewen publishes in "IDe fort-
nightly Review" an article on The National
Policy of the United States in tone very different
from all this He points out that the English
are again siding with the Democratic party IN
America. as they did during the Rebellion. lie
sees that the interests of the American working
,nan are at stake. The American worklngman,
saws Mr. Frewen also has been consulted, and
he believes implicitly that not much later his
community assisted by modern machinery ana
cheap capital will be able to produce all that Is
required by all during six hours WORKING DAY
lie has the sense to recognize the lmpossioili|
of this six hours ideal if the product OF foreign
manner labor is 10 be allowed to swamp the home
markets" Mr.. Frewen is an Engshinan VINO
has been in America
Manchester is less excited than Sheheld apou'
the Mckinley tariff perhaps because Mahchcs.ei
has no Colonel Howard Vincent to preach retaiia-
ton. There has been a meeting OF the Mahcne'-
fer Chamber of Commerce, with a speech by lts
president, Mr.. Lee moderate speech' rao'iei
sensible for a Frce-Trader though he is credulous
IIa fal-a np
facts from dispatches cabled hither They come
daily in the Joint interest of New-iork importers
and British manufacturers. There is at least one
New-York news agency which does not scruple TO
reprcsent the New-YOrk importers organ as al
independent" journal. However, Mr.. Lee con-
solcs himself and his Manchester friends with the
assurance that they will not be much affected oy
the tariff, or not for some years. Americans
concludes the sensible Mr.. Lee, have a perfect
r;ght IA manage their own affairs in their own
way.a When the English public. and British
manufacturers and their organs especially, nave
grasped this elementary proposition, you VIII near
considerably less British nonsense about The Nc
Kinley tariff.
Tho renort that Sir Julian Pauncefote is about
10 resume negotiations with Mr.. Blaine on the
Delring Sea business las revived interest In that
subject on this side of the Atlantic. a long news
agency dispatch from New-fork processes to state
precisely what line Mr.. Blaine is going to take.
Like other dispatches from the same source this
is opcn TO the criticism that the author OF 1t knows
too much However almost anything that comes
by cable seems TO be accepted here as gospel
"The Times" discourses afresh and at length on
the subject but has not much that is new to offer
Il exuts over Mr. Blaine's alleged refusal to sub
nit TO arbitration the question whether bchring
Sea is a mare clausum or not and speaks of him as
prudently reluctant to let an impartial authority
pronounce on such a claim Whether this article
has any other inspiration than Lord Salisburys
last dispatch is doubtful. The writer speaks as
usual for the Government and the people, pro-
claiming tie entire readiness of England to sub
init the whole question to arbitration and thcn
agree with the United States on practical meas
ures for preventing abuses In seal fishing.
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