Telegram-herald., 1890-08-30

ESGLIsa TESTIMONY
The follos.ag taken from tae Loaeoa
Fair Trade. We conlmead - lne careful.
scrutiny snd th0ughtful consideration
0f the American CobSsenite, z would Be
vel for hnn Il &c were ss honest IN h's
position. and ~ould hack 3 by the ire
ssstiole logic OF facts as tals artlcle
Shows o. The part 81 rs writer, "Iae
ehroaie distress and misery. sow IA
England 80 eOElmon, compels AZ work
eFs % rebel against the cruel, cold,
polite, ecoaomic dogma 81 cuyng ID
the cheapest market. irrespective OF the
fearful misery created by the death
struggle for existence, proved by the
c.abolicsl bay in the cheapest market
rule, pittag every reduct.0l IN wages
against another reduction be the ragc,
I'll the desired starvation death iale -
/ reached. Such > TIE result 0I buying .n
tie cheapest market system. Wage
earners have so little 70 spend that the
/ small traders themselves are reduced
- nearly As low a condition. Contrast
this state OF Things with the opposite
condition, where wagc-earneFs gst Ialr
wages and full employment, and thus
are enabled 20 live well by their labor.
Traders then 10 a good and paying
business. They, in their turn, are en-
abled 10 spend more aud more money,
which circulates through all classes,
and benefiting and nourlsh.ng all.
Maintain the present unwise free i'm
port Con one side onlyl system, ana
low, miserable pittances viii be the
normal wages of the workers here.
This can not be too much IN
sisted on. The utter falslty Of
the assertion that the more we
import the richer we become is as uE-
true as IL Is foolish and mischievous.
1t IS transparent that the wealth OF any
nation Is increased IN proportion as she
produces for her own requirements
10 is not by buying foreign competing
products cheap" tnat a country IS en-
riched, and her population we'll paid
fully employed, but by her producing
what she requires. Conclusive proof o.
this fact is afforded by the marvellous
prosperity of the United States O.
America, by the vast industries they
have established, producing not onl.
for their own requirement, but als'
driving English products OF like char
acter, out Of the worlds markets. Their
is no country IN the whole world wher
labor is so well paid, and the condition
of the laboring population SO comforta
bic and prosperous; and, be 1t borne II
mind, that America has tried free trad
TWICE, and gwen 1t up for protection 4
home industry. Germany affords an
other illustration TO the same result Il
favor OF protecting home indUstrle;
All the nations OF the world, with tw
or three trivial instances IN opposition
Will not have free trade, but repudiat
: and ecorn it. The time IS fast approach
+ ing, the signs become more and NOR
apparent, that England herself viii, or
" long, abandon the system which has IN
; poyerished and degraded her and er
J. riched her rivals"
E The London Chamber of Commerc
= Journal says It costs the country owe
. ten millions sterling yearly" to supper
a It's paupers. THIS IS the evidence {
Engilshmen themselves. Butwe do nc
e expect 1t will have any effect upon tn
II American Cobdenites. The logic {
M facts is nothing to them, compared
their airy theories with which the
have so thoroughly fallen IN lov
= Though ono from the dead should ari'
y and declare unto them, yet they woul
"A not believe. And why should they
n Would it not he opposed 10 the
~ theories, and what are stern fact
= when opposed to their beauhi
az theories