The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-29
ENGLAND NOT ALARMED.
Her Foreign Commerce VIII Not Suf-
fer from the Mckinley Bill.

ACE ATOh JQo 4AChlQl6N Dill
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2s. I'VE have
watched with intense interest the progress
of the Mckinley bill-an interest possibly
quite as keen as that felt on this side of the
Atlantic" said Robert Nelson, a
wealthy exporter of Huddersfeld, England,
in an interview to-day. Huddersfield is
the center of the woolen manufacturing
industry of the mother country. The pas
sage OF your new tariff law" he continued,
sis going to hurt some of our mills, chiefly
those that manufacture the common grades
of clothes The factories that turn out the
highest priced goods will not be injured.
The tariff bears heaviest on the low priced
products, and though it increases the duty
on the finer qualities the advance is not
relatively so great. Huddersfield is largely
engaged in the production of the costliest
cloths. and we are therefore not disturbed.
America will always offer us a market for
the finest fabrics, such as your looms do not
turn out.
AFRAID OF AMERICAN FREE TRADE.
eve should be very sorry In England if
you should abandon your high protective
system. As long as you keep it up you
give over to us the markets of the world
hold it to be self-evident that a system of
high import duties and trade with foreign
countries cannot be maintained at the
same time. If the United States
had free trade or even an approXima-
tion thereto, in less than ten years
she would be likely to drive US away from
markets that are now ours absolutely. 1t
seems strange to me that people SO smart
as the yankees should not long ago have
seen how they have deprived themselves of
an unfettered commerce and how they
make the masses pay exorbitant prices for
whatever they buy for the benefit of a
favored class"
Mr.. Nelson's expression will doubtless
arrest the attention of the whole country.
THE WORLD FOR A MARKET.
LONDON, Sept 2S-The Nelos, comment
ing ON the Mckinley bill, says: ave are
happily old hands in contests of this kind,
and are not to be driven by any provocation
to the suicidal policy of resorting to either
reciprocity or retaliation. The en-
terprise of our traders will find
In every corner OF the globe
America more than sufficient to compensate
great loss will be to the United
States. Tho earlier tariff has
already paralyzed their export trade
in manufactures, and the Mckinley bill
may kill it The true danger to England's
industrial supremacy will begin only when
Tree trade opens to these intelligent and
powerful rivals the markets Of the world. "
WILL CUT BOTH WAYS.
The Times predicts that the Mckinley
bill will cut both ways, and in a manner
surprising to its authors sit will do grave
harm to America and dislocate the general
industries of the world. America will
be the chief sufferer in the end.
Things elsewhere will adjust them
selves in the course of time
TO new course of trade. while America
will be left permanently paying higher
prices for inferior goods and wasting her
labor and industrial energy in vain anc
misdirected efforts in disregard of natural
economic laws"
BUTTON MAKERS LOCKED OUT.
VIENNA, Sept. 28-One thousand mother
| of-pearl button makers have been locked
out, owing to the adoption of the Mckinley
| bill, which manufacturers believe threatens
to stop the entire trade with America.