Telegram-herald., 1890-04-23
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The o1ly example 0f 50 called Free
trade today among the civilized people
q the earth Is England, sad moment
OF rehscEiOn gives ABUNDANT reason why
she adopted the plan.
Her climate l. unifoTm; her latitude Is
limited, while mountains and forests are
con pArasivsly unknown.
In 1881 the population Of Eagland,
Scotland aud ireland combined was
80 ste, esq, and their whole area only
i2f ,57l square miles, an average pOpula-
ton OF ESQ 70 the square mile, while our
population averages but fourteen TO the
square mile.
England cannot be independent except
by importing from abroad. There with
Ia the narrow limits Of her island home,
teeming with humanity and factories
and little else, she is driven by force Of
necessity 10 manufacturing more than
her own people consume, that she may
have something with which 10 buy food
for her people.
Shs imports nothing. comparatively,
that could be supplied in sufficient guam
titles st home. She has no broad fields
on which may grow sufficient wheat
and corn. and cattle and hogs; where
may grow the cotton, rye, barley and
oats necessary to supply her population.
The most of these articles she must
buy abroad.
Her imports average about two bill
ions Of dollars per year, while we, with
nearly double her population, import
but about seven hundred and fifty mill.
ions per year.
Upon the eight hundred millions OF
dollars in value she imports for food
annually, and six hundred and fifty mill
ions of raw material for her factories,
she levies no import duties. because she
cannot produce them herself, and they
do not compete with or break down
home industries.
To buy her food and raw materials
where she can buy them the cheapest.
and to find dumping ground for the
product of her pauper labor, is her chief
solicitude.
To our own fair land she looks with
longing eyes. she sees our millions OF
happy homes spread out upon our mill
ions OF square miles, our mighty posi-
bilites, our purchasing power, our cot
tages of laboring men with carpeted
floors and pictured walls, tables with
food. and wives at home instead of the
factory or in the mine, and children az
school instead Of labor.
She waits for the day when our labor
ing men shall be forced to compete with
hers in wages or find other employment,
for the day when she can make the
United States her marketing place for
manufactured articles; and 10 such an
end she spends her money in educating
tho sentiment Of our people.
To that end the English Golden club
was formed, composed of most of the
members Of the British parliament, En-
glish cabinet ministers, British manufac-
turers and Free-traders in this country.
To that end their millions of Frce-trade
pamphlets are circulated here. Prize es-
says on Free-trade AZ Oxferd and Cam
bridge universities in England are dis.
tributed here in any manner so that they
may reach cur people and be read by
them.
Free trade may or may not be wise
policy for England. but it would be dis.
astrous, if not death, to our diversified
industries.
To England we are pointed as tho only
example of Free-trade 70 be found among
the civilized nations.
The experience Of the world has dem
onstrated its folly in other nations, and
benelIng By that experience they have
all Of them protective tariffs, protecting
their pcople and their industries. Dur
Ing the last few years many of them have
been Increasing their tariff rates upon
imports 10 give even greater Protection
than they enjoyed before.
France ana Germany, after suffering
: the blightiag ehects Of Froe-trade for
many years, have gone back to Protec-
ton, and even the agricultural industries
OF England are clamoriug for It.
In the face II history, against al the
experience of the centuries in the old
world. counter 10 the adnonition of all
ogr greatest statesmen from Washin yton
down 20. 0ut not including Grover Cleve-
land. iu the light of our most wonderful
progress under Protection. blinded TO all
Of these. the wiscac-es of the Democratic
party would now plunge this nation into
q cesspool of Industrial stasna,ion and
cover it with The slime Of Free trade,
stinkiax with age and abandonment.