Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-06
DR. GREGORY.
EXPANDS UPON SOME OF THE 0UEs-
 TIONS OF THE DAY.
The Flow of British Gold and its Causes Also It's COnsequences--Perso Grievance Against Uncle
 Sam
NoaAIrs. Nnv 3Oth. 1S9O.


 us all in the face too plainly to be denied by any intelligent interested person.
 It may be said that there is nothing very strange about foreign incusions in our United States. Such as the first, York town and Bunker Hill, Bemis Flight and New Orleans, may be taken as examples. We were ever ready to welcome them then with American bullets, butnow they come with their gold. Now it Is a railroad, now a large brewing establishment, now a distillery from which we draw much of our wealth, now they get almost every in- dustrial stronghold in the United States. I am not surpriesd that we are becoming alarmed, for we certainly do not want an- other Ireland which seems inevitable.
 But before I begin the study of conse- quences let a general view of things as they are, be taken and ask ourselves and each other what is the secret of this ln- vasion.
 Let us find the cause and remove it, then there is a fair likelihood of averting the consequence. How is it that before 1S60 no English capital was invested in our beloved country? The cause is very certainly of recent orign, We shall not have to go far to find it. Since 1861, that is since the war of the rebellion, England and America have pursued directly radi- cally different policies in reference to manufacturing interests, as well as almost all other interests. It is in the depart ment of manufactures mainly that the present incursions have taken place.
 It Is to capture our factories, chief cit adels of American wealth, that the English have been sending their millions. We were forced into adopting an excessive tariff on foreign made wares as a measure of actual temporary necessity to our own manufactures and in the belief that it was to their interest We have continued it to the present time, more than twenty eight years. We have had war taxes un- der what politicians call protective tax ation, or the American system.
 Our manufactures have had our own country to themselves on very much their own terms, practically they have been shut out from all the rest of the world. They depended on home consumption and home ability to pay for their wares. All this time England manufactures have pursued wholly another course. They lived under and operated under free trade policy with all the world. They have been the staunchest supportars of It. The great champions in parliament, and ill the won derful parliamentary battle fought out about forty years ago, were manufac- turers as well as free traders.
 Richard Golden was maker of cotton prints John Bright was partner in the famous Rochdale mills all his life. The world has produced few men, if any, that were more sagacious. They advocated unrestricted commerce because they be- lieved it to be for their interest. and the interest of the guild to which they be- longed.
 These men were theorist and doc trinaires, but eminently practical, good successful business men. They argued that it was much better to have very wide market with fair profits, than to have a restricted market with immense profits. Hence they urged the adoption of a na- tional policy for their country which would give them the whole world to trade in; although they lived for many years after the adoption of their views, John Bright recently dying not alone full of years, but full of purse, there is no living evidence that they ever felt remorse for anything they had done.
 The United States and England have for the past twenty eight years prosecuted methods totally diametrical, directly op- posed to each other England constant ly reached out for the commerce of the world, and secured it, and only the high tariff countries has she failed to control, amongst them 1 may note our own United States.
 On the other hand we have been living on ourselves; like hibernating bear, we have been depending on our own fat, our own manufacturers, scorning the philosO- phy of Golden and Bright, and their l. 4ha way to get rich is to have but few patrons, and make them pay excessive prices. This is exactly the course we have been pursuing; when we had not business enough in our own country for the support of all, instead of opening the doors to other countries for their starving members to hunt living elsewhere, the stronger operators have deliberately pro ceeded to eat up the weaker ones, keeping up the bar of exclusiveness all the while Those who have been able to keep the field have made immense fortunes, but the many even after these twenty eight year; i of experiment, of ample and fair trial are very poor, the most of them now go ing to the wall for the last time: aftel | these twenty eight years the British manufacturer or what is the same thing the British public, out of the profits they | have made out of us, are able to invade our country and largely possess them selves oft. They come this time as con querors, having been successful while W, have failed to claim the advantage they have won. It Is all as plain as daylight We sought the conflict having chosen ou own grounds, therefore no one is to blam but ourselves,
 But Mr. Editor what we should do, un der all circumstances, seems to be ques ton wholly superhuous. The instinct o self-preservation we think ought to poin out our course to adopt. Why not re cede at once from a policy that brough us such signal defact? One Ireland il certainly enough, but in this connection it is not out of place here to allude t political consequences which the condi ton of things just considered may occa sion. In all the discussions of the prob able effects of British capital comin among us that we have been able to SC in this country, we have wholly overlook ed the main feature of the case, we hay wholly ignored it, we have heard abou British gold coming over to our election in the interest of free trade" Such tai of course was demagogical and baselesl the British did not want free trade in tn
 United States. Protection here has key us out of foreign markets where we migh have been dangerous competitors. Britis
 gold will be no myth hereafter It here, and is coming in large quantities over $200,000,000, since May the 1s 1889; of course 1t will have much to sa in affairs, because it's interest is directl
 affected by free trade, low tariff rathe
 Our own manufacturers will hereafte be greatly divided on the tariff issu' Great Britain having already gotten th l trade of the world outside of the Unite , States for his home establishments, doe j not care for his American works to pro ' duce SO extended a field, therefore | z may content himself to let our tariff r, main as it is; but certainly the most il , teresting political complications it can | seen, are liable to follow in the wake c l this last British invasons
 2 When the government does an inju } tice it encourages and stimulates ind } vidual wrong doing, There can be [ {. possible excuse for the governmel 8 offences against equity. We do not t American citizens desire or wish the go' 0 ernment to take unfair advantage of al t nation, or people, or community, or clas ], we all desire equal justice done to all, y 0 there are public functionaries who dee
 it statesmanship to conduct our gover
 ment on what they are pleased to cs
 ''business principles" even to the inclu