The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-12-24
A VERY BLIND LEADER.
A Very Well Read Cantonian Takes the
Cleveland Leader in Handin Excellent
Shape-.-Good Reading.
Written for the News Democrat.


Cleveland Leader in Hand in Excellent
Shape-.-Good Reading.
Written for the News Democrat.
From leading editorial in the Cleve-
land Leader of a late date, commenting
on some remarks of Lord Salisbury,
occurs this remarkable paragraph:
"The protected industries have been
advancing in industry and commerce
and the free trade countries have been
retrograding"
Whether this statement is willful
falsiicatiOn of facts, or whether 1t is a
manifestation of downright ignorance
we can only conjecture, but it is charit.
able to suppose chat it is made through
ignorance, and If so it has no parallel,
so far as the present writer is aware,
except in the case of the little girl who
wrote a composition on Love"
Among other things she said, There
was man who left his loving wife and
went to sea and was gone nine years.
When he went away he had no little
children, but when he returned he
found he had seven little children which
his loving wife had presented him with,
in his ABSENCE
For blankest gnorance this little dar-
ling certainly has a rival in the editor
of the Cleveland Leader.
The Leader is Oblivious to the fact
that there are no free trade countries
in the world. The only near approach
thereto being England, and that Eng
land, so far from retrograding, Is not
only the most prosperous of nations,
but has been for the last fifty years at
least, and is now more than ever, alb
10 nf
whole East. 1t would be interesting to
at least one reader of the Leader, if that
paper would publish It's list of protected
and free trade countries in parallel
columns.
The free trade or retrograding col
umn must begin and end with Eng
land. In the protected or advancing
countries" must be the United States,
China, Turkey, Russia, Spain, Italy,
Mexico, and Costa Rica.
1t is well known to all close students
of current history that England owns,
to a certain extent, most of the South
American states.
Rome in her best days no more lev
led tribute upon the whole world than
England does to-day.
She is not only the worlds manufac-
turer, partly by virtue of free raw
material, but is also the worlds com
mon carrier and the worlds banker
Every cup of Rio coffee that the editor
of the Leader raises to his lips pays to
England three tributes of profit. First
it is brought here in English vessels by
which the English ship owner makes a
profit; it is paid for by draft on London
10 the profit of the English banker, and
the London draft is redeemed in Eng
lish manufactured goods.
Our fathers before the Revolutionary
war raised a rebellion in Boston and
threw cargo of tea into the Boston
Bay because they would not submit to
the stamp act; but the editor Of the
Leader, and every other person in
America pays the equivalent of three
STAMP act" duties on his coffee and
does not seem to know enough to
know it.
No nation of Europe or America,
with the possible exception of France
and Germany, can 60 to war unless
England lends them the necessary
funds 1t was the money of that "ret-
regarding" country that furnished the
siuews of war to both the Federal and
Confederate armies during the late re-
bellion.
Even the reciprocity provisions of the
Mckinley law cannot go into effect
until the English bondholder is concili-
ated. The following Associated Press
dispatch is the latest:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-English interests
are causing hitch in the negotiations for
reciprocity with Costa RiCa, as they tried
to do in the negotiations with Brazil. If
it were not for the pledging OF the custom
duties for the payment of interest on Sl0,-
100000 worth of bonds, mostly held in
England, Costa Rica would have made a
treaty under the reciprocity section of the
Mckinley bill some months ago. An
agreement is we'll under way, and both
governments are awaiting the issue of
with the English bOndhold-
ers before it is completed.
In this country English capital builds
our railroads and operates them, opens
our mines, and is fast laying its grip
on most of our profitable industries |
Not day passes, but we are informed |
by the public press that an English syn |
dicate Is reaching out after this or that. |
In short, 1t makes one tired, if the com.
mon slang is admissible, to read in a
great political organ that "the free |
trade countries are retrograding." 1t |
shows the Protection organs are in the |
last ditch. When the Confederacy got |
IN the last ditch, it's leading generals did |
their most desperate lying. / will refer |
to this subject again.
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