The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-10-09
ELITTLE ENGLISH YOU KNOW.

What free trade is doing for Eng
Band is best told by English speakers
and English journals, who would blush
clear down to their waists to read or
listen to the lies the British American
free trade Democrats Of the United
States and their organs as spoken
sn the stump and printed in their
papers. If you want to know the
truth as to what free trade has done,
and is doing for England's laborers
and farmers you must look to English
sources or anywhere but to the free
syade Democratic allies or the British
aristocracy in the United States. The
following from the London Financial
Standard will be first-class reading for
Democratic readers, the source con-
sidered, but if written and published
by Republican in Republican
paper it would lave raised a howl of
Remuneration among free trade shark
srs like Mills. This is what the
4S1tttNCCtJt OtUfIJUTU says.
The Lancashire prophet of evil, from
The masters side, at the Royal Labor
Commission, knew what he talked Of.
IN effect, he said, the bottom is tie
crop out of Manchester. All his life
he has been buying cotton in Liverpool
10 spin into yarn for sale in Manches-
ser, and to weave into cloth for ship
1nent to foreign parts. The game to
him had not been worth the candle.
In 1910 the cloth had sold for AID
yard, now it was sold for less than Sd.
IL he could now get as profit and main
tenance for the mill and weaving shed
Onethird to one-fourth Of one farthing
yard, he could keep the mill and
weaving shop going, but if not he
could only throw up the sponge. Cob
den died early; Bright, less in hurry,
Survived until the other day: both
spared the economic wrath which the
Lancashire prophet assured the Roy
81 Commission is to come. What agi-
tat0rs Bright and Golden were, and.
bow, at last, John Bull, after a decade
81 SANDER, took both to his heart and
bosom. A subscription was made for
Golden, who put 100000 in his purse,
BAT only to throw it away on the
Illinois Central Railway John Bull
mingled his tears witt Cobden's, pass
cd the hat around again, and gather
cd in 100000. Bright said he needed
Rothing, and he got nothing, unless
be be debited with the expense of
safe seat for Birmingham for many
years he not being called on for as
much as a postage stamp, Birmingham
0n each occasion paying the bill, which
vas never less than $4,000 and often
more. Now, the work of their hands
fades as the fresco did from the walls
OF Parliament. Cotton was never
cheaper, never was there more induce
ment in price to buy, and spin, and
weave it: and the number of nude and
semi-nude throughout the world was
never greater But, cotton, SO far as
Manchester is concerned, is sucked
grange, a gone coon, dead cock in the
pit. 1t has ceased to make profit in
Manchester, and now only earns scant
wages. So scant are those wages that
she services of school half-timers are
Fequfsitioned by parents; husband,
wire and children being essential to
keep pot boiling. No third subscrip-
sion would now be taken up by John
Sull for Golden unless for rope Bir-
bingham also by this time has given
ap Bright. AS the Colonel said. men
30 not come to the city to play mar
Mes: they come to make money, and
none being made oratOry has no charm