The Forrest City times., 1891-03-20
c ASTELAR ON PROTECTION.
Tho Spanish Patriot ArraiSns Protection and Paints the Achievements of Anerics in Eloquent Words.

Tho Spanish Patriot ArraiSns Protection
 and Paints the Achievements of America
 in Eloquent Words.
 The most progressive man in Spain to-day is Castelar, who is known through out the world as patriot, a statesman, an orator, writer of ability, and as the leader of the republican movement in that country.
 Spain is now agitating the question of revising" her tariff upward, in imita- tion of the Mckinley method, and pro- voked thereto by McKinley's Chinese antics. In view of these facts it is of interest to note recent letter from Castelar,, which was printed in the New York Heruld. This letter shows Cas- telar to be broad minded citizen of the world, devoted to the good of the human race, and hence looking with pity upon the folly of the nations in waging com mercial warfare upon each other in the form of protective tariffs.
 Castelar, does not lay the blanc of originating protective tariffs upon Amer ica He finds, rather, that America Is simply following the bad example set by Europe. He does blame America, how ever, for adopting system so at war with her traditions of freedom, and so QNM6 LIE VI HUI niSSlpA dS bHc SbduudEu- bearer of liberty among the nations of | the world Among the continental na- 1 tions of Europe her influence for liberty and enlightened statesmanship is largely nulliied by protection, and her example is used to strengthen the old hatreds and l jealousies which have proven so dsas- trous to those nations The old spirit of l international distrust and hate which has so often wrought ruin in Europe is still alive in the form of retaliatory tariff l laws, and the example of America is un- l happily thrown upon the wrong side. 1 Castelar, eloquently says: "Archeolog- ica contradictions must disappear, and 1 the cause of human progress impera- | lively requires nations to urge on uni versal exchange, free trade, just as cos | mic heat compels Sidereal motion. 1 Having in every sense of the word out l grown the age when competition could ! be fatal to 1t, as well as the period of economic contradictions, the new world l fights against it's own providential des- tiny and betrays it's office by aggravat- ing, as it is now doing, it's protectionist tariff, converted by measures which are simply odious into desolating prohibi- 1 tion."
 | How pitiable appear the attempts of the protectionists to undermine Ameri- cas confidence In herself, in the light of Castelar's eloquent portrayal of Amerl- ca's great achievements.
 | "Nations, like individuals, in propor- l tion as they mount toward the highest summits Of illustrious renown, assume an increased responsibility. The nation within whose frontiers reign peace. lib. erty, democracy, republicanism, progress and labor must not, beyond those iron
 tiers, represent reaction, race enmity
 and the retrogradation of humanity. The people who have chained the tenn | pest and subjected the lightning, who
 have fitted our vessels with the steam
 engines which enable them to override
 all waves and to brave all winds, who
 have given to speech the speed of light
 ming, who have created the power oi
 transmitting the human voice over the
 whole surface of the earth by means oi
 the miraculous telephone, who by the
 aid of the magic strands of the tele l graphic cable hidden in the depths of the
 ocean have joined the most distant lands
 who have given the human race the ben
 eft of the electric light are compelled te
 forward the cause of universal progress
 by the adoption oi free labor and free | exchange.