Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-03-26
IN DARKEST ENGLAND.
FREE TRADE THE CAUSE OF
GREAT SUFFERING.

Its Blight Is Upon All Endustries-The
Widespread Pauperism I'm Great Britain
and Its Cause-British Agriculture De-
caying and Manufactures Falling Away.
Mr.. Edward C. Marshall, an author
and writer of high character, lately pub
lished the following article in the New
York Mail and Express, and since then
all the dispatches confirm the reports OF
restitution:
Again the plague spot OF free trade Eng
! land is uncovered and the gaze of the civil
lied world is turned upon scenes OF poverty
and restitution which can be witnessed in
but few other Christian lands.
The new book by Gen. Booth. of the Sal
walton Army, In London, bearing the title
ain Darkest England merely corroborates
the statements Of Kay, Mayhem, the Rev.
Stopford Brooke and other writer's and
speakers who have endeavored to describe
the terrible condition OF the poor in both
town and country in Great Britain
Gen Booth presents as his estimate Of the
| total number of paupers in Great Britain,
| GThree millions, or, to put 1t roughly, one
| tenth of the population"
But Mr.. Chamberlain says there are four to
| Ave millions in the realm, mass or people
| equal to that of the metropolis of London, who
| have remained constantly in state OF alb
| ject restitution and misery. Mr.. Isaac
| Hoyle furnishes an argument showing That
the whole pauper class OF the community Is
| somewhere near seven millions, or one in
| every Ave of the population. This exceeds
the total reported by government officials
The Imagination fails to conceive of the
| extent of the restitution and suffering in
Great Britain. The Rev. Mr.. Stopford
Brooke says: awe are pre-eminent in Lon
| don in these matters There is nothing SO
terrible in any other civilized city-no, not
In Paris or New York. There is nowhere
| else In the Christian world such a mass of
Indebtedness, squalor and degradation as
in England"
Free trade is said to be the cause of this
| widespread pauperism in Great Britain. Sir
| Edward Sullivan, Henry @. Carey, Stephen
| Colwell and Robert Ellis Thompson are
| among the writer's who have taken this
position. They maintain that since the
doctrines Of Richard Golden were put in
parctice in England, In 1S49, the people
have been visited by destruction. The
boosted cheapness of products does not
alleviate the general misery caused by the
want of employment. In total population
of IS, 900, 900 only about 100000 have fixed
incomes Of 9100 year, and there are 35'-
600, 900 who depend on some kind OF labor
for their support With no protection, this
vast mass Of people is brought into COM
petition with both Continental and barbar-
Ian labor.
Free trade demands cheap labor and does
not foster diversified Industries Or seek to
protection.
Free trade destroyed British agriculture.
Before the repeal of the corn laws the
landed interest ruled the country. The
agitation for resembling these laws was be-
gun by Golden and other manufac urerS in
order to obtain cheap food for their work.
: rnen,-and- keep at the lowest point 1athe
natural and necessary rates of wages"
The cotton barons and iron lords are now
in the ascendant, and the landed interest Is
fast going into decay. Foreign 1mporta-
lions of grain are causing the land to go
out of cultivation. The small farmer Is un-
able to subsist, and he is selling his holding
to the large landed proprietor to be used
for grazing purposes
England and Wales have 100000 land
owners while protectionist France has three
and quarter millions. Great Britain has
80 per cent. of her soil under tillage, while
France has 81 per cent. In France there
has been in ten years an increase or I'D per
cent. in the area under wheat and cereals;
in England, during the same period, there
has been a decrease in like area OF % per
cent. The British yeomen were once the
glory of the realm. To-day they are fee
ing from the land, and crouching III the eel
lars of London or Liverpool, or emigrating
? to America or the United States.
! Free trade is causing the decay OF British
commerce. The capitalists of England en-
bark in many foreign enterprises which dc
not pay. Even shipbuildng Is sometimes
n attended with loss. AH intelligent Scotch
q man said recently to the writer: "There are
many steamers belonging to proprle'ors II
Il the old world which do not pay expenses
Shipbuilding is often q losing business" Th'
Y recent failure of Barring Bros, London, ha
n also shown that the foreign investment
9 made by Engllshmen are sometimes haZ
/, ardous.
" Statistics exhibit the remarkable fact tina
the commerce of protectionist countries ha
u grown more rapidly than that of free trade
u England. Sir Edward Sullivan presents II
his uFree Trade Bubbles" the following ger
centages, which are probably gathered iron
Mullhall, showing the proportionate growth
y of commerce in the countries here mention
n ed during the period from 1868 to 1879: II
the United States the increase has been 6
- Der cent; in Holland 81; France, 81; Italy
:, 48; Germany, 80; British Empire, 21.
Ii Free trade is undermining the manufac
n turing industries of Great Britain Norwa.
n and Belgium, having abundant forests ant
cheap labor, supply England with wndoN
:, frames, doors and other carpentry work
Il The result of this is that British joiners ar
X compelled to emigrate. The duties on sill
(. goods were abolished in 1860, and the sill
n manufactures of Macclesfeld and Coventr
J. were destroyed. The workmen either en-
q tered the poorhouses or left for foreig
countries.
There are thirty Prussian locomotives i
"a service on one of the English railways Th
|
rs is situated near the houses of Parliamen
ia were cast in Belgium. 1t is computed tina
~ the loss to England from competition wit
~ Germany and Belgium In the iron and ste'
trades has been, In the last four year
vt $500, 00O, 900, and Mr.. James Adamson, til
" President of the British Iron and Steel Al
at ISOLATION, has declared that unless the iro
as masters have protection or pay lower wage
- this industry will soon be destroyed, Undt
'. protection, however, the United States h;
Ol taken the first rank among the nations
to the production of iron and steel, thong
re Great Britain has had open to her "the ma
kets of the world.n The English cote
trade is also suffering from compatitie
with Germany and Belgium.
GForty years ago. says Sullivan, "Gre
Britain produced two-thirds OF the oil
goods of the world; at present she produc
CHI barely one third The manufacturers
he Manchester declared, not long ago, tn
ng either lower wages or protection must
no had. The lace industry of England has be-
)0 destroyed by admitting the cheaper fabri
e. of Saxony free of duty, and thousands a
1t starving in Nottingham. Free trade b
he closed every sugar refinery in England, al
lie, 30, 900 workmen have been thrown out
re employment
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DO, Cal D. Brice's Unpaid Taxes.
ay Senator Brice, the millionaire Ne
~ Yorker who bought an Ohio seat in t
Nd United States Senate, is coming to gri
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