The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-02-20

An Engli<h syndicate 90 Tut on : Tine .
steamers tlctweeD Chicago and fnglsn'
-openlng the Market For osnshei .
Wheat and 1sarrcl ~ fork.
A company has been organized will
. capital stock ~ $. oop. 600 20 build an.
operate q line Of steamers bctweez
Chicago and England. A similar plaz
about two years ago fell through, as 4
was found that the Canadian canal
could not accommodate vessels drawing
nine feet Of water. An improvcu NJ
however,'has been made in the shallow
est canal. giving il depth o. NOR
than nine feet Already the >chem.
has been revived. and an agent Of IN.
company is now visiting the lake port
In order 10 make contracts for freight
Ten steamers will be built. and thc>.
will carry ont cargocs Of dressed beef
dairy products, etc. and will bring
back general merchandise.
Protcctionists viii doubtless view
this movement with alarm. and see In
II another scheme of the greedy. grasp
ing British" 70 enrich themselves ri
other peoples expense. The protection
notion that we should ''cat all our beef Al
home" and buy little or nothing abroad
is directly opposed 70 this scheme q
promote trade between Chicago and
England According TO the Mckinlcy
standard Of politica. orthodoxy il would
be better TO fill up those Canadian ca
mails rather than deepen them
But the farmers will not see any thing
alarming in having British ocean steam
ers loading and unloading at the vharfs
of Chicago and Detroit They viii rath.
er see in this what Blaine calls opening
the market for another bushel OF wheat
and another barrel of pork" and If
these ships bring back English hard
ware, wooden goods. or other articles
of merchandise. the farmers will reflect
that il is precisely such things as these
that they need. They will not hasten
TO lift up their hands against flood
Of cheap goods"
In fact. the farmers will be so old
fashioned as to rejoice in seeing that
flood of cheap goods rise higher and
higher: and they will be only too glad
70 see a corresponding stream of sur
plus wheat. corn. pork. beef and butter
and cheese 60 out in these ships in or
der 70 increase the flow Of cheap for
eign goods into Chicago for distribution
in hundred country towns. A. these
same farmers can make wheat and corn
and fatten livestock much more easily
than they can make cloth. or knives. "
hundred other articles. they will find
it paying business to ship these farm
products To England for the manufact-
ured products named The farmers
will feel no harm 70 themselves from
such an arrangement; and II will be
difficult to make them believe that
harm results 10 the country AT
large by the exchange described The
fact is, as even every half-intelligcnt
man knows. the permanent exchanges
which we call trade. can not exist un-
less both parties make profit-in other
words. unless they get something which
they like better than the thing they
parted with A school hoy viii not
swap top for a set Of marbles un-
less the marbles please him better than
the top: and. moreover. the boy isqrite
sure that he is himself the only salts
factory Judge as TO which really does
please him better. If the father Of the
family should step in and take 90 per
cent. of his boys marbles and try 70
persuade him that this was for the good
of the family. the boy would for once
face a problem that would beat the
mysteries Of the multiplication table.
There is another point about these
ships which deserves the farmers at
tention. The ship-owners not only ex-
pect TO take away cargoes Of American
produce. but they equally expect 10
bring in cargces Of English goods
Does any body suppose that these ships
would come for our produce if they
could not bring cargo with them? Or
il they should do 50, is II not clear that
our outgoing cargo would have 10 pay
two freights? Would not this make our
produce dearer when laid down in
Liverpool and less able n compete with
the produce Of other counfriese
If the ideal McKinleyisms were car
ricd out and the tariff made absolutely
prohibitory. would not the expectation
Of our produce practically cease
Would not the glnt Of the home market
make the prices Of such produce sink 70
q ruinous level?
These are simple questions in foreign
trade which are. Of course. easy TO an
swer: but they deserve 70 be thought
over again and again. They have in
them the root Of the whole tariff con-
froverSv