Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-09-02

Willard Austin
In the present condition Of manufacturing
Industries II IS foolish To tell the operative
class to attribute the prosperity To free
trade, they are not prosperous. u il a mock
cry to tell them to thank God Tor a FULL Stom-
Hch. when they are empty. They are not
well OH; never has starvation. pauptriSm,
crime discomfort, been so plentiful in the
manufacturing districts. never sinCr Eng
land has been manufacturing country has
every industry. great or small been So com
pletelS depressed: never has work been
Impossible to lind; never have the means and
savings Of the working classes been at so low
an ebb."
At the same time, Kirk, of Edinburgh.
writing on English emigration speaks
thus pointcdly:-
From land like this a manufacturing
people would never emigratc IL matters were
night. IL IL consequently. matter of extreme
interest that England is cmilrating There
are above 10000 souls in the cast end of
London who must emigrntc speedily or die
Ihey are being shipped off as last charity
ana government can transport them to North
America. Above 5000 Of these are work men
more or less skilled in engineer and ship build
ing occupations. These not shepherds,
nor are they ploughmrn, nor will they ever
he. to any great extent, one or the other
they are mechanics, and will be so, go where
they may In the vast hives of industry in
Lancashire there are a greatr number who
must emigrate OF die. These getting of
as fast ns they. possibly can to Massachu-
Shall we inter from these admissions
that free trade is a benefit to England
and blessing to the English workmen
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, when attack
ing the protective policy, acknowledged
that our bad currency and high tariff,
did not seriously impede our prosperity.
What free trade confession,
F. =. $. asserts that protection has re-
stricted the foreign market Tor our goods.
What are the facts?
From the Declaration of Independence
to the Inauguration Of Lincoln our total
OF foreign shipments was nearly $1,000,
O0O, 900 for period OF 10 years. Under
the Republican Protective system. for %
years, the total is $12, 900, 100000 or
nearly twice as much in oncthird the
time. These figures speak tor themselves
and they make this old Democratic chest
nut look sick -" The protective tarffhurts
our foreign commerce"
Another argument of +. Z. $. is that
the manufactured, derives more benefit,
makes more money than his share, under
the protective system. Now suppose for
the sake of argument this were true,
what then Would it not, ut any rate,
be better that money should dc made by
American monopolstS to be spent here
on the spot and flow back again TO our
people, than by the English monopolist.
who would naturally spend it over there
+. L. $. admits that protection pro.
duccs Industries. He says: 1T pro-
duccS protected industries. for such in
dustricS flourish under the shield that
protection offers by shutting Oft all com
petitorS and giving them monopoly OF
the business and compelling the consumer
to pay the tribute they exact or go des-
| titute."
Protection shuts out all foreign com
petitors. but competitors enough are to
be found at home, when there is any
money to be made. and this competition
will reduce the price of commodities; and
the protected industry will furnish the
work whereby the money may bc earned
to buy the commodity.
We are accused by +. F. S. of putting
a wrong construction on what he wrote.
| We do not claim to know what +. =. ),
NAV have meant when he wrote, but we
| do know that we put no wrong CON
struction on what he did write. We
stated every proposition and argued
them fairly.
+. L. S. has not done this. We are
quoted by him as writing why did the
men at Homestead who received the lar
| gest wages cause the strike - Why did
not +. T. $. finish the sentence and say
as we sa:d-"Or put it another way,
Why did the capitalist who had enough
and to spare cause the strike We did
not say that the men caused the strike,
any more than we said the capitalist
caused the strike. And +. +. ). knows
we did not say il. We were arguing
that cupiditv was the cause, and We
used the above questions to make clear
our point 1t is maniiestly weak cause
that has to resort to Misrepresentation.
Again-We find enclosed IN quotation
marks "laffs" This is a direct misreprc-
sentation. We are here represented as
writing this word rs it stands, "latfs.
We did no such thing. 1t was written,
printed, and given to the public III cor.
rect form. Direct quotations are enclosed
in quotation marks. +. =. $. knows IT.
He also accuses us of speaking disrcsPect-
fully of the colored man. We did no such
thing. We spoke OF colorcd men as
nigpcrs; we spoke of white men as mig
gers. No colored man would see any dis
respect in that. Wcwcrc quoting sayings
.
unfair enough to mark them as direct
Quotations.
F.P. s. thinks that we manifest unmis-
taxable evidence OF dchrium tremcns. we
must confess that we are not posted on
the signs; we don't know the taste OF
one kind of liquor from another and II
has been nearly 20 years since any IN
toxicant or even glass OF sweet cidcr
has been drank by US; but 1t can be so
with +. p. S. he seems to know all the
signs He must have been ona 'KacKtt
recently to recognize so readily the I'M
mistakablc evidence of dclirum trcmens.
F.P. S. declares that Rcpublicanism
and persecution are synonymous. lie
then tells us to consult our dictionary
We find that Republicanisn means at
tachmcnt to Republican form OF gov
crnmcnt," and that Republic is state
in which the exercise OF the sovereign
power is lodged in representatives elected
by the people. II +. =. s. thinks that
attachment to the above form OF govern
ment is a crime equal to persecution we
would advise him never to appeal 10 the
freemen of Brighton for official position
F.P. S. would like our opinion on the
Force Bill. He shall have 1t.
First-Would say we have lived III the
South long enough to know that the col
ored man has not any show.
Second-We believe every man ought to
have fair show.
Third-We believe this government is
lust the one to give it to him. Hit can be
; obtained for him by argument and per
suasion, then send Uncle Sans boys III
, blue down there to see that every man is
protected in the exercise OF his iranChise
and his vote counted. Honest men nave
not anything to fear from the SO caIieu
Force Bill +. p. S. please obtain copy
oftbe Roston Herald, issue of Monday,