Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-01
SALISBURY SAYS TT IS TIME TO
 ABANDON FREE TRADE.

| ' The following extracts are taken from speech delivered at the Annual , Conference of the Home Counties Di- vision of the National Union of Conser
 vative Associations held at Hastings
 England, on Wednesday, May IS, 1892,
 by the Marquis of Salisbury, Prime
 Minister of England. The language quoted is an exact reprint of a verbatim
 report of the speech as it appeared in
 the LONDON TIMES, weekly edition, of
 Friday, May %, 1892. Lord Salisbury
 spoke as follows:
 "We cannot look abroad into the ter
 ritories occupied by the great industries
 of this country without feeling of
 sorrow and misgiving. It is painful to think that the men who shall be work
 ing with the capitalists-who should
 enable them tO work in order not only
 to promote their own well-beIng and
 the industry of the class that depend
 upon them, but the prosperity of this
 mighty Empire-are so divided that In- dustTy is paralized and misery stalks
 abroad. deeply wish that some means
 of appeasing this war could be found.
 l earnestly desire that such a state of
 of labor could be established as would
 give to the laborer sufficient for his
 maintenance and comfort (cheers), and
 sufficient time for the cultivation of his
 moral and intellectual being Ccheers).
 Every nation is trying how it can get the greatest possible protection for its own industries, and, at the same time, the greatest possible access to the markets of its neighbors. I want to | point out to you that what I observe Is that i is very anxious to get favor of | B, and $ IS anxious to get favor of c, | nobody cares two straws about getting | the commercial favor of Great Britain. What IS the reason of that? It is that | in this great battle Great Britain has stripped herself of the weapons by which the battle has to be fought. The weapon with which they all fight is admission to their own markets,-that is to say, A. says to B. If you will make your duties such that can sell in your market, I will make my duties such that you cRn sell in my market But We begin by saying,
 We will levy no duties on anybody and We declare that 1t would be contrary | and disloyal to the glorious and sacred doctrines of free trade to levy any duty on any body for the sake of what we can get by It (cheers). It may be noble, but it is not business (loud cheers). If may aspire to fill the office of counsel Tor to the public mind, should ask you to form your own opinions without ref srence to traditions or denunciatIons-I not to care two straws whether you are or nOt-but to form your op- nions according to the dictates of com mon sense would impress upon you that if you intend, in this conflict of commercial treaties, to hold your own, you must De prepared, if need be, to in 1ict upon the nations which iniure you the penalty which is in your hands, that 1f refusing them access to your markets loud and prolonged cheers, and Voice, Common sense at last)" There is a in that interruption, but I nave never sad anything else Qaughter). But there is 8 great difficulty. The power we have most reason to complain
 f is the United States, and what we want the United States to furnish us z with mostly, are articles of food essen ial to the feeding of the people, and aw materials necessary to our manu- : actures, and We cannot exclude one or he other without serious injury to our t elVes. Now, am not in the least pre- pared, for the sake of wounding other ! nations, te infiict any dangerous or ser ous wound upon ourselves. You can lot raise tEe price of food or of raw ma erial, but there is an enormous mass of f other articles of importation from other f countries, besides the United States, t which are mere matters ot luxurious Q (cheers); and if it is a [ question of wine or silk, or spirits, or V .loves, or lace or anything of that kind, should not in the least shrink from $ the consumption and in with the comfort of the excel ! ent people who consume these articles r 'f luxury, for the purpose of maintain 1 ng our rights in this commercial war, md of insisting on our rights of access o the markets of our neighbors (cheers). t This is very heterodox doctrine, know, . should be communicated for it Qaughter)."