The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-09-10
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BENIGHTED ENCONOMISTS.
MIR. Kerr replies to Major Pur-
nell.

MAJOR PURNELL:
| read your efusion in the last issue o
the Democrat, and noted with amuse
ment its dogmatic tone, as well as you
inaccuracy as to the economic history o
England. deny that England ever hat
a high protective tariff. She had what
she called corn laws, that is, she col
lected revenue off of wheat and ludiaI
corn. As to Mr.. Carnegie, he Is one O
the best friends Ireland and Mr.. Glad
stone have. He has converted a large
part of Scotland into home rule strong
hold by giving his means, his speech
and his pen. 1t is a question whether
he had any knowledge of what trans
PRED at Homestead until he read the
news in the daily papers. But how is ii
with the Democratic free trade governor
who orders working men to be shot and
put in bloody graves, because they
would not work with convict thugs:
Andhow is it with Free Trade England:
II what has happened at Homestead had
TRANSFERRED at Barrow, England, that free
trade government would have sent there
thousands of regular troops, and for
every one shot at Homestead, hundred
would have been shot in Free Trade
England and been buried in bloody
graves.
The European countries you name MIR.
Purpell have been obliged to put up the
protection bars against England, for she
has millions in money where they have
hundreds, and wherever she gets in her
free trade and her bayonets, she has
drained and robbed, and left her victims
paupers on their own lands. And now
the free traders want to lay the ills OF
the people on the land. They contradict
themselves; for they say there are poorer
wages in France than in free trade Eng
land, while in France there are more
people who own their own land, than in
any other country on the globe. The
European countries that have not up the
protection bars against English free
trade, are becoming paupers on their
own lands; precisely what it will do here
if the English garrison succeeds. These
European countries could not run a
wheel, repair ship, much less build
one. They had to GO to the Clyde, the
Thames. and the Mersey. But that is
all changed by having adopted protec-
ton. They build as good ships and as
fast as free trade England, and are send
ing all kinds of manufactured goods to
the English markets, and can undersell
English manufactures on their own soil.
Aud that is what is making England
land of slavery, and is driving thousands
of her sons to protected America, the best
country in the world for the industrious
working man, and so proclaimed, by
every honest and intelligent man OF every
nationality. Oh yes Mr.. Purnell let us
go back to Ireland. There is where you
will find the bloody graves, the bloody
coffi Mess graves, that England has made
by her bloody free trade, and ne; bloody
bayonets. Yes, England has stripped
Ireland of her industries, and her seats of
learning, and has bound her with chains,
and the most cruel penal laws, but could
not strip her of her faith, her honor, or
ler nationality.
Mr.. Purnell you say that your infor-
nant about Ireland had better oppor
,unities to observe than | had. Well
hat may be so. but he has misrepre
ented things to you, and you are not
informed. Ijudge your infor-
nant is a man who wears Democratic
politicians collar, for who ever heard of
'sople living in a bog. You might as
veil say that people would live in the
larsh, for beg is marsh. The, lands
f Ireland are taken up by tenant
armers, having farms of fifty, one hun.
red or two hundred acres. There are
o two acre fapfns. Most of the land
''p' Vi ireia1d are English lords and
;ra On 1 ari.a : few of the land owners
soil. They seldom go there
snts who are very tyranicaI
aeir tenants. l never heard of