The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-23
HOW DOES II HAPPEN?

Cos square miles and has a population Of
tain an area of about 100000 square
miles with 63,OOO,OOO people. Great Brit.
ain admits all raw material free of duty
and collects only ]S1OO,O00,OO0 annually
from her people by tariff taxation. The
United States duties raw material
and collects %S5OO.OOO,00O annually from
her people by tariff taxation. Great
Britain has between $4,000, 100000 or
S5,OOO,OOO,000 invested in manufacturing
plants; the United States have double
that vast sum invested in like establish
ments.
Now, how does it happen that Great
Britain fixes the price of our wheat, our
beef, our copper, our cotton, our wool.
and our silver?
How does it happen that when this
government wishes to raise large sums
of money it must 90 to Great Britain
for it?
How does 1t happen that our govern
ment, state, county, and municipal bonds
are principally held by English CAPT
~tdlists?
How does it happen that when u
people enter into great enterprises calling
for the expenditure of vast sums of
money they run to English money lend
ers for it?
How does it happen that about all our
great railroads are built with English
money?
How does it happen that our miners
go to England to sell their mining
properties?
How does it happen hat English syn
dictates are buying up some of the
greatest industries in this country?
How does it happen that the sails of
English merchantmen whiten every sea
on the globe and American is
confined at home?
How does it happen that Great Britain
is the commercial and financial center of
the world?
How does it happen that Great
Britain, a little country not SO large as
Montana, dictates what we shall get for
u products, gives us money when we
ask for it; takes our gold when she
wants it, and makes us a dependent upon
her bounty?
How does all this happen? The an
swer may be found in her free trade with
nearly every nation on the earth except
ing the United States. Her free raw
material enables her comparatively few
manufacturers, cramped in a small coun-
try crowded with 100000 people, to
send her fleets of merchantmen all over
the world with the products of their fac
tories and their looms and their spinning
wheels, which are sold or exchanged for
the riches of other lands and then turned
into gold in the ports of less wise nations.
She gathers wealth from all parts If the
globe through the channels of her UNI
checked III and loans it at her
own price to just such countries as the |
United States, whose people have built a
wall of protection around them in the
vain hope of getting rich by trading
among themselves. This is how it hap
pens.
Great Britain has the markets of the
world from which to draw her gold.
The United States must feed upon her
English capital Is disporting it.
self in every country upon the face
of the globe. The United States hasn't
a dollar invested in foreign lands Or in
enterprises; they are borrowers,
not loaners of money. Great
throws her ports open to the
products of the world, eyacting but a
nominal duty upon some. The United
close hers to all unless heavy
tariff taxes be paid upon the imports,
taxes are assessed to and paid by
her people. Great Britain permits her
people to sell in the best market and to
buy in the cheapest. The United States
compel her people to sell in the cheapest
market and to buy in the dearest. Free
has made the presence Of Great
felt in every part of both
hemispheres. The United States are
lat home all the time, her people living
each other while their money is being
gathered in by the few who employ it to
make themselves richer and the poor
poorer. And thisi is how it happens that
while we are a great and powerful
people living in a big country Astounding
in varied resources capable Of leading in
any OF the vast enterprises OF the world,
are playing second fiddle to "free
trade" England.
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