The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-10-05
THROUGH BRITISH EYES.
How Engiishmen Look Upon the Senate
Report ON wages and Prices.

THROUGH BRITISH EYES.
How Engiishmen Look Upon the Senate
Report ON wages and Prices.
Again the stupid Britisher is spelling
the game Of his strong siding cham
pions" on this side. He took the hint to
refrain from advocacy of Mr.. Cleve-
lands election, convinced that by so do
ing he gould best promote that candi.
dates chances of success. But he did
not "catch on" as the saying is, to the
plan of his fellow free traders in this
country to ignore OF discredit the senate
report on prices and wages. He should
be duly warned without delay not to
attach any importance to it, but we fear
the damage to the free trade cause is al
ready done. For what could be stronger
than this from the London Financial
News of July 90, which was comment
ing on the report in question:
"Is 1t indeed possible that English
critics, In their traditional generation
for the principles Of free trade, have
been hopelessly and egregiously wrongH
Were our own expectations, in common
with those of the majority of public
commentators, founded on an entire
n,;sconco,,t;o, ~ tho ,robobIa .ffac+s ~
protective policy in the States? II this
report be not a tissue of artfully con-
trived fabrications 1t would really seem
that these questions ought to be an,
swered In the affirmative. 1t i5 OF
course far from improbable that the
report has been prepared by adherents
of McKinleyism. The time Of its publi.
cation ia at least susniciorslv opnortrno
ond nort, voa1 IN Ar,or;oo r'orid scorco'
r.
y nesi'"'e az eNoii su0n 'ne'nou Vi w
nollshlng opposition. Dut When Ill ls
SAID ana done, there stand the positive
statements Of the subcommittee in all
their force. According to these the
cost of living has actually declined In
tbe limited States since the adontion Of
tbo McR;nlev az u,horoos II croo+
- -
A0--'li - 'i@' - ~, ~" o1-
eyes III aihazeh,ehei were .hose pro-
pIeIio 'oices rish'' AFTER AL WHICH iore'
'oiu ah era VI prosperity ior tne peop!e
oi 'ne opi'eu States AZ d result Oh thelr
ios,erlnS hoiie ihuusuy ny iheahs Vi
wall OF hoseiie tarins
ne eApiSna.ioii Oh sne Snuuaefstruch
9onuition vi INNS Lohuon eaitor 10 ina
iie iia.' gone on oelieNiiiB win cnlidlihe
siilptlci'y tne prepostetous lalsehoooF
I IL, CG4liEll
ny ms american aliles' 90 iar removed
from inc scene OF It's actual operator.
anu WIN strons personal interests I"
pfelualce MS mind against our new pro-
tectlve measure, he swallowed without
question every whopper that was dealt
out to HIM. Here IS sample of the
KIND OF stun upon which the British
havo fed ever since the nav tariff
passed, IL Is taken from tho London
Labor World of Dec. 81, 1890:
The sudden, general and rapid adj
vance in the value of goods Of every de-
scription has proved to the projections;
consumer better than a thousand argu
meuts the folly OF loading trade and
commerce with fiscal chains. A worstcd
wooden suit for G. is now 60 IA; alpaca
at 3 shillings and pence TO 8 shillings
per yard is now shillings to A shil
lings and pence; wooden goods at 10
pence per yard raised to shilling and 3
pence per yard; pearl buttons at penny
per dozen, now to pence. The tax Of
100 per cent. on tin plate has raised the
price of coffeepots from to G shillings
An orange formerly penny TO / = pence
| 70 ID. II,
l shilling and 2l2 pence per bushel,
formerly ) pence; maize ~ pence in
stead of pence; corn and meal Dpence
instead of pence; cigars formerly q :
pence are now pence, and similar
rise through the list. But not content
with taxing the living, the dead art
made to contribute, as Il tax on collins
formerly 90 now costs el2 TO Gig
We remarked ut the time on the gull
libility of the Britisher. But it seems
he went on believing with unabated
/ ardor. Naturally the consequences have
been just as The Financial News now
describes. But let US quote farther from
] what it says:
"lf the conclusions of the subcom
i, mittee are really borne out by the i'm
proved conditions of the people, th'
Americans will undoubtedly be abb
!. henceforth to put forward a substau'ia
= Justification for their protective policy
We might perhaps go farther and sa.
! that free trc ders, all the world over, will
+. be strongly inclined to reconsider thei
position. If such a view could be sus
;, tanned in an exhaustive and impartia
,A.a..I - Il. l.
o club would be compelled to adopt nel
set of arguments in favor of their chez
! ished creed. or the conventional shil
e boleths of party which had outlive
+ its reputation for sagacity would hay
to go ignominiously by the board"
u In that paragraph is contained the dy
J, Mantle bomb for the American free trad
, camp. On this side there has bee