New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-17

quite aware that the United States authorities
do not mean TO receive paupers They proposc
Therefore, TO besin their spring experiment with
the selection of what they consider abe-bodcd
Jews likely to make good colonists and a good
appearance on landing. They will present them
selves in New-York without. if possible any of
the outward badges of poverty. They will,
nevertheless, so far one can make ont, he
assisted emigrants Their passages are paid by
committees supplied. has long since been eX-
planned, with English funds given expressly in
order TO divert the stream Of pauper migration
from English shores. 1t is possible that some
needless suffering might be spared thsc cmlgrantS
if the American Government would say at once
with clcsrness what they propose to do In this
matter of jewish emigration
Mr.. Goschen has added nothing TO his hnanclai
reputation by his Budget statement to the House
of Commons on Monday, and nothing TO his reputa-
ton as speaker His speech wac thought heavy
and his Budget very commonplace. The passion
for detail is Mr.. Goschens dominant passion
Broad treatment of great financial questions Is
not TO be expected from him. lie had surplus
from last year of five millions of dollars but TINS
surplus is reduced in various ways till there re-
mains only wretched million. and with million
you can do nothing. II is only WORKING hal-
ance. So there is no remission of taxation ana
if there is to be dissolution this year, no appeal
to the pockets of the constituencies will accom-
pany it.
There is, as known before, depression
in trade, and people in consequence drink, ac'
cordng to Mr. Goschcn. less wine, beer. and
spirits, and more brandy. They do less business in
the City. and the receipts from stamps on City
transactions have fallen oil With strikes and
other industrial disturbances existing, and others
tau
depressions
America and the Mckinley tariff have heretofore
been held responsible for a good part OF the
diminuti)n I'm the volume of English trade, but
it now appears that the effect of this particular
cause hes been oycrestimated TN" president oi
the Board of Trade, who ought 10 he good an
thority if anybody is, has been explaining these
matters t. the Chamber Of Commerce at Bristol
Tb2 export trade of England with the United
States has indeed diminished by 10 per cent but
her export trade with the world in general has
diminished by IL pc: cent. His inference Is
that the actual injury done by the Mckinley tarir
TO the trade of England amounts u only Il
per cen. This theory does not give universal
satisfaction. but is thought better than none.
The most sensible comment on the whole ques-
tion yet made is 10 thc cfcc. tha; whatever in
jury MAJ lie done to British trade by the pro
,ectiv, tariffs Of other countries is far exceeded
by the injury arising out of the continual con-
ficts between English labor and English capital
" 1t is no. bctraying the cause Of FRI" Trade,
observes this wrie. to gay tha, lis friends often
ignore more poten. agencies Of destruction. AMI
seek in the folly, infatuaton ani scliishncSS OF
foreign nations TO- an explanation OF losses mainly
attributable 70 their own quarrcls and unsca'oh'
able dscord This CLEAN Of good sense may,
fear, be unpa!atsble to the Democratic and Mug
wump allies in America Of the British Inanuiac-
turer They like TO attribute TO the Mckinney
tariff al! or nearly all the ills that flesh Is heir
to- But since it benefits us and hardly hurts
their British allies. they may. perhaps, he IN
duced TO attack their own country on some other
ground.