Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-12-18

happy homes.
England adopted free trade in 1853,
and since that time 5, ,149, 800 British
and Irish immigrants have come to
this country This extraordinary ex
odus, largely of adult workingmen,
from Great Britain to the United
States Of more people than now dwell
in the Canadian Dominion, or in Aus
tralia or in Ireland, cannot be ascribed
to anything else than either the home
expressions of free trade or to the
attractions emanating from protect
i've tariff, and the JOY of determining
which has been most potential in the
movement may be left to the thick
and thin philosophers Of "tariff for
revenue only" It may help them to
remember that no tracks of returning
homesick emigrants from America
have ever been discovered. Yet some
people want England to make our
tariff laws for us. Let her first make
laws for herself that will keep her
people at home. Let her first feed
the paupers in her cities, who are
coming to this country in one unceas-
ing stream to get food in protected
country.
One hundred years ago the United
States were poor, few in numbers,
with only stinted household manufac-
lures, and no industries of any nota-
BILE account save in agriculture. Great
Britain, drawing we'll relished nutri-
ton from the breasts of her colonies,
was then already conspicuous in its
national power, it's accumulated wealth
and it's exportable manufactures. 1t
had conquered India, and had been,
with our help, victorious over France
in Canada. After a century of COM
mercial progress the wealth of Great
Britain has been estimated at $40, ,O0O,
900, 900 less than that of the United
States, which our census of 1890 states
at $62, ,61O, 900, 900.
In Great Britain no wage Garner
ever rises to be an employer Of wage
earners. In the United States it is
common occurrence, and almost the
rule, that the head or business man
risen from the ranks of practical man
ual labor. The biographies of our
captains of industry, when we look
aloft in the history of the American
people, shine forth as abundantly as
the stars of the milky way. Free
trade, with only fine words to wage
earners, wears the air of aristocratic
condescension, but protection helps
with love like a brother.
Already free trade is dying in Great
Britain, for her people are beginning
to think. 1t is dying and no laborer
will weep over its grave.
We need protection-need it to give
life to the great states of the West,
need it to invigorate the new South,
need it to protect our laborers from
Europe's paupers, need it to preserve
our home market. The people know
we want protection. They know the
new tariff bill is disguised free trade.
They know it is a snare and delusion.
Before the Inauguration of Cleve-
land our nation was prosperous, but
with the advent of new administra-
ton and the pomp of power, our Wis
ions have been suddenly dimmed by
the cloud of dire partisan measures
which now sorely threaten the pros
perity and general welfare Of our peo-
pie.
One great difference between those
who now favor protective tariff and
those who favor revenue reform ap
pears to be that the protective party
seeks to find work and good wages
for the many, while the reformers are
struggling to find good wages without
work for the many in the executive |
patronage pasture, but that pasture,
even with the paramount aid of Hon
olulu, is likely to be overstocked. I |
have thus attempted to show that "a
tariff for revenue only" is royal rel
ative of free trade, kissing at sight, |
and that free trade in it's gloomy and
only home is not without many seri
Gus drawbacks which in the United
States would be unadulterated calam
tiles, double in number and aggravat-
ed in character, and that in compar-
ison with protective tariff it has no
attribute which should find favor with
any American citizen. Our farmers,
who, next to wage earners, are to
bear the brunt of such disastrous
change, having their products on the
free list as raw materials and the con-
sumers becoming producers, will not
fail to learn that the swap of protec-
tion for free trade, in accord with the
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