The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-31
TARIFF AND TRADE.
Why England Will Not Be
Benefited by Our Re-
form Measure.
WILL LOSE NEUTRAL MARKETS
Joseph Dana Miller Shows What
Wilson Really Said in His
Patriotic London Speech.

AOAQOA ONCONAh
To the Editor of the Jersey City News:-
Reading the Republican organs, one
might hastily assume that there existed
but one opinion in England regarding
any tariff reduction by this country-i.e.,
that such reduction would be a great
victory for English manufacturers, and
would at once enable her to food our
markets with the products of English
looms. There are in England, as else
where, men shortsighted enough to be-
lieye this, and there are a few manufac-
turers on the other side of the water
who have so expressed themselves, and
certain English newspapers which have
echoed such expressions. But the con-
census of the best opinion in England
lends itself to the more rational and di-
rectly contrary view. 1t IS not strange
that the Republican newspapers and ora
tors with the habit of suppressio veri
imposed by the exigencies of the argu-
ment, have given to their readers but
one side of this case. and that side the
one favorable to their cause.
WILSON'S CHALLENGE.
In the manly and patriotic speech de-
livered by VIM. L. Wilson at the meet
ing of the London Chamber of Com
merce which speech was industriously
garbled by the Republican press, not one
paper daring to quote for it's readers the
full text of the address, the Democratic
leader gave notice to English manufac-
turers that America, now partially freed
from commercial restraint, was about to-
challenge England to a contest for the
had so long held by reason of a tariff
which had given her the advantage in
neutral markets, and not one man who
listened to him but appreciated the truth
and force of what he said. They had
been accustomed to have the same thing
from Bright and from Gladstone, and the
| industrial facts within their own knowI-
edge had confirmed it. The one thing
England fears as commercial and
manufacturing power is free trade or
even radical tariff reduction by this coun-
try, and the Republican party and its
organs are serving only TOO well the
cause of England in disseminating the
vicious economic doctrines that have
made America a secondary power in the
worlds trade and commerce.
Gladstone said in 1ss0:-"If America
shall frankly adopt and steadily MAIN
cain a system of free trade. she will by
degrees, and perhaps not slow degrees
| outstrip us in the race, and Will probably
| take the place which at present belongs
| to u.s. And this is not the only occasion
| on which Mr.. Gladstone has SO expressed
himself.
Joseph Chamberlain, in an interviews
| said:-''For myself, I do not anticipate
| amy great alteration in the tariff. and 1
am still of the opinion that the adoption
! of free trade by the United States would
| not be good for British trade, Sooner
| ar later the natural resources of the
| United States, if set entirely free, would
| enable them not only to hold thear own
/ against our competition, but to compete
| successfully in neutral markets In which
/ their protective system now gives us the
advantage"
| VOICE OF THE PRESS.
| The following comment is from the
! Glasgow "HeraId'':-
| ''The notifications of the tariff pros
| posed by the new bill are such as to
| encourage the hope of a large extensiou
| of our trade with the United States.
but the nearer the American Republic
| approaches to free trade the more wa
feel American competition.
This is from the London Post
''The bill is really an effort to encour-
age foreign trade. The United States has
again entered the path of experiment.
and American competitors are already
/ invading our markets. We shall have 10
do the utmost to retain our ground and
if our resources are still further crippled
by a few more strikes we will inevitably
gradually succumb to our American CONS
mercial opponents"
The Nottingham Guardian complains
ed that Nottingham interests would not
benefit greatly by the bill. It anticipated
a large expansion of the trade of the
United States, which will become a for
nidable competitor in the colonial and
| European markets.
We have instanced these examples OF
English press opinions to prove that the
most enlightened judgment of England
is confirmatory of the teachings of those
who have striven to emancipate Ameri-
can commerce. As a matter of fact, the
English journals are full of such express
sions, of which those cited are by nc
means isolated instances. The Press
and Tribune" dare not quote themi
the Jersey City journal" dare not even
admit them; Mr. Thomas McEwan dare
not even attempt to explain them. But
they are there, and they contain food for
reflection for even the difficult intellect.
ual assimilative capacity of the most
hardened protectionist.
JOSEPH DANA MILLER.
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