The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-01
FREE TRADE RESULTS.
English Manufacturers Jubilant
Over the PrOSnACtS.

ONCi IiiO EIOSpOStS.
The leading trade journals that
are now coming to hand from Eng
land indicate, more and more every
week, how interested, and how
excited even, the British manufact-
urers are becoming over the pros
poets of securing their lions share
of our manufacturing industries.
When the Wilson tariff was first
made public, 1t was considered ad-
visable to muzzle the British bull
dog, and it was evidently prear-
ranged that the barking should be
done behind the kennel, at any rate
where it would not attract the eye
of the American eagle. But tn!
anxiety, the desire, the eagrrness to
snatch our business from us proved
too much for their discretion, and
We learn from one paper, about the
wooden trade, that the "proSpects
of an increased business with the
States is, however. very hopeful.
Again, further: Should it (the
new billy pass IN its proposed form,
it will make IA great difference in
the export of the lower class of
woolens, upon which the specific or
weight duty weighs so heavily. This
will be crucial point in the dis
cussiop of the bill. Nothing can
be fairer than an ad volorem duty,
but the duty always exists that
there are unprIncipled people who
invariably underdeclare values, and
those who make honest declarations
are made to suffer for the faults of
others"
This Will be cheering news to our
WOODEN manufacturers, particularly
as the fact is recognized abroad
"that there are unprincip,ed people
who invariable undrrdtclur' sal
ues. " But we Ike to keep the /. st
news TIL the last. and that Is what
the Bradford (England) corrc,ron.
dent writes Ito the TrEtHr .U,Wo-
facinrer, winch is published in
Manchester. This bold Bradford
man throws aside all pretenses and
hypocrisy. lie initiates the
straightforward policy Of Cousin
Ben Folsom when he on July 4,
1893, congratulated the cutlery
manufacturers of Sheffield that they
would again secure control OF the
American markets, ii policy that it
appears has been also adopted BY
Mr.. Meeker, the American consul
at Bradford. The conclusion at
which the Bradford expert in the
English worsted trade arrives is
that the proposed Wilson tariff
measure will give to the mAnufact-
urerS Of Bradford far easier access
than they have ever had 70 a mar
ket representing a population Of
10000, 000 people.
Further analyzlng what free wool
really means to the American mau-
ufacturer, this English expert says,
GLOW, under such circumstances,
can the free wool clause hurt the
Bradford manufacturrr?' This
expert opinion IS remarkably inter
esting reading and wonld enlightcn
the majority If the ways and means
committee if they are really capable
Of comprehcnding the actual intri-
cacies of the business of manufact-
urlng wooden goods. In the hope
that some of the tariff thinkers,
destroyers of American farming
industries, murders of American
manufacturing industries and
strangers of American labor may
be able to see beyond the length Of
Their noses and NAV be allie to
grasp the actual conditions OF some
subject that exists beyond the
country hamltts, whence they cma-
nate, we produce tins Bradford cor
respondents remarks in full as
published in the Iectile NGnn fnrt-
arer:
There is no doubt that the Slight
infuslon Of buoyancv into this mar
Net has been the result, to a par
till extent. Of the publication OF the
new tariff proposals in America.
A good MANY opinions have been
expressed and some figures given as
to the favorable character Of that
tariff from the point Of view Of
Bradford wool staplcIs and manu-
tacturrrs. But good many oTjn-
ians aud Il good many valuable
fgurys have been kept back because
Bradford men fear tHat capital will
be made Of them 10y American Re
pnhicaus. Some even say that
ouch statements might prevent the
Dill from passing There is no nd
equate ground for this fear, which
is entertained chiefly in fair trade
quarters. In the first place, Mr..
Meeker. the American consul, tells
me that there is not the slightest
doubt the bill will pass, and in the
gn0nN1 Olupn nNnIV man Wha TpUi :