Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-02
THE ENGLISH IDEA.
AN UNDERCURRENT OF ANXIETY TO
SECURE OUR TRADE.

Their Goods-CIosed American Factories
Mean Riches For England
Exports to the United States have not
been going out quite SO freely as other
wise might have been anticipated, and
if the new tariff bill is accepted by the
senate large increase in tonnage is
most probable. Morning, England.
The (Wilson) bill would reduce the
duties in many cases if it became
law, and intending exporters to the
States are therefore holding back all the
goods they can in order to escape the
Mckinley duties, should these be ulti-
lnately repealed.-East Anglican Ops
wich) Times.
It will be bad lookout for Welsh tin
workers if America ever succeeds in
making enough tin plates to meet its
| own consumption. 1t will be still worse
| If America can manufacture more than
sufficient for its own wants, for that
will mean competition with Wales in
markets now it's own.-Western Mail,
| Cardiff, Wales.
There is at present going through the
United States congress a measure which
ought to prove of vast Importance to
Irish trade, but especially to the wooden
industry in this country. The time to
be in the field is not when the new tariff
has been in operation some time, but on
the first day that it comes into play. The
English and Scotch and other wooden
makers will make rush for possession.
-Duhlin TELEGRAM
The Americans will settle their tariff
with an eye to their own interests and
not to ours. AS free traders we may
think the two identical, but the Ameri-
cans are a long way from seeing matters
in the same light. British manufacturers
should not let any chances slip them of
utilizing to the full any opportunities
for increased trade with the States re-
formed tariff may one day afford them.
But they must not trust too confdingly
to reopening of an undoubtedly fine
market.-London Commerce.
The truth is that the effectual cure of
the grave evils which aff1ict the body
polite in the United States, and which,
in spite of the immense natural resources
of the republic, have evolved there
social problem at least as formidable
and urgent as any which confronts the
crowded states of the old world, will
never be accomplished until the people
| have got rid of the mere sordid adven-
| turers who have been allowed to usurp
the management of their affairs.-Glas-
Cow Herald
In the Swansea and Llanelly district,
which is by far the largest tin plate pro-
ducing one in Wales, the news that the
tariff bill had been passed by such
large majority was welcomed with I'M
mistakable demonstrations Of satisfac-
| ton. At this moment, when the indus
! try is in such depressed state, no news
could be better than this from America,
| for with a reduction to nearly the old
| tariff rate the old prosperous and regular
state of the industry may be looked to in
the near future.-Western Mail, Cardiff,
| Wales.
The depression during the last two
years in Wales has been felt so keenly
that we can forgive the great rejoicing
over the failure of the trade in the States,
although Llanelly and Swansea people
who are rejoicing at the failure of some
| of our employers who invested some of
| their capital in the States would do we'll
to remember that had they been success
| full a goodly number were preparing
| quietly to follow their example and are
now patriotic only owing to the force of
circumstances. Mail, Cardiff.
| Wales.
We must expect that the Wilson tariff
bill will be heenly fought at every stage,
and that plausible reasons will be found
for not allowing it to interfere too sum-
marily with vested rights and interests
which have grown up under the McKin-
! ley tariff. In such a state Of affairs as
this and with so doubtful a future before
them it will be we'll for our own mer-
chants and manufacturers not to expect
too much from the Wilson tariff bill and
not to be overforward in making prep
aration for changes which it may or
may not affect.-London Times.
The writer in The Industrial World
would have been more in place had ne
vented his Indignation against the tele-
gram which short time ago it was stat
ed would be sent to President Cleveland
! by the tin platers, thanking him for his
efforts in repeating the Mckinley bill,
which, on the face of it, was a glazing
indiscretion and would lead the Repub-
lican party to believe that President
| Cleveland was subsidized by South
| Wales tin platers. The indications are
now that the immense popularity of
President Cleveland will insure his cleo
ton for another term, and providing the
tariff is now arranged on the lines
already laid down, and if President
/ Cleveland or the Democratic party with
leader of the same pronounced opin-
ions as Cleveland retain power after the
next election we can count upon good
run Of trade here for seven or eight
years. Western Mail, Cardiff, Wales.
President Cleveland's bill, while it
| does not go SO far in the direction of free
trade as it might do, yet makes changes
Of vast Importance, which must have
| highly beneficial effect, and in many re-