The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-20
THE FREE TRADE AkGUMtNf Al
M1RABIy STATED.

! in rcabnE tho adbifdDie Std'S"
reasons why Richmond should nave "
| real estate exchange. made in yeSteru's
| Times by Mr.. James II. Doolo!, we We
particularly struck with the i0"'"'"7
/ sentence:
IF you want TO make business Oh az az
| kind. If you want to stlInuia.'0 offar IA,
/ IN any department, you me-" ,n,, must do
| evsTvfhing fo attract them and inahe
| them comfortable when they come
grea, economic truth is most al
mirabiv stated here. but Is u hoV aS-
founding that man VINO uhueI S'""u'
,bis nrincple as well as Mr.. Dooley doea
sbo,Id 10 the advocate. as he U.s. Oh
n,o,ec,ive tariff? The principle he mas
a,,oun,ed Ia of universal application anu
80 exactly the same Importance IN the
,rs,sactiCns between nations as IL mas
q, the transactions between those WHO
deal in real estate In Richmond II !o"
uont TO have business, If you want 10
49, ,,rocress Won must cultivate the
most absolute freedom in the intercourse
~ mon with men. 1t is not enough 10
fail TO put impediments in the way oi
intercourse: you must oiicr lhuuoei'T-''9
10 Intercourse. Business takes place VINE"
men begin to discuss. matters. we sd"
a life insurance agent come 10 se"',
mans office few days back WIFI inc
design of inducing the latter 10 apply
Motley of $4,000, which was ABOUT ia'i"e
due 10 new insurance. When thc s""Je0'
was opered the insured insisted that ie
d;d NOT want TO hear it discussed; thal
no wanted the money The agent perse-
vered however. and when the interNle"
closed II was almost agreed between 'hei"
tbat tho money would be applied TO new
insurance Such is the value and I'M
portance OF intercourse. But the auNo-
Gates of a protective tariff would. smut
this country off from all intercourse
with other countries. Instead OF encoar-
acing Intercourse between our country
and all others they absolutely proh'plt
IT, and not content with preventing an
trading between our country and foreign
countries they are the same people VINO
do all they can to put inpedments Ill
the wav Of our citizens trading with each
other By forbidding the people to nave
their own local banks, equipped win an
the facilities for furtherinE trading
amongst themselves. they insist mat ivy
shall rely alone upon nauonal nahhS'
which they take care TO 50 organize 'hd'
not one citizen i'm five hundred can make
the slightest use of them. The same men
who curse us with a protective ldrlI
are the men who pat an embargo upon
our use of our credit.
How this country has secured as huch
prosperity as has fallen TO It's lot since
1865 is almost incomprehensible, cursed as
II has been. with a protective tariff and
n financial system that deprives all ciu-
zens but the wealthy and their favoriteS
of all means of using their cTedlt III
business. The prosperity II has secured
IS the highest possible testimonial TO the
vastness of its resources. Caolned,
cribbed. confined. crippled as it has been
it might well have languished and fallen
into decay. But even that prosperity
which has come to it is a prosperity
which is far from contributing to its
/ health as nation. 1t is prosperity
which makes the rich richer and the
/ poor poorer. and is creating a smothered
volcano in our society. 1t is "A prosperity
! which makes an enormously wealthy
/ manufacturer. with thousands of depen-
! dent laborers who have no more chance
| TO rise above the conditions of dependent
| prosperity that makes the enormously
wealthy banker, with farmers who can
not borrow enough money 10 transport
their crops to market What this country
wants is freedom from the restraints OF
law upon business. We want freedom to
exchange our goods and crops and wares
with all other parts Of the world. We
want single standard of value, which
is fixed inevitable and acceptable to
all the commercial world, and freedom,
then for all men to make contracts TO
deliver that standard of value and to as
sign them TO all persons willing to take
them. Freedom in traffic, external and
domestic. with a fixed standard by which
to measure everything, is what We want,
and when the foolish men who clamor
for debased money will understand that
business consists in exchanging commodi-
ties, and not in buying with money. they
will Join us in fighting for this freedom.
and then we shall again have the condi-
lions that existed in 1860. when everybody
was well off and no one was enormously
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