Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-12

the world and probably in the worlds bls-
tory Is once again to be found living M tbs
ieet OF British industry and commerce .
declares that America has for marv vears
enjoyed an amazing dcgree Of prosperitv
so much so indeed that he has to use tbs
words OF Burke to say that he cannot even
describe It, And yet IN this yerv hall a
member OF the committee Of WAYS and
means, himself a countryman OF Edmund
Burke, and whose wonderful elonuenee
moved this assembly as never saw II moy.
ed before, allowed himself, amid laughter
and applause on the Democratic side - IN
compare this amazing prosperity to a "nro.
longed debauch, from which the copptrv
could rescue itself only by the free t,sc II
the committees dilution Of tho ORIGINAL
beverage II seems somehow almost a dos
ecration to put the facts over against the
figure of speech
Solid Arguments Needed.
or course we are not TO change the his.
tory Of the las, 30 years and the principles If
100 years because some gentlemen especially
gifted with sonorous voices have distributed
epithets. We are not going to risl, our nh
upon fragments of ancient platform speeeh-
es, upon loud outcries and abusive LANGUAGE.
There must be addressed to us some solid
arguments or at least the opinions CT wise
men who have proved their wisdom by the
actual test Of human life. Surely we are
not going to venture into the unknown be
cause political economists bid us do so.
while they still leave improved every prin.
ciple upon which they found their advice.
So long as they cannot agree among them
selves on any OF their propositions they can.
not be cited as a body to force our eonclu-
sions On no trackless future will we ven.
ture unless the prospect Of increased happl-
ness is large enough to justify risk and ex-
posture.
lsthere any example in the history Of the
world of any nation situated like ours that
has taken the step to which we are invitedf
Some gentlemen perhaps are Fastening
70 say that England affords us the needed
example; that we have but 10 turn to her
history and find all that we need by way Of
examples, just as in the statements Of her
political economists we shall find all that Is
necessary for advice, for guidance and in
struction. Mr. Speaker, | have looked there,
and am amazed to find how little the ex-
ample OF England can teach.
England when she became free trade was
a workshop wherein was manufactured the
raw material OF the rest Of the world. OF
raw material she herself had none. Her
coal and iron and theinyention of the steam
engine had developed her manufactures 50
out OF proportion to the wages Of her work
men that she must have larger market
At that time the only idea of u larger mar
ket was one that had more consumers Thu
notion that the market could be enlarged
by those who were already consumers had
not entered into the popular thought, yel
her workmen were clamoring for more pay
| Tariff had really ceased to be protection eN
| cept on corn, and not-------7---fn any true
/ protective sense, Ii was only tax like
that on sugar It made food dear. RepeS
| Of the corn laws meant an increase OF rea
wages Repeal Of tariff on manufacturer
meant nothing. The whole crusade Of 1874
was for free food, and Golden nowhere say
anything else. Protection in our moderr
sense is never mentioned in any one Of BIZ
free trade speeches
The Bn Deed Of Violence.
After this review of the story Of Eng
lands change will anyman dare to say tina
/ he finds therein any justification for th
| present deed Of violence which is called tn
/ Wilson billi
/ CunVhat AukiNIlllt lllnNEiNl VI btiAN u AAbNH
island in the sea, had been the half OF
/ great continent full OF raw material, oapa
BILE Of an internal commerce which wonl'
rival the commerce of all the rest OF tn
| world.
Suppose every year new millions wer
! flocking to her shores, and every one OF thos
new millions in a few years, as soon as the
tasted the delights of a broader life, woul'
become as great consumer as any one
her Own people
| Suppose that these millions and the 40
600, 900 already gathered under the folds
her flag were every year demanding aud r,
ceiying higher wage and therefore broad
ening her market as fast as her machiner
could furnish production Suppose she ma
produced cheap food beyond all her want
and that her laborers spent 30 much none
that whether wheat was 90 cents bush'
or twice that sum hardly entered th
thoughts of one OF them except when som
Democratic tariff bill was paralysing hi
business.
Suppose that size was not only but cal
non shot from France, but that every couI
try in Europe had been brought as near l
her as Baltimore Is to Washington, Tor th'
is what cheap ocean freights mean oetWee
us and European producers Suppose a
those countries had her machinery hi
skilled work men. her industrial system
and labor 40 per cent cheaper. suppose N
der that state OF facts, with all her man!
facturers proclaiming against Il, lfaht'G
their disapproval, England mad Deen cane
upon By Golden to made the plunge I'M
free trade, would she have done ~ MOI
Golden had been backed by the angel
host. History gives England eredit i
.. great sense.
An English Free Traders rrieute,
While our wisencres are reading brith
books Of 20 years ago with the emotions i.
great DISCOVERIES, what do me EAs X,
Themselves say ABOUT The actual Iacts' 1 d
come here IN shoals. Naturally they 40 ~ u
! IKE onr system. But for 1t they could
our manufacturing for u.s. NeVeFehele.
preiudiced and prepossessed as Wy a,
fhev are startled into some lhe-ul'o
{. truths. SAYS Mr.. Jeans, whom 1 ha'e :
ready quoted about the amazing pio7p'
Inv" ofthe United states; .t.,.
ut requires, thiuk. unesual .s q
alleqe that the tariff system OF the ohlp
States las been failure for 1iA' -, Gun 4
What a prejuiiced Eusllan ~ III IN IN
{ regards as "unurual Jemerty Mlu ~
y he n,iabt have called unex@mpis le 49,.
is not only exhibited b. our comm, -
. ,yovs and means, hut Hy every t,ls'eil'
!, who can rscite sydney smith sp'''0- .
thetaxed Enelishmen under the impTes5 V