The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-21

"He knew OF place where hundred
weddin.. rings had been pawned In
eIngle week TO provide bread: and OF an
other place where men and women sub
sisted on boiled nettles. and dug up the
dccayed carcass of COW rather than
nerish of hunger" Emigration TO Amer
lea was draining the Kingdom OF a large
part of It's best laboring material. In an
other speech about the same time, Cob
der said:
"Did the men who signed that memorial
ever 20 down TO st. GATHERINGS DOCK
and see an emigration ship abou, 70
start on its voyage? Had they seen then
poor emigTants sitting till the motneht
OF departure on the stones Of the quay,
as IL they would cling TO the last 10 tne
land OF their birth? They need not III
ouire what were their feelings lhey
would read their hearts in their faces
Had they ever seen them taking IeaVe
OF their friends? He had watched such
scenes over and over again he ha1
seen a venerable woman TAKING ledVe Vi
her grandchildren, and he had seen a
struggle between the mother and the
grandmother TO retain possession OF
child AS these emigrant vessels depart,
ed from the MusSy TO me uhite et
States the ewes OF all on deck were ul-
rected back 10 the port whence they
had started. and the last objects winch
met their gaze, as their native iahi re-
coded from their view. were u,b omo rS'
der the lock- he was going 10 say the
Queens lock. but under the lock OF the
arietocracy. were shut up some hunnreds
of thousands OF barrels OF the nnest
flour of America. the only object mat
these unhappy wanderers were going Ia
quest Of.
That was the state that protective
tariff laws had brought England to hfty
wears ago. Sir Robert Peel was then
Prime Minister. Richard Golden. backed
by the Anti-Corn law League and aided
by tina; sturdy patriot and statesman
John Bright. attacked the order o. Things
with the steadiest courage and ablil'les
that have never been surpassed. lie was
of course. enormously impeded by inc
state of the suffrage under when less
than one man in seven in England was
allowed to vote. Nevertheless ne peIse-
vered preaching unadulterated free 'raue
as the salvation not only OF Englanu'
but Of all nations. BY 1872 he had Oesuh
to undermine the enemy's WORKS anu
the force of his blows had compelled Sir
Robert Peel, although a protecuonist III
fact. to make concessions TO free trade
In that wear he brought in his celebrated
DQuSel, WHICH wac ~ ''''-'NN'N
trade and protection. Its cornerstone
however. was the pernicioue doctrine OIL
free raw materials" There is where
the false and illogical idea first estap-
lished an apparent Judgment In the
science of political economy. What dld
Golden do? He attacked the whole bust
ness with all his might. He pointed
out that there was no free raw ma
terial" different in principle from free
ANYTHING else That the nations welfare
demanded that all things should be free
and that there was neither sense MOI
principle in discriminating between I'M
ports He preserved in his work. lie
opened Sir Robert Peers mind to the
true view of the case and he had the
hardness within four years to see Feel
as Prime Minister bring forward ana
mass in 1916 a bill for unconditional free
trade in England, under which size mas
grown in wealth and prosperity as no
enthusiast ever dreamed of. Mr.. CleVe-
land has plainly read that part OF OF
Robert Peers biography which commits
him with his error of free raw ma
terial," but he has not read thai later
part. when Golden had convinced MS
mind that the true doctrine is perfect
freedom of exchange in every thing, ana
that no distinction is to be made Tor
raw material