The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-03-15

De cOncluSlvely sustained the Other
day when Sir Henry James offered his
ill-advised motion upon the tariff
which British India has just levied
upon cotton goods imported from
Great Britain. There was a deficit
in the Indian revenues and the gov
ernment was confronted with the al
Tentative of levying duty upon i'm
ports of cotton goods, or else of en-
hancing the value of the silver rupee.
The tariff on cotton goods was a
serious injury to the interests of Ian
cashire, that part of England which
almost monopolizes the manufacture
of cotton goods, and as quite a num-
Der of the Gladstonians, or Liberal
members, were from Lancashire,
enough at least to change the Liberal
majority of in the House of Commons
into minority, it was hoped that Sir
Henry James motion would seduce
the Lancashire Liberal mem bers from
their allegiance TO their party-much
such bribe as was offered to the sugar
planters of Louisiana on the bounty
question last fall. But when the mo-
ton was put the leaders OF the Conser
vatives, Mr.. Balfour. was CONSPICUOUS
by his absence, and his lieutenant, Mr..
Goschen, made an apparently patriotic
and nonpartisan address in support of
the government, and Sir Henry James
motion resulted in the largest majority
for the government that it has ever at
tanned, nearly two hundred. Then the
truth came out, that the Conservatives
were unwilling to appeal to the coun-
try upon the alternative proposition to
the levying of the duty on cotton,
which would have been the recognition
of silver as a factor in England's fin
ancial system. And so, no matter
which party holds the reins of govern
ment it appears that silver has no
friends in England.
Whether the other European powers
feel strong enough to cooperate with
the United States in the ehabilitation
of silver,in defiance of England's ishes
remains to be seen, but it is doubt
full whether they will risk the trial in
the first place, and in the second, it is
still more dor btful whether they would
succeed, if they should attempt it, for
it is well known that the Rothschilds
and other great bankers are the real
rulers of Europe, in financial matters
at least, and their synpathies and in
terests would naturally lie with the
gold monomettalists.
Itseems clear that the United States
has nothing to hope from foreign inter-
vention in the settlement of her fl nan
ces. The great battle must be fought
on American SOIL The millionaire sill
YER mine-owners, the debtor class who
are hopelessly insolvent, the imitation
lists, who believe that the government
can make money, and demagogues, will
be on one side, and on the other the
property holding class, the great com
mercial interests, the bankers and mer
chants of the country, and those patri
otic thinkers who have no personal in
terests beyond the honor and glory Of
American credit, who would fain see
the United States take position in the |
front rank of nations, and not align |
herself with Mexico and the South
American republics.
The highest standard ought not to
be too high for the American notion.
While the shoe may pinch at first, the |
ultimate result will be the greater en-
richment of all classes when the United |
Safes wrests from England the CONNER
cial supremacy of the world as must
speedily happen under equal conditions
and common standard Daily States.
A Sioux City, Ia, packing company
wrote to rauchers in Meeker
county, Col, asking for quotations on
horses by the pound, and was answer