Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-05-25

thiSc-iCiu as swirl. tSt 50 angry Was
our pro-English President because he
could not get an entirely British bill
passed that he refused to sign the
German law, as not sufficiently, muir
derous to American industries.
Whether prepared aud delivered
fora political purpose, or from patriot
ic resolve the speech of Don Dickin-
son at Detroit contained much OF truth
over which Americans should ponder
and act No other nation offirst rank
on earth ever submitted without re-
taliation to theinjuries that have been
inflicted upon the United States by
Great Britain 1t has never in its
heart ceased to regard this country as
rightfully its own. There can be no
doubt that most Englishmen think of
America only as an adjunct to Brit
ish commerce. Not only are we
watched from British fortresses that
form a Gordon around us, but emissa-
ries in the pay OF the British Nation
al Board of Trade are constantly
among our factories. A greater dan
ger menaces our manufacturers than
that which comes from the armed
station at Halifax, Bermuda, the West
Indies, British Honduras, some dis
tant islets OF the Pacific, British Col
unbia and those along the Canadian
frontier. The danger lies in the SUI
perior organization of our commercial
competitors. The National Board If
Trade of Great Britain is one of tie
most powerful organizations Of that
commercial nation. II acts in behalf
of the British manufacturer; surely
and swiftly it promotes his business,
it finds new markets for his surplus
product. it assists him as against conf
petition, it eaily places in his hands
knowledge as to new ways OF making
his product, and if need be, causes
another arm of the government to
send fleet to collect his bills. Every
British consul throughout the world is
his agent, and holds Office only pro-
vided he makes markets fol the Eng
lish manufacturer.
What does this government do for
the American manufacturer Ger
tainly very little similar to that which
Great Britain does for her mill own
ers. We have no board of trade.
That splendidchild of James G. Blaine,
the Bureau Of the American Republics,
has been permitted to lapse into a
condition OF desuetude which before
1897 will degenerate into a dry rot,
which will be followed by death be-
cause of iuanation. But, alas the
magnificent international fabric of re-
ciprocity has been shattered, and Of
what use is the Bureau of Republics
in unsympathetic hands1 The State
Department did issue few copies Of
monthly compendium of consular
reports, chiefly devoted during the
present Administration to urging
upon our merchants exporting sug-
costing which, if followed, would en-
tail loss and ruin, These reports
have now been withdrawn from the
general public under some red tape
ruling, solemuly urged as an evidence
Of immaculate honesty aud economy
on the part Of this Democratic regime.
In order to show TO all interested
in the material prosperity Of our coun-
try the enormous number and value
of the manufactures of the United
States, table has been prepared
which gives 224 lines or kinds Of
manufacturing establishments, con.
tanning about AIS, 600 mills or factor
les, with an output of finished goods
worth nearly SO, 500, 600. 600. Only
lines are enumerated having an au-
nual output Of over 81, 900, 600.
The census of 1890 shows Iio adj
ditional small lines which are not iu-
cluded in the table.
According to the Democratic idea
all of these establishments aud the
people employed by them must suf-
fer in order that Mr.. Cleveland may
test his theories.