Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-12
PROJECTION DECLINING.
Germany VIII Follow othcr Coun.
tries In Abolishing s.Protection.n

Germany Will Follow Othcr- Coun.
tries In Abolishing ..Protection."
Protectionism seems to DO losing
ProunGn oil civilized countries. Now
zealand dropped it and took up direct
taxes in 1891. and has ever since been
prosperous. The other Australasian
colonies stuck to protection and have
since experienced the worst panic and
depression that ever affected Nation.
Several of these colonies are now dis
carding protection and all will prob
ably do 80 within few years. The
United States last year removed the
worst features of protection and pros
perity is rapidly returning. Canada
will almost certainly lower her protec-
tive duties within year. Many other
smaller and less important countries,
are offering more favorable terms to
trade and exchange. Even tho pro-
lection wall of China rs soon to have
gateways of trade through it,
The one country to which our pro.
tectionists, have pointed with pride
has been Germany. '5ee Germany"
they would say: "Look what protec-
ton has done for it; Bismarck, tue
greatest statesman living, except Nc
Kinley, knew what was good for Ger
many when he gave her protection.
The Germans are ono of the most en-
iightened peoples on earth; they stick
to protection. OF course they don't
have as high wages as free trade Eug-
land, but wages are higher there than
when protection was first adopted"
But Germany is just now turning
| away from both Bismarck and protec-
ton.
OF course it is hard on the masses
in Germany to have to pay monopoly
prices for their bread and other food.
Thus, because. of protection" re-
fined beet sugar sells for over six
cents per pound in Germany, nj
though the same sugar is exported to
England and sold for two and half
cents per pound. The masses in Ger.
many are getting tired of this sort OF
protection; in fact, they have stool
it about as long as is possible. Hence
it is that, few days ago, both tho
Council of the Empire and the Ger.
man Parliament rejected what is
known rs the Kanitz plan TO give the
Agrarians Government monopoly in
foreign grain trade and the right to
maintain prices for grain Mt level
profitable for the German producers.
This form of statement sounds natural
to us. IL is used by protection spiders
wherever they exist and whenever
they ask innocent flies to walk into
protected parlors.
Germany has rejected the Kanitz
plan OF protection because she has
several persons asking for cheap fool
to every one asking for dearer food.
AS tho New York Times says ''ft As
the manufacturer and the trader AMI
not the land owner by whom the pol
icy ofithe Empire is for the future to
be shaped. There had been other evil
dences of the same tendency in tho
commercial treaty with Russia which
is producing an extension OF German
exports, especially of metals an,l ma
chinery, far beyond tho most that hal
been hoped-and in other features of
the late Chancellor Caprivi's policy.
And it was largely because OF these
that the Agrarians made their fight OH
Caprivi. They saw in his dismissal
encouragement for moro decisive
struggle. They have male it all
have utterly failed"
.rhe days OF protection ara num-
bered. When the civilized Nations OF
tho earth have oncs freed themselves
from this robbor OF the poor AMI
bonefactor of the rich, IL will be NJ
Impossible for them to return to tho
accursed system rs it is for England to
reverse her free trade policy.
BYRON W. Hobr.