Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-28
FREE TRADE JUBILEE
London Chronicle Takes Opportunity TO
Lecture United States.
BLANEs PsoTECToNsM FOR HARD TINES
TarH VAL Charged with Shifting Out
Americas Foreign Market
INTEREST N Il HUNG CHANGES VISIT
Sir Charles Dixie Does Not Like Germany :
Frsndli-sss 20 EEn.
INTEREST IN Il HUNG CHANGES WsT
cHSEs STATESMAN TALKS TO BISMARCK
Two old Men Exchange Compliments
and Discuss AIImentS-DifficuIt
Between Minister and Ruler
strong Army Needed

Copyright 1886 by Press Publishing Company
LONDON June z7.-tNew York World
Cablegraul-speciaI Telegram. The inter
sstinE point is made by the London
ChrcnicIe TINS morning that by
strarEe stroke Of fate it happens that
the jubilee Of free trade which Eng
land is celebrating today is syuChrCnoCs
with the enthusiastic nomination q the
ulost noted living protectonist" a. a can
didate for the presidency of the United
States. On this text the Chronicle. which
is the foremost advocate Of free trade II
the English press. as opposed TO the OBJ
v!Cusly strong reactiCuary tendency through
cut the conservative party. discusses al sig
niAoantIy unusual length the entire subject
Its editor admits that C0bdens prophecies
of fifty years ago have been 10 the careless
and uniformed apparently disProved BY
events II the United States and through
out Europe. AS to the United States, how
ever be says.
Rich as America is, boundless as are hs-
resources Il IS quite certain that during the
last ten or dozen years, with wealth in
creasing at an uuqrscendeutsd rate, there
has been immensely more suffering among
the laboring population, immensely more
cislocation II business than in this old and
crowded country Or. Carroll q Wright,
than whom there Is no more trustworthy
authority living, declared officially that in
the crisis Of 1856 there we're some 900 900
Of unemployed IN the later crises Of 1893
and 1884 the number Of unemployed rose TO
over 1900 0e0. The cause which contuces
10 this condition Of things in American il
dustrial ee1ters Is II this wise: Protection
ism is the most formidable agent in build
ing UP huge mou0polies These monopoIies.
when completed. rush on production with
out the slightest reference TO the needs Of
the community. being aided by the wonder
full development Of machinery, in which
America Is ahead Of the rest of the world
Immense stores are accumulated. for which
there Is 10 effective demand When 4 gen
eral cut IL wages takes place. thus rendering
tie eoasumer even less able to make a d.
nand for commodities tnan before, then
wholesale shutdown takes place and there
is the spectacle OF idIe mills. unemployed
wurhuaen and enormous masses cf goods
cramrned in warehouses
SHUT N BY TARIFF WALL
~The natural thing would be to sell tbs
surplus 10 foreign customers. to tap the
rich markets If South America China and
Australia which the United States ought
10 be able TO DO more easily than any Euro
pca1 country. but rr0tectiouisrn which has
built great Chinese wall Of tariffs around
the United States, forbids this. and so the
richest Of the productive countries with
the u1ost perfect machinery. is unable 70
dispose Of that surplus which her economic
system compels her TO produce The writer
continues his argument against the aba1-
dorment Of the English free trade policy
and points 70 the exact fulhlnent through
out Europe Of Cobdeu's thesis that the pro
tectionisJ system is allied 10 monopoly that
leads 10 public jobbery and sztravaEazce
and that relying as il does on direct taxa
ticu. il is the best implement that could be
forged for the zruoring Of mIirarisn-
As TO Secretary CEan5erlaiu's idea Of an
Angle-Colonlal Z0iIvereln, which II fact
has not net with much favor. except among
extreme pr0tectioulsts in England. the
Chronicle argues Mat even under such an
arrangement England must stiu depend in
the largest measure upon the importation OF
American cotton and hreadstuas: and as to
exports II quotes the significant statement
Of the president Of the Belfast Chamber
Of Commerce, who declared some months
ago that the linen trade in Belfast with New
York Is greater than with an the countries
Of the British empire put together. I quote
the article so fully. Eor only because Of
its Intrinsic interest 10 the United States
but because II bears evidence Of beng an
inspired declaration Of the policy Of the
liberal party
dixie SAYS IT'S NOT RIGHT.
There is an immediate specific and i'm
portAnt point of this subject IN the present
tour Of Ii Hung Chang in Europe HIS
forthcoming visit to England is Of almost
as much interest 10 Americas Tar eastern
trade as 70 that of England It's most inex-
plieable development is that The great
Chinese envoy has been given in Russia and
Germany reception far more intimate and
eousiderats than was given 10 Marshal
YamagaJa Of Japan, and that Yarazata VII
not come 70 England AZ an although En-
gland has been hitherto supposed 10 favor
Japan even n opposition 10 china M
views on thls question Of Sir Charles DiIke
! By far the best authority on foreign Affair."
outside the government itself we're sought
By the World correspondent yesterday At
the House Of Commons Sir Charles seemed
deeply impressed with the om5lous TEND
ency u LIS negotiations. He said The
events II the journey undoubtedly have G
very eisagreeable Appearance for this eoua-
Try Russia France and Germany have lately
been acting together IL the Tar east ana II
nov looks as Il they VII continue 70 10 81
although Is 70 Germauy's interest A.
much as ours that Russia should be Pre-
vented from absorbing the north 0f china
and France from absorbing the south Prr
German Tor some reason which has rrr
Jet been revealed and Which cuu5ecruralIr
Is frsught Ia some way With dlsa5raarazr
% "a has Joined tais combination ana II
evidently has been renewed now tar some
further period. Our interest Is 10 keep -ba
trade of China open. The interest af ths
United States IS the same So Is Germany
but IN turtheriag the objects Of Russia ana
Francs she must have 4 prospect af seine
compensatory aaTa1tage-"
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