Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-04-18
ENGLAND is pRosPERINo.


While our country has this year hat
a larger treasury deficit than ever be
fore in times Of peace, and has run 1t
debt over a hundred million, Eng
land has larger surplus than evel
known before, and is paying of hel
national debt.
In his budget statement to the
house of commons, the chancellor OF
the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, said that the surplus for 1885,
90 was e4,21O,OO0, and he estimated
the expenditures for the current year
at elOO. .OI7 900. The chancellor Of the
exchequer said that this had been a
wonderful year, and one of unexam-
pied revenue, in spite Of the fact that
the expenditures had been the largest
since the great war. The surplus was
the largest ever known, and larger
sum was devoted to the reduction OF
the national debt than ever known.
The condition of the working
classes, he continued, judging from
the consumption of tea, tobacco and
sugar, had materially improved, and
it was remarkable fact that, while
the decrease in the exports and I'M
ports for the first six months amounted
TO CT, ,53l 900, the increase for the sec
oud half Of the year amounted to e2s,-
22s, 900.
England is just beginning to get the
full benefit OF the policies of the
Cleveland administration, while our
country feels their blIghtlng effect as
never before. No revenue system for
the enrichment of Great Britain and
lmpovershment OF the United States
could have been invented that would
have performed its work with more
deadly certainty than the Wilson
German bill. The operation Of that
proves perfect godsend TO the Eng
lish manufacturer, business man and
laborer. IL submitted TO vote OF the
people OF Great Britain IL would be
adopted with the same unanimity
, with which IL will be rejected In oul
, country In November
The free trade tariff enacted by
the Cleveland administration has
proven n blessing to the working
people Of England. IL has relieved
their lntolerable conditions by giving
them hundreds Of millions of dollars
OF wages, s,a,fund that is literally robbed
and stolen from the American labor
ers and their families. This stolen
prosperity Of another nation alone
makes prosperity possible under free
trade. by taking the bread and but
ter out Of the mouths Of American
worklngmen and by robbing the
American manufacturer and pro-
ducer OF his right TO "a first chance at
the home market, the English cx-
checquer becomes plethorlc To over
flowing and the old Tory party lives
In clover while the British laborer is
telicltated upon having more money
TO buy beer, whlskey and tobacco
than he ever had before.
II is gratifying to know that some
one Is prospering under Democratic
craftsmanship II IL Is across the
water. But charity, political econ.
omy and good government should be-
gin at home. Let England frame
laws for her own prosperity and let
our country do the same. The Re-
publican party under Il protective
tariff system will reverse the British
order of things and restore a little OF
the old time American prosperity to
Americans and stop the present in
Qnltons policy of enrlchIng European
monarchles at the expense Of our own
people.
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