Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-31
C0N0UERlRG ENGLAND.

Several generations ago England orig
the workshop of the world and all 1.-THE
outside barbarians" were to be her Gus
TONERS. With great sagacity and marvel
Gus persistence English statesmen de-
voted themselves to the task of realizing
the audacious thought. The entire earth
was circumuavigated by British mariners.
Wherever they found an unlnhabited
country or one inhabited only by savage
or semi-savage people, such country was
invaded and declared TO belong by right
of discovery and conquest to the British
crown, and thus the good work was laid
for great colonies, the sole duty of which
was to cultivate the soil, dig the mines,
raise cattle and send the raw material to
England, who would pay for said material
in manufactured goods. This was
splendid arrangement, for England, as
long as it lasted, and together with the
not merely protective, but prohlbltorY
tariff which prevailed for centuries and
were enforced by fines, Imprisonment
and death, enabled her to create vast
monopolies which almost controlled the
trade of the world in all the staple manu-
features. an the course of human
events" however, the people of the old
believe that they were big enough to
stand alone, and after fierce struggle
this 'step mother" believed that also, and
they have been standing alone ever since.
After achieving political independence
the next step was to achieve industrial
| independence also. As powerful aux
Hilary to that end the first protective
tariff which Blaine called the second
"Declaration of Independence" was en-
acted and received President Washing
toms signature on July 4, 1888, just IL
years after July 4, 1875. Then the great
struggle for commercial supremacy be-
tween ourselves and England began, and
although she has found a party here
which has played into her hands by CIV
ing her the unfair advantage of free trace
with us, yet the Republican doctrine Of
protection has prevailed, at Intervals
long enough to enable US to overtake ant
pass her in most of the great manufac
lures. Thirty years ago she enjoyed al
absolute monopoly in steel rails; while
free trade lasted we enjoyed the luxury
of paying from 1920 to $l60 per ton fol-
English rails; under protection we have
brought the price down to $24 per tor
and less,
,, 10 recent article the NEW MEy-Jzl
reported large sale of steel fails t.
British India, and now it he :, the pleasur
of announcing the following large sale tt
ireland:
"Cleveland, O., Aug. 17.-President A
J. Moyham, of the Johnson Steel com
pany, who is now in England, has JUS
received orders for 10000 tons of stee
a rails IOr tleCpElC EDhuS III lEblhLu. T. Al
is probably the largest order for stee
rails for electric railway purposes eve
shipped out of this country, and the fac
r that they are sent to the very doors
England is one of the notable features 0
the affair. Mr.. Maxhem has obtained
freight rate of So ton from the works t
Ireland.
Q "The johnson company underbld no
, only other American mills nearer the sea
board, but English mills as well. 1t Wi
: be necessary for the Johnson company t
s build special rolls to do the work and a.
3 ready has work been begun on them"
j In all probability the next shipmen
= will be to England and even then she wi
: not be happy but we will be, and that
n more to the purpose. All we have to d
: is to open the old and build new mill
t and the mints will take care of them
r selves.