Arizona republican., 1898-01-04
THE AMERICAN POLICY.

act, or rather or the repuDl1can pol icy of protection, as that is what the
 Dingley act represent He says that
 England is our best customer. yet 1 the Dngley law seems to seek to put
 the greatest obstacles in the way of
 England's paying us for our goods i in the things she produces" The statesman ought to know that Eng 1 land does not buy one cents worth of i goods in this country if that cents
 worth of goods is not needed, or if
 it can be obtained cheaper elsewhe e, | quality being taken into considera- tion. Under the Wilson, German act. when the markets of this country
 were being flooded with English goods, the buyers of that country were
 not struggling very hard to buy CUE
 goods simply from sense of duty or feeling of sentiment Duty and sen | timent do not prevail in cold business | dealings. Under the Dingley act. when England and her colonies want ed wheat-simply because they could get it nowhere else-they came here and bought it and fleets of vessels 1 have carried tons and tons of grain to England and Australia and other English colonies.
 We do not care particularly about England paying for what she buys here, in goods made there. We would rather have the money and let them keep their own goods. We are a sell ing nation, and we have no particular occasion for buying abroad, save in the way of luxuries and specia-ties not produced here. But we do buy ship loads of stuff from Germany. France and England, and it comes with our home products that wagcs and prices are forced down. We get cheapness thereby, but that includas cheapness in wages, against which the democrats continue to cry out. Just now there is great clamor be- cause the unfortunate alternative has been reached in New England where by the wages of thousands of mill op- eratives have been reduced. The DingIey law is held responsible, but how or why no sane man can discover. The act protects these cotton mills from the inroads of foreign cotton goods, yet the price has go1e down and tks~ wages with them That is Pot 's result of the Dnsley act, bat tr 4~sulr of natural conditions-an enormous supply of cotton, the build ing of mills in the south close to the cotton fields-and the enormous stocks of cotton goods on hand, the result of piling up under the operations ex-statesman goes on to say:
 There has not been a port opened to the commerce of England in the extension of the British empire which has not been as freely open to the trade of the United States. There has not been a place where an American could not go and engage in business without being asked what his nation ality was. American trade has had every advantage of the extension of British trade around the world.
 All of this signifies nothing, and is no argument against the American policy of protection. The generous opening of these English ports means nothing in particular. This opening does not mean that our manufacturers can sell their goods at those ports if the people do not need them or do not iwaht them. Our ports and our cities are. as well, open to English men and other foreigners and there are thousands of them getting rich. American trade is doing very well just now in the matter of entering foreign markets, and scarcely day passes that we are not told of some commercial invasion made by the United States. We are getting sub
 stanfial orders from all parts of the world, and more during the few months the Dingley act has been in operation than during the entire time of the Wilson-Gorman acts miserable life. That is, we are extending our substantial business more than ever. Great Britain is still selling millions of dollars worth of goods to this country and she is not to cut off those sales by any hostile act. Germany is doing the same thing, and SO are France, Austria and the rest of them. They talk of commercial combina- ton, but they are merely talking for effect. They want those markets here that belong, first of all, to our own people.
 We have concluded to protect our selves for four years at least and the wage earners and manufacturers will be- the gathers thereby. The presena administration has only been in office for ten months and it is folly to inn agine that the conditions created dur