Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-22

WOulQ De tIlc ulS vi OuI WhNiN NsNNA .'''O'
has its characteristics to preserve them, the ma
ton must be as nearly as possible world With
in itself or the eveling tendencies OF commerce
will surely destroy nationality and bring the
higher civilization down to the grade OF the low
est civilization with which it has large CONNER
cial relations.
ENGLAND makes pretense of the open door
or free trade policy. If England means Great
Britain and Ireland, then undoubtedly she is
practicing free trade, and it is quite necessary
that she should Her manufacturing interests
transcend in Importance her farming interests
thousand fold. To foster her predominating in
dustries it is necessary to have cheap food and
as this has to come from the colonies and other
countries it is necessary to sacrifice the English
farmer and drive him to the factory. Such farm
ing interests as there exist only by reason OF
the national preference among the upper classes
for home produced mutton, beef and other pro-
ducts for which they are willing to pay higher
price than for imported articles. But when the
British Empire comes to be considered as a
whole-as one integral naton-it is the great
est example of the principle of protection the
world has ever known. Every English colony
even India, which is directly under imperial rule,
is permitted to charge tariff OH importations
of English manufactured articles. English man
ufacturers are, therefore, compelled to pay the
colonies bounty to foster the production OF
nucleus of food products from her own re-
sources to place in direct competition with food
products imported from other countries. AS
considerably more than one-half of English
exports are sold to other countries than
the colonies, and as, considerably more than one
half of her imports of food products come from
other countries, she profits by the transaction
and can we'll afford to protect the Colonies If
she did not the food products imported from the
Colonies would come into disastrous direct
competition, in England's free trade market
with the food products of all other countries
and the commercial see-saw would immediately
go into effect between the mother country and
her Colonies to their lasting ruin But the
measure of protection they receive strikes the
equlllbrlllnl-the even balance of the British EN-
plre--destroying internal competition
In the United States, the conditions are ex-
actly the reverse. Her predon,inating industry
is agriculture-the production of food products
and raw material. England and Europe foster,
and protect agriculture that they may have fact
or to pit in competition with Americas predo-
minant industry, to keep the price down. Amer
lea must foster and protect manufacture to have
competitive factor to pit, in the markets of the
world, against England and Europe's predomi-
mating industry-manufactur keep the price
OF 1000 products up and the prices of manufact-
ured articles down.
All European governments sre centralized.
England in relation to the British Empire may
make regulations at any time, in her Colonial re-
latlons, to stop Wasteful competition between her
sell and balance of the Empire; she NAV make
seml-offclal and even official arrangements for
loans to foreign powers, as in the case of China,
which is tantamount to government guarantee
TO English hnanclers; she may even guarantee
railroad enterprises and arrange for railway con-
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