Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-07-10

pleasure trips are limited to those
he can take on foot. Such a thing as
attending an intellectual gathering
such as a Chautauqua never enters his
imagination. 1t would be madness
to attempt it. His life is one contin-
ual round of drudgery, and a con-
slant struggle for existence. Our
farmer readers can ponder on these
conditions, an | see the advantages Of
living in this paradise of the agricul-
turist.
The English people are being en-
tertained just now by a discussion of
the tariff question. Colonial Secre-
tary Chamberlain is heading a move
ment for a change in the fiscal policy
of England, by making her a protect
ed nation, and Oh this question the
English people are divided. That
country has been what political o
omists have termed a free trade coun-
try for ''time o it of mind The
teachings Of Cobdem, and Adam
Smith have been the economic gospel
of the English masses since their
time. To attempt to get away from
them now is a political revolution.
But the question is a serious for
the people to consider. AS an ele-
mentary principle, it is a fact that d
tariff on any article will increase the
price of that article, except as the
price is kept down by home competi-
tion. But if the government giving
this protection is producing the pro
tected article, this increase IN price
shuts out the importation Of the same,
and gives the home market to the
home producer. What the laboring
people Of England-those employed
in manufacturing enterprises-object
to in Chamberlain's scheme is that it
will increase the price of the neces-
saries of life to them, without a cor
responding increase in their wages.
Herein the English laboring people
are. mistaken. 1t is a declaration
made by the high protectionists that
cheap prices are always associated
with cheap labor. While that is the
argument of a demagogue, it posses
ses a grain of truth. England must
depend IN her export trade for her
customers. Now, If American man
ufactures a compete in the markets
of the world with goods manufactured
in this country, as they are doing
every week, when these goods are
made by labor protected against for
eign competition by tariff walls, the
English people can do the same.
This is not a theory but a condition.
If the wages Of the working people be
increased there must necessarily be a
corresponding increase in the material
comforts of these people, if the
amount saved at the end of the year
be no more. This question has an
American side, as we view it. If
England becomes Il competitor in the
markets Of the world, we shall have
our own foreign markets diminished
accordingly.
President Diaz of Mexico seems to
have a grip IN the Presidency of that
country equal to that of the Republi-
can party in the United States, he
having just been elected for his
seventh term recently. The history
of the Latin Republics of the south,
including Mexico in her earlier days,
is peculiar from a political point of
view. When there are two opposing
candidates for the Presidency of one
Of these countries, the defeated candi-
date gathers his followers around him
and starts a revolution to GUST his
successful rival. Often. he succeeds
and thus the minority rule is supreme.
Revolutions were as certain as Presi
Dental elections in Mexico before thu
days of Diaz as the presidential cleo
ton. By his vigorous suppression o
the first attempts to GUST him, hi
made himself feared, and by his Wis
and patriotic administration in time
wen the undivided support Of his fel
low citizens. He attempted to retir'
at the late election, but when h.
found that there would be a war be
tween the follow, RS Ct the MAI. h
had selected as his successor and hi
:. rival, Diaz decided to save trouble b,
, taking the Office himself. He ma,
have gotten the inspiration for thi
, acton from this side the Rio Grand
where there are so many hungry an,
thirsty patriots ready to take an offic
) with a good salary attached, to saw
: hard feelings between other appli
!, cants. But Mexico has become grea
compared with her former conditions
under the rule of Diaz. Her treasur
has been established on a fnancia
basis, her army has been brought un
der control, her courts have mad
. themselves respected. The interna