New-York tribune., 1903-07-27

- occupied leading position in the
"A's5 ,ocause it has kept it's ports open and
"o1io ~ principles of common justice in COM
"pl4@'0 "a common honesty in monetary policy
'"s't .o,viuce doubteTs that the country was
80. .be most effective measures for defend
taAii.s taoromercial interests and consolidating
I.orld-wide empire
~orkran being keen controversalist,
.,s ,,raoubtedly succeed in adapting himself
,aaaI conditions. if he were regularly en-
10 '0O', as an economic missionary in win
- hack agnostics ana lost Protectonist souls
h'1ie - o.. and undefled Cobdenite faith. He
10 u'S Fa5,fy in many respects the phrasng
"ouI - has found useful as tariff leveller
"hl0H 80 He would not repeat his epigram
~ A'l-' Trade means efficiency in excellence
thet .+ion efficiency in corruption" after
ana [.,d how universal was the complaint
ne ha< - that technical training has been
u s i-s here and that Americans and Ger
"'s have shown superiority in their equip
'l@-' Cor scientific methods of manufacture
H's-, ,be organization OF business. He might
"ne -son his contention that Protection is
- NJ plunder under the pretence of being
s,erprise of beneyolence, and that any form
." 1r.fsrence implies victims as well as favor
- but having talent for fieXibility' he
o,,ld sneak more sympathetically of the colo
- than he did at the banquet of the National
,storal C'Iub. and he might succeed in time in
-.rryinp Mr.. Cobden's analogies to their widest
raacb and in demonstrating that the empire as
III &C the nation should be worked very much
e - it were a large trading concern, and all
the conditions favorable to business system
aticaIlv cultivated. He would probably be less
er,nbatic In his denunciaton OF "tarlh trusts
-t.olizad for three times their value" be-
hot fHa Unit X
soDo vas honeycombed with industrial com
ttra+iors and he would be warned that his ar
y,r,ent that Germany and the United States
5ss nrospered. not in consequence Of protective
tariffs outside but from the opening OF vast
free trade areas within their dominions, pointed
- +ba conclusion that similar results would be
inevitable if the mother country and any or
u of her colonies could be united by pref
srsrtisI agreements or q common zollverein
policy.
Without doubt MI Cochran. with his robust
elosuenee. his energetic gesticulation and his
solemnity Of manner, would be most effective
and versatile Free Trade campaigner in de-
tending the last stronghold of Cobdenism and
rreventing its reconQuest by the Protectionists,
reinforced as they are by the practical expert
ence Of unregenerate tariff colonies and nations.
Even in his first coaching lesson at the National
Liberal Club he displayed a marked superiority
10 the tacticiaas and orators now arrayed in
opposition to the Chamberlain -Balfour move
rnent He taught them how 10 present a dull
subject with vivacity. and not to allow audi
tors to fall asleep over "reminiscences OF Cob
denism. He also gave warning that Irish
voters. instead Of rescuing the government from
defeat as the Nationalists have done while the
Land bill was before Parliament, cannot be de-
pended upon TO support the policies with which
Mr. Chamberlain is identified. In American
politics they have been the most useful allies
Of Free Trade England whenever there has been
a movement in favor of a reduction of the
United States tariff and, apparently. they viii
support the Free Trade opposition here without
reference to the agricultural interests of their
own island So much, at least, can be learned
from Mr. Cockran's interesting political ad
venture of carrying Free Trade Goals TO New
castle L n. F.