Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-08-17
ENGLAND is
HARD HIT
Commercial Expansion Of This
Country May Force Britain
to Adopt Protective Tariff.
FORTUNATE REPUBLIC
An Irrigated West Would Afford Vast
Market for the American
Manufacturers.

The rising issue in English politics is
the question of preferential tariffs for
the colonies-the question Of protecting
the products of the empire against the
competition of the products of the
world.
Britain from center to circumference,
for it proposes the abandonment OF the
economic policy which has stood prac-
tically unchallenged for half century
and under which the doors of the
British market have remained wide OPP
en- to all nations.
And what is the object of the pro-
posed revolutionary change? In word,
the preservation and enhancement OF
the prosperity Of the British empire.
To be more specific, the aim is to de-
velop a wide and growing market IN
the colonies for the output of English
Industries and to hold the forty mil
lion consumers of Great Britain as
home market for colonial agricultural
products.
The fact is that England is hard hit
by the enormous commercial expansion
of the United States. We are selling
pur manufactured goods to it's own peo-
ple in the very shadow of it's factories.
We are furnishing the bread and meat
to feed it's subjects. We are selling all
sorts of ingenious machinery, includ-
ing agricultural implements, to lts
colonial inhabitants-yes, and building
their bridges, supplying their locomo-
tives and installing their electrical
plants. We are rapidly making the
British empire sort of commerclal
province-a dumping ground for the
surplus product of our farms. our
mines and our factories.
So ominous has this situation become
that Joseph Chamberlain, shreWdest OF
English statesmen, is willing to stake
his power and his fame upon the start
ling proposition to abandon free trade
and adopt protection as the only pos
sible means of saving his country from
a condition of economic dependence,
which, in his opinion, has already be-
come dangerous and may soon become
abject.
WHAT 1T MEANS TO AMERICA.
In the meantime Americans nave
something to think Of They may Well
indulge in moment of pride at the
thought that the struggling people wno'
little more than a century ago, snatcned
up the sword to cut themselves loose
from Great Britain, have so soon van
uuished the mother country on the eco
nomic field. But pride goeth before
fall" If a market which now absoros
40 per cent of our export trade shall oe
closed against us, where and how are
we to make good so vast deficit?
That is question which may only
be answered when we understand the
true explanation of our success and OF
our strength.
The economic greatness Of the United
States is the fruit of policy OF peace
ful conquest over the resources OF Vlr'
gin continent. Without this great item
of raw material, the finished PROD
which the world acknowledges in the
industrial America of today would
have been impossible.
We shall find continued national su-
premacy where we found 1t in the nrst
n,ace-in the development of our own
houndless and magnificent resources
Those who say that the conquest OF this
continent sis now complete speak IDLY
or know not whereof they speak. The
conquest of this continent is but begun.
THE GREAT WEST ALMOST UN-
TOUCHED.
If England has its Canada. its South
Africa and it's Australasia-to which 1t
now looks ''to pluck the flower, safety,
from the nettle, danger"-we have our
Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, our
Utah. Idaho and Nevada, our Washing
ton, Oregon and California, our New
Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma-in all.
seventeen states and territories with
which to hold level, and more than
level, the far-f1ung depenoencles OF the
British empire.
And these undeveioped lands of ours
are not divided by the seven seas, but
stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
their citizens clasping hands across
borders that are only ina aginary. Here
Is a market for the output OF our
shops and factories potentially greater
than Great Britain, and all its colonies
with their present population. Here Is
an 'empire" which already enjoys un-
restricted free trade within itself. ac-
companied by preferential tariffs"
against the world.
A population OF 100,00o,000 might live
in prosperous contentment In the far