The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-02

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Ting 10 the same end The fetal num-
\ Der of distinct trades and callings
lis really not under two thousand; and
their divisions and subdivisions,
which generate experts, are practi-
5caIly beyond count
Go to the Worlds Fair and feast
your eyes on the products OF these
/ thinkers and inventors and workers
of civilization. Where did all this
wondrous wealth come from? It
came from the earth on which the
savage once dWer in squalid poverty
unconscious of the wondrous riches
buried beneath bis feet. 1t came
from the soil and from the mine. It
came from labor But, over and
above all, it came from the mind of
mantle CIVILIZED man-who, obey
ing the primeval law, knew how to
"subdue the earth and to rule over
all things
Now, here tits relevant to intro
duce the subject of Protection to
Home Industries a subject on which
the two great political parties in this
country are divided. ct seems
strange, indeed, how patriotic Amer
leans could differ on a matter of this
sort; but 50 it is, and we must note
the fact.) The white men who first
settled on the American side of the
Atlantic coast were poor men, like
all the immigrants that followed.
Those early settlers We're hardy, in
telligent, determined men. They till
ed the soil, they built log cabins, and
We're handy at many things. In time
they built a few small ships by means
OF which they did some trade with the
West Indies. They also showed an
aptitude for home manufactures.
They believed in home rule; they
established local government boards,
which they called townships, and
later on, they organized colonial leg
islatures. They demonstrated their
ability to govern themselves and to
provide for themselves in every way.
England, who claimed jurisdiction
over the Colonists, grew Jealous of
their progress and suspicious of their
future intentions. England did not
want the Colonists TO engage in home
manufactures. She told them SO, and
ordered the Americans to desist.
England desired TO furnish the Colo
inists with goods of English make.
and at her own prices, and when the
,Colonists grumbed at that England
threatened them with punishment.
So things went until finally the Colo
nists rose in arms, declared for sep
aration from England and independ
ence for America.
The war of 1872, forced by Eng
land, was war for the reconquest
OF the United States, which war, if
successful for England, would have
resulted in imposing on the Ameri-
can people the eternal payment to her
of her hated Industrial tribute.
In the civil war, too, England cher
ished the hope that, with her help to
the South, it would result in the tri-
umph of free trade and the ruin of
the American principle of protection.
We quote an article from leading |
English paper, printed during the
civil war, and bearing on this sub
ject. 1t reads as follows:
Now as soon as the independence
of the Confederate States is establish
ed we shall find a two-fold change.
Their government will be anxious as
our own (English) government for
free interchange of our mutual pro-
auctions, and the cotton, rice and to-
bacco which they will send us will
be paid for by the calicoes of Man
chester, the wooens of Leeds and
Bradford, and the cutlery OF Sheffield,
which we shall send them They will
be clothed and armed by us, instead
of by the Pennsylvanians and the
New Workers, and they, as well as
we, will be the gamers by the change.
In addition to this, our goods will
then penetrate even into the North
ern States, in spite of the prohibition
Of any tariffs and the vigilance of any
custom houses.
with contentious frontier of
thousand miles, thin1y peopled and
to guard, how can free
trade and protection flourish side by
side? How can the cheap cottons
and the excellent knives and hatchets
with which Virginia and Kentucky
will be flooded, be hindered from find
ng their way across the river and
through the woods into Ohio and New
York? The thing is impossible, and