The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-24
UNITED STATES
WONDERFUL LAND
SAYS SIR WALTER FOSTER.
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AMONG
SAVANNAH'S VISITORS.

Pleased with SavaDnah's Pretty
Streets and Parks, but Says
Some Parts of City Are Squalid.
Is Liberal and Is Fighting MIR.
Cham berIain's Protection Policy.
says Even Tories Admit Liberals
VIII Win.
1T is a revelation to an English
man, living as we do in little island
that can be covered from one end to
the other in a day, to come to Amer
lea and travel over your vast terri
tory" Sir Walter Foster, a member
Of Parliament, who is a guest at the
De Soto. put it this way yesterday.
ITO the Englishman who has never
seen it, the immensely of your country
is inconceivable. l have travelled
through thousand miles of your corn
lands, another thousand miles through
the wheat lands, another through
your mountains, and another through
the vineyards and orchards of the Pa
cific coast.
1T is a wonderful country with
boundless resources and unlimited
possibilities of development. There is
no telling what progress will be made.
Most of the resources are as yet UNI
developed. What the United States
will be in the future no one can say,
but if wisely governed the progress
that will be made will be astounding.
Its population is increasing at bounds,
it's resources are being developed and
rapid strides are being made"
Is studying Country.
Sir Walter Foster has been in Amer
lea for some time. He visited the 81.
Louis Exposition and has Travelled in
every section of the country He was
in Chicago during the presidential cleo
ton. He says it was all very quiet
and did not appear to be very much
impressed with it.
1T was known how it was going"
he explained. There was no inter-
est"
The trip to the United States is for
pleasure and instruction. He says he
wanted to see this country and know
all about it. He believes the only way
to get an accurate idea of conditions
and resources is by travelling through
all sections of the country and this
he has done. He has recently been
on Cumberland Island and took ad-
vantage of his nearness to Savannah
to come here.
Pleased With Savannah.
Though pleased with Savannah, he
does not fail to see some faults here.
After luncheon at the De Soto, he spent
the entire afternoon in driving over the
city. Unlike most visitors, he did not
confne himself to the places of espe-
cial interest. but visited every section
of the CITY.
You have some beautiful boulevards
and parks here" he said. 1T is very
pretty city and think it has bright
future. Business seems to be brisk,
and improvements are being made. 1t
is a very pretty place, most of 1t. But
l notice parts of it are very squalid.
over by the river front, the houses did
not look so well.
Opposed to Chamberlain.
He is a Liberal and is opposed to the
protection policy advanced by Mr..
Chamberlain. 1t is all very we'll on
paper, he says, but it is a policy that
will not work out. He states even Mr..
Chamberlain admits defeat at the next
election, but claims success for the
election following.
'You know that isn't the way to
fight, he SalQ. A man lStl gu
ing to win who goes into a fight ex-
pecting defeat.
Protection may be all right for
country in the process of development,
but it will not do for England.
"I believe in free trade and eventu-
ally l believe there will be universal
free trade. Up to a certain point in the
development of a country it may be
all right to protect its factories, as you
have done in the United States. But
II puts money into the pockets of the
few and does not benefit the masses.
It builds up your trusts. AT some
point the protection should cease.
Reciprocity Won't Work.
"Englands factories are developed.
At the time they were developing there
was no competition and we did not
need protection. Protection means an
increased cost for living. We buy a
loaf of bread in England made out of
your American flour for just one-half
what YOU pay for it here.
1.-THE reciprocity plan for the colo
MES that Mr.. Chamberlain proposes
will not work; the colonies are now de-
veloping and they want to build up in
dustries just as the United States is
doing. The colonies would get the
benefits os the manufactured products
of England and give her nothing in
return. 1t might benefit the 100000
people in the colonies. but 1t would
make the cost of living greater for the
an nnA Oan II