Show A WORD OF explanation the peoria pearl journal a staunch re be publican paper propounds propound a series of questions for certain democrat to answer this being one of them can you name a single manufacturing city in free trade england where the best beat skilled mechanic owns the roof over his hia head we care nothing for the political aspect of the question but viewing the matter from a strictly economic standpoint will make a few remarks remark regard ing it to attribute the homeless conditions condition of the people of england to free trade which the question quei tion does by implication Pc aton is to mislead and misrepresent e the NEWS Is ia not a partisan parti ean for ither either a free trade or protection neither la Is it an apologist for or upholder political party as an such we present as a matter of history and statistics that the skilled english laborer is ia more prosperous roua of late years than formerly that in iaun u n der a tariff schedule which Is ia so BO very limited and light as aa to amount to nothing practically considered his wages are higher and his general con more improved than when custom houses were numerous and nearly every imported article was dutiable the fact that few if any of the british mechanical workingmen own their own homes Is ia due neither to tariff nor the absence of it but to a system which obtained in the feudal days and cannot be changed without a revola tion the lord of the manor otherwise the landlord is by heredity the representative of one claw class the 11 fiely fief or tenant the element making up the other by the same rule it should also be remembered that while england has more than half the population that we have any one of our larger states to is equal or superior to england in area and in many comes cases in productiveness also we have land to give away here hare and nothing short of improvidence or the hardest kind of luck can prevent a man from being a lord clord in his own right if he be sees fit to whereas in england there to is no land to be had except at such rates as no laboring man can begin to meet these points of explanation we think throw more light on OB the situation and its causes than any amount of political lecturing could do As a commercial and manufacturing rather than a productive nation england must have open ports port and open markets as to whether or not such condition would be beneficial to or is desirable in this country which by comparison to is productive and manufacturing rather than commercial that is another question altogether it constitutes the sum and substance of the tariff controversy in the political arena and JB is a matter concerning which we have nothing to say |