Show THE TARIFF AND ROYALTY Protection Is a More Expensive Luxury Than the Bauble of King Rule Two prominent editorials nppeared in a late number of THE HERALD One of them was entitled The Cobdcn Club and the other The Cost of Royalty As a memo ber of the Reform club of New York an organization busily engaged in circulating documents favoring tariff reform and of the Free Trade club which existed long before the Reform club came into being and which is much more pronounced in advocating ad-vocating the absolute freedom of trade Ian I-an fully substantiate the statement of Mr Potter the member of Parliament to whom you refer Wo should certainly i have been aware of it had the Cobdon I club of which he is president offerred to contribute to our funds or to aid us in anyway any-way in our endeavors The object of hat society is to maintain the present economic policy of England under which she has so abundantly prospered and not to force it upon other nations to the dlsad vantage of its people Not long ago bit Lyon Playfair M Pin P-in addressing his constituents at Leeds told them that they need have no fear of losing their trade with Asia Africa or South America so long as the Americans abided by their high tariff Sir Lyon is a well informed man for having married a Boston girl he spends a great deal of timo in this country and is a critical student of its institutions His opinion is corroborated by British manufacturers The New York Standard of the Uth mst quotes the statement state-ment of one of them Silas M Boiroughs a prominent manufacturer manufact-urer and leading business man of England head of the ilrm of Burroughs We come I Ii Co reads aright the political signs in the Unitrd States and what is more oS the point be sees that tbe abolition ot protects tariffs here will place England a disadvantage the worlds markets mar-kets In a letter to the Practical Engineer of London bo says The present proua position or jsneiano as the greatest of all commercial banking and maritime mari-time nations has arisen through the removal of the restraints of taxation upon her manufacturers manufact-urers one by one until but few remain If now the remaining burden upon her industries bo removed England will take a graader leap forward than ever before and astonish the world with her prosperity While other nations are binding their hands and feet with protective tariffs which increase cost of production and shut them out from compctlrg with us In other countries now Is the time for England to free her industries and commerce from all such burdens and thus to completely and quickly win the race for 3 commercial supremacy from which other countries will not be able to dislodge her when they awake and realize their opportunities The grey dawn of the American awakening has already appeared In the west with the triumph of those who call themselves tariff reformers re-formers The free trade wave Is rising hieher every day and promises to sweep the customs houses away in a few years En land Trill then have to compete with a nation of the most energetic manufacturers in the world whose industries are much lighter taxed than those of Great Britain and who in very many cases are entirely free from taxation taxa-tion on machinery and plant I have been told the same story by many other manufacturers in Europe In fact it is so much for their Interest to sacrifice the little temporary profit they might make on the first opening of our markets which they are sure would not long continue to the maintaining of their present trade with the rest of the world that they would be idiots to desire anything different from the state of things that now exists You are quite right in your comments on the Cobden Cob-den club But you will permit me to differ with you in the conclusion to which vou arrive in considering the cost of royalty that The practical good renso of tho English peo wi 4 < plo Is getting ready to assert itself against bear I ng this burden and one of these days an excuse will be found perhaps another baccarat scandal or one of his royal highness escapades with a subjects pretty wifefor a rt which will overturn the British throne though wo hope It will not wreck the British nation I fully agree with you in your opening sentence The British government Is among the best It not the very best on earth It is not only among the best but It is by all odds the very best It will take vastly more than a baccarat scandal to overthrow it A great deal more was made of that card party incident on this side of the Atlantic than on the other Of course It was disreputable but the many good qualities of the Prince of Wales havo so endeared him to the British people that it has passed away like afccloud that only temporarily obscures the sunlight Of all people WE OUGHT NOT TO THROW STONES Our own groat statesman Henry Clay was a notorious poker player and gambler and yet in his candidacy for the Presidency this vice was not paraded against him The Texas letter which he wrote from an honest conviction of duty was the grievous sin that defeated him Unfortunately my copy of the October Forum was miscarried so that I have only your brief extract of Mr Laboucheros article before me Ho is doubtless correct in his enumeration of the large sums that are paid for tho maintenance of royalty but facts are against the inference that ho draws from this expenditure Everybody knows that he is an uncompromising uncom-promising radical It is his own boast Naturally his wishes are the fathers of his thoughts Cromwell said Take away that bauble The bauble was taken away accordingly and the British people had a republic to their hearts content One experiment ex-periment was enough for them They wanted the bauble again They shed their blood to get it and now they want to keep it If we count the cost of their indulgence in this luxury this pageantry which amuses them and for which they are as willing to pay as we are to pay for the tinsel of an opera or circus with the sums that are annually an-nually stolen from us in the way of pensions pen-sions bounties subsidies and above all by a protective tariff we shall find the balance bal-ance immeasurably against us We are doomed not only to be to do and to suffer suf-fer but to continue to suffer The country bas risen almost en masse against the McKinley bill but we cannot get rid of it so long as only one branch of our trinitarian government is Republican In England the party in power would resign out of pure shamefacedness shame-facedness and there would be a new election elec-tion at once The house of commons is the great arbiter The house of lords is a nonentity that dare not oppose its will and the Queen would not dream of interposing her veto upon any legislation that emanates directly from the people THE COST OF ROTALTT is not only a fee for amusement but according ac-cording to the theory of our protectionist friends it is not a cost at all but is an actual ac-tual benefit to the contributors They levy for the people a sort of a forced loan as they give them to understand for the purpose of distrlbut ng it among thorn again If a favored few get the money in the first place it is given them in order that they may encourage en-courage labor In expending it This plea of course is sheer hypocrisy but granting I Its soundness for the sake of the argument argu-ment it would bo far more conducive to national prosperity in England than in tho United States for the royal family and the nobility for the most part put into immediate im-mediate circulation all the money they receive re-ceive whereas the American plutocrat roll it up so that he may pose as a greater millionaire than his fellows To sum up the whole matter it may bo asserted truly that tho best system of government is that which affords the people the most proteo tion of life and property and enables them to live most economically and happily All this is i better attained in England than anywhere else in any country with which I am familiar The laws are better administered ad-ministered than they are here Cactcrls par thud a family in any condition of life can have the same comforts and luxuries at a much smaller expense which is the best evidence that taxation is less and although there is a party so small that it is of no account under the lead of Mr Labouchere the great majority of tbe English people are thoroughly loyal and contented J C SODA SPRINGS Idaho Oct 28 |