OCR Text |
Show a triumph if it had only secured the tin-tai.K.i'iinuiit tin-tai.K.i'iinuiit of tint industry in this c ountry. But mil other linos have been f-timulaied, and tl.o development of American industrial octerprisea of si! kinds marches along al ft rata that is fcigtily grtif lag ta the American people. peo-ple. I In liio light of the facts that aro being ! placed be'or'j the people, the pn biio I mind becomes moro and more jtt i !t. 1 with the American polU-j as devolop'id j by the M. K'tM.: v I tw, nmt the attacks I' of tire free traders upon the law eonee-quonily eonee-quonily become weaker aud weaker a) the days go by. j THE AMI-KtC.IN I l I''V. Tl'.e s;iV roire.apiriidi'nt of tho I'iiiia-(lelphia I'iiiia-(lelphia who has been lnvcNhul- ia thi cond'-tiou of tra.ie iu (iri.-.it i liritaiu, furnishes his paper with an-1 an-1 oilier ii'slrur:lio lotter oa the auhioct. ' Hu his ihvestigtteil the eiT -ct of the 1 Aiiurii'u policy of protection t'pon Uritiiili iuierey'.s tliroiiga t.io t-f!abiish-' liiet.i of iuduhtrks ou hi siue of thu ; waler; ;i ri 1 1 lie has aiso made a thorough i Bii'.'iy of tho cor.'litiun of tho KiiKiih I farmer under thu free, trade policy of ! that government. On the latter fouttiro i of the subject he aaya: j I traveled through the agricultural ilitiicts of (ircut jiritain in the vory I early hpr.tig, and ajraiu in the lltt.r : ii of ,1 unt. and July, tud ia the inter-uing inter-uing period 1 traveiud on the eouti neiit. i .-vtaiii.y no far as agricuituro is j i:,j;Hcrtied. t he Cuitod Kiagd-dil pre cc!ifs a very much Ivt prop.'lou look I than Hiiy country 1 viitcd, except i si.uil em Italy. 'lhini largely due to j tli(Hra'i?l'uriiM!ioii o! f.in.Minto pasture I hu'ds fur Nhccp and catslo. The extent j of ibis in ires!. Ill" tain is aniai;!;.'. I v. i!) not enter into tlie miw of it at t h. s time, furth'ir th.m to remark that it is Varliy ibui to the uupi oiitahle eoiidilion ot agriculture owing to free trade and partly to the greed of landlords, iJO of whom tm n one fourth of Knglalid and Wa:i'.s. Small as the-1? t ivo couutt tun are tliey contain over lir.OOU.Oiii) acres of uncultivated un-cultivated isud. A special correspondent correspond-ent (if tho JjDirluu l)t'!j Tutu writing writ-ing to Lis paper not long ago. remarked. remark-ed. "I have leciiilly had ci 'fusion to be iiinving aboui in mu agricultural dit-tricts. dit-tricts. and I aru inclined to think no- body could do that u ith (-yes un l ears pen without iio.v aud again atoppiug lo ask himself, 'What i going lo be il.J endcfail this:' Iu France, Norihei n I'aly, Sw iti land, llennaiiy and Hi I-giinn, I-giinn, tho l.irmers look prosperous. I .'noccupie.l farms at least are not to be men as iu Ihigland, while the very mountain tops am made lo yield their cni.'lv returu iu crops. Fngiaud, with its fcpluodid traiiNportrlion facilities aud itreat markets, ougiit to be, uxcepi iu bad crop years, a paradise for tanners, tann-ers, iiut the i cry opposite is the truth, i'he furmors of (treat liritain are very much wor.-;u off than those of France or Germany, as I shall show in a future fu-ture lettor. If it were not for the baneful bane-ful ellccts of free trade the reverse would be the case." Our democratic free traders lor to tail the people that protection injures the farmer. They have pitched upon the fact that distress has prevailed in many localities and sought to make it appear that protection was responsible for it; but when our people learn that the farmers iu free trade Kngland aro far worse oil' than our own and that the decline in the industry in that country has been much greater and much more disasterous than has appeared the case here, they will conclude that there is something radically wrun; about the free trade propaganda. Tho correspondent. rout inuini(,iuotes a Mr. llovi). a prominent manufacturer id Manchester, as follows: "iiut, recognizing all these rea-ous, we nol gi.t rid of iho fact that we had prosperity under worse conditions. In ivlial tluu lies the change; Something has changed - nat is it? Wo are iu a worse condition than in 1S',"2 :!, whou renls were higher and food dearer. 1 believe that it 's onr free import arrangement ar-rangement it cannot be called a sys-p sys-p "ii. My fellow-townsmen, Richard Cnbdeu was of tho opinion iu 110 I h it uli nations were to be so convinced of the benelits to be, derived from free trade that wa should consequently be surrounded by nations carrying on their commerce ou precisely the (same terms az i ur.iches. iiut our example and invitation in-vitation have been refused and despised, de-spised, allowing that Mr. C 'bden was Oiitiiftly mistaken in Ids views. In his 'Wealth of ' Nalious' Adarn Smith P'.iii that 'if tne importation of foreign raltlo were made ever so free, so few could I e imported that 'he iTt'iizing trade of (ireat Hvitain coujd be littlu affected ny it.' 1 le also sa'd Ihni 'lli.i aomll o 1 1 n t I i I v i I fuMiirn in'tin - " ' 'l ' 'j - 't- " - - . im parted, even iu times of greatest scarcity, may satisfy our farmers that 1 1 1 1; v can have tio.luii"; to f 'ar irom tho freest importation.' lie added that 'the avpraire quantity imported, cf nil sorts of grain, does not exceed tho 1-oTlst part of our annual consumption. "What would Adam Smith havo Bah!,' added Mr. Iloyd, 'about the British Brit-ish farmer had hu been :-.ble to foresee that we should import mure than tw i"fl tho (jti.tutity of wheat we consume, and that in twelve vears the wheat acreage in the United Kingdom would decrease one-third, while the population increased in-creased 1JJ per cent. Much of this land is not eveu cultivated for any pur-pore. pur-pore. 1 do not suppose tiiat if Adam .mitli could havo lived to see tlie trr-ritdo trr-ritdo condition of agriculture in this country that he would still teach the ftouio doctrine." And thus it is shown that tho original froo traders were as far off in their calculations cal-culations as their modern disciples. If they had supposed that a time would come when foreign farm1! would f'c.nl F.ugiish mouths and drive Foolish farmers to the wall, it is not likely that they wouid have gono so far in their trade proposals. There m another feature of this letter that we are considering which is as interesting in-teresting as its portrayal of British agricultural conditions. It is embraced in the following extract from tho Manchester Man-chester J.'(Hr:itttli. "Many American buyers of textile machinery are iu the Knglish m.irl-et. Manchester is genera!!'; the l.t'adiuar-ters l.t'adiuar-ters for these visitors, and there are at tho present time several Philadelphia j buyers in the market. Fhisu looms i have been bought extensively, and j woolen and worsted spinning and ! Hi- iving plants have been iu increased j d3ii!s:id since thu new tariff went into force. Lancashire imich;n:: ts, ul- j though by virtue of their lontr experi- I einy, the best in the world, have now, to face the seen competition of Ameri- 1 c,.i frn:s, wno have ia tome cses ac 1 tuaily 'mprouel up-ii Fng'ish ideas in woolen and worsted weving plants. In eilk liiachi'aery they are also reckoned reck-oned to bt sotierii.r, and since the in- ' ve'ition of the carpet power loom by an American, the production of 8iich machinery ma-chinery has been earned on exums'vo- Iv. Tho excellence of the plant in 1 American mills is such that, according; to the statements of English maniifao- I turers themsolves, the Americans can j sell certain grades of carpets in Canada Can-ada at within 1 to 25. cents per yard . nf tho prices charged by the iSritish ! tii'ins. " ' If American buyers ars purchasing , textile machinery it follows that the rnaniifactiira of textile fabrics is being extended in the United States. Tho . lime will come when wc will make our . dwii machinery, too, but it is highly 1 f ncourag'ng to find that looms are : being set np in this country to supply a ; market hitherto controlled by foreign 1 irms. Flush manufacture has been ' .ii. known in the United States, and tha ' Ki Nf ev tariff' would listva ac.hiovail ! --. |