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Show Ill K MONTANA VISITORS. Salt Lake City today welcomes the i -i t i n vr newspaper men from Montana. Tiir, Times hopes that thu visitors may enjoy thoir trip Hnd that tliey may cany back to their homes in the north pleasant pleas-ant memories of their sojourn in Zion, and a duo appreciation of the mutuality mutu-ality of interest between their own tec tion and this. Wo have hero, gentlemen, gentle-men, a beautiful city with attractive surrounding. It is a place that has many object of interest for the tourUt. Hut above arid beyond the. mero nt-tractions nt-tractions of the city, its business advantages ad-vantages rise up to poinmaiid tho attention atten-tion of those who comn within its gates. 'I UK Times in pes thr.t you will find much to enii ilaiu you, and It Mould a.-k jou ivulit vuu go about thii round of entertainment ami pleasure, to look up toe resources upou which tho city s prosperity .ests. Take time to investigate investi-gate the. extent of tho mineral wealth of Europe. She built immense war ships for Germauy after 1S7U. liut His-tnarck His-tnarck adopted the protective policy and avesubsidies and botinties to ships built in tlermau yards. As a result Germany has now magniticent ship yards of her own, and the now ships of the North German Lloyd line, built in German yards, rival anything constructed con-structed 'iu Eritish yards. German steamship linns, under the subsidy svs-toiii svs-toiii ar j cutting largely into English trade in eastern Asia and elsewhero. Eranea also aided her home shipping by givin-; bounties to ship builders. As a result, the Erench steam mercantile marine, which amounted to 5'j! steamers, steam-ers, of un aggregate tonnage of 'ZTtt,KM, in 1st,), and hud increased to 277,71 tnus only in 1 ks, amounted to 1015 steamers, of oOO.NOl tons, in 1HHH. The siilendid new steamers of the lino from Havre to .Nmv York wcro built in Erench yards. Kusiia has also taken to building her own ships, and Italy and Spain have established yards and gone into the bounty busi- riituu Tf la aullii-inta.l ilial tl.o of thes'i siirrouiiding mountains; look into the agricultural and fruit raising p.tssiliililii'S of these valleys; discover w iiat l''".Vs rank as i slock growinj region is; acipiaint yourselves v. itli the ad vantages of the city as a manufacturing manufactur-ing rent'tr--familiari.n yourselves with all these I'lisiriuns feature'! of I'tah and Salt Rake and determine whether it would not. be a good tiling for Montana to establish closer business relations ith this city. We know that we can entertain you;' people whenever they favor us wilh visits. v' know that they can eomo singly or in companies and fiud hero enough of pleasure i hold them for days at a time, liut we al?o believe that wo can show them that wider und i more profitable busiucss relations can bo established between the two sections, sec-tions, and mu do not want the men who are visiting us today to go away : without roali.ing more fully than ba-fi.re ba-fi.re they cunm what the mutual interests inter-ests of the two sections ure. T - Fill K TIIAIIK IN KMII.lMl. A correspondent of the Philadelphia I'n.sn gives some interesting information informa-tion regarding the changes that aro occurring oc-curring iu English public opinion in reference to tho free trade policy of the country. Ilia letter demonstrates that tho English people are beginning to realize that their system is no match for the protective policy in force in so many of tho leading countries of the world. England is steadily losing business busi-ness because of industrial development elsnwhero, and at the same time is de uyiug her own people home advantages that they ought to enjoy. The facts herewith given are taken iroin the letter let-ter referred to. Duriuo the lirst seven mouths of the year the exports of the I uitcd Kingdom King-dom decreased $.'!l,000.0!'(), wliiio the imports increased $.'.", (MlO.UOi). Wages are being constantly reduced throughout through-out the country, giving riso to seventy-eight seventy-eight strikes iu June und sovonty one in July, The advocates of "fair tradu" who nook to abaudou frea trade are constantly increasing in numbers, and already 1 2ft members of parliament have joinad the Fair Trade League. There is depression everywhere, and in many places a largo exodus of workmen to other countries is taking place. The iron trado is one of those that is derpessed, many works being elosod down, some of them permanently. per-manently. The correspondent speaks of having recently visited Gorman and reduction in freights and the loss of business to Grunt BrUain as a result of this competition amounts to $100,01)1). OoO a year. If it were not lor the. tRiO.UUO,-1100 tRiO.UUO,-1100 a year she gets from the United Status for doii g the principal part of our foreign carryii.g trade, there would be still greater distress, But the law tHosud at the last session of congress providing for an ocean mail service on American chips is already causing worry here, though the London Finan-i-i'tl .v i'.s said the other day that when 'Minister Wanamakkk' goes out of ollico the law will lie repealed; hence Englishmen need not worry. It is wonderful what hopes the Englishmen build on democratic success at the polls." Reading of Ftich conditions abroad, Americans will be more than ever inclined in-clined to firmly uphold the policy of protection hero. We are not primarily interested in injuring England, but when we take industries from her we benefit ourselves, mid it is a cardiual principle that we should look out for ourselves. The growth of our iron business bus-iness at the expense of England furnishes furn-ishes a remarkable illustration of the value of our system. 'The transfer of the pearl button industry referred to by the Birmingham paper presents mother illustration and the impending transfer tf the bulk of the tin-plate business bus-iness will furnish still another. That English sentiment is turning against the free trade theory is shown by the following uUeranco of the Manchester Man-chester Cuirit r, one of the foremost of the Cobdenite papers: "There is nothing like tho enthusiasm for freo trade that t.liore was in Cob-ilen's Cob-ilen's lime; it is demonstrated that the Manchester school was wrong iu its miisl cherished prognostications, and many an economist who professes and calls hiuifeif a free-trader is now heard to exp.ii.ss un opinion that a grievous error wits mai' j when we refrained from using our opportunities to secure more favorable returns from other protective pro-tective countries. 'In tho spring-time oi our economic frenzy,' to use a memorable mem-orable phrase of l.ord Beacouslield, we forget the prudential maxim, J'csiitm I- uli:. Even now it ia by no means certain cer-tain that we shall not have to rotrace our steps, ami to start lroin tho point from which wo should hae made our new departure more than a generation ago. Politicians of tiie Cobdeu school thought that all questions could be settled set-tled by reference to Adam Smith, or Ricande, or Mill, as a tradesman might draw out his bill with the aid of a ready reckoner. They ignored many of tho most important facts of human nature. To ibaiu the weating system wonhl have been but the rational application of the urinciiilii of buviucr in the cheat)- est anil selling in the dearest. Thyy were always piitliusf tho cart before the horse. Their efforts were attributable attribut-able to the fact that tho exponents of the f cience of political economy thought that no other science had a right to say a word in tho greater and mora comprehensive com-prehensive science of politics. The fallacy is not oxtinct but it is fast waning." wan-ing." It would have been all right if the other nations, particularly the United States, bad adopted the English system and loft t he English master of the situation; situa-tion; but by protection we havo taken our business away from that country, and now tho Englishmen urn gradually being forced to an admission of tiiefact that tho economic principle which they have sought to force upon us in their own interests is not even a good thipg for thum, with powerful industries growing tip in this country tiuder the policy of protection. The condition is one that Americans can look on with a great measure of satisfaction, and the more closely our people study it, the more earnestly will they support the republican party in its advocacy of protection to American industries. I roach shipyards where he witnessed great actirity, in strong contrast with tho condition of business prevailing on the Clyde. Ten thousand ship builders struck against a decrease of wages but were unsuccessful, while the same fate awaits tho ;V.',o;)() workers' in tiu-plate mills. Iu Cheshire .'i0.)0 fustian cutters have struck. They had been getting $'!,'.!o a week and a reduction was proposed. pro-posed. Eifleen thousand coal miners in Wales are on a strike and fO.OU'i more will probably strike after Decern ber;SI, when the agreement will expire, ex-pire, a reduction after that data havinp; been announced. Another coal Btrike is in progress in Scot land from n similar simi-lar cause. Iu Slielliold ttiere is distress in tho cutlery trade, the exports of cutlery cut-lery being only one quarter what they were a year ago. "'In: T irtqili of that city says: The worst foars regarding the operations of the MrKiM.i.v act aro being be-ing realized. " In Hirminghain there is als'i tun greatest depression, partieu-I partieu-I larlv inatkn.l in the pearl button indus-1 indus-1 try which has been re-established ir. the I'nited States by die MrklNLE Y law. The operatives are coming to the I'nited .Sta'os. Tho llirmlugharu 'J'itnrs, speaking ot this feature of I he business situation, sajs: " The cause of this emigration can b traced directly to the McK.ini.ey law. Prior to that act Birmingham buttons were eported largely to America. Tha now tariff stopped exportation and throw tho buttou makers out of work. Americans Li gan to manufacture for themselves, and as they needed workmen, work-men, the cutters, turners and finishers from ISirmingham have boeu going over iu small parties. Their favorable I j iiif'i'Lia nikfij iiiuiik.i.11 a iaifa illinium of their fellow workmen to join them." In conuuetion with the iron and i shipping interests of the I'nited Kingdom King-dom and other oountries we quote the correspondent iu full as follows: "Hut the truth is, English trado is suffering in various directions, owing to a mistakeu ecouomio policy. She held not long ago that no nation could hope to compete with hor in tho production pro-duction of imn and steel. Sho bad special advantages in labor, coal and ore, for tiie production of pig iron. In lstJ she produced M.SSu.tirti) tons of pig ! iron and the I'nited States produced ; -l.ii-o,o:i tons. East year tho United ! Stall s produced y.L'OL'.TO") tons, while j England produced only ,Hi0,0iH) tons, j Keturos this year show a falling off j tiiat will leave England's product very j much below that of last year. Hut i Germany, owing to her protective tar-; tar-; ill. has been increasing her pig iron product at the rate of iilii.ODO tons a I vear. Erance makes a like showing. In she produced l.SHT.OJ.' metric tons, and in IBilfl. 1,5)70.1 "() metric tons. This is a very clear exposition of the gain from a protective tarilT. In seven months this year Euglaud exported tiU.-511 tiU.-511 tons of iron and steel; iu the corresponding corre-sponding mouths of 1S'.0 the exports were llli,(i(H tons; in IS-!) they wore 1 lu.'JTll tons and in l;s tbey were 1M 1.-44.', 1.-44.', showing a rapid aud steady decline. de-cline. "Another way iu which English trade is suffering is in the development of foreign for-eign ship yards and consequent competition compe-tition with Great Britain id tho earry-jing earry-jing trade. At the close of tho Eraneo-I Eraneo-I Prussian war, Great Kr'tain wasbuild-l wasbuild-l iuar shins for all tha maritime nations |