Show It Is announced that Oburlln M Car tEl once Captain In the United States army and who is about to be released from Imprisonment having served his term for embezzlement of public money while in ch re of Government work at Savannah Intends to sue for the restoration of the 57GOOOO of property which time Government seized to make Itself good for his embezzlement His claim Is that 1m didnt steal anything like that amount that most of the stolen money went to Greene anti Gay nor who arc refugees in Canada and whom the Government has vainly sought to have extradited Very likely Carter will get his money back too for there la said to be a growing sympathy sym-pathy for him 113 merely the tool of the designing scoundrels named who got most nf the stealings But as a matter mat-ter justice Curler is entitled to nothIng of his the trusted agent lug for he wan Government and betrayed that trust shamefully and enormously As a matter mat-ter of fact his punishment has been altogether too light THE UPHEAVAL IN GREAT BRITAIN 4 It Is evident that Premier Balfour himself who a few weeks ago proclaimed self of an open mind with regard to Secretary Chamberlains policy of free trade among the different segments of the British empire and protection as against the world outside has now become be-come a complete convert to that doctrine doc-trine Ills speech delivered on Wednesday at Sheffield and an abstract ab-stract of which was carried In The Tribune yesterday morning shows him as a vlgoious advocate of the Chamberlain Cham-berlain policy It was Chamberlains visit to South Africa undoubtedly uhlch put the idea into his head he machinery saw there Amuiloan mining preferred lo British and a very extensive exten-sive trade enjoyed by other nations which he considered should belong to the home country Let no one for a moment think that this scheme Is for the benefit of the colonies for It Is not Its sole purpose is to help the manufacturers manu-facturers anti traders of England The design Is to have the colonies raise the food for the home country and supply I the raw materials and let the manufacturing manu-facturing be done by the English It was the purpose of the freetrade dogma dog-ma to have England placed In this relation re-lation to all the world after she had developed her manufactories and Industries In-dustries till they were thought to be Impregnable Free trade so planned and understood was therefore simply most advantageous tem considered the system tageous to Great Britain and consequently conse-quently was In fact merely a local question ques-tion But the world at large didnt lake lo the idea of an industrial dependence upon that country They set up tariff their bniricrs to build up Industries of own without which they could not be really Independent in any true sense As the Edinburgh Scotsman of recent date says The free trade ideal which is that trade should flow everywhere In Its natural channels Is Incompatible with another ideal l still dearer to most Independent men that of hlrong prosperous pendent nationalities Free trade It continues Is an ideal l that we have never attained and we cannot obtain It1 And It continues In this vein Free trade Is essentially cosmopolitan nations of the world are not But time Krrat Uti They have framed their cosmopolitan the Increase lineal AVllh an eye not to Illicnlsystn1J the crease of the wealth and wellbeing of whole world but to the Increase of their own wealth strength and selfsufficiency Thin Is not what our free traders expected of them America for example should huvo continued to devote Itself to the < production pro-duction of cotton and tobacco and left unto America however to manufacture1 for it But willing it might bo that wo should be dependent ever on It for food had no mind to remain dependent on us for Ita manufac It hart absolutely nn respect for tures Le tJ ICres l 1 time natural I l1 channels of trade It determined t deter-mined by means of protection to build up manufacturing Industries for Itself anil lilt result Is thnt It now manufactures not only for itself hut in growing measure for us and others It Is a great thing to have a British journal concede so much aa this The discussion throughout I that country is both thoiough and plainspoken For the majority It seems that they have of the not yet realized the passing dream that the Scotsman so clearly outlines out-lines of making England the manufnc factory for the world They are not prepared to accept the smaller view that the best they can do Is to take what Is left and fleece only their own colonies But they will come to that and then the other alternative will be presented to time colonies to submit to the exactions or follow the example of the American colonies in a similar contingency con-tingency In 177IJ and shake themselves free Mr Chamberlains manifesto cabled his yesterday more fully explaining scheme cid showing how the free trade w p u policy heretofore followed in Great Britain has proved it failure must car ly disturbance to the adherents of what he pacrllegiously stiGmatizes as an antlquatcd system All nations and even the selfgoverning British colonies I put up tariff barriers and the home country can no longer maintain a stem s-tem which Is not free trade In fact but when It undertakes only so as to Its Imports takes to export there is I always the tariff tar-iff barrier I in front to overcome And he does not full to bring forward Lime Influence In-fluence of trades unionism as a most formldabl0 obstacle to free trade as v relates to Its world phases Altogether this manifesto materially strengthens Mr Chamberlains position and the British empire Is now put squarely In front of the problem and must take Its choice between sophistical theory and practical fact |