Show I eff RADE ECHO how biow it sounds la i H BETTER DAIS COMITO so says the ora orsan of the laboring classes the wilson bill special especial to THE LONOW dec 20 the current number of the weekly times and echo the special organ of class clasa element and boasts of a circulation of a million a week contains an editorial under the caption on american tariff R Rd worm forni winch which ia is as thoroughly an english yiew view of an american economic question as has baa ever found expression in print on this side of the water it says baya the adoption of the mckinley Me Kinley tariff by the american people heraldez heralded if it did not hell beli the advent of the hariod of horrible depression from which we are now suffering buffering there are signs we think that hat the introduction of the new t tanh ariff which resident president cleveland and his democratic majority hope to carry will precede and perhaps in no lo small dezrea decree help to bring about the much desired revival in trade really and truly the workers of either coun try will not benefit much that is those who are able to got get eairly paid work at present but renewed activity in trade and manufactures would absorb at least a part of the great fringe of unemployed at present starving at every great labor center and that would at any rate be a temporary alleviation I 1 I 1 I 1 free and protection have come in our days to mean little more inore thin than the tactics ol of rival school Is of cap italiana ital ita iata lists each seeking becking to benefit itself at the expense of the other Now and then victory on either side aide temporally benefits the vassal of ahn landlord or the wage of the the freshly gained wealth of the new rich too is lavishly spent as a rule in luxuries and 03 those who exercise the arts and crafts which minister to the pleasure of the wealthy gain something from the spacious prosperity which gilds the commercial horizon with a lurid sunshine which too surely dr edicta edicts the tha next commercial cataclysm and long alter succession of dull times but in the long run the upward rush of prices more than balances any advantage advant ago the worker may gain and just as we have found here that while abil fret frea trade has haa brought us ua cheap broad bread and c cheap i lic ap rubbish made in germany and elsewhere white while most other ea has een tiala needed by the wor tedra have vs gone up in in price so HO presently the am will find the rise ariee in tha price of their agricultural pr produce aduce more than outweigh the greater cheapness of manufactured goods here at home the landlord is protectionist protection at because became high prices for corn men mean high rents renta while 1 the manufacturer is free trade because became unrestricted import means huge hate profits profile i la in america the manufacturers are pro because the exclusion of foreign booja keeps up their gains while the agriculturalist is as a rule seeking for higher prices in some roys mys rearrangement of the currency ratios for fo we the time the democrats however seem strong enough to carry america a good days journ journey eyon on the road toward freo trade the editorial proceeds to resume at length the leading articles which the wilson bill makes heavy reductions and concludes US na follows lol lows WB the question is will the bill pass we think it il will though we are by no means blind to the danger before it still president cleveland is ia strong in many respects the american exchequer is ia empty so eo unproductive have become the heavy imposts which the mckinley tariff levied and the choice is appa bently between some modification of the revenue laws lawa and the adoption of some form of direct taxation and the ordinary american hated the tha very mention of income tax we think that the tha tarin bill will paes pass and that the comins coming trade revival will be fastened last ened by it the demand for labor will probably be once more maintained in america as i n consequence and the general ize result will be so satisfactory to V t e manufacturers that further advances in the direction of free trade will be made each ad advance ranee will lift the price of corn aud so benefit the american agriculturalist and per hibb aus by and 1 py y to some ome small extent our own farmers but bat neither america nor ourselves will be adv nearer to the true solution of the great economical problem indeed here and there too the temporary renewal of apparent prosperity which we wa na believe lieve is ia just perceptibly on the raise will not improbably discredit fr for a time with all cl asses the sol solution aaion which we and those who share our opinions offer offar this solution lution go is ia that the tha by means of the agency of the common wealth become their own masters that the state must assume the tha capacity 0 supreme adviser as well as supreme arbiter and director and that all labor troubles shall be ended by collectivism that 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