Show ENGLAND AND THE TARIFF i l A A special cable to the New York Herald says fays the i workingmen of England are sorry that the they voted against Mr l fr Chamberlains Chamberlain's protective t tariff rifi and elected a liberal administration because the price 0 of or f bread has advanced ad The price of bread has bas advanced all around the W world orld among b bin civilized nations so there is is nothing in th the reason given wh why English workingmen are sorry that they rejected Mr Chamberlains Chamberlain's proposal I By the workingmen in the above e doubtless is mean meant t 1 the men who carry carr on England's great manufactories manufactories tories not the farmers England's theory ever since 1846 has been that she with her bel conveniences could I t I make and deliver manufactured goods cheaper than any other country so she has advocated free trade Mr l Chamberlain pointed out that under that program pro pro- gr gram r lD In English farmers were being so ground down I that the race was degenerating and demanded a tariff i to protect them against the cheap food that was being be be- ing jug sent to England It was easy to beat him because the artisan and city vole vote of England is much in excess of the farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farmers farmers' far far- mers' mers vote But the real test still awaits England When Japan perfects her woolen and cotton mills loads the I product on her own ships casts anchor in Liverpool or Southampton harbor and offers her goods at a lower rate than England can possibly produce like goods then the world will vill see the wise men of the tight little isle b begin gin to to hedge and to toj toi f j i conclude th tha after all a nations nation's first duty is to prof protect protect pro pro- f its own people It will not be long until the world will see sec this very thing Since 1846 England has been playing with loaded dice She did not open her game until she had b by an outrageous tariff accumulated a vast amount of mone money she had bad her mines of iron and tin and coal close by 13 were her factories with more skilled workers ers than all the world outside possessed she had more ships than all the outside world her ports were close to her bel factories and when perfectly prepared she announced her new gospel and was able to bankrupt every nation and every wild tribe that accepted it When Theu the little brown men and the yellow ellow men can by their ingenuity and merciless thrift beat England at her own game in her own 1 ports then the world will see some squirming and hedging and the day o of England's manufacturing prestige will vill pass away for half balf a century hence the nation which does not put up fences against Mongolian Mongolian Mon Mon- lon golian competition will be ruined That is not a theory but a mathematical proposition proposition tion as certain as that two to times two make four |