Show i. i TISH FREE TRADE In his Commoner Mr rr Bryan tells of the defeat of f Mr r. r Chamberlain on th the tariff issue in England and thinks that defeat m most st significant He lie asserts as- as as a.- erts' erts that Mr Ir Chamberlain had th the support of a am m member of manufacturers who furnished him with the necessary ar campaign funds But the result was wasa wasn a n 8 staggering ag ering blow to o the pro protective c i e idea I Assuming all that to be truo true a aud d then what 1 In answer Answer to Mr l Chamber Chamberlains Chamberlain's arguments was the cady read one that what Mr 11 Chamberlain was waR urging would mean an anc a advance in th the cost of living Cannot Can Can- not anyone see what t effect that would have haye upon a n ar r people p dependant in n great part upon other coun- coun I. I e for foo food l Coupled with that it was easy casy to tu sh show m- m England ha had prospered under free tra trade e and to free tree trad j the credit was given h en without showing show show- il ing g wh why trade it wa was ns possible to levy tribute upon the world and make bankrupt tiny any n nation that accepted the theory l t j i But the serious fact act on which Mr Chamberlain laid the real stress that under free trade the farmers of England had become so so p poor or that as a arace athey race ce they were deteriorating Mr Bi- Bi Bryan aJI rays pays no att attention at at- t to When rhen that is considered it t is easy to see seewhy why br free trade yon won It was the tho vote of the great reat cities the Chipping hipping i influences the mines the skilled workers and ami the hordes of the po poor r against the agri agri- culturists But the arguments that won in EngI Eng Eng- I no application to America We Ve do o not import im- im port the food D needed b by the people We Ve have no o ship yards or ships hire hile we foreign ships to do our carrying ing trade The rue iron ironto to carry on the tho steel works iH it carried 1000 miles mills the coal for fOt the smelters i is carried arri d long distances and the thc completed product is carried further to 0 the sea sei shore than it is from froni Southampton to the Scottish border We Ve have no tin mines Our work compasses a land of square miles that of England a country which in inI I arca rea including ng England Scotland and Wales is only equal to that of U Utah h. h But wait wt a little wait until some morning when 8 a Japanese paneS or Chin Chinese s ship hip steams into the harbor of Liverpool Jd and of offers tel'S a cargo carRo of cotton goods or 01 ro i woolen len goods at a u less price prie than the sane same goods Can can an be produced in English mills and then see what I. I the British parliament will do In doing that tho the Japs will be doing what Great Britain has been able abl to do s since nce 1846 England was shamefully ully protective pro until til she had her factories i her material close to her factories her factories close to her ports her ports filled with shipping her colonies stretching around the world more mone money r and more skilled workmen than all the rest of the world and md then she threw off th the tariff aud and began to prey upon a defenseless defenseless de de- IC- IC world orid |