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Show Great lUitain adopted to give her the conmanl cf the trade in all the important ports pf the world. Our own country has done pretty well; it has settled and peopled a continent twenty-five times greater in area than the United Kingdom in a cen-trry, cen-trry, and has accumulated much-wealth. But .had our country when the Civil war closed, gone at once to work to make her steam marine what her tonnage ton-nage in sail ships was, compared to Great Britain's five years before; her wealth would now be vastly greater, her prestige supreme. . . T INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS: j In 1832 an essay on "The Industry of the British Nation," which had been written by Chenevix, was published. : He called England "the most renowned eeat of industry." Then he traced her upward career, ca-reer, noting that the Italians, the Germans, the Flemish and the Dutch had the start of England, up to- the beginning of the fourteenth century. What business she 'had before that was in the hands of foreigners and the mint was conducted by Italians. . With the coming of the fourteenth century Edward 1 granted safety to all merchants of Almoine, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc., who traffic with England, which the writer calls most expedient, "because as yet the natives did not much navigate to foreign countries and the produce was carried ,away In foreign ships." And the exports, save a litttle leather and coarse cloths, were raw products. The , fifteenth century increased her manufactories end she pushed her ships into the Mediterranean. ,IIer Moolen manufactories increased wonderfully, and the ruin of Antwerp gave her the silk manufacturing manufac-turing business. The seventeenth century saw the ; beginning of her great advance. Her colonies in the ITew World were planted, treaties were made with the outside nations; her war, navyund merchant I marine advanced to the first place; her trade might-.Jly might-.Jly increased, and her. tariff drew to her immense 'sums. The eighteenth century was one of un- bounded advancement ; her navy, war and commerce . increased until it was equal to three-fourths of all Europe, and her' trade increased correspondingly. correspond-ingly. At the close of the eighteenth century the Writer says: "One of the most remarkable and for- tunate circumstances in the above statement is that the domestic and proper industry of English-,roen English-,roen the produce of their hands and minds fur-nisbes fur-nisbes four-fifths of their exports. Of all modes of ; traffic, the most advantageous would be for one and the same people to perform every operation relating to it; that is to say, for them to grow the raw material, ma-terial, to fabricate it at home, and then export the manufactured commodity in ships of their own construction con-struction and manned by themselves." . Then came the nineteenth century, and with it the steam engine, and all the change England has made from the above programme .has been to buy inch raw products as she could not produce at home. The manufactures and the ships she has seen to. nor plan has been to exchange a few yards of cloth, Vool and' shoddy, with a lijtle English brain in it, for a bale of wool,' to send her product away and to bring the raw product back in her own ships, and to charge freight both ways. In that way the little Island absorbed half the world's wealth; when she was all ready with machinery, trained, skilled work- lngmen, ships on .every sea, factories close to' her ports, and unlimited money which she had gathered by her trade and by 150 years of robbing tariffs, she j.rodaiined the loveliness of free trade. In the rJxty years since then, she has kept nearly one-half the American people believing that hers was the right principle; they have fought and are still fighting fight-ing for free trade, 1 hough they have seen how Eng-l Eng-l aid made the world half bankrupt through it, and with I'qual pprsistenoy they, while seeing what En-j En-j !ish shipping has'done for her, have fought the . "Lotion cf the same rules tor this country that |