Show J i fit t EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE J 4 We have heard mu much h of late about serious discontent disy dis dis- f y content in ill India India discontent discontent so serious serious that i it itI itt t I l- l threatens ens another mutiny and which includes include many man many districts which in the great rebell on r i fifty years ye rs ago remained tranquil We have all be's bes believed be be- s 's that it was probably due to the result o of the th Russian Japanese ese Russian war that the fact that a brown brownI I race had beaten in battle a white race was was was' stirring M j. j the East Last and awakening a a. a thought though that the Canis Can Cau ll si n is is not ot after all in invincible Possibly this ha has I lit ds had ha haa a d its influence but a few words spoken by a native na- na jL j ft tive s son n of India India Prof S. S L L. L Joshi sheds a world of oi r light on the situation He says f i The The economy of the Indian village remaining t 1 ilp unchanged hanged through centuries of political revolution T has luis has late lately been vitally affected by the competitive J forces liberated by Western Vestern methods of industry 1 Under Linder a system of free trade and increasing b railroad tr M facilities the ignorant villagers formerly eking out l a abare hare bare living at their trades have found it impossible lit t to adjust themselves to the new nev industrial environment environ- environ J ment and have been crushed That ells tells the story The poor pOOl mechanic ning turning g gout l out l t his simple wares by the work of his hands kr 1 mostly has found that a machine away off in Eng- Eng m y f land nd col could ld turn out in a day more than he could inti in fl ti fa a a a. thousand days and also a more more perfect article i His neighbors would no longer pay a rupee for some some- J r. r thing which they could get in i better form fOrI for half l A the money moner and so the Indian mechanic starves L And the money paid by his neighbors all goes out K- K c of t the country in a few ew years they can buy no more and like the mechanic they starve Jf r V h h's As s we think of it the free trade which Great t Britain advocates and practices and nd which a great a great reat j vV i t.- t. p party art t J-t in n this country holds as a true principle has hasA ill A A in its workings upon upon the poorer nations of oft tl earth r been b been en a juggernaut the path of which has een nations Ve We Wea ft t wn with the wrecks of bankrupt f a c fY f the ilie most most able advocate of free trade to poi point t tr r to any nation on earth which has accepted the Eng- Eng IV lisp lish theory and stuck to it for twenty years that n has not riot been made bank bankrupt lpt It has been proven jA over and over again in Great Britain's most powerful powerful power- power iH ful colonies It was so with Canada until she reff reft re- re ff ft r be belled led against it and passed tariff laws It was the thep x p saine same ame way with Australia it seems seems seems' it it-is it is the same way wayA A with th India The United States never tried it for ten years t J t without finding that the country was drained of its its' T i m money and its warehouses stuffed with British f 0 goods The most striking example was supplied in 1857 The country had been reinforced with more morer r gold from California a than it ever had poss possessed before be- be ji fore ore to supply California there had been a market I. I for all manufactured products and yet when the H l' l crash came and for fOl the first time our skill skilled d work- work jf fr jj men were forced to eat free soup it was found that of f the which California had supplied P only only remained in the country and we jj had foreign goods enough on hand to last for years x Ireland has been an example of its effects for fort jV t nearly Y a century England crushed her tones s and left her people only the naked laud land on h. h j to live Now England herself is suffering 1 t J from rom it if The cheap food from America has made ii h any any y profit on English lands impossible and those 1 who ho seem em to kno know declare that the fa farming ing population po ula- ula S tion is IS degenerating Mr l Chamberlain was right though the manufacturers outvoted him The nati nation na- na fei ti tion l that does not take care of its own people sooner r S or or later goes to the wall |