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Editor Utah Dear In reading your articles in the Independent on the tariff you speak of English Free What is English Free If we had free trade could our pay the wages they now Or should we not have to compete with English cheap labor and work for the same wages that the English laborers Very ROBERT What Is Free The definition of Free Trade is just what that word a trade between nations uninterrupted hy tariff Protectionists admit that Free Trade theoretically is very and that this is the reason that all of the professors in political economy in our colleges are Free It will be our object to show the practical side of English free rather than the as the United States has never had free trade since it became a we shall take England for an because she has tried both protection and free We shall give first the result of our own The Wages England with her commerce and intelligence is more like the United States than any other It is claimed by protectionists that if our ports were Old England with her cheap labor would flood this country with manufactured dose our factories and throw our laborers out of employment England's ports are open to and Germany pays as much Wr wages than England as England does than the United yet Germany does not flood England with her cheap on the Germany with her cheap labor and high imported from England seventy-five million dollars worth of goods m a States ia E about the the cost manufactured goods is W 20 per cent of the and as England's raw costs over 20 per cent in the price of does not affect the the Massachusetts and Labor The total average of a. mechanic's rf including childrs Massachusetts was in Great The average total Massachusetts of the Great a net or of the fi of or about Since the above t wages have been 15 cent in and laborers have been put on till to-day the the Eastern factories what has anyone to in explanation of the i Why is it that have a 47 per cent an failing water which i the fuel with free w right here in our omU and in everything nature can wt P V poorly paid Our explanation is the greed of the which our through it's tariff V The Dividends According to J. of m dividends of the England manufacture and the fluctuation stock in Boston from W taking the Am Jj every MJ the brand this company paid a nual dividend L of 10 f J 16 and 7 extra dividend of The Lowell Company by report is still more sur-I Mm la 1877 this company dc- Iffa regular dividend of 10 and an extra dividend two years later an M L dividend of 20 per years after on an extra dividend cent besides a regular f 50 per dividend of 10 per other one dollar in their company amounted to in ten The P. Granite and a other New England mills about on a par with the Low-Wai in regard to their enormous as a usual the or their sons are in these mills and receive princely salaries of from five to thousand dollars per Free Trade in These enormous dividends come from the natural of this from a w and from free trade in Up to the year Eng- Hud had protective tariff-laws as the Corn These were changed from year to during their same as our tariff laws Whey had a tariff between Eng-Band and Scotland or an internal They had also a sliding scale they had twenty laws to our late sugar Wind in fact they had all kinds of low and enacted over two thousand different tariff laws and nearly time a change was man was on the right side the market and the poor man wrong It was during of these English tar- m laws that the few rich acquired of all the It was jg the Tariff laws that slav- during Eng- her K the name of Pauper cf Corn Laws' the prime of the make the Por work 1 these oppressive laws K year when in led they eai or labor riots the of Com- m bread or H Corn Laws were re after which the conditions of the laboring classes began to From the report of Sir Robert of the English Board of on page 0 in his of the English Working People in the last half we quote as the money wages have the hours of labor have The working man gets from 50 to per cent more money and per cent less in round he has gained from 70 to per cent in money returns and with increased wages prices are not much higher than fifty years Carpenter 's wages increased 85 per bricklayers 80 per masons 69 per pattern makers 55 per mule spinners 20 per weavers per and in fact every of work wages While the laboring men of England the manufacture and wealth kept up at the same till she has outstripped every European country in wages paid and all other in manufacturing and That Little While the United Kingdom of Great Britain he lost in some of our great States in regard to size and natural her exports and exceed ours three to and her shipping over nine to The same tariff that keeps goods out of a country keeps its own products at A tariff retards and contracts the business of a country while free trade expands and increases In the United States when our home market is our manufactures close up till a new supply is when England's home market is she loads tier surplus on to ships and sells or trades it to foreign nations and thus keeps her factories It is not our object to praise but to bring out the actual facts of the and when we compare this great United States to England and see how much we have and the little we do under with the little that England has and how much she does under free it is high time we all began to study the The Bogey when and We were taught it is being taught today by that between the United States and is a great tariff and behind this wall an awful with horns and a cloven foot and long linger with his spear of cheap dipped in the blood of a over-worked and under-paid English working that this monster is waiting for the free traders of this country to knock down the tariff so he can in and with his awful swoop down on our close them throw the men out of employment and impoverish this that this Englishman from little island so far north that it has to borrow it's climate from the Trade winds and Gulf where the sun only gives it a slanting where the fog is as dense as darkness in a that this who has neither sugar or who cannot raise enough animal or vegetable matter to appease his own using thin veins of soft coal and nearly exhausted iron that this Englishman who has not petroleum enough to fill a lamp or natural gas to inflate a toy or water power enough to run the mill wheels of that this Englishman with his teacupful of is coming over here to injure the United The nonsense of it is This great country of which has land enough to give every civilized family on earth a and a climate which ever stimulates man to activity and this country with her sheep feeding on a thousand hills and millions of horses and cattle grazing in the peaceful with her sugar cane and cotton in the chasing shadows with the wheat and barley of the with lumber enough in her mighty forests to furnish every family a and rich veins of hard coal two hundred feet thick and soft coal 62 feet with an inexhaustible supply of iron pure that when melted it can he poured into the mold in the with natural gas and petroleum free as the air we breathe and the water we with a Niagara capable of turning all of her machinery and with other falls ten times higher than those of the and where in every water is doing the work of man by furnishing him power is this the country to suffer by trading with other And after comparing this great country with little whenever we hear a politician out for the we feel like giving him a primary geography and first reader and telling him to get his |