Show CONDITION ordinal cardinal 31 manxine ii lir assort that aree trade creates itis it is said eliat in this country protection concentrates wealth in tile hands of a few yet if we will reflect in free trade england wealth is much more c concentrated in the theA ands hands of a few than it is lain in protected united states there is no country in the world whose toveal wealth th is so generally diffused as in the united states there is no country in the world where so many people own their own homes as in the united states there is to no country in the world w where here BO 60 many working workingmen mea have savings in the savings institutions aa att in the united states cardinal manning said in the december number of the nineteenth century a magazine of london in speaking of free trade that free trade did two things it creates irresponsible wealth which w aich stagnates and the starvation wages waged of the labor market then lie he used these remarkable words biere in england we have always before ns us the world of wealth and the world of will want the world of wealth saying in its heart 11 1 I eit sit as queen over all toilers boilers anti and traders and the world of want not knowing what may be on the morrow next he said there are strikes bt rikes running through every industry and agriculture and lauds lands have gone out of cultivation ti then exclaimed this great christian teacher Is there a blight upon our wealth this picture is not drawn by a partisan not by a republican nor by one seeking office or place at the hands of the people but it is the dispassionate utterances te rances of a great christian teacher and philanthropist who has witnessed the result of free trade in ia england we want no such picture in the united states I 1 do not care to what party we belong we ought not to have it and with ballots in our hands appreciating the power of these ballots we ought to cast them in a way to prevent even a step in the direction of free trade major mckinley at ashtabula 0 |