| Show G GOLDEN OLDEN ERA OF REVENUE TARIFF what the th r rr t trl de N X york fork times said then the if tho the tariff editor of the new york times who la is trying eo so hard to convince the american people of tho the prosperity which prevailed from 1846 to 1860 that golden ere era of revenue tariff would consult tho the files of his own paper daring during that period he might find there some striking commentaries on tho the benesty of free traders in general and of hil his own assertions aaser tiona tn in particular tho the following editorial from the times in jannary january 1853 1855 will prove interesting reading to those who know what a stanch advocate of british interests teresta in the timea times is today incidentally it shows allows fabe which h american free trade al brings to the british complaint fa 6 mado by english residents among us of the popular press of this city that its sympathies aro are anti british Dri tish A correspondent signing himself an englishman says I 1 the times timea la Is not only rampant in ita its hatred but positively absurd in its total want of know knowledge ledge of all european at fairs it la Is english capital that flows here inere I 1 not Ame iTCan cap W to Mn england gland the credit of the english capitalist and merchant ia is instrumental in upholding ding a largo large portion of 0 tho the mercantile business of this city it the cotton supply were w cat off entirely it would 0 only n ay injure one manufacture in engla england u d and impel them to raise cotton in times to come in their own territory say in tho the west india islands what would be effect here we do not feel called upon to defend the daily timea times against the sweeping charge of ignorance on all european subjects made by this doughty john bull suspecting that our real offense is that we chance to know and tell too much for his side of the question bat but a word about the flow of english capital and the danger to the yankee cotton crop with which he twits us we would sooner dispense with the first than be he with the last ot of this thip he and all other loyal Britis hers bers may rest assured the english capital accumulating here has been at the dearest possible cost to american labor it is not counted in english gold but in manchester and Dimling birmingham liam profits and the sooner the flo flow of such capital is stopped the better for borha ahe country last year we imported worth of cotton woolen and iron fabrics mostly of british manufacture every dollar of which could have been and should have been made at home an englishman has the prayers of the whole community of unemployed ed spinners and weavers and iron workers scattered from maine to georgia that he may speedily stop the flow of english capital in this form his long credit would be cheaply dispensed with in the operation the cotton talk we have heard before it is simply absurd this one branch of british manufacture could not be dispensed with for a single month it could not go on without american cotton for a single year it could find no sufficient substitute in the indies or elsewhere for a century the experiment has been tried and exhausted manchester has had the will to do without american cotton these twenty years her trade would not take a pound if they could help heip it burthey but they cannot landhere and here we have our englishman at a positive disadvantage the surprise is that the policy of our own government is not steadily shaped to avail of it to force a flow of british gold instead of british goods which we ought to have no use for in exchange for what great bri britain tain cannot do without |
