| Show A SURPRISED BRITON carr editor ot the western mail ot cardiff wales alio has ben taking in the worlds fair ie a pronounced free trader but since coming to this country he lias seen and bieard to canso ilia faith in the free trade theory to waver thus writing to his wife from philadelphia he bays throughout the length and breadth of this vast continent one is almost daily brought face to face with solid indisputable facts tint to pavo the lie to the soundest and most universally accepted axioms of political economy let me give you just one example under the shadow of stringent protective tariff the manufacture of paper was commenced in the united states paper is still subject to a heavy import duty according to our theories that ought to enhance its price to the consumer ill this country As a mat alti the new york newspaper proprietors prie tors buy their news at a less price than that at which it can be supplied to them in london and some of the paper mills in new jersey are actually exporting paper to the old country unless it can be shown that this paper industry would have grown up without the aid of a protective tariff it Is futile nay it is an impertinence for an outsider to say that the americans have acted unwisely in taxing order to establish in their midst a great industry giving occupation to a great quantity of highly paid labor and it seems to me that this set of facts and the arguments based on it apply to many of the other industries dus tries which are assuming such colossal proportions throughout the length and breadth of the land mr appears to have found out that which alie republicans claimed to bo true and which the democrats denied last year namely that protection causes competition and competition cheapens tho prices of manufactured products to the consumer further on in hie letter he draws this picture of the american workmans condition under protection the more I 1 see of this wonderful country and the further my inquiries reach the more satisfied I 1 am that it is the paradise of the workingman and especially of the wages are high and the cost of living comparatively low the margin between the amount of money necessary for a bare subsistence and the ordinary wage rate is larger than anywhere else in the world it a workingman abid his wife and family were content here to live as they live in england they could eave money very rapidly but they are not so content except in the matter of house accommodation heir circumstances are in every respect better than those of their english brethren they eat better and more varied food they dress better they have at least as good means of education and other sources of intellectual and social recreation they are free from any sense of the indignity of labor class are practically unknown mr carr does not believe that the democratic party will overturn the policy inaugurated by the republican party and under which the united states has so signally prospered he bays Mix ingA I 1 have done of late among all classes of lie publican workmen and manufacturers having witnessed the phenomenal prosperity alike of capital and labor informed as I 1 have been of the extent and of the enormous interests created by the american policy of protection I 1 can not help realizing the fact that that those of our english people are living in a fools paradise who believe that the result of the recent democratic victory in this country although on the cry of tariff reform will result in any measure that will open the markets of the united states joithe manufactured goods of england or the continent of europe theres no american statesman living who dare precipitate such a national economic crisis it would not be reform it would be revolution bunco must havo been a very profitable business in ogden under the lewie regime when the bunco men could afford to pay 40 a month to a quare tho police alone four hundred dollars is a whole lot of A money liard timea and alie average bunc generally knows where to place money so that it will do the most good As ex chief of police accept any of bunco lewiss corruption fund and as lewis cured immunity from arrest for carrying on his unlawful business the question ie what liberal officials if any did corral the boodle TUB STOPPAGE of the free coinage of dilver in india seals the doom of silver a standard of monetary value bays the new york sun great britain rejected it in 1813 germany in 1871 the united states in 1873 tha latin union in 1875 and austria in 1892 now eliat the mints of india are no longer open to it coins of silver become everywhere except in mexico and south america mere tokens deriving their value from the flat of alie governments which issue them and from their with gold for other uses the metal will retain only its commercial value as i i mijae ii jae eswa like tin copper lead nod iron the sun a no right to state as a fact that the doom of silver standard 0 monetary value has been sealed hy tho action of india unless the congress of the united shall abjectly crawl at the behest of the gold power of new york and old world silver will restored to its rightful place in the monetary system the united states can alone maintain a double standard and the foreign bond holders can bo compelled to receive their dues in money which passes current in this country and is good enough for our own citizens |
