Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1888 — England Dreads Our Competition [ARTICLE]

England Dreads Our Competition

N.Y. Star Interview with Chauncey M. Depew: Chauncey M. Depew was at his desk in the Grand Central Depot before the copperhued gentlema who countersigns the passes had turned up. Until noon he was kept busy wringing the hands of hundreds of friends who dropped in to congratulate him upon his saf * return to his native heath. Mr. Depew was in one of ns jolliest moods, and joked and talked politics with all his whilom vivacity. “Did you nnd much interest manifested abroad in the Presidential campaign ?” “Not a parLcle on the continent, but prodigious in England. There it is everywhere discussed. You can not go into a store in London or any large citv where, if you are known or suspected to be an American, they will not ask you all about it. The general opinion over there is that all the Democrats are free traders in the English sense, and they cannot understand what a tariff reformer is. “I met an Englishman, a nobleman of high education, who had traveled all around the world and knew America thoroughly. He favored the election of General Harrison.

“This surprised mb, as Mr. Harrison is almost unknown in Engand. I asked the reason for his preference. He said that such a measure of tariff reduction as is proposed by the Democratic party would be the> severest blow ever struck at English manufacturing and commercial supremacy. Ho said that he was convinced :'rom what he had seen himself, and from what he had been told by eminent English manufacturers, that the American people with free raw material and their marvelous faculty for adapting machinery to the most complicated and delicate manufactures would soon control the markets of the world.

’‘Under the present system the English manufacturer has it all his own way, and he anticipates with dread the day when he will have to meet his American cousin on equal terms in the markets of t e world.” Henry Clay—“No one, in the commencement of the protective policy, ever supposed that it was to be perpetual.” Hon. James N. Moore, of Lake county, will address the people of Barklev and adjoining townships, at Sand ridge school house, Saturday, October 13th, on the issues of the day. Turn out and hear him.

John Goetz, of Newton township, shipped a fine lot of turkeys to Chicago, Tueskay.

Porter, et. al., have something to sr>y about ‘home markets’ created by monopolies, but say nothing about the fact that they pay no more than establishe rates for products which they dispose of at the “company store” to employes at big profits.

Porter won’t discuss with Turpie; Hovey won’t discuss with Matson, nor Blaine with Carlisle.