Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — English Interests in the American Tariff. [ARTICLE]

English Interests in the American Tariff.

Wbile the men who are seeking to break down the protective policy in the United States are destined to encounter opposition and ultimate defeat, they are not with - out the encouragement of good words and hearty support from the Ei tgh'sh press and politicians. The perms of approval of the President's late message were semetrhathtished by the warning of the Pall Mail Gazette— to niodernte the ecstacy of their, jubilation, as every-wordspoken in commendation of the message would be used as n powerful argument against the adoption of its reeommenda- ■ tious.” Cut repression was no longer possible when the terms of the i?t. Louis platform and the renominal ion of Mr. Cleveland wore rnaclo known. The inere L.ct of this f. reign ecstacy is suggestive; but when we come to read the terms in which it finds expression, ,aud the reasons given for its existence,< patriotic indignation is Well nigh overwhelm- _ ad-ia amaze menUftt British -arrogance and the truculence of its American abettors. Referring to the shouts of the St Louis Convention and its wav-

ingof red handkerchiefs woven on British looms, the London Star saidi “we may very well re-echo that enthusiasm on this side of the water, for the re-election of President Cleveland means the adoption of his 4 program of tariff revision, and his ideas on that subject go a long way towards free trade.” v. And why this enthusiasm over the prospect of free trade? Here is the answer given by the London Economist: “On the adoption of free trade by the United States depends the greater share of English prosperity for a good many years to /come. And the British Hosiery jßevieto, reiterates: ./“We venture to assert that England will reap the largest share-of any advantages that may arise from the adoption of the ideas now advocated by the free trade party in the United Statbs.” During the recent pe°sion of the English Labor Convention, it was asserted, without contradiction, that England has 700,000 workmen out of employment, and numerous mills and workshops closed or working on short time. It was further asserted that relief from this unfortunate condition could be secured iu but one of two ways: First,assisted emigration. Second, reduction of the United States tariff' so as to secure free admission of British manufactures,— a privilege now refused by England’s own colonies. Neither of the alternatives here presented are likely to find many sympathizers among American workmen who are now called upon to decide between the English policy of free trade and the low wages it entails, and that policy of fostering heme industries by which our Country has attained her present enviable prominence among tire nations of the earth.