Why Great Britain Wants Free Trade

iïow, tliere is anotber matter; I tiave lolrl yon what the Cobdon club. worklnir in behalf of Kopland, 8 doiny to break down uur protectire system. Von may ask t .ue-tion, Whv iEnlajwi doing tltis? liv is alis niakinjr such (iefcüiean efforts to iireak down our proteetivo eygtem and introduce her own system ot tree trade in its place? Yon prtainly wil! not prVtend th:it shp is doing it t(r love ! 1 do Bol mean to wy that slie is any norse tlian anv other na'(iiií. that Blie is more elfls tlian otliersj lint she is oerUtlnly not an. No, my friends. t is riot for" love. I w i il tcllyou wliy theyate ddfalg it. I have Hvo.l among them eleven yeur, and knnw ilicni vvcll and know rlicir trfrttires. KngJaiid Io-dy does tmt mise fuffieiwil foou to rewl liui own people! rfliu cannot do it ! For ten urüeles of food whicli I oin name to you - live alllltluls, tnoat. bie;ul stull's tiftUcr, clieese, laid, (ish. egs li t.itoi;s and rice - lie paid last year over 'IGOO.OOO.OOO. Ju Js;u, tliirtccn ynrs ajrn, she pá for hpse'ten nrticles of .food $276.000.000- lié titan lialt what slic g payiltg now. And if yon look over lier statistici ter the last Iwenty yeari you will ünd tfial títere is a frriidn.il Inórente ycar atter year for these producís; and, if slie continiies to iricrae :ts she is now (Toiltg, in tlie year 1900 slie wili have, to paf for Itlioae eu aitieles of lood not leM tlian tit yin i ti ui No fiation in the world e ut stand tnts tur leitfith of time. X piaople llliilerstand this better tlian tlte Boglif h din thein-elves. And the qiMttiop with lier shttesmuli ind )olilieians is liow to provide clieap lood tor tlieir people. 1 do not state th''se facts from heresay, I tnke them frnni thetr own publistied record-, I eet them dirtctly front their parliaihentary proceei'infr. 'l'liereloie, you 'an see it Ie for tbe Interest of England to get food clieap to teed lier people. Now, if she can breakdown our protei'tive sj-stem, she vety well that the greatèï portion of onr lnborinjf men iow eng;i{jéd in tnanufaeturlng woulJ be priven :is a matter of neceas! ty into agrifcultöral pnrsitlts, ar.d that this wonld resnlt in Ovérpfodtictlon of agricultura! product-, and tend to put down prie.es, it inay be - indeed, most probably woiild - put down price of agricultura! producís iifty per cent., possihly even more tlian t li is. The farmer would tlien have to wil t"r tifty ents what he nnw iets a dollar for. Wbo would be benelited by tbis? The farmer conld not raise one single bushei mors of grin per acre than he does now; bnt be oóuld then only get half the prico he now receives for wliat he would have to geil. Ehgland would le hencfited by it. Slie could thetl liny her food for halt she now pays, and the farmers of oilr conn trv woMld be the lopers. Whr.t England 'would s;aÏM we would Ios"; and the loss would fall en the farmers of our country. That is not all. Tliere is another niattci conneeted willt Ihis. uu t ilk nbout deptession here! Why! l'lnii is live times as niitolt ílftpT(íloil iu F.nglaud a th'-re is, luie. Von talk alxml a few Men ihat re turned out of work here. Wlieie their are tivc men tu.nnl out hete, thcre arelen tlieie; hile tliere in one Illlll slopped here, tliere arelwo slopped therc. Êngland wants a niaikct f.ir her inanufactuied coninuiililies Slie eaiinut geil what sIik is now producin;r,and this makes the depression ghe is sutluriitij. Now, if she eau break down our manufactories, or even one-half' f fhetii, slio expects (bat we will buy frnm lier whst we are nmv prodiidng, and in this way that ehe will m.ike a niíirki't foi hiI lier 111:111 ufao mif.l coiimiiMliiies, and IncreBM her hiisIneM to thi exlciit, and no doubt thls would be the lesiilt, nnlesa we leduced Mie waget of OUT people to llie same Itandard of thfl Irilinrot' K'iropc. 8hc onderstandi tiiis: everv mwapafhr in Knl;iiiil m mli'i st 1 mis il. and every stateMiien in Enjrland understands it. Slie wouM be alle to ifet lier food wliicli ihe ie CompeHed (u bny it may be .11 li 1 1 1 thfl piïce slie is now pnying, and al the. same time créate a in.iiket tor her rniinufiictnred conuuinüiics in Chis country. Tuis is whiil Kiifíliind is driving at; this is wby tlie ('ibden club is loint; wh;it it h in UiN i'ountiv, and yiu see tliey are woikiu for tbemselvcs - lor jïiigland, atid not for uur country. Tlie.v are to intike by it, we to loie; and the los would (;ill upon our indiiëtries and our lai.oiinjc people. The Hay Slutc Monthly, a Massacliuletts magazia, codmm toour tiible well frcitiiod wiih ffoini reaülng; matter. This ïumbei is ol wpeeM imeraMo peopleof MirliijjHii.ljrcallse it oiilitlillis il line stei-l engiHVing of Hou. V. V. Crapo, whose. r.'iihcr wa me of the Very irst governori Michifian ever had. Mr. OrifpO lms Inrgt inlcrcst liorc, ainl :is :i mcinber ot' Conifresslrom llie old l ï r i v Stiitc has ahvBys Rept au eyc Ón Micliigan's interests. '1 10 rtumber U ;i notewortby one is it oOntálnt lir.si of ilii! pMierftou New Kiijjlimd in tli Civil Vr, announo.el s.uikï time ao. Tle prasfnt insliillmtut incliKleí ÍSTU fespoDM ol M luachasetta in 1861, writ1 1 ¦ ij liy .-.:iiiiul Jioiicts, Jr., and " The , Mren of tlic Sixth Hccimciit," ly Iiev. ('liarles Habhidfíc, Who was clinplnin. It lianlly neetlS sayiiijr tliut tl)cs chapters :iii'tlirilliiifr niirrativrs.anil iniist mut:the rafi'T expt'otatioiiK ef thote whe n-nd them I -L-pspt'cially all old soldiers- to the papers i which are to follow. In connectlon itli llicsu war papers, Dr. Anstin's art iele on " The AuthorlUtlTc Lierature of the Rj bel 1 Ion" is ,i blifhly valnable oonlrtbatton. Tlie subject will Uu ciiiiiiiiiictl. The re are nlo oUht hijiUly intereting artlcles iu the iiuiuber. Publlshed by the H:iy State MomMy Co., Boston, Mas., ut $3.00 per Jar.