Free Trade Philanthropy

If the asseveratlons of f ree trade attorney8 are to be believed, these centiemen should be credited with a larger sbare of philanthrophy than is alloted to the average man. White persistently ilemanding tbe reduction of all such dutles as they dare not hope to have repea'ed, they insist upon being credited wlth the desire to help othersrather than themselveg. Stati.-ücs are distorted, market quotutions are garbled, f acts hut partially stited - in short, inquirer8who are honestly seeking Information are purposely misled, to bring about a reversal of the popular belief that legislation tor the protection of the labor and Industries of Ibis country is for the general good. All tbis for the benefit of others than those spending their time and money in advocating free foreign trade! Millions of voters now employed in manufacturiiiK here in the United States, at better wages than are pald in any other country in the worlil. are asked to support a policy that must Inevitably result in one of two alternatives - eitber to turn over to forcigners the privilege of manufacturing for thla couutry, or compel American workuien to accept the same wages that foreigners now work for. And iu the plenltude of free trade philauthropy it Is iiisÍ8teJ that all the writing and preaching to thls end is to promote Mie welfare of tliose who work for wages. Before giving ear to such fallucious pleadings, it will be well for werkingmen now engaged in those industries that foreigners seek to supplaut, to look around, with the view to discover what equally remunerative employment the free trade pre ichers are llkely to have roady for them. On Iliis point the preachers maintain a sllence that is peculiarly suggestive. As the cities are said to be growing faster than the couutry, the thousanJs of unemployed would be, in the event of free trade, or anythiug approaching free trade, orobably nduced to turn farmers. Will some of our"tarifffor revenue,"- but a blind for free trade - frlends please read and digest the following figures? They show the average wages men, women, boys and girls rtceive in the various textile manufacturing industries of the United States, as compared with thote received by the sanie class n England, as furnished recently by Consul Brown, of Glasgow, and prepared by the British Board of Trade. These figures are instructive. They teach an important lesson to those who are willing to learn: Great Per U. 8 Brltaln. DifTerence. cent. Cntton $329 33 f179 60 SU Ni 84 Woolen ... 881 34 166 UO 199 34 121 Worsteti... 381 90 15100 210 91 139 Llnen 305 44 196 Ou 179 4! 14