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A Free Trade Nut To Crack

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Day
20
Month
August
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the Western Daily Press, published at Brlsto], Eng.,- a piper In its 65th volume - under the head of " Clothing for Bristol Emignints," we find the followine in the Usue of July 4th, 1890: sik: May I throngh your columns cali the aUcmtlon of your readers to the n-al nced In whioh oursoclety now Is of clothing for poor litinllli's a bout lo leave Bristol for ottier 0011:1trles, i ii the bopo of betterlng thelr fortunes there, and in many cases of Jolning rolatlves who have preceded tbem ? I caiinoi help thinking tliat onr want Is unknown to those benevolent fellow cltizens wli senil even thelr left-off clothlng to benej fit the poor of London. It is too often forgotti-n tliat, lf the need of I .ondon Is very great, lts wnulth lsevnn greater in proportlou, and at the sanie time into it now flova much of the money which nsed to be peut In provincial towns. Charlty ought to begin at home, and innny of the respectable poor of Bristol are much in need of II , or they would not leave thelr natlveclty to venture on a hard struggle elsewbcre. Contrlbutlons wlll be g'adly recelved at our office, 27 Queen Square, Your faithfully, A.M. BEDDOE, Vlce-Presldent, Bristol Emigration Society. July 2, 1890. Wlll our free trade friends read the the above carefully, and then congidvr its f uil mcaning ? Wliy are the luboring people emipratiii)i ? Wliy are they not sufHciently pro', perous in the land of thelr birth to reraaln tlicre? England has free trade, has shc not ? Wliy are thc' eo dcstltute as to need the custoff clothing of "the inany wealthy people of London ?" Wliy do they come to Araerica, where the laborer is " robbed and ground down under the heel of an oppressive protectire taritr " Why are not our workingmen etuigrating " to venture on a hard struggle elsewhere?" Will soine anti-protectionist answer ? That above article of itself tells the story plainly to thoge who wlll see it. There can be but one outcome of a change in the tariff policy of thls government, and that change will briog destitution to the homes ot the masses. Shall the change be made '' Do you want to see It ?

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