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Protection's Best Defense

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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In the cui'rcnt nuiiiber of the Fort" nightly Review there appears an interestmgarticle frotn the pen of an Euglish writer who nndortakes to waru bis couufrymen against untertaiuing too exaggerated expectationa as to the service the democratie party will reader British trade by excessie reductiona in the tariff. He Btarts ont with the assertion that a large proportion of the manufacturinf; and commercial population of Great Britain were imbued last yeai with the conviction that the electicm of Mi. Cleveland would remove every obstacle to the unrestricted mportation of British goods. He then goes on to show why it is unreasonable to expect that the greatest market in the world will be "once agaiu lying at the feet of British industry and commerce." The gist of liis argument is that the protective policy has proved in practical operation so eminently beneficial tliat free traile of the kind Englaad would ke to sec us adopt is out of the queson. In other words, protection has su idicated itself as a aational policy that ie Eree tradere, in the opinión of this '.n'lish writer, dare not prqceed to the ength of their English admirers and ympathizeri expected they would. II e )roceeds to cite facta in substantiation f his assen ion that the protective policj nis won for itself a position trom which t will be very hard for the free tradera o dislodge it. Among these iacts is the triking (me that the aerease in cxxirts and importa duriiig the last t ■ 1 1 cai's lias been greater than can lie bown as havinu occurred iu the same pace it' time try in the world. The writer in the Fortnigbly lievicw thiuks that BÜch Iacts as these will tand as an impregnable defense of the pi.licv Eagland would like to see overthrown for lier own sellish parposes. The article in niany ways hears out the argumenta of protectionists, and is remarkable English testimony as to the BUCCess of a policy our free traders denounce as a miserable l'ailure. - The hi--li World. The farewell issue of the Dextet Newa lias been given to tho public. It will be known qo more, forever. It has heen a moet excellent paper, and deserveda better fate. It was brought into the world to defeat an antagonist; it accomplished ils purpose, and deservedtolive, hut the one who controlled its fate thought liimself hetter protected by assuiniug the name of the defeated antagonist, and so tho Dexter Leader survivis, and the Neus dies. Editor Thompson, who succeeds to the good will and subscription list of the Leader has proven hiniselí a hustler, and if he continúes to hostie, nuw tliat the field is all clear, as he did when there was an opponent as a Bpur to keep him moving, then he will indeed prove liimself a Buccessful man.

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