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WHAT FREE-TRADE DID TO FAMINO.
It Compelled Great Britain to Pay
Dot Foot Billions for Imported
Farm Products.
Northwestern Agriculturist
When Free-Trade was inaugu
rated in Great Britain in 1846,
the openly avowed purpose was
to sacrifice the farmers in the in
terest of cheap food for the fac
tory wage-earners, so that the
latter could live on reduced
wages, and thereby enhance the
profits of manufacturers. At that
time, English manufacturers were
able to defy competition of the
world in most lines of production,
and England was mistress of the
seas, controlling the exports of
all. The greedy manufacturers
determined to hold the world by
the horns in manufacturing, and
were ready to destroy ' all Eng
lish, Irish, Scotch and Welsh ag
riculture and import food from
"the cheapest markets of the
world." They would thereby
force farmers to become bands in
their factories, increasing the
supply of factory labor, and
thereby lowering wages. This
part of the dastardly conspiracy
of the manufacturers has proved
woefully successful, and, today,
Great Britain has a decadent ag
riculture, her farms, which were
wonders of intensive and pros
perous cultivation before 1846,
have largely become abandoned
and gone to "permanent pas
ture,' i. e., weeds, and English
farming is so neglected that one
of the important items of export
from there, now, is millions of
pounds sterling of stable manure,
sent away every year;' for it is
useless to fertilize land when its
harvests are ever and forever un
profitable. "
Today, English labor is a "drug
on the market," at three shill
ings (75c) a day. Skilled ma
chinistsexperts such as earn
$4 to $6 a day in the United
States earn in England five or
six shillings a day ($1.25 to $1.50)
and common labor earns not
enough to keep the laborer him
self from hunger his family re
ceives charity or starves. All
over Free-Trade England starva
tion faces hundreds of thousands.
The manufacturers ar de
pressed bv the results of their
own suicidal folly. They delib
erately destroyed home products
of food, and now are forced to
pay to foreign nations four bil
lion dollars a year for food sup
plies which could have been pro
duced upon their own land, by its
now idle acres and idle laborers.
This is a constant drain upon
Great Britain's wealth, and dis
tress is increasing year after
year. The poor ex-farmers, driven
to starvation in factory work, are
not a profitable home market for
the products of the factories.and
so the bulk of what the factories
produce must go abroad for lack
of a prosperous horrie market,
while the foreign markets in all
other nations are closing more
and more each year against im
portations of , English g o o d b
through their own Protective pol
icies encouraging their own home
productions. ',
All of this tendency is naturally
making the food producers of
Germany, France,: AustriaHun
gary, Italy. Russia, and and
Belgium, and 0Jtierc2yjlize4 na
tions mew independent; for far
menfof " eahfooieed! nation
are finding a demand -at 'Itome
for their foodsTT attd ed "they no
longer have to sell food to Great
Britain without an advanced price
The result is discouraging m both
directions for v the victiaaa -of
Great Britain's Free-Trade follv
the cost of importtd food is
rising, while the world market
for her manufactures is becom
ing more and more restricted.
This is not by any means an
overdrawn picture of the results
of Free-Trade and it is but the
mirror of what must result if the
present ' insane policies of our
Government cannot be checked.
Great Britain' is the only Free
Trade nation in the world. Until
it became such, in 1846, it was
the most prosperous, just as the
United States is now, and in bo'h
cases the prosperity was due to
Protecting all branches of pro
ductive industry, chief of which
always and everywhere is farm',
ing. Today the only Free-Trade
nation is the most distressed na
tion, and it is looking eagerly
hopefully, fiendishly for America
to join its misery, destroy our
agriculture, embarrass our man
ufactures and put ourselves at
the mercy of industrial competi
tion of the foreign nations.
Let us not flatter and deceive
ourselves, by Baying we fear
nothing. It is the fool-hardiness
of ignorant self-conceit to declare
that we can maintain American
wage standards and produce so
much better than others can,
that oar cost of production with
skilled labor getting $5 a day in
competition with skilled labor in
Europe working for $1.25 to $1.50
a day, will enable us to out-compete
all rivals. That is rank folly
and self-conceit.
We can meet that competition
only by meeting its scale of
wages, but it is the height of
egotistic nonsense for us to say
that a machinist earning $4.50 a
day in the United States, can ac
complish more than three ma
chinists in Europe earning $1.50
each. As a matter of fact, the
skilled labor of Europe is often
better trained than it is in this
country. "
An example of European com
petition occurred recently when
American and English builders
of paper-mill machinery bid for
the order for two machines for
a new paper mill at Toronto, Can-
aaa, ana cne ungusn Did was
$80,000 lower than that of the
American. This was due to the
fact that the Canadian Tariff
gave England the advantage of
$35,000 differential on these two
machines, over all other nations,
but the balance, $45,000, was en
tirely due to the lower cost of
labor in England for skilled ma
chinists. This shows what it will
mean to America when we open
our home markets to share them
with world-competition here,
while we rely upon competing
with the world in outside mar
kets. The dog drops its juicy
meat to dive for the elusive re
flection in the stream below. We
cannot compete without lowering
our wages to the European and
Asiatic scales, and our wage
earners must adjust their food
expenses to what can support a
family on an income of $8 to $9
a week. We have already shown,
in previous issues.the immediate
shrinkage of all grain prices to
the export basis; upon perishable
vegetables the loss ' will be still
greater. .;. '
' There is no theory about this,
it is only an indisputable condi
tion, and a repetition of all his
tory of Free-Trade, ' 'every ..time
it has been tried, either in the
United States 6r anywhere. The
nation that ' surrenders Its home
market,, wfieea itt' effici
ency in production; ; and invites
distress to agriculture and all in
dustrial, effort J
USKER NEWS.
Sunday school and Epworin League
Baily-To Jpeak at H.E. CnarcD
-General News.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bridgers
of Conwav were callers in town
Monday.
Mr. J. S. Bryant went over to
Newsoms. Va., Sunday on his
hew automobile and took with
him Mrs. Bryant and their son,
Master Perry, and Miss Olive
Gould and Mr, J. E. Lassiter.
Misses J osie Lassiter. Maggie
Lassiter, Mary Cowan, Ruby Cow
an and Mr. George Gilliam of
Rich Square were callers in town
Monday. They dined in the
pleasant home , of Mr. J. J. Par
ker.
. Mr. Ellis Warren, who has
been seriously ill at his home
south of town for several days.
is somewhat better at this writ
ing.
Miss Lota Lee Draper and
Stanley C. Draper spent a few
hours in Jackson Sunday after
ncpn.
Mr. W. S. Deloatch and Miss
Clara Vaughan are attending the
Teachers' Institute at Jackson
this week.
Lasker and Conway baseball
teams will cross bats on the home
diamond next Saturday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. A swift game is ex
pected. Admission to see the
game free.
Quite a large concourse of peo
ple attended the sale of property
of the late Nancy F. Draper here
last Saturday.
Mr, Ralph Parker joined
party from Rich Square Tuesday
who went over to the State Farm
and enjoyed a pleasant day,
jur, .uawin aarnnarat, & min
isterial student of Trinity College,
will preach at the Methodist
church here Sunday evening at 8
o'clock. Mr. Earnhardt is a mem
ber of North Carolina Confer
ence and is among our most prom
ising young ministers. He is a
forceful speaker and will bring a
good message to our people. Pub
lic cordially invited.
Mr. J. J. Parker visited Nor
folk, Rocky Mount, High Point
and Greensboro last week on bus
iness. While in Norfolk Mr,
Parker purchased a nice lot of
mules and horses. In High Point
he purchased two carloads of fine
furniture which will be on exhi
bition on the 3rd. floor of his big
brick store in a few days. We
were in error last week when we
stated that Mr. Parker
Raleigh.
was in
Miss Olive Gould, who has had
charge of J. J. Parker's success
f ul millinery business during the
past season, left Tuesday for
Roxobel where she will visit be
lore returning to her home in
Baltimore. Miss Gould is very
popular here and her many
friends will miss her. She will
work with E. S. Bowers & Co.,
Jackson, next season.
k Mr, A. J. Draper of Boykins,
Va., was here Saturday on busi
ness. The newly elected officers of
Vance Council No. 162 Jr. O. U.
A.M .were installed during their
regular session last Saturday ev
ening. Hon, G. H. Midyetteof
Jackson, who is a member, was
present .,. ,::.7;
The local Farmer's Union will
meet next Saturday afoon at
8 o'clock. A good attendance is
desired. Ice cream will be served.
Miss Lina UaieGraywho has
been teaching music in the home
of Mr. C. W. Draper since Janu
ary.1 closed her work and return
edta (9 home- to JUnrt
Friday. Miss Gray 'began work
here with quite a large number
of pupils and the class grew from
time to time. An excellent at
tendance was maintained through
out the term. A prize was award
ed to Miss Eva Draper by Stan
ley C. Draper for having done
the best work in the class. The
prize was a large volume of mu
sic As a music teacher Miss
Gray proved herself to be thor
oughly capable. She is unusually
popular among our people and
her many friends here will keen
ly regret her absence. Our best
wishes follow her.
An Eoworth League and Sun
day School Rally will be conduct
ed in the Methodist church here
on Thursday of next week. This
will be the biggest occasion of
the kind ever held in this county.
Strong speakers have been Be-
cured.and no pains will be spared
to make it a day of profit as well
as pleasure. The program in de
tail appears elsewhere in these
columns.
Seien Nets.
Mr. R. B. Flythe, formerly a
citizen of this place but now of
Blackstone. Va., waB a guest of
Dr. T. O. Joyner laBt Monday.
Mr. Gordon Pruden spent Sat
nrday in Norfolk, Va.
Mr. W. H. Pruden is visiting
relatives in Portsmouth Va.
Mr. P. M. Fleetwood of Jack
son spent Sunday with his niece,
Mrs. J. L. Long.
Mrs. M. M. Long Jr., returned
to her home in Portsmouth Va.,
last Tuesday. She was accompa
nied by her sister. Miss Lottie
Woodard who will spend several
weeks with her.
Miss Audrey Pruden returned
last Friday from Chapel Hill
where she had been attending
the summer school for teachers.
Mr. Willie L. Bryant is visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Ben Sykes at
Garysburg this week.
Miss Mary Pruden of Seaboard
is the guest of her cousin, Miss
Ila Britte this week.
Mrs. W. H Howell and daugh
ter, Claire are spending the week
with relatives in Norfolk
Miss Sallie Hoggard returned
Saturday from a pleasant visit
to Franklin, Va.
Mrs. D. W. Watson, Misses
Claude Stephenson, Lois and
Bettie Starr Howell, Ida Lou Fu
trell, Mary Fleetwood, Hilda and
Lillie Pruden went to Franklin
Friday afternoon to witness i
game . of baseball between Frank
fin and Se vern. On account of a
storm the game was called in the
4th inning. Score 5 to 2 in favor
of Franklin.
Mr. Kelly White of Conway,
visited his uncle Mr. j. J. White
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Stepnenson
and children, Randolph and Fan
nie May of Pendleton, spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Stephenson.
Pastor C. W. Scarboro filled the
appointment of Pastor Waff in
the Baptist church Sunday after
noon. .Pastor waff is at present
a patient in Sarah Leigh Hospi
tal, Norfolk. We trust he rosy
soon be restored to health and
strength and may take his
place among us again. .
Pastor D.L. Earnhardt of Pro
vidence M. E. church was a
guest in the home of 'Mr. and
ZlrsPD.' W:,Wtsdn Sunday af
You say she only par
tially returae&jaur affection?
Clarence Yet, ; she returned
all tL love letters, but retained
t tieifelry.-Brookiyn Citi-
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ROXOBEL NEWS.
Principal for School Waoted Crop
Prospects-New Bank-Ice Plant
-Personals.
Crop prospects have improved
greatly since our las); letter and
it now looks as if the harvest
time will find a bountiful yield.
The borne for the Roanoke-
Chowan Bank is being put in
shape and the institution will
open for business not later than
Sept first 1913.
The Roxobel Graded School has
failed so far in securing the ser
vices of a principal for the com
ing year, having missed each one
elected so far by only a few days.
The committee wishes to corres
pond with a suitable gentleman
for the place.
Dr. J. M. Jacobs has purchased
a new automobile and received
same last week. Roxobel has
not invested in many "mobiles"
so far, unlike some of our neigh
bors. Mr. Jno. C. Tynes and family
have returned home from a visit
to the seashore.
Mr. Jno. E. Peele and daugh
ter. Foy, left for Norfolk and
Baltimore on the 4th., returning
home a few days ago. They re
port a pleasant trip.
Mr. W. V. Brett and family of
Winston-Salem arrived here last
week to visit relatives. Mr. Britt
will go on the road for the Amer
ican Tobacco Co., and has gone
to enter upon his duties, but Mrs.
Brett and daughter will remain
a while with kins-people here.
Miss Mattie Liverman has gone
to ABheville to spend some weeks
in the "land of the sky."
Misses Eva and Eunice Wat
son and Carew Jilcott have re
turned from Windsor where they
have been attending the Teach
ers' Institute for two weeks.
Messrs. Wimbrow Bros. & Co.
are locating one of their saw
mills near Aulander.they having1
recently made some purchases of
standing timber in that locality.
Mr. Leroy Capehart is remod
ling his old store building into a
dwelling house. Roxobel needs
a number of dwellings, more than
she has to rent to those who would
make their home among us.
Misses Hines and Powell of
Gatea county are visiting Mrs. J.
T. Burkett, near town.
Mr. A. T. Liverman has re
turned home from a trip to Bloom
field, N. J where he went on
business.
Mr. Malcom McKay, Jr., has
gone to Wilmington for a while
and will probably make that city
his home.
Mr. C. T. Harrell is building
a larger ginnery near the depot,
hoping to have it completed by
the time the new crop begins to
move. e;-
There has been some talk of
an ice manufacturing plant here
and -it is hoped that this factory
will yet be a reality, for one is
needed on this branch of the S.
AL.R.R.
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The Charlotte Chronicle gives
a very distressing comment upon: :
the macadam road situation in '
its county, and says that the
time has come When a new ma-'
terial must be used for building
or a ' better system of 1 repair ;
found. Theijnacadamijg fine for
two or three years; but the rains
liul ;the vehicles soon get the'
better .oi; it, land Its original cost !
is too great r-The State Journal;
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