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The '‘Eafliitx Octopus* the Host Customer For American Producta.Coin resorts to the familiar and ■well worn appeal to fcbo prejudice which some people in this country are supposed to feel against England, Tbp people of that country have the same religion, the same laws and the same language as ourselves. We .did fight in years gone.j by, but we are cow united by the close. ties of business and friendship. The English octopus, as Coin calls it, is really a country that is our best customer for wheat, for cotton, for beef, for petroleum and for Yankee notions. He |*says it “feeds on nothing but gold.” In fact, however, it feeds on the wheat, the coffee, the sugar of South Amprioa^the tea of China-—in short, the natural or manufactured products of every part of the world, all of which it pays fpr. American investors draw geat sums in royalties from this “octopus. “ It does not get any goM worth speaking of from Asia,*from Africa or from South America. Whatever gold it does get is a natural product and a source of profit toTUB BRITISH SCARECROW.those who produce and export it. In short, the whole octopus business, like the other doleotable illustrations in “Coin's School*M is a delusion and a snare. The worst thing that could happei to this country would be the rain of Eng land. No merchant would look with sat-isf action on the ruin of his best custom er.Another favorite argument Of the free silver advocates is that England flrpf ad opted tfaagold standard-and has grqWr jich by It, and that, therefore, -it musf bbad for other countries. Let Ua no6 ^fcwo things iff this connection5,;Pim. —Erfgland'firat''adopted trialt, jury and the writ of habeas corpus. Shlt; first enforced the prinoipte'bf freedom that no man should be deprived of life r property but by the^fudgmenf „M3Qrs or the law of. tlnr'land. Shall wo discard these sacred muniments of liberty because1 they are of English origin? 'VSecond.—If England^; has prospered under^tfae gold, standard.cw^ppju the United .States? jOeftainlyTno country evet\ became.'really, prosperous \ by* the ruin of’ifcffieighbord; In! the* great com-nionwealth* of, 'fiatious.tho prosperity-of ;one ini' .JxMelwd th-'hll and * helps, to•nrielbn 1L——*FVnm PWViAokt*^vuwvliberty*. of EJa
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Chatham Courier
Chatham, New York, US
Wed, Aug 28, 1895
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