hink his nomination a
strong one.

_Question_. Do you think that the nominations have been well
received throughout the United States?

_Answer_. Not as well as in England. I see that all the Tory
papers regard the nominations as excellent--especially that of
Cleveland. Every Englishman who wants Ireland turned into a
penitentiary, and every Irishman to be treated as a convict, is
delighted with the action of the St. Louis convention. England
knows what she wants. Her market is growing small. A few years
ago she furnished manufactured articles to a vast portion of the
world. Millions of her customers have become ingenious enough to
manufacture many things that they need, so the next thing England
did was to sell them the machinery. Now they are beginning to make
their own machinery. Consequently, English trade is falling off.
She must have new customers. Nothing would so gratify her as to
have sixty millions of Americans buy her wares. If she could see
our factories still and dead; if she could put out the fires of
our furnaces and forges; there would come to her the greatest
prosperity she has ever known. She would fatten on our misfortunes
--grow rich and powerful and arrogant upon our poverty. We would
become her servants. We would raise the raw material with ignorant
labor and allow her children to reap all the profit of its manufacture,
and in the meantime to become intelligent and cultured while we
grew poor and ignorant.

The greatest blow that can be inflicted upon England is to keep
her manufactured articles out of the United States. Sixty millions
of Americans buy and use more than five hundred millions of Asiatics
--buy and use more than all of China, all of India and all of
Africa. One civilized man has a thousand times the wants of a
savage or of a semi-barbarian. Most of the customers of England
want a few yards of calico, some cheap jewelry, a little powder,
a few knives and a few gallons of orthodox rum.

To-day the United States is the greatest market in the world. The
commerce between the States is almost inconceivable in its immensity.
In order that you may have some idea of the commerce of this country,
it is only necessary to remember one fact. We have railroads enough
engaged in this commerce to make six lines around the globe. The
addition of a million Americans to our population gives us a better
market than a monopoly of ten millions of Asiatics. England, with
her wo