. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... xalted. Pittsburgburned only wood for fuel, the wood being broughtdown on flat-boats. At Youngstown, Ohio, were threehundred horses used on the many stage coaches thatcentered there. There was a steamboat that ran fromCleveland to Buffalo in two days and a night, stoppingseven times on the way to take on passengers andgoods and wood for fuel. At Buffalo you could hearthe roar of Niagara Falls and see the mist J- Arrivingat the Canada side of the Falls he was shaved by anegro w^ho was a runaway slave, all negroes in Canadabeing free. Cobden
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... xalted. Pittsburgburned only wood for fuel, the wood being broughtdown on flat-boats. At Youngstown, Ohio, were threehundred horses used on the many stage coaches thatcentered there. There was a steamboat that ran fromCleveland to Buffalo in two days and a night, stoppingseven times on the way to take on passengers andgoods and wood for fuel. At Buffalo you could hearthe roar of Niagara Falls and see the mist J- Arrivingat the Canada side of the Falls he was shaved by anegro w^ho was a runaway slave, all negroes in Canadabeing free. Cobden says, the States are not especially adaptedfor agricultural products, the land being hilly andheavily wooded ^American exports are cotton, wool,hides and lumber. It will thus be seen that in 1836America had not been discovered. Arriving back in England, Cobden began to write outhis ideas and issue them in pamphlet form at his ownexpense. For literature as such, he seemed to havehad little thought, literature being purely a secondarylove-product. 127. GREAT REFORMERS—Richard Cobdea OBDENS work was statisti-^^fe cal, economic, political andfc? philosophic. From writing heread his pamphlets beforevarious societies and naturally followedand soon Cobden was forcedto defend his was nominated for a seatin Parliament and ^vas de-feated. Next year ran againand was elected. The politicalcanvass had given freedom to his wings; he hadlearned to think on his feet, to meet interruption, toparry in debate £<► The air became luminous withreasons Ji Jk England then had a tax on everything including grains and meat brought into England there wasan import tax which was positively prohibitive. Thistax was for the dual purpose of raising revenue forthe government, and to protect the English course the farmer believed in this tax that pre-vented any other country from coming in competitionw^ith himself. Cobden thought that food products should p
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