Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-11-01
American people from a policy which


has made them the most powerful,
prosperous, and progressive nation
the world has ever seen. To do this
she employs Hessians, Tories and
gloomy minded people, just as she
did hundred years ago. She rails.
es false cry about taxes, which We
make her traders pay, instead OF
our people; she tries to set the rail
roads, farm laborers, and farmers by
the ears by telling the farmer he
must have cheaper labor and trans
portatlon, tickling the ear ofunthink-
| ing people by the phrase "while at
the same time fostering the indus
tries of the country with due regard
to the changed condition of the mar
kets in which our agricultural pro
ducts are sold, which condition de
mands reduction of the cost OF pro
duction." This means, of course,
the English market.)
Not so. Whatever walking is to
be done, let England do it. What
fools we would be to break down a
home market, which consumes ninety
per cent. of our productions, because
of temporary falling off in demand
from countries which only consume
ten per cent. The second PROPOSE
ton, to make raw material free, is
cunningly calculated to set the
wool grower, the lumberman, the
miner by the ears with the manufac-
turer, and thus split up and disrupt
our Tariff party. We are all in the
same boat, and there is plenty OF
room, water and provisions, and no
necessity for throwing anybody over
board or resorting to cannibalism.
But how is it with England
For forty years past her whole poll
cy has been, by money, manufactnr.
ing plant, commerce, military and
naval force, corrupt intrigue, to de
stroy the industries Of other coun.
tries, while making herself a work
shop to supply the world with man
Iufactured products in exchange for
breadstuffs, raw material and money
1t is a good scheme for her, while il
works. But all she has made out of
it she has sunk in increased plant of
all kinds, and now the growing IN
telligence of all new countries Of the
world, led by the United States, has
been learning the wisdom of devel
oping agriculture and home markets
together, and England is threaten.
ed with universal break down in
every industry within her borders.
She started out to menace OuI
farmers with competition by India
in wheat raising, and as result
wheat is so cheap in England that
English farmers are ruined by loss
of ten dollars per acre on theil
wheat crop. Nor is there compensa
ting advantage to British mannfac
lures or commerce. On the contra
ry, the countries which have glutted
the English wheat market do not
buy her wares, and they have thus
choked UP English trade and com
merce with America, and brought
things to a stand still. England is
buried under Manufactured surplus
idle commerce, and Frustrated agri
culture. If, by the aid of corrupt
intrigue or foolish political action,
she can stampede the American
people into couise which will ena-
BILE her to make grand slaughter
market here, relieve her own trade,
choke and break down ours, it is
worth more to her than she has rea-
lied from any war she ever fought,
and all at our expense. Our home
market grows every day. Foreign
demand for our breadstuffs will be
increased hereafter, because of the
very glut now existing there TO the
injury of European agriculturists,
and if we all stand up to the rack
like men of sense and courage, the
fight is won for all time. Any fool
ish or cowardly course means years
Of hard times, financial, industrial,
and agricultural disaster.
The Ohio election shows clearly
that we shall win the fight, and
such attempts as this of Carl Schurz
to lead in a policy which would break
us down, will receive merired con-
demnation.-N Y. Tribune.
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