Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-10-30
LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS
AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
The people Of the Second Congress
sional District of West Virginia
should not allow themselves to be
tied to the tail of the Democratic
Free Trade Kite. Their interests
are not in that direction. They are
a mining, manufacturing, grazing
and timber and numbering people.
The whole territory of che district
or nearly all of it's full of miner
ais, while the surface is covered with
the best of timber, and is unsurpass-
ed for grazing and wOol-growing.
During the past two years the
Democrats having majority in the
House of Representatives, have been
disturbing the business of the coun-
try By their tinkering at the tariff.
They unsettled business; destroyed
the confidence of capitalists, and
brought the people into the midst of
the hardest times we have had since
the Democratic free-trade days of
1887. So long as such legislation is
attempted dull times may be expect
ed.
AT the last session, the Morrison.
Tariff was again brought forward,
and at once manufacturing received
back.set; capitalists let their mon
ey lie idle in the banks while labor
ing men were idle and suffering for
the necessaries of life.
One of the main features of the
the Morrison bill was the placing on
the free list
"All woods, unwashed, washed or
scoured;"
Woods on the skin -
Timber, hewn and sawed; )"
Timber, squared or sided;"
"Sawed boards, planks, and other
lumber Ofhemlock, white-wood, syca.
more, and all other articles of sawed
lumber"
The greatest interests for the PEG.
pie of the Second District to take
particular notice of, are wool, timber,
and sawed lumber.
We have an abundance of timber
of all kinds, but we do not want to
have it brought to market at the
low, starvation wages that are paid
to the laboring men in the British
Dominions therefore, to protect our
own laboring men we should main
tain the present tariff on timber and
lumber, and only vote for men for
Congress who will vote In that ca.
pacity to sustain those duties.
Then uote for W. FL. FL. Flick.
Another item added to the free
list by that Infamous bill was aooOl
In the canvass two years ago, the
Democratic candidates led the peo
pie to believe that 20 effort would
be made to cut off the duty on wool;
so the wool, growers went to the polls
and voted their usual way, and when
the bill was before Congress the
wool growers of the country were
led to believe from the bill first be-
fore the committee, that no adverse
action would be had touching their
interests. The minority report made
in opposition to the bill, speaks Of
the attempt made to put aoool on the
free list without letting the farmers
know anything about it.
There is no section of our whole
country better adapted to wool
growing than the fifteen counties
composing the Second COMPRESSION
al District of West Virginia; and
yet, that District is now represented
in Congress by a gentleman who
voted for the consideration of that
bill. To the wool growers of this
District we would say, if YOU want
your wool placed on the free list
vote for VIM. l.. Wilson but if you
want your woods protected against
the cheap woods of Australia, New
Zealand. and the South American
States.
Vote ,0r W. FL. II. Flick.
Again-If you want your pure,
homemade butter-made from the
cream of your own cows-to be
brought into competition with that
impure article manufactured from
TALON, lard, petroleum oil, and Lord
only knows what other stuff, vote
for VIM. l.. Wilson, who voted
against taxing or even branding
such stuff; but if you are in favor OF
good, pure "cow BUTTER"
Vote for w. III. II. Flick.
Last, but not least, If you are OPP.
posed to the continued agitation OF
this tariff question, which unsettles
the business of the country and
brings on hard times, 60 to the polls
on Tuesday, the second day of No.
vember and acork and
Vote for W. II. II. Flick.-Mo,gan.
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