Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-06-12
SELECTIONS.
EXPOSING SELF-INTEREST.


free-trade movement in Philadel-
phla. 1t is gotten up by capital for
the benefit of monopoly. Labor is
blinded into supporting measures
that will reduce the workingman's
condition in every way. Free trad
ers cry against protection as tend
ing to create monopoly and wealth,
when it is proven here that free
trade is wanted for that purpose.
When foreign made goods are
brought here to undermine home
manufacture, capital will take care
Of itself, but labor will receive its
eath.blow. No matter how cheap
goods aud provisions are, if the poor
man has no work and no money, he
will starve in the land of plenty and
cheapness. That is the case with
free trade England where thousands
demand BREAD. There is world
of truth in the following sarcastic
paragraphs -
Brother Singerly, the free trade
enthusiast of the Record, is the real
father of the textile free wool move.
ment. He is nothing if not i'm.
petuous. He owns the most attrac-
tive newspaper building; he runs a
firstclass newspaper; he amuses
himself with mammoth paper mill ;
he builds houses ON his own ground,
with bricks from his own yards and
wood work from his own mills, and
he is u large textile manufacturer.
He wants free pulp for his paper
mill ;.he wants free coal for his ma.
chlnery ; he wants free attractions
for his museum he wants free lum-
Der TO: his buildings, and he wants
free wool for his factory. He wants
to cheaper his products, multiply
his labor and increase his profits, all
of which could be done if he obtain
ed all his raw materials free and is
protected in what he produces.
What would be the fate of his CAPT.
tai, his labor and his establishments
if his consumers all Clipped III for
free woolcns and free iron and free
cottons and free everything else,
need not now be considered. Broth.
er Singerly has not yet reached that
point, and he never crosses bois-
ferrous stream until he comes to it.
When he gets there, he will he equal
to the occasion. If his free wool
and free coal and free ores and gen
eral free raw materials bring their
logical result in FREQ products OF
every kind from the pauper.worked
factories of Europe and close our
mills and deprive our worklngmcn
of employment, he will buckle up to
the new occasion and new duties
His first impulse would be to organ.
ize a huge charity association in
every ward to furnish food, raiment
and shelter the workmen free trade
reduced to helpless idleaess, and his
big heart and generous aims would
exhaust his capabilities for temper
ing the sorrow he had been largely
instrumental in creating. Under any
circumstances, Brotherly Singerly
would do his duty; but would it moi
be quite as well to look a little be
You'd free wool to free woolens and
free trade?
Brother Singerly will not be dis
couraged because Speaker Carlisle
failed him. Carlisle was to be Sing
erly's Jumbo for the free trade cir
Gus organized under the cover of the
largely mythical forty thousand tex
tile workers who are crying for free
wool. 1t was inexcusable in Car
Isle, considering how Singerly de
lights the blue grass racers with hi
genial presence and manly ways
but he will not be chilled by the chill
ing Speaker who failed to turn up
He is devoted to free trade he is de
votedtothe cause officiating Randall
because Randall Is not for free trade
and If he can make the forty thous
and textile workers pull the fire.,
trade chestnuts out of the fire ua
der the delusion that they want fire.
wool, and make them serve a politi
cal end at the same time, he will d
it. But he will not monkey an,
more with Van Wyck, who is blum
Western man and means what b
says and says what he means. ii
says free wool; SO far SO good; bu
he tells the whole truth when b
says free wool; freetrade, and tina
is not the way Brother Singerl
wants it put to his largely imaginar
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forty thousand free wool textil
workers just at this time. If fire
woolens and free trade follow fire
wool, as they would just as logical
as frog follows tad-pole, that is el
tlrely another matter, and SIngerl
will talk i. over and see about
when it comes; but for the presei
bp wanfs froa waoI and froa ro m m,