Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-02
AMERICAN W0RKMEN, "DON'T You
FORGET IT."

moderately, the utterance does not
seem to have made much impression
on the people at large. Mr.. Carlisle
is an able man enough but he is af.
fiicted with a monomania. That
monomania is Free Trade. He be.
longs to the school of Anglo Scotch
Free Traders who have made Ken.
lucky their home. The BlackburDs
the Becks, the Carlisles and the
Breckenridges, although most of
them were born in America. ara
practically British economists of the
Golden school. They take to British
theories as naturally as ducks to
water. Therefore, they are unsafe
guides for the American people to
follow. The majority of them have
had no practical experience in trade
or manufactures. Trained to the
law they are economists in theory,
and their arguments in favor of Free
Trade smack of the advocates an.
peal to the feelings OF the jury. 81.
All history proves that exclusively
agricultural countries remain poor.
They have no home market, because
they have no home manufactures.
They sell their surplus products IN
foreign countries and they buy their
agricultural implements, clothing,
carpets, if they use them, household
utensils-in fact everything but CON
mon food-from foreign nations.
The latter make all the profits. Mex.
leo is a case in point. She is chiefly
agricultural and mining. Her man.
ufactures amount to nothing. She
goes to England for steel rails, loco.
motives and all railway equipments.
She goes their also for calico where,
with to clothe her poems. She goes
to Germany for most of her heavy
fabrics. She goes to France for her
wines and her brandieS. England,
Germany and France had bonanza
in Mexico in her output of gold, sill
yer, and other minerals, and in sup.
plying modern appliances and raj.
ment to her people, until the Ameri.
cans, in 1879, made q break, as it
we're, for some of her business them.
selves. The great mass of the Next
can peasantry are miserable. -
The Citizen has frequently quoted
the condition of Ireland-a country
five sixths, at least, of whose inhabi
tants depend directly or indirectly
on agricultural pursuits for scanty
living. England drains her life blood
just as Spain, before the successful
revolt of the Mexicans, drained the
life blood of Mexico. Both Ireland
and Mexico present the sad specta.
Gle Of nations decayed aud impoyer.
ished because of the destruction of
native industries by a long foreign
occupation. Mexico, now an indie.
pendent country, will in time be-
come home manufacturer, hut Ire.
land, chained to her ancient tyTant,
must still remain, like India, a stand.
ing awful example ofthe "blessings'
of British Free Trade.
Bnt America, say the Free Traders,
is too great to be ruined by English
competition. How so = British com
petition has bankrupted India, plum
cred China, aud is now playing
havoc with the Australian colonies.
Canada, her own offspring, has had
to protect herself against England's
competition, and Australia, her still
later offspring, is now agitating for
a Protective Tariff. America is
great, bat so also is the British en-
pire. 80 . France, a very great
country, in burst OF sham Napo
leonic cordiality, consented, under
the late imperial Charlatan, to re.
ciprocity treaty with England. A
few years. experience convinced
France that England was robbing
her, and, with great wisdom, her
Republican Government dissolved
the FRAUDULENT compact. England is
no paltry rival in trade or manuiac.
lures. Americans should never lose
sight of this fact. She is the great
est trader, and the greatest schemer,
on he earth, and, to the end that
she may remain paramount CONNER.
cially, she now seeks to fasten her
claws upon the vItals of America.
- When the English monopolist
gets hold of the American market,
the noble business blocks will rise
in Manchester and in Birmingham
instead Of Chiago and Pittsburg.
The stately private residences will
rise in London, and not in our splen-
did American cities, and the Ameri-
can money in the pockets of the
British monopolists will enable the
British workman and his family to
live in ease and plenty, while the
American workman and his family
will have ragged backs and hungry
stomachs. These are plain, unyaI.
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