Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-09-29
INDEPENDENT.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1888.
Think Before You Vote.

WHAT FREE TRADE WOULD DO.
Plumber the poor.
Enlarge poor-farms.
Multiply tenement houses.
Shrivol the public revenue.
Drain the country of money.
Drive labor largely to the land.
Lower size standard of comfort.
Scale down oil salaries and profits.
Revive here the British colonial
system
InundAte this country with foreign
goods.
Turn tie balance of trade against
us.
Desire our capacity for cheap
producti9u.
Uniyersally reduce the value Of
farming l.ld.
Unsctsl8 all corms of mercantile
busines
Instantly cause q paralysis in iron
manufacture.
Incrf Sc farm products and dimin-
ish the market.
Strika tue skilled laborer first and
most severely.
Destroy the possibility of diversi-
fed emDovment.
Paralyze the arm OF the worker
and empty MS pocket.
Add gritty to the wealth Of the
rich an3 ta the poor poorer.
Leave s'silled labor the alternative
of idlenoss or English wages.
Close up thousands OF mills, fac
tories. furnaces and workshops.
Empty the building associations Of
their ters millions of dollars.
Throw the South back to the one
general industry OF cotton-raising.
Put the whole labor population
back to tho ante-bellum condition.
Force Genital out of fields Of enter
prise iu permanent retirement.
Rife oer pockets to swell the IN
comes c sTeedy foreign corpora
tons.
Take the home Of the artisan
the CONNECTS and necessities of life.
Reduce rs from state Of CONNER
cial ind 5paodence to one OF depen-
dence.
Destroq our coasting trade, from
which al foreign tonnage is now ez-
cluded.
"Makc .8o blades of grass grow
where one now grows" in manufac-
turing towns.
Rob rs IF our industrial prospect
ty for tine benefit of Manchester and
Birmingham.
Make labor a beggar at the feet of
capital instead of partner and an
equal, as now.
Give the foreigner an equal chance
with ourselves to profit by our natur-
al advantages.
Stife s1o Genius OF Americans for
adyance.Aer5 in the civilizing arts
and sciences.
Invite struggle between home Ia
Dor, on high plane, and Old World
labor, on low plane.
Enorm0lsiy augment the burden
of Natio4a', State, county, municipal
and individual debts.
Stimula.o the spirit of discord
springing nom the seeds of Social
ism trans aianted from Europe.
Substitute for the music of looms
and lathes and hammers the com
plants of idle workmen.
Make us The victims of Old World
monopolies, which can not be reach.
ed by Anne lcan legislation.
Leave no better opportunity here
than there is in Europe for the sue
cess of br ;as and muscle combined,
Make 49,, country seller of raw
produc Nv rates and a buyer of
finished cts ct high rates.
Leaye ted, skillful labor no
bettercl !or promotion than the
newer OF aI and drawer OF water
Ever, place America practi-
calIy in odition Of agricultural
countrie. Ike India and Southern
Russia.
Bankryt5 many railroads and dis
place all immense number of laborers
in transpo aJion, by reason OF a dl-
minisheG .ayelnal commerce.
Make these States the dumping
ground f. England's surplus pro
ducts, which necessity would compel
US to take, upon her own TERMS
Olncinno,s t,mes-Stdr.
Free Tra1a viii do all these things.