Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1888-10-12
THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE.
What Free Trade wo.,a M

Plumber the poor.
Enlarge poor-farms.
Multiply tenement houses.
Shrivel the public revenue.
Dram the country of money.
Drive labor largely TO the land.
Lower the standard of comfort.
Scale down all salaries and prof.
its.
Revive here the British colonial
system.
lnundate this country with for.
eign goods.
Turn the balance of trade against
us.
Destroy our capacity for cheap
production.
Universally reduce the value of
farming land.
Unsettle all forms of mercantile
business.
Instantly cause a paralysis i'm iron
manufacture.
Increase farm products and dimin-
ish the market
Strike the skilled laborer first and
most severely.
Destroy the possibility of diversi.
fed employment.
Pas alyze the arm of the worker
and empty his pocket.
Add greatly to the wealth of the
rich and make the poor poorer.
Leave skilled labor the alternative
of idleness or English wages.
'lnCp ny a. ,l.
ries, furnaces and workshops
Empty the building associations
Of their tens of millions OF dollars.
Throw the South back to the
one general industry of cotton-rais
ing.
Put the whole labor population
back TO the ante bellum condition.
Force capital out of fields of
enterprise into permanent retire
ment.
Rifle our pockets to swell the
incomes of greedy foreign corpora
tions.
Take from the home of the ar
tisan the comforts and necessities of
life.
Reduce us from a state of CONNER.
cial independence to one of depend
ence.
Destroy our coasting trade, from
which all foreign tonnage is now ex
Guided
"Make two blades of grass grow
where one now grows" in manufac.
turing towns.
Rob us of our industrial prospect.
~ for the benefit of Name hester 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 natu-
raj advantages.
Stiiie the genius Of Americans for
advancement in the cIvilzing arts
and sciences.
lnvi'e struggle between home Ia q.
Dor, on high plane and Old World
labor, on low plane.
Enormously augm the burden
of National, State, county, mum.
cipal and ind vidual debts.
Stimulate the spirit OF discord
.pringing from the seeds Of Social.
ism transplanted from Europe.
Substitute for the music of the
looms and lathes and hammers the
complaints of idle workmen.
Make us the victim, ofOld World
monopolies, which can not be
reached by American legislation.
Leave no better opportunity here
than there is in Europe for the
success OF brains and muscle com.
bined.
Make this country a seller of raw
products AT low rates and buy.
CT of finished products at high
rates.
Leave education and skillful labor
no better chance for promotion than
the newer Of wood and drawer OF
water.
Eventually place America practi-
cally in the condition Of agricultural
countries like India and Southern
| Russia.
Bankrupt many railroads and dis.
place an immense number oflaborers
in transportation, by reason Of di.
minishcd internal commerce.
Make these States the dunn.
ing ground for England's surplus
products, which necessity would
compel US to take, upon her own
terms Cincinnati Times. Star.
Free Trade will do all these
things.
Democracy means free trade.
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