Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
Think ABOUT This.
What Free Trade Would Do for Anne,
can Wage-Enrners and Farmers.

What Free Trade Would Do for Ameri-
can Wage-Enrners and Farmers.
Plumber the poor.
Enlarge poor-farms.
Multiply tenement houses.
Shrivel the public revenue.
Drain the country of money.
Drive labor largely to the land.
Lower the standard of comfort.
Scale down all salaries and profits.
Revive here the British colonial sys-
tenn.
Inundate this country with foreign
goods.
Turn the balance of trade against US.
Destroy our capacity for cheap pro-
duction.
Universally reduce the value offarm-
ing land.
Unsettle all forms of mercantile bust
ness.
Instantly cause paralysis in iron
manufacture.
Increase farm products and diminish
the market.
Strike the skilled laborer first aud
most severely.
Destroy the possibility of diversified
employment.
Paralyze 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.
Close up thousands of mills, factor
les. furnaces and workshops.
Empty the building associations of
their tens of millions of dollars.
Throw the South back to the one
general industry of embarrassing.
Put the whole labor population back
to the ante-bellum condition.
Force capital out of fields of enter
prise into permanent retirement.
Rifle our pockets to swell the in
comes of greedy foreign corporations.
Take from the home of the artisan
the comforts and necessities of life.
Reduce us from state of CONNER
cial independence to one of depend
ence.
Destroy our coasting trade. from
which all foreign tonnags is now ex
Guided.
make two blades of grSss grow
where one now grows" in s.anufact-
uring towns.
Rob us of our industrial prosperity
for the benefit of Manchester aad Bir-
mingham.
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 natural
advantages.
Stihe the genius of Americans for
advancement in the civilizing arts and
sciences.
Invite a struggle between herna
labor, on high plane. and Old World
labor, on a low plane.
Enormously augment the burden of
National, State, county, municipal aad
individual debts.
Stimulate the spirit of discord spring
ing from the seeds of Socialism trans
planted from Europe.
Substitute for the music OF the looms
and lathes and hammers the CON-
plants of idle workmen.
Make us the victims of the Old
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 combined.
Make this country d seller of raw
products at low rates and buyer Of
finished products at high rates.
Leave educated, skilful 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 of labOrers
in transportation, by reason of a di-
minished internal commerce.
Make these States the dumping
ground for England's surplus products,
which necessity would compel us TO
take upon her own terms. -Cinctnndt'