Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-31
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

going 10 Oe swept away OS 1'0'
publican tidal wave.
DR.. Noryin Green, president OF
Jay Gonld's Western Union Tele-
graph company, is said to have
subscribed $4,000 to the Demo.
cratic campaign fund. The monop-
ohsts know their friends.
Wanted:-Retaliatory powers
which can be used against The Re
publican policy of protection to
American industry. Apply imme-
diately to Ct. Cleveland, White
House, Washington, D. c.
Here is what Roger Q. Mills said
only little while ago: ~ desire
free trade and l will not help TO
perfect any law that stands in the
way of free trade" This same Mr..
Mills is now insisting that the bill
bearing his name is a Protectionlst
measure
If il be true, as free trade jour
nal asserts, that "a good suit OF
clothes can be bought in Ireland
for $780, the constant emigration
from that country, and the admit
ted misery OF her working classes,
prove that a country where a suit
costs s6.5G is not a good country to
live in.
The New York Press declares
that il possesses absolute proof
that Jaw Gould is the earnest ad-
vocate OF Cleveland's reelection.
The money sharks and monopolists
are all on the side of the free trade
candidate. Free trade means that
the workingmen shall grow poorer,
and Gould and his kind would not
support 1t it would not help to
make the rich richer.
Lord Brassey has contributed
$4,000 to the Golden Club to be
used in the free trade propaganda
in the United States. The effort
to push free trade on the CONT
nent of Europe has been kept up
since early in the sos, but has re-
suited in utter failure. The last
hope of the British free traders is
in inducing the people of the Unit
ed States to adopt their policy.
Now We have another evidence
that British Free Traders and
Democratic Free Traders are in
alliance. The London Echo joins
the Democratic party in trying to
kick Mr.. Randall out Of the party
because OF his obstruction to Free
Trade, and OF his defeat in the
passage of the Mills bill says:
"This is good news for England,
for it means an increased wool,
iron and steel trade. More than
that, it is the beginning of an en-
lightened policy which will be of
great value to both nations" But
the American people doubt that
predlction-just little.
1t ought to be called a "Bull's
Mill' instead of a Mills bill, said
gentleman TO the editor of the Item
Yesterday, aud said he, sit has two
spOuts, one pouring the -four into
the lap OF England, and the other
the bran into the lap Of America"
This gentleman, who is himself an
Englishman By birth, bat now a
good American citizen, looks upon
he Mills bill as a bonanza for En-
gland and a curse tor America,
which it will prove if 1t is ever en-
acted into law. The gentleman Is
clearly right, and il will be a sorry
Jay for this country whenever any
such bill becomes law.-AieIda-
drid Item, lDem.)
Having carefully read the col.
umns Of several Of our esteemed
free trade contemporaries, we
admit that they prove SATISFACTORY
" Ito themselves) that
Free trade would benefit the
workingman by making food
cheaper.
2-It wOuld benefit the farmer
by making food dearer and manu-
featured goods cheaper.
Sit would benefit the manuiac-
turer by making goods dearer.
This ia equal, We submit to the
borrower who declared TO the len
der that "the pot was cracked
when / borrowed it; Il was whole
when / returned il; and / never
had your COMPOUNDED Old pot, any
way y
The New York WORTH, Democrat
&c, in attempting to explain the
reason wages in the United States
are so much higher than in Eng
land says:
Because the United States bias
an area of 5000, 900 square miles Of
territory, while Great Britain has
but 12l $40
Because the United States has a
population of only fourteen to the
square mile, while Great Britain
has $50 people crowded upon the
same space.
1t this explanation be the correct
one, then wages should be higher
in Russia than in the United States;
for it has an area Of S,S50,O0e
square miles, and it's population
averages but 101 persons to every