The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-10-20
SUPERIOR, WIS.,. SATURDAY, OCT. 20. 1888.
Republican National Ticket.
What Free Trade Would do. .

What Free Trade Would do. +.
Plumber the poor.
Enlarge poor farms.
Multiply tenement houses.
Shriyel the public revenue.
Drain the country of money.
Drive labor largely to the land.
Lower the standard of comfort.
Scale down all saleries and profits.
Revive the British Colonial system
Inundate this country with foreign
goods
At once turn the balance of trade
against us.
Destroy our capacity of cheap pro-
duction.
Universally reduce the price of farm
ing land.
Unsettle all forms of mercantile
business.
Stop the opening of new regions to
settlement.
Instantly cause a paralysis in iron
ilidIluIdCltlt-
Increase farm products and dimin-
ish the markets.
Strike the skilled laborer first and
most severely.
Destroy the possibility of diversified
employment
stop the growth Of population
from immigration.
Deaden the energies of the people of
the United States.
Paralyze the arm of the worker and
empty his pocket
Tend directly to stop the develop
ment Of material resources.
Add greatly to tie wealth of the rich
and make the poor poorer.
Leave skilled wages the alternative
Of English wages or idleness.
Close up thousands of mills, furnaces
factoris and workshops
Empty the building associations of
their tens of millions of dollars.
Throw the South back on one gen
eral industry of cotton raising.
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 income
of greedy foreign corporate ms.
Send abroad the machinery of New
England, the South and the West.
Take from the home of the artisan
the comforts and the necessities Of life.
Bring ultimately, higher transport
alton rates, owing to reduced business.
Reduce us from rate of commercial
independence to one Of dependence.
Destroy our coasting trade from
which all foreign tonnage is now Elk
GUIDED
Make two blades of grass grow
where one grows" in manufacturing
towns.
Rob us Of our industrial prosperity
i'll the interest Of Manchester and Biz
mingham.
Make labor a begger at the feet Of
capital instead of a partner and an
equal as now
Give the foreigner an equal right
with ourselves to profit by our natural
advantages
Stihe the genius of Americans for
advancement in the stimulating arts
and sciences
Invite a struggle between LONE
labor on a high plane, and Old World
labor on a low plane.
Enormously augment the burden of
national, state, county, municipal and
individual debts.
Stimulate the spirit of discord spring
ing from the seeds of Socialism trans
planted from Europe.
Substitute for the music of the loom
and lathe and hammer the complaints
Of Workmen
Make us the victims of the Old
World monopolists, which cannot be
reached by American legislation
Leave no better opportunity here
than there is in Europe for 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, skilled labor no bet
ter chance for promotion than the
newer of wood and drawer of water.
Eventually place America practical
" 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 dimin-
ished internal commerce.
Make these States the dumping
ground of England's surplus products,
which necessity would compel us to
take upon her own terms.-CInciHnati
Times Star
Cleveland is for Cleveland first. for
the Confederacy next, and for Eng
land third, and not at all for the loyal
North His letter has not explained
why he changed his mind and insists
on a second term. 1t does not tell