The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-30

would then be our enemy's agent and
help TO her baseness become; she the.
would rob US here OF wealth and Of fret
dom, the same as she robbed US at hOmt
No, no, sirl Ireland has had free trade
with ayengeance, by England's design
Ing applied; she oppressed, cheated aul
robbed U.S. our industries languIsheI
and died.
Then why should we, an Ontcast race,
From free lrRde2nd tamiles down,
lDtlCt upon this glorious land
That Which ktlod our oWlf
That's reason No, l. Now for tn,
rest; Your readers must have read tn,
proceedings Of the Free Trade Conven
lion, hela in Chicago, February IS, l!
and 20 last, Arrangements we've mad,
at that convention To elect free.tTad,
Democrats In all the close districts o.
the country, including the four Wesi
Virginia districts, at the next Congress
slonal elections. A Mr.. Kurdish, thu
principal speaker, after demonstrating ID
the convention that the Democratic
parry would stick to Cleveland and his
Mugwump following, said, ave must
stick to these excellent men and lei Me
McAdOOsgo You know what | mean
mean The class We hare ,COHCiliakd too
long" He meant the Irish, and that
was the second tune u Democratic con-
ventiOn has said TO the Irish: go to
hell, We will be better of without
you" Are We Irish so lost 10 patriot-
ism, to manhood and to shame, as to re-
main n day longer the deSpised tools Of
this English party? II 50, let our name
be u mock-word, let men of all lands
laugh out with u scorn that shall ring to
the polls, and let each vnte that we COW.
ards drop from our hands DO forged into
letters 10 shaCkle our souls.
How can We Irish, who depend on
our daily toll for our daily bread, dare to
vote for a system that would letin more
agricultural products to our markets,
aud thus ruin the ten millions OF toilers
now engaged in the agriculture Of this
COuntry2 CAN'T We SCI, and don't we see
that the duty on imports IL too low, not
too high? Just read the following extract
from the annual report OF the Commits.
siOner Of Agriculture for 1887, page 675:
"The tables below show an aggregate
value Of agricultural exports OF $780,
720,7 6S As rPCkoned in sea. port values, in.
Guiding all the cost OF transportation and
other commercial expenses. The farm
values OF these products would fall be.
low q total Of $500, 100000. On the other
hand, the agricultural imports, mostly
food products, amount to $2S7, 542, 2B6,
plus thU cost OF importation, commercial
charges, profits and whatever under
valuation may exist in import prices.
The real value OF our agricultural i'm.
ports Is not less than $3.50, OOO, 1000, at
least; leaving, possibly, an actual bal
anGG Of $50,000,00 0 Ia favor OF our net
agricultural reports, after paying for In.
ports Of farm products"
What u shameful shOwingl What a
comment upon the foreign market cry OF
the frothy mouthed free trader. Ed
ward Atkinson, the frec.trade statistic
ian, says that the American farms OF to.
day could sustain a population Of 100,.
OO0, 900 Of persons, on them there might
remain for export twice rs much farm
produce US We now send abroad, with.
out increasing the area OF Il single farm
or adding one TO their number, by mere
ly bringing our products up to the aver
Oge standard Of u reasonably good agri-
culture. Aud yet here wc are import.
ing nearly one.half thu agricultural pro.
ducts We consume. What damned nom
sense its to say that,,American farmers
need a foreign markell Why DON'T they
supply their own marketP Americans
boast, and the Encyclopedia Britannica
even boasts, that one-hRlf Of the arabic
soil Of the United States, this side OF
Alaska, would supply a population OF
| ,l0O, 100000 Of persons with all the
neCCtsarits and almost all the Injuries
Of life; and yet a population Of o., 0OO,0 900
souls-a population that could easily
draw all their food supplies from less
than one.half the soil Of Texas, Is now
importing nearly half its food sup
plies. o, how much our farmers need
d foreign markell How little-how
very little do our workingmen's asso.
Citations think Of all this, when they prate
Of the need Of reducing the hours OF
Iaoor to eight hours, in order to find
employment for the idle. The traders
ships bring us much farm products into
America every year as they carry out OF
American produce, and YET the rHsCally.
trader tells the American farmer that he
needs no %protectionl Tho statistics
Of our Government show that the aver.
age rate Of duty on agricultural products
imported into America in 1887 was 81
per cent, while the average rats Of duty
on iron and steel and manufactures
thereof was IS per cent, and yet the
lying free trader asserts thatthe Aneri.
can farmer needs no protection. We find
500, APO, $50 worth Of animals and animal
products shipped 10 Our markets by for
pign farmers In one year, and yet our
farmers need no protection S3l, 0Sl ,3O2
worth Of fruits, nuts, &C., come In with
the animal products, and yet nOneed OF
protection ! $500 NC 900 worth Of wool,
hemp, fax, &c, brought from aiAr, and
still some fool farmers think they need
no protection.
One mor reason why | am "~tornist"
the free trader. President Grants utter.
anCcs voiced the principles Of his party,
luHt as Clevoland's expressions show
WV Ut parry lNulCus AuGbG WGIG
Grants words to the workingmen ii
England; ~ recognize the fact tina,
whatever there Is of greatness III the
United States, or In any other country
Ia duo TO labor; without the working
men there would be no upper class, nj
government or anything 10 be governed
-thNt's Republican doctrine. Nov
listen to Grover Cleveland, tho idol ant
the lnouth.pieCe Of Democracy, 10 bill
speech TO the Boston MuVwunpp, De
cemher 49, "Wben / SEQ about me thi
gathering Of business men and merchants
find II impossible 10 rid myself OF til,
impressive thought that here Il repre
Senled that factor IN civiitIei ne Whici
measures The prOgrs1 Of The peops tthicI
constitutes The chief care Of every OOIsrn
ment and uhiCh grttS 10 a country II
privilege Of recognized membership N Ii
community Of RdtiOHJ" Nothing abou
tho iRrmer--nsthing about the Iaborin
man-nothing at all about tho tueChat
lea. No, nothing about anybody hut III
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