Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-15
DEATH And DEAKTH FOLLOW FREE
TRADE.


Ii the FreeTrader wishes to see the practical work.
ings of Free-Trade he sbond go to Turkey, where he
can gut himself to safety Some two centuries ago,
that then prosperous and powerful empire bound her
self to approximate Free Trade 10y treaty stipuatous
with Great Britain. By that treaty Turkey bound
herself to charge than per cent. duty on i'm.
ports, and to this time only fraction per cent.
is charged on imports from Great Britain. Similar
concessions by the favored nation clause and other
wise have given like advantages to other nations.
That adherance Free Trade oled the funeral bell
for the burial of all Turkeys greatness Originally
the garden OF the world, the site Of Eden, she was
prominent in agriculture as in manufactures. As we
are advertng to farming especiay,we will only quote
from the London academy, which not long ago said:
Throughout beautiful lands once the garden of the
world the human species are becoming ertiact. Works
of irrigation the masterpieces of bygone dynasties
ndistinguishabe ruins. The Great Desert of Arabia
encroaching on the once fertile Syrian campagna has
pressed onward year by year, overlapping and over
tapping till the sandy has joined hands with the
Mediterranean. Around Aeppo alone in the space of
twenty years hundred villages have disappeared.
From Smyrna to Ephesus the traveller may ride through
fifty miles of the most fertile soil, blessed by the finest
climate under the sum- without seeing an inhabtant
cultivated field. Vast and fruitful tracts of country
in Turkish Armenia, the Troad-nay, the very e1vi
rons of the Bosphorus-tilled only twenty or thirty
years ago with all the care of garden husbandry, are
to day bowling Wilderness scattered here and there
with graves and ruins On the borders OF Armenia
rises still with lofty walls and large stone houses city
peopled it is said, within the memory Of with co.,
900 souls but it is a city of the dead The finest coun.
try in the world has been wasted by peace and
Free -Trade than other lands have been wasted by
war"
Hon. Mahlon Chance, Of New York, Asst. Secretary
of The american Protective Tariff League presents the
protective side Of the issue:
ain 1854, in the streets of New York, we saw 20.
600 men and women march down to the soup houses
and all the result of this FreeTrade legislation. o,
what spectacle! 1t was the workingmen OF Ameri-
ptted against the flood OF European pauper labor.
This, gentlemen, is what started the fool OF Know
nOthinglSm that too long dlsgraced country. No
| wonder that Bishop Williams said he had found him
self in three positions when he could not pray; one
was in the Mammoth Cave, another in the crater OF
Vesnvius that belehed forth her awful fire; and the
third in Washington under the administration of JAS.
Buchanan"
The speaker next detailed the causes which brought
on the Civil War, aud the depleted treasury which
stared the Government in the face Disunion threat
ened the nation, and low wages or no wages was the
fare of the working classes. Protection stepped in
now said he and by it Grant was enabled TO sup
| press the Rebellion Onehalf the national wealth
WcUl lOr war EXPENSES, Tue
ence of the Tariff S50O0,00O better off at Ap
pomattoX than at SUMTER and from fourteen.thousand
Million half of which went for war; have increased
to seventy thousand million. Think OF our manufac
tories, our railways and our thousand and one inter
estS. Our railways Outbalance those of England nine
times and our interstate commerce exceeds the com
| bined commerce OF the Old World nine times over
Never before since the cycle OF time began has there
| been such development Of national wealth, and
before in the history OF wage earning such
wages paid IT'S at the present time in this United
| States. Rochester alone, with 100000 inhabitants,
has, am told S20000,000 in her deposit banks. Man
chester, England with population of 350,000 has
only S4,00000O in her banks, and do you know that
the interest alone on the wages paid in the United
States since 1861 is than all the money paid out
wages previous to Them since the foreathers land
! ed at Plymouth Rock
Mr.. Chance next reviewed the history Of the steel
rail industry in the United States. From nothing We
have jumped to 100000 ton more rails per year than
| all England With the growth of industry We have
cheapened everything " When / a boy" said he,
Kit took six dozen eggs to buy apron it took a
pound OF butter to buy pound of nails and it took
the hind legs ofa calf to buy handsaw. Now a
dozen eggs will buy your wife dress; pound of but
ter will buy six pounds OF nails And the hind legs OF
calf will buy a hardware store"
Air. Chance next dwet upon the misery that had re-
suited from the FreeTrade policy in England The
United States had taken 100000 of these depressed
people and given them work and wages. The effects
that Free-Trade would have in the timber trade was
dealt with and then the wool question was ably pre-
sened. Under proper Protection, the United States
could supply all her looms with wool If meats were
placed on the free list "erked beef would be sent in
from South America. What is it that makes the
farmer prosperous! 1t is nearness to market Land
in the vicinity of Patterson n. j., which poor
that humble bees had to get on their knees to sip the
honey, was held at 5000 per This was because
good markets were near. What the farmer wants is
to shut ont the sxty.nine millions OF products which
he is able to furnish himself 1t is mockery to Sigh
for the markets Of the world The farmer wants the
home market. England does not sigh for the worlds
markets. but she does delight in the markets OF the
United States. "Engand,' said he Z" honors her in
dustria princes England believes and some in this
country agree with her. that the way to get rich is by
making some else poor.'
THE REVOLUTION In INFANTRY ARMS
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