Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-22
AN IKIJH WoKKInQrAN SPEAKS.
He Tells in Paia Language ichat he Thinks of Stephen B.
E2tirs. and OF the Free Trade Democracy.
FACTS FOR BRFADwISNERs.

EDITOR OF The HERALD that you have announced
my friend, Stephen B. Ekins candidate Congress
from the Second West Virginia District
lean workingman hail the with delight be-
cause nober type of real and American does not
tread the soil of America to-day know Stephen
Elkns to be all that real American should and the
reason that there Mugwumpery about him,no belly
crawling to England. hankering after English
British British fashions. He of the last
earth who would give to foreign mechanics the wages
that should come to for he knows that goods can't
be cheaply imported when the wages of labor gone
Steve Ekns and his party have always advocated fair prices
living prices because they believe believe. that
the wages that to old lady, direct from the shop
and the store that give the biggest and return and
that cheapness nothing The Free Trade OPP
of Mr. Ekn believes Frustrating prices cheapness
is his first lullaby in the morning and his requiem at night
nothing but cheapness cheapness with the Free Trade
Democrat The problem that confronts is this came
here from ireland elevate myself above the plane Euro
pean workngmen can so elevate myself readily
with the low prices of Democracy with the living prices
the Protective Tariff of Mr. Ekin and his party maintains
What say impartial historians this question Here
the second and third volumes of KING History of England
he tells that after the gold and silver of America began
to flow into Europe prices advanced hundred per
cent in few years. and that this advance in prices
that elevated labor from the slavery of serfdo In the
volume he that while land and and their products
sold cheap the and the laws consigned labor the
fetter and the whip that the workngmen thrown in
prison. that they placed the stocks that they
whipped at the carts TAIL that they hanged patches
of tens and twenes the time and the gal
lows And still the Free Trade Democrat expects help
him to PROSTATE prices I'll do it. Democrat show
single spot beneath the sky where cheapnes and labor
ever met but of them did die The celebrated Matte
Brunn the 23d volume of his works page 1856 Cheap
obstructs the growth of industry and the is bar
barism Sir William Temples works VOL l. page 60
In order to advance trade, industry and employment
prices must be raised to force general enterprise high
indu ma kn he
dustrous lazy In of his last speeches. the Hon. Will
liam Huskisson said to the English Free Traders Talk not
to of cheapness cheapness sign of dire distress
where cheapness prevails industry dead In Sadlers
Ireland page 3S2, read Cheap places have always
those which the poor have been degraded and
cheap times those in which they been the most wretch
ed" On the very same page Sadler says, When we
anime into this Of cheapness the mask of humanity falls
and find that cheap prices contended for in order
that be reduced and labor degraded That is
just exactly the anmus which stimulates the zeal of Free
Traders to-day Daons Country Justice yet standard
authority in England. In chapter 4S, he " While
prices low infinite of idle vagabonds wandered
and down through England the great danger and dis
grace of the nation" In Rays Observation Journey
page 81 find positive proof that, The greatness of Hol
land entirely due to the high prices which stimulated
her industry The assertion is made in Lock- Con-
sderation Interest in the Wealth of Nations. page o.
and in Frederick List National Sysem Of Political Economy
As workngman, ask Democrat tell me why his
party is always crying for cheapness cheapness 1t is
workingman not party that firmly assert that
cheapness death to labor We have had low tariff
and cheap prices in America four different periods of
short history. How did the workngmen of America fare
during those periods? What has condition
of America in low tariff periods? Ny next will tell your
readers truths that my fellow woringmen ought know
and remember at the polls PATRICK c. CARROLL.