Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-05
VOTE VOTE! VOTE I!
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-voters, word with
you.
There are some things you ought to think of
before and when you go to the polls. Living as
you do in a country which the whole world
comedies to be the most prosperous on the
face of the globe, you should think seriously
before you attempt to reverse the policies I'M
der which its primacy has been won.
To Business Men.
Business men, is it to your interest to unset
tie business make investments uncertain and
render the money which is paid you unsafe
and liable to become worthless in an hour after
you receive it? Do you want to transact your
business with the kind of wildcat money your
fathers used, and through which tens of mill
lions of dollars were lost in asiIgle year before
the safe system which we now employ was de-
yised? If not, vote for Harrison.
To Farmers.
Farmers, do you remember that the Harri-
son administration has opened the doors of
Germany, Denmark, Austria, France, Italy
and Spain to your pork? Has opened the doors
of numerous European countries to your beef
has wiped ont pleuro- pneumonia from the
herds in this country? Has placed the sugar
industry upon successful footing? Has opened
new markets for your corn and wheat in En-
rope and South America? Has extended the
weather bureau service for your benefit? Has
100000, cattle Sl6,00O0O0, wheat and flour
Sl50,0O,00R Has improved your home market
many millions of dollars by the increased
tariff on farm products, and that the Demo-
cratic party proposes to destroy these advan-
tages of reciprocity, protective tariff on farm
products and sugar bounty? Then vote for
Harrison, ana do not let q lack Of knowledge Of
the neiC ballot system keep y0i or yoli reighbofs
array from the polls.
To Mechanics
Mechanics, do you realize that your wages
in protected America are double or triple those
paid for your class of work in free trade
Great Britain? Do you know that the deposits
of wage earners in the savings banks of this
country are 81 623 079 $40, in Prussia S720OO0OOO
in Austria S6i3OO0,0O0, in France S559,0O0,OO0
and in Great Britain only $685., COO, 00O-free
trade Great Britain being at the bottom Of the
column And do you know that the number Of
paupers in 1880 was only 73,045, while in free
trade Great Britain it was S60,59l? Does the
free trade system seem attractive in the light
of these figures? If not, vote for Harrison.
To Citizens of Foreign Birth.
Foreign born citizens, do you want this
adopted home of yours reduced to the unsatis-
factory condition of Europe, which you aban-
doned TO seek home here? If you do not
vote for Harrison.
To Manufacturers.
Manufacturers, do you realize that a de-
struction of the protective tariff system, I'M
der which your prosperous business has been
built up, means competition with European
labor and consequent extinction of your estab-
Hshment? Then vote for Harrison.
To Workingmen.
Workingmen, do you realize that under the
present tariff system wages have been in
creased. as shown by the report of a Demo-
cratic labor commissioner in New York state,
the increase in that state last year beirg
S6,377 SOC, and that under the system which
the Democrats promise your wages will be re-
duced and the money in which you are paid
will be as uncertain and worthless as that BY
which your fathers were robbed2 Then vote
for Harrison.
To Lawyers.
Lawyers. do you realize the humbuggery and
sham of the Democratic claim that a protect
i've tariff is unconstitutional, and that such
distinguished lawyer as George Ticknor Curtis
says: IN common with many other Demo-
Gratis, cannot subscribe to the doctrine that a
protective tariff is unconstitutional. cannot
at the bidding of these gentlemen unlearn the
lesson of my whole hfe?" Then do not vote
with the party that makes such a reckless
proposition the chief feature of its platform.
To Soldiers.
Soldiers, do you remember that the last time
the Democrats were in control of all branches
of this government from 1865 TO 1860 they plot
ted its destruction, and brought on war which
cost 219,376 lives on the Union side, and half as
many more on the Confederate side. to say moth
ing of billions of dollars expended? Do you also
remember that the only Democrat that has been
in the White House since that time ieered at
your wounds and sufferings vetoed your bills
by hundreds, and turned your comrades by
thousands out of officer Vote for Harrison
To Irishmen.
lrishmen, do you know that Great Britain il
sending money and words of advice to help
the Democrats, and that Mr.. Cleveland showed
his hatred for Ireland by refusing t. run on a
ticket with that lrishman,n John c. Sheehan.
and that the treasurer of the Democratic ma
tional committee went out of his way to say
that If lrishmen did not lie, steal, cheat rob,
murder and get drunk, perjure themselves.
quarrel and fight they would be almost as
good as any other nation" and do you know
how President Harrison's administration has
honored the lrishmen and how firmly it stood
by Patrick Egan when the Democratic press.
backed by Great Britain, was demanding his
withdrawal Then vote for Harrison.
To Colored Voters.
Colored voters, do you remember that it was
the Republican party that not only broke your
shackles OF slavery, but made you citizens.
and that the Democratic party is now making
the battlecry. mo force bill, no negro domina-
tion," one of its chief party cheers?
To Homesteaders.
that the Republican party is responsible for
the legislation opening public lands to you,
and that the Cleveland administration de-
nounced you and hundreds of thousands of
your fellow bomesteaders as plunderers and
perjurers who were trying to get homes BY
fraud, closing the doors Of the land office
against you until they were opened By the
Harrison administration? Vote for Harrison.
To Populists.
Populisfs do Won know that vour nun lad
ers admit that vote for them necessarily
operates an aid to Cleveland? Is it for him
that your new movement is to be swung? Why
throw your votes away on men that cannot be
elected?
To Democrats
Democrats, do you know that many of the
most distinguished men Of your party have de-
clared their unwillingness to vote for free
trade; that many others declared at Chicago
that Mr.. Cleveland could never be elected;
that many others declared their unwillingness
to vote for him because OF his treatment of the
old soldiers: that one Of his own appointees
has declared officially that the Mckinley tariff
has raised wages and increased manufactures,
and that by voting for free trade and free
banking you are endangering the best inter
ests of the country? Then vote for Harrison
To Young Men.
Young men, do you know that this is the
most prosperous country on the face of the
globe; that it mas more money for each indi-
vidual in its population than any other coup-
try of its size in the world; that its taxes are
less per capita than in free trade Great Brit
ain: that its debt Is much less than that of
Great Britain; that this prosperity has come
under the present tariff and present financial
system, and that the Democrats are pledged
to destroy all theses Then vote for Harrison
To Committeeman and Voters.
County, precinct and ward committeeman
and citizen voters, do you know that there are
five states with seventy-five electoral votes IN
which a change Of per cent. would reverse
the result OF four years ago, and seven states
with hfty-hve electoral votes IN which the
plurality four years ago was but few hun
dredS Then vote for Harrison. and work for
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