Judge — October 20, 1888 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

uae: FREE TRADE,IRELAND'S DOOM. Ireland once supported in reasonable comfort 8,000,000 of people. Her manufacture in linen, silk, wool, and cotton, protected tariffs, and encouraged by subsidies, absorbed her capital, em- ployed her laborers, promoted a diversity of industries,'and insured prosperity. To-day, with only 5,000,000 of people, she is the poorest, most distracted and harassed country on earth. She drank the free- trade cup which England pressed to her lips to the very dregs. The cotton manufacture of Dublin, which employed 14,000 operatives, has ve been destroyed; the stufl destroyed; bankruptey, © © THAT FAVORED AND PRIVILEGED AND PATRONIZED BUSINES 18 ‘THE IRISH COPFIN- MAKERS, WHAT FREE TRADE HAS DONE FOR IRELAND. En (to Columbia )—“ If you would degrade your workingmen to the condition of paupers—if you would be poor, wretched, and but a producer of raw materials for rich English Manufacturers, then adopt Free Trade, and be as I am!” comicbooks.com