Author: [Western Reserve Protective Tariff League]
Title: [Four Anti-Free Trade Broadsheets for the 1888 Presidential Election]
Description: Cleveland, Western Reserve Protective Tariff League, 1888. First edition. Broadsheet. [2],[2],[2],[2] pp. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. With the main issue of the 1888 campaign about tariff policy, the broadsheets detail the horrors of free trade in specific industries and the need to defeat the incumbent President, Grover Cleveland. 1. Publication No. 2: Eagle and the Lion: begins with a Harrison quote on evils of free trade and goes on to show how England will benefit from free trade. Ends with "Cleveland & Mills, Surgeons, Reductions neatly effected. God save the Queen!" bordered in black box. 2. Publication No. 5: How Free Trade Works in England. & [verso] How Free Trade Works in England. Further Testimony. Read! Read! Read!. 3. Publication No. 6: A House Divided Against Itself. Who Tells the Truth? & [verso] "To Iron and Steel Workers." 4. Publication No. 9: Eleven Years of Free Trade. Good Democratic Testimony as to the Ruin They Wrought. & [verso] Tom L. Johnson and the Farmer." Scarce. All four are apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC, NUC, or other reference sources of these or any other broadsheets from the society. Good to very good copies, edges browned, worn, some chips and tears.

Keywords: , Americana, Commerce, Political Literature, free trade tariffs protectionism campaign 1888, Broadside


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