Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-22

..;n ~, infer Tint there is no power in Congress
IN protect our industrial interests, when our
first Congress not only. declared The existence
a. ,Iost haterodox pfineiples of the age, that
mr. CONGRESS cannot legisldtei for the 6enehL OF
o,,,s own industry IT is absurd indetensl6e
and untenabls Butil CONGRESS- eonnot g 90,
then let us go and secure for is the neeessei
power. i As much as love ana revere inc co'i-
stitntinn II Ibelieved that the hands OF Congress
were tied. and it had not the requisite power
would go for comforting upon It the power,
.hysa change Of that instrument "a pPanse9 -
And looking back TO the early patriots OF cur &
couutry-men whose names We reVefenee 'N'io ~
names NE lisped with aiiecIl
dren still lisp with affecton-Be Ind thal THESE
men all declared that the first primary leaeing
duty -the-governm ent iSas to 'foster~anu-PIp
tacf tl,e interests of the people and theirsmanu
factnres. And they didait by passing Avs up
ON the subject. If you refer 70 the early history
of these Stntes. you viii find That all the pros
siit, rIntie1. which this country has tourshed
has been the fruit, of protection. Your thriit
and nl.ntv have ever been increased IN ulrect
ratio to your tariff In 1916, and again in 1873,
nnder protective system, yonr industry was
,,iarLea bv universal success. The moment TINS
policy was abandoned, We came to disaster ana
dapression, and when we reached the slIdlng
of 1911 universal distress spread over uhe
country remember well that then there was
not dollar in the treasury. was IN congress
NJ the time and can call to mind that tnere was
mn money in Washington to pay us what most
80 ne vent fo,Lour per diem salary. Under the
horizontal tariff, everything ran down. Bot IN
1870 when projections was restored, ana wheh
we had our highest protective tariff, then was
the period Of our greatest prosperity. i Tor
restoration of that tariff would 40 anH.ll,,"e,
creli TO ngain taking seat in Congress, fnneh as
bata notifies and parties Y es, fellow citizens,
| / wish to God had again chance TO vote ioI a
protective tariff, such as that which brought
pprSssnrrity 10 the country in 1872 Cloud APP
plause9 .....ar.
| Nov, Congress has adjourned 1t has exp.eh'
dad vast SUMS from it's treasury, aud what mas
bec,ne of tile moneyf It's all spent, ana twe'i-
itC millions beside have been borrowed, Win a
nrosnect that before the end ofthe year $40 OUo,
| 900 more win he required. Are You; ieiroW-
citizens TO endure all this depletion, ana sun 10
have your manufactures cruslleui e.,.i'.a
Irondefiined to enforced idleness; your Iufnace
Ares extinguished; your implements unenipi9y-
ed and nil your eneigies crippled. i've IN
the prairie Of the west. take no part I'D your
local affairs With you cor people ca" oe.{
lsvInriathize. aud this, Hbe assured, we do WIN
our entire, hearts. But, as for me-, wou!u sup
port no man for any office, no matter what may
! be his craftsmanship; no matter what may be nus
claims TO YOUR condolences; unless hrst, ana I'd
front of NIL he is the hearty advocate oil t'Iotec
! tioh to Home Industry. We, IN tho pIailies OF
the west feel the need of protection. But how
mulch more must pu
every hundred of your iron works are Closed
and when so many of your looms and spmdes
are iustiDg for lack of employment. ms au-
ADMINISTRATION may yet awake TO the necessity
nf an advancement of the tariff, and 1t II uoeS'
If will swear and perhnps, provo that ltHhas
ol,paIs npnroyed the measure. ! hope it may
for, what we want is projections care hos
what You may be in party name, IN party pro-
clivities--whether you are Federallst Dem
ocrat or American, if you go for protecIiioSi,i:-
Do YOU mt often think that;we are onttel"s
railroads of foreign iron over the earth whose
hnppels Lser, twithrminerul ores? Of COURSE You
have But there rs another IDEAL wishto gave
YOU Did it eDer occur to you attt eUffy ton 81
pio iron Imported into thise0liHtIy contains dESo
tsee,atv Ia thirty dtliS Of i8lporteI Llo0f! am
not du Jait us 10 the amount oil tithe IequEeu
TO manufacture iron, but did you neverfreahze
that for every ton of railroad iron brought to
this country is brought also from thirty TO lor-
tv DAYS of sforeign labOrf And have you yetret
decfed that these forty days of LABOR IS So mpcn
employment Of whichfthe American oPefahVe Is
literally rdhbedI Now estimate all theifofel2n
.irnn that is,imported, and think how many dnys
OF foreigiplabor nrc imported with it, to rob us
nj. The. eXDenSe of the paupeF labor OF Hnglahu.
Think not that would speak disparagingly oil
this labor because 10 isfpauper1 40. let lhe
English opef4tiye@if hesplease,. come here anu
share our protection Eithcus. tt there nre any
tsneh operatiyssshere tonight, they will bear'Ine
witness of eillrequited AYorkwhleh tiiey per
form of the manner il, which their ambition is
lrepressed,7 anil of the functional portion which
thoy receive for. what their toll should justly
command. want to. see the men OF. this coph;
try paid n fair sun fortheir labor, and furnished
with n motive fordhe exercise of industrial and
Inventive powers, of which he now possesses
InOne. .g5t14 leied sa4 4tf. Is,
! Jet us, then, enter into the contest with all
effort to nationalize it in the broadcast SENSE
The idea of the gentleman who preceded me is
1.-THE correct one-that thesProoucer and consuh'
er should be3bone of ,oneibone, and.i!,'>h OF one
/ 1eshI Lord Brohghani once said t'r' 1T would
nav the British government to eXpent 100000
LOCO to break up American inanufa ares; for
then they could fOgce their goods u ~, as at
4 their own prices Let now unite, thin tirin
l(ront against the common enemy.ai ~o ihnve
Eha6 enough to with sectintmi ptssties aud
sectional schemes; let MS now build upa nation
\ al party--a Peoples party ,wprkingna'.'
party; and then we can send ts the Congress oil
1 the United States men who will deinland,a and
1 coesce, if need be- redress oil our, long cata-
iogue of grievances. In this movement Penn
lsylyanin should take thelead, fdf il she do not
4 who will ? BY common consents Pennsylvania
lis looked upon ias the proper mover in this
grand effort SheiiS the keystonetPf the'afch.
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