The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-14

A Great Danger 70 Provide. Against. /
The progress We are making in trans
feTTing business to foreign countries IS
very rapid, II not very satisfaetoEy---
Many OF our school books are now sent
out from Boston to be printed In Eng
land, and TO come back for use IN Phil
adelphia schools. Publishers OF gem
eral literature have for some time past
been sending stereotype plates to be
printed abroad. Book printing Is more
Than half stopped already, as compar-
ed with a year ago-a result which
I printers already severely feel and read
ers very soon VIII feel.
GlASswares OF various kinds, not inn
ported for years, are coming IN to sup
ply the uses Of persons who heretofore
/ always used American manufactures.
The great Wo1len Haauufaotares are
running At a loss when running al all
4 The proprietor of one establishment
that paid eight TO ten thousand dollars
4 month ofinIeEnal revenue year ago.
now pays Two hundred dollars = month
only and this in order 70 save his work
J men from ruin, not because he can
make goods without loss. The supply
OF cloth from abroad Is large, and
prices are made low in order TO get the
feld away rom our manufacturers
a Iron of all sorts and siLes Is imported
: profnSely. flling the market at terms
with which the heavily taxed 1ron.ma-
/ kers here cannot compete Steel from
2 England Is swapping the new Steel
. | works which were cited with pride and
satisfaction few months ago.
Taxes are heavy, wages and mAtert-
] ais are high, and prices are falling IN
/. 1 der the Joni efToTfs OF our5own people
, and our friends abroad. We want these
: prices 70 talI. But how Not by ST.
2 fencing our works and distressing the
wOrkmen, hnt by release OF the cumu-
lafire taxes which make up these prices.
Maintain our people In employment,
and they can pay fair prices but If all
Workmen are dismissed nom work they
4 cannot even pay the British prices
II These facts are Of the very highest and
: most urgent importance. No shame
. like thai of teaching our children from
: British printed books has been known
: for quarter of century To get our
T standard literature printed abroad Is
: I scarcelyfleSS diSgracefuL To reverse
the course of events which have given
: Us the control Of our own markets and
i the universal prosperity of the las
> three years, Will cost rs nfty times the
: sum il Is foolishly supposed will b
raised by maintaining ali an. me ta $3.50 =;
: they are Money Is not TO be saved
Y thai way; il Will be lost on the larEesi
!, possible scale, both TO the government
. and the people
e We need q strengthening of the pro
q fec4ion We already have by two procS-
d / SeS-O4c on 4QGAuE " %A4G G-AA=-.
:. twentv-fiTa per cent. iiirectlyS and the
= other BIZ reducing all the internal taxes
o on books, clothing, paper, iron and
& steel, machinery. WOODEN manuiac{ure
of al classes, glass, earIbenTare, books
;, and shoes, hardware, cutlery, and I'M
deed. nearly al miscellaneous manu-
faeEures-
we beg Congress 10 permit no delay
In the Internal Revenue bal. which Is
understood 10 contain most OF I9ssSe re
s he's Perhaps an increased tarin can
NOT be passed. yea II muSI be If very I'M
: rortanf changes are not al once made
= IN the internal duties. There should
have been Al least twenty-five Per cent
added TO the tariff on the nrSt OF April
: As time VIII most conclusIvely show
a We have made q long stride towards
| the old system of dependence on foreign
: countries during the past month, ana
: severe distress in the manufacturing
districts VIII soon attest the fact We
: are losing revenue, losing employment,
and losing orr honor, by sending bust
ness and industry abroad.-P 5iIdde-
phid North AHeTie1,l-