The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-15

down the prosperity Of the North, and
p.ual the Northern Democracy BEGAN
, their faithful henchman. The Brigade
, rule the Democratic caucus in CoDgres
and the caucus rules the party. The
brigadiers, while seeking to break dow
the great industries Of the North by r
ducing the duty on iron, glass, wool, co
ton and wooden goods, actually raised Il
duties on sugar, rice and hemp, whic
we're Southern products. For instanc
while they reduced the duty on pig iro
from 81 per ton 70 s., they raised the dut
on sugar from 90 per cent TO 72. An
Why? Because sugar IL the special IL
dustry OF Louisiana, and Louisiana Is
Southern State. And In like manner the
kept up or put up the duty on rice an
hemp. They protected the South fror
the pauper labor Of foreign lands Will
opening the food gates 70 break dow
iron, glass, wool and cotton and woolel
manufacture. Randolph Tucker, o Vii
ginia statesman OF the States Right
School, said that II the people Of Pennsyl
yania could not make iron pigs they coulC
raise Berkshire pigs, and so far as he wa
concerned they might do II. He and sucl
as he would turn the Northern peopl,
into community OF hog.herds, while en-
couraging and building up the specialiei
OF the South. They recognized that It wa
the diversity and industry OF the North
the brain and skill OF eight hundred thou
sand artisans-thAt had broken down theil
Southern Contederaoy. It was the skilled
lsbor OF the North that had made her &C
all.powerful and irresistible In the war
Hence the Southern brigadiers were will
ing and anxious TO see her BUNDLED In
the dust. And in this attempt they had as
usual the faithful services Of their humble
servants, the Northern Democracy. When
the Wood hill-an lniquitous bill as
characterized 1t on the floor Of the HOUSE
at the time-was brought in and put on
It's passage, every Democrat in Congress
voted for 1t except three or four from
Pennsylvania, and every Republican save
one solitary member voted against II, and
to the Republican party is due the credit
for saving the country from the great
calamity that would have come upon Il
had that bill become law. Among the
Northern Democrats who followed the
lead OF the Southern brigadiers in this
business, and voted for that ubiquitous
bill, were Gen. Ewing and Gen. Rice, can.
didates for your votes for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor Of Ohio.
This disclosure produced visible SEN
sation in the audience, and it was plain
to be seen that to most Of the people II
was piece OF news they had never hoard
before.
Yes, fellow citizens, these are the friends
OF your Frustrated industries, who propose
to PROSTATE them still further-to crush
them utterly out OF extstence-by flooding
the country with the products OF the pau.
per labor OF Europe. Gen. Ewing and
Gen. Rice are two OF the men who voted
for that Wood bill. You will find their
names on the record.
HISTORY OF PROTECTION.
am not myself an advocate for an ex.
cesaive tariff, but am for a tariff that will
protect the industries Of my country. l
recognize that we cannot be nation oil
farmers, nor OF swine-herders, as these
men would make US. Protection was a
principle OF government dear to our
fathers. Do you know that one OF the
greatest underlying causes OF the Revolu.
tion-of tie separation from Great
Britaiu-was the attempt Of England to do
just what the Southern brigadiers attempt
ed in the last Oongress-to make US all
illers Of the soil; to prevent diversity,
to keep down skilled labor, and make
US wholly dependent on her for our iron,
our glass, our clothing, our furniture, our
ships; in fine, for everything we needed
outside OF our daily bread. They passed
bill through Parliament that no furnaces
should be erected in America, and that no
tree fit for ship building, OF two feet IN
diameter above the ground, should be cut
down; that no wool should be transport
ed from one colony TO another; that no
sailor should buy more than one suit in
our ports, that no carrying should be done
except in British built ship. They pre-
scribed severe penalties for the intraction
Of these laws. They intended. to make
our foreiathers mere hewers OF wood and
drawers OF water for theirown aggrandize-
ment. And these repressive and oppres.
sive laws were the prime causes that led
TO the Revolution Of 1776. And 1t was the
remembrance OF them that led our fathers
as soon as they formed our government to
proceed at once to the enactment Of a pro-
tective policy. The ninth bill introduced
into the first American Congress-a bill
framed by James Madison, OF Virginia
was bill to encourage and protect Amer
lean industry against the competition Of
Europe. Our fathers wanted a country
with a diversified industry-one that
would develope brain as well as muscle
one that would make market at home
for what they raised out Of the ground
one that would be able to fashion by its
skill all the implements Of husbandry and
the ornaments OF war-one that could
make Its name and Its flag respected on all
the seas and in all the ports OF the civiliz-
ed world. And this policy has been car
ried forward, first by the Republican par
ty, and 1t is the policy that has made us
the great and respected nation that We are
to-day. Now, fellow citizens, do you
want to break down this wholesome and
necessary diversity OF industry, and turn
the whole nation into mere raisersof cheap
breadstuffs for England? For myself, !
glory in American skilled labor. l feel
proud when l 60 into the Patent Office at
Washington and there view the myriad
evidence oil the inventive genius OF my
countrymen. l feel q desire to do all !
can TO encourage them, and not to break
them down, and | am glad that this Is the
sentiment that actuates the party to which
| belong.
uSRoLL THE SCROLL.
Fellow-citizens, said that was glad to
belong to a party that really believed in
something durable; that had principles
that would at least last all summer; that
would not disappear with a frost, or tina!
would not thaw away in the spring Tel
me what It is to-day that the Democratic
party believe in that is two years old2 II
they have got anything in their pasture
field walking on four legs III at is two years
old, would like To see 1t. They have
been everything by turns. They have op
posed nearly everything that the country
endorses. They were once the hard
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