The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-02
Democratic Success a Death Blow
to the Prosperity Of All Glasses
Il Of American Citizens.
Protection, the Palladium Of. Our
Prosperity, Safe Only In the
Hands Of the Republicans.
The I'll Whole Tariff Question In a Nut
Shell.

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To he Voters Of Wheeling and Ohio County: :
We beg to remind you that we are q
manufacturing community-largely de-
pendent upon theRe1l doing Of our manu-
featuring interests, In the election now
at hand, we are called upon-to help shape,
by our votes, the destiny OF our; future
prosperity! The question inyol yes inter
ests Jar more important than political
prefefences can possibly -bes I'VE claim
that the past history OF the Democratic
party has been one OF continued hostility
10 a tariff framed on the principle oil
projection to American industries.
The only safe guide for the future Is the
experience OF the past. Judged by snd
upon this principle 1t is not safe to place
our material interests within the control
OF that party as now organized. In their
Cincinnati platform they openly declare
for "a tariff for revenue only" which, as
every sensible man knows, does not mean
a protective tariff. II not part OF their po-
litical creed, why wss such q plank inserted
Ia the platform? The Wood Tariff Bill
only failed by thirteen votes, and it Is not
to the Democrats that we are indebted Tor
Iilsdeieat. Except for the determination
otitbe Republicans it would long ago' have
Enassed, and our shops and mills by this
| time have been lying in idleneSs and waste.
IL A party pledged by its platform against
protection backed up by the importing In
terests OF the sea board, and in close aftili.
alton, IL not in actual connection, With the
English exporters and trade leagues ls
such party the one to receive your votes?
Are your best interests served by foreign
competition? We claim we all have a
common interest. The farmer, the work
man and the manufacturer, in protecting
American industries. -, - - :,
The country isin'a Teniatkab' prosper
Gus condition. What need have we .oi
change, when We change from we'll do
fined policy 10 one We know not oil? Are
such men as constituted the majority in
our last Congress, and who are now wisb
the Democratic party, shaping Its policy
aud forming its bone and sinew--and who
but few short months ago mostIearnes.Iy
endeavoredto force upon the country the
'sWood Tariff Bill, and stand pledged 10 a
"tariff for revenue only" the onus, to look
to for a,fsvorable change Of public policy
Are your and our interests going to be adj
vanced and fostered by such party? We
submit these questions. and other consid'
erations which will readily suggest them.
selves 10 you, for your careful considera'
ton and decision.
We begito remind you that a "tarih FOL
revenue only" does not mean protection
No profession means idle mills, idle shops
land bankrupt manufacturers. Idle shops
D,aapa idla man Idle men mean6 pinch.
ling times TO our wives and children, low
wages, hard times, poverty. Such times
have been experienced in the past under
Democratic rule and Democratic tariff, and
will be again ifihey. live up to their creed;
What assurances have We that this will
not be done? The Republican platform,
"a tariff which will discriminate in favor
Of American labor" and which has been
and is now being lived up to, has by ia,
the greatest assurance Of confidence and
continued prosperity. Is a change from
this desirable2 We leave you to decide
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