The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-14

were equal 10 them In all lines OF manu-
featuring. But In every instance they
would say, employer, manager and me-
chanic. that we may be equal, bot we
conld not manufacture as cheap 40 they
ceuid.because our pay TO the workingman
and lie mechanic was three times greater
than they paid, and II we would take Oh
our Ei6d poOtectire tariff they would and
could ruin our manufacturing interests,
because they we're the leading manuiac'
turers OF the world and thought i only
right that the mother country should con.
tinue TO be the manufacturing portion oil
the world.
NV answer 10 such remarks was:
We cannot, and never will permit those
tariffs 10 be removed. We have republic,
not monarchy, not these Queens, Kings,
Princes, and an immense arrtstocratic no;
bility to support and foster and grand
army and navy 70 sustain. 81,
To sustain our Government we do 1t oy
educatiofy Our mechanics and laborers,
children, commence schoolinga at the age o.
six, ard fnish theirs dueatioh at an aver
age of sGy, sixteenof seventeen years. In
going loSschool d the age Of six they have
shoes on their feet, warm clothes on their
little, bodies, and heads covered with COM
Portable hats. ~ ~--S,, :,
Educated labor becomes better sdlled
mechanics than your ignorant labor; they
thinki more, and know rs much more
about governmental affairs, when they
are seventeen years Of age than your un::
educated mechanic will at the age Of
thirty. They love their fathers and
mothers more than you do. they; take care
OF their aged parents. i know some OF the
poorest Irishmen who came 70 America
twenty and thirty years ago, who have
sons, some OF our largest merchants, manu-
Lecturers lawyers, and soldiers at West
Point, the same as those people whose
foreiathers were born and raised IN
America. From.RhatI have seen In Ire.
land, Wales, Scotland and England, and
learning from practical observations, !
made up my mind never to vote or aid
any party or any set who would be IN Ia
vor OF abolishing protective tariff, bring
| ing cheap and ignorant labor in competi.
ton with the educated working classes OF
this, my adopted country.
These experiences, together with in
vestigations made since his arrival home,
enectually cured Mr., Morgan of his Demo.
crazy; and he talks to the working men OF
Cincinnati after this fashion:
II such is Europe, will you, workingmen
OF Cincinnati irrespective OF party-,vote
TO forge the chains Of slavery placing
YOU on the same ground that as Is shown the
people across the ocean are forced to oc.
cupy? Will you, loving your wives and
children as you do, vote to take of your
only safeguard, our present protective
tariff, so that all our manufactures and
workshops will have TO stop, or lower
your wages to the same scale that your
unfortunate fellow workmen IN Europe
have to submit to, so as to compete with
European cheap labor?
This Is not a question OF politics. 1t IL
simply whether you shall vote to starve
your families, and we feel sure that your
answer will be no, no, NO. a thousand
times NO. ...
The Democratic platform declares fol
"only tariff for revenue"-that Is, to take
off the protection now given to American
xoods-while the Republican platform
with unerring thunder, declares not only
fora revenue tariff, but also for protective
tariff, or one which prevents the cheaT
labor OF Europe making paupers OF oul
working people,
. With these truths before you, will yor
hesitate? Will you for an instant thinl
Of forging the chains which will max,
slaves OF yourselves and your posterit!
for all time 70 conner