The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-08

;,6se, Nos. rs aud ~ POuFteeRlh street.
T,,, Recent Tariff Convention In New
50" York.

o6,ee, Nos. a5 aud "a Fourteenth stree
-., Recent Tariff Convention In NeN
York.
The editor Of this paper returned hom
yesterday from few days visit to the East
Wills there he attended the sittings Of tn
National Tariff Convention in New York
Tho proceedings Of that body were very in
i'gereptIy reported in the New York news
n,ner. New York is largely free tradt
ri,y, and with the exeCtion of the Tribaa'
be leading papers sympathize with fret
t.de ideas. This isconspicuously the case
with tbe Herald, Timsan Post The Yast
imnortins interest ofthat city controls pub
liz opinion, and shapes the tone Of the
nress The heavier the importations the
Setter for New York, is the way they rea-
,u, Hence every paper read before the
Copyentlon-no matter how important
VA, pooh .poohed as OF little value, Some
oIthese papers were Of great value, as also
we're some of the short Experience"
,pecches rs they were called, in regard to
tbe practical working Of protection to
American manufactures and American
hbor For instance, the short schedule
read by John Roach, the great ship
builder, was full Of meat Flo showed
how much money one large ship
builder paid out in one year for American
made goods with which to equip vessel.
He showed the amount paid for furniture,
brupholstering for table ware, for carpets,
curtains, ropes, chains and various other
eommodities-amounting to millions in the
aeprente-all Of which was lost to the
country in the case Of forelgn.built ships.
He showed that with the single exception
Of wages paid for labor we could build
,bips as cheap rs England could build
them, and he asked the question, with
Urpot point whether We wanted to compete
with her in the matter Of wages.
Another pointed speech was that made
nv Mr. jarrett the President OF the Anal.
rapated Association Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers who on behalf Of the $4,000 ID
boripv men belonging to that association
pr,sented 10 the Convention the reasons for
tbe hith that was in them as friends Of the
tariff Mr., jarrett is IN Englishman by
birtb but n thorough going American In
alhis feelings and sympathies, and gave a
vivid picture Of the difference between an
English and American workingman. He
himself worked for many years In rolling
mill as n boiler, and speaks from a large
pxporience
Another very iorcible and commanding
sDeech was TINT made by Col. scriyens, Of
savannah, Cia, an ex.slayeholdcr and ex.
Confederate, who said that he reIoiced now
in thc overthrow Of slavery and at the com.
Inc Of n new south-a South that was to
become great rich and powerful like the
North, through the protection, education
and elevation Of her luborers. He spoke
on behalf Of the rice interest, and presented
ashort paper Of vreat value 10 the Conyen.
lion.
A delegate from Waterbury. Connecticut,
whose name we do not recall, made most
excellent five minutes speech, in which he
drew n picture Of the homes OF the working.
men Of TINT large manufacturing city that
would have done honor to an artist He
spoke of the great change that had gone on
In the last twenty years under his own
eyes md summed up the argument for
protection in these words: ave have in
creased production and wages and cheap.
ened the goods right along to consumers.
Our production Is greater than evcr-our
WAGES one half higher than twenty years
aVo, and our goods one half cheaper"
Like speeches were madoby various rep.
rt,entatiycs Of the many interests repre-
kenteu III the convention, Une oil the DeSt
wasthat Of George D. Ioring, tho United
States Commissioner Of Agriculture, who
submitted statistics Of great value in re.
slrl to tho growth Of the cotton, woolon.
sik shoe and leather, wheat and flour and
iron and steel industries. We had in.
cteosed tho growth Of wool from OsOOo. 900
Oipoupds in 1860 to 25oOOO,OOO in 1880.
and the amount paid 10 those engaged in
is manufacture from so,OOOOOO per year to
$I5OOOOOO The aggregate annual product
Of our ,noruiartipo and mechanical indus.
ieslsnow more tban ak thousand millions
oidolars. ofthis vast product less than two
hundred millions arc exported. Aud Of
illc soOOOOOOOo produced BY agriculture
less than 10 per cent isexported, Our peo.
Dlo boyo ,ton, ,uorl,ot AMONG ,hemss,vea
h, wha, ,So" [ nsa,S,oo,-o Marie. ,hot
~, ""', 'n'y p'ouuOe A"VS aaI 80 '""S y.
oIOer nations arc striving 10 hKe from US
by the products Of poorly paid labor
Tie venerable Peter Cooper-now Of