The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-11-02

Lord and good devii'' declaration, and
seems to call for cx.Auditor Benefits ad.
vice to the Democracy Of this district, when
be advised them, as be did tho other day
in his paper,to take one ,sids Or the Sother
Of the question tho next time, or, Id other
words to be ''ior OF against the mill dam,"
and not attemptto dodge.
As a matter Of course Mr.. Boyle Is
bounced for this sort Of slraddlinv non.
coInittattism. The Waynesburg Republican
goes for him very tartly and pointedly. It
puts the Issue at him at follows:
According to Mr.. Boyle's theory, L he is
80 fortunate rs 10 get n seat In Congress, In
justice 10 his constituency It will be lleces.
sary to ask some special legislation 10 suit
the people Of different localities In his dis.
trict, for, putting i OH this ground, the
same kind Of tariff will not 10 adapted 10
the interests OF the people OF NJ" lsoyle's
whole district. Green Ia u .manufactur.
Ing and non.minng county, whilst Fayelte
and Westmoreiand are largely both. Greene
Is exclusively farming district. hence II,
as Mr.. BOYLE says, Il tariff IL u question OF
localities We have right 10 make divid.
Ing line right here: We on this side Of the
river arc a producing people; on the other
side they are COMMUNICATION lurmets; now
what kind Of 4 tariff must we have over
liere-a tariff for revenue only" and on
the other side Il high tariff 10 project the
iron and coke interests. )"
This is putting the issue in way calcu.
lated TO embarrass candidate Boyle. "sauce
for the gooae is sauce for the gander' on
this question. II tariff Is harmful 10
one hall, or any portion Of a district, Il is
harmful tothe whole Of It, and ought to be
discarded ms jelusion and a fraud. II it
does not help the farmer, the merchant,
the mechanic, the day laborcrs, the probes.
sional man; in word, everybody, It Is n
dclusion and a fraud. This is tho ground
to put the tariff Issue on. There
is no district or part of district issue about
1t. The farmers interest, (the poor farmer
who is SO much bewailcd by Dan Lucas in
his Ciarksburgspecch,} is supposed to have
very big interest in this question, and
this interest is well shown in the following
extract from an article printed along side
Of the Republicans editorial structures on
Boyle. Wequotc from it as follows: i.
The value Of barn.yarn manure, or any
other fertilizer is admitted by every farmer.
But what is the use Of afertilIzer Of any sort
except TO make land productive? And OF
what avail is productive land il you can.
not sell the product? The great question
alter all, Tor the farmer, therefore, is the
question Of a market-but what market j?
There are two markets for the
farmcr-tho foreign market and the
home marker. Which is The most
desirable? Why, the home market, Of
course, because it is in the sale OF his pro-
ducts in the home market that the farmer
makes bis money, and it IL for that reason
that only the surplus that he cannot sell in
the home market is sent abroad. Last year,
for instance, more than 5000 90O, 900
worth OF agricultural products were sold in
the home market, against less than 81, O0O,-
100000 sent 10 foreign markets! Every one
OF the 100000 Of our home population
consumed OH the average last year sl6O
worth OF that which was produced by
agricultural labor and capital. Now sup.
pose our 100000 population were
not able 10 buy that much-suppose the
consumption to fall to $50 TO each person!
Who would be The greatest Sufferer? Why,
the farmer, OF course. Itwould be ruin TO
him. We'll, that is precisely what would
happen il Democratic free tradc were inau-
gurated again, and the wages OF the laborcr,
the mechanic, the artisan, the professional
man reduced. Let the farmer see to it first
that protection to labor is continued and
then attend 10 the other fertilizers.