Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-04
TARlEF TALK
0fGsn. Golf to the People Of Wheel
Ing Last Night.
Some Glittsfing GsneraIities- Bold Asser
tons and Feasts Of RusIc-A
Strong Talk Upon an Inter
AHA esting Subject.
SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERALS SPEECH

SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERALS SPEECH.
The Republican meeting in Capitol
! SQUARE. last night was probably as large q
! gathering of people as has been seen In
! this city for many years. The night was
| pleasant, the light was good and the
| speaker fayorably placed for the benefit OF
! auditors. A platform was erected at the
north entrance to the capitol, and the peo'
| pie arranged themselves with reference TO
| the stand. The Electric Light Company
| had swung two of their lamps at convenient
! intervals before the stand, and the light
| they cast over speaker and people was
| mutually advantageous. The Opera House
| band furnished the music for the occasion,
! and pending the arrival of the speakers
kept the crowds impotence in reasonable
bounds.
AtSoclock S. X. Wallace, Esq, chair
man of the county committee called the
meeting 10 order and named John Oester-
ling, president of the Central glass works,
as chairman.
Mr.. Oesterling merely acknowledged this
recognition and introduced General Con,
who thanked his hearers for the royal well
come they had accorded him. ~ feel to-
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that the people OF this great and mag
nificent CITY of Wheeling and
county of Ohio will ever give
a WELDON to one who comes to speak TO
them, upon a question not only dear to
them, but essential to their happiness and
progress. cordially recOllect the support
that this city has given me, not political
alone and / thank you for It, l came before
you twelve years ago this month a candi-
date for Congress. | was then the advocate
of the same idea that / represent tonight.
/ advocated the same principle then that 1
do now. AS a candidate then as candi-
date now ] believe that American indus
tries should be protected by the great
shield of
AMERICAN LAW.
The ballot is a powerful weapon, and in
some instances is more powerful than
armies or the sword But in the hands Of
more than nine millions of intelligent
American voters it becomes the beacon
star of our safety and it is the national
safeguard. These nine million voters are
divided among the parties OF the day. Some
affiliate with the Democratic party, others
with that party which have the honor to
represent, while minority are found with
the temperance, GreenbaCk and Labor or
CARNATIONS of the country. | am not one
Of those who believe that all the good men
are found in the ranks OF any one party.
Since the fall of Adam the sins OF man have
not been confined TO any section, party or
creed, and they are the incidents of every
age | tonight AM the candidate OF the
Republican party, and in my feeble way
the exponent OF its principles.
At Bepwood, few nights ago, | faceti-
ously referred to Mr.. Good and the omis-
Sions in the Democratic platform upon
which that gentleman stands. l was sub
sequently taken to task by person who
admired neither my metaphor nor my
rhetoric. / said then, as / say now, that |
do not think that my dear Democratic
friends can find sustenanCe at the table at
which my distinguished competitor pre-
sides. | believe that his friends have
spread his board with the suntiower of
demagogism, and ornamented it with the
lily OF expediency, and made him the Oscar
Wilde of the feast. / therefore invite you
10 my feast, where is given the sweet meat
of nourishment, the brown bread OF pro-
lection, and the Bourbon Juice OF industry.
Husks will will not feed the multitude.
1t is this great cardinal doctrine that has
made your banner reputable from the
rising even to the going down Of the sun.
Protection is not new thing in this
country. Your fathers, fleeing English
tyranny made their homes in the wilderness
of this country, fought English free trade
then even as YOU on the Ohio fight it to night
If mistake not, you have to the 10Th
day of October to rectify my errors, and if
/ misinform you bury me benath the weight
of your freemanS ballots. l am not
here begging for your votes. Ii you, men OF
Ohio county, can stand by and see this car
dinal principle destroyed, it will perhaps
be of less injury to the man who speaks to
you tonight than to yourselves. II you
do not believe it, do. Every act, every
motive of my legislative career, shall be to
enhance American Industries, and not IL
advance British progress in this country of
ours. would not sell my birthright for
such miserable mess OF pOttage.
| have been accused of forming new
tangled Republican notions. | can go back
to the birth Of the Republican party. Nay,
more; l can go back to the birth of the
Democratic party; aye, to the time before
the birth of the National Constitution.
Long before the Constitution was drafted,
our fathers said we will protect our in
dustries by our provincial law" Let us go
back little As far back as I'LL the Eng.
liSh Parliament, casting jealous eye upon
our advancing industries, declared Ameri-
can factories and American industries a
nuisance, and declared them detrimental
to English interests and should be frowned
upon. Our fathers, however, struggled on,
and declared in turn that their purposes
should not be thwarted by English lcgisla-
ton, and they kept their word.
Again in 1851 the English Parliament
declared American furnaces and factories
common nuisanCeS. Do the men who peo-
pie the great valley OF the Ohio, whose
waters the light OF the furnaces illumes,
Lclieve they are common nuisanCeS? No,
Eor did your fathers think So and even
when the hGa OF English tyranny was
upon their necks, they enacted laws impoS-
ing conditions upon English imp0rta-
items. The first tariff law was passed
in 1893 AN act to protect American
manufactures and this law, with slight
amendments" protected American prod
uctS until 1916. During these years your fac
tories grew, Contentment reigned, proSperi-
ty was universal and national progress
was rapid. Tariff did it, and without it
American manufacturers would not COM
pete with English pauper labor. l looked
at the question of wages then and l look
at it now, and the conclusion in both
instances is the same. That law received
the sanction of Washington, met with the
approval of Madison, the appreciation of
Monroe and the fostering care of Jefferson
1t continued in force until 1923, when the
high tariff was passed. There are men
among the sea of upturned faces before me
tonight whose minds can go back to that
year and recall the benefcent effects OF
that law. 1t was era of prosperity, indus
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