The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-05

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4 Wages and the TnriE-ile Farmers and
x u Protection.
XII Nh. Z. NJ. Turner, OF Harrison county,
{ arraigns the tariff as inimical 10 the inter
: ests OF a large majority Of the people OF the
country. lie divides the country's work.
ing force into fifteen millions Of people,
and out OF them, he says, 100000 are not
only unprotected but injured by the tariff.
This is certainly a very extraordinary state
ment. II it were even approximately true,
the tariff should not exist n day longt r
than it could be repealed. What Con-
$gress and what a country Of blockhcads We
must have,to be sure, to permit this wrol 6
4 to go on from year to year. We had IN
( issue made on this subject in 1850, before
the people, and the people did not know
enough to appreciate theiro expressions.
Even Gen. Hancock, the candidate OF the
Z tarlH reiormers, ilickered Mt the last mo-
ment, and wanted the people to under
stand that he did not endorse the platform
l { on which he was nominated. 1t must
seem hopeless task to Mr.. Turner to at
tempt to save such stupid people. 1t
I seems, according to his data, that 100000
people fooled II, 100000 people into voting
against their own interests. a few "pro-
4 tected workers." as he calls them, possess
$the brains and intelligence that rule the
country to the great detrimcnt Of the over
swhelming majority. And this they do
right along, year after year, and the people
are SO senseless and powerless as to be un.
able to protect themselves ut the ballot-box.
This is the logic Of Mr.. Turner's argu-
.ment boiled down. He tries to make i,
appear that the great farming class, mum.
boring 100000, and the professionals and
personal service class, numbering $780,
- 80
GOO, and the trade and transportation"
class, numbering l,35iOOO, are the mere
{dupes OF the 100000 who constitute the
manufacturing, mechanical and mining"
class. And even n part OF this last named
class he places also among the dupcs, for
"many OF them" he says, are "not protec.
tive" They too arc victmizcd. Surely
: there is sad lack OF saving common sence
among people who are thus incapable OF
understanding their own interests
Y This is not new question. 1t is one OF
the old issues before the country. 1t has
been discussed exhaustively before Mr..
Turner or the writer hereof were born.
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Silas
Wright, Horace Greeley, and all the great
lights OF tho past, spent years in examining
and discussing tho question. Free trade
had its advocates two generations ago in
this country. South Carolina went into
rebellion in 1882 against tho tariff Of 1925.
After her rebellion was ouell.d The thrift
,G ,y,. -, roJ,.o;I H.. .,..,,i:s "
", -, ~ :! " eoh'pioi'i.so i''e''su'e'
. tltltl we lived under a low tariifregme. But
that regime did not prevent the crash OF
1881. After that crash tho country roso nm
81 All lonn,o,daJ 1870. ., W.
NV go.iaiueu ptolec.loi,, anu We iiau inc
Mrin oil lSi2. But the Democrats came
into power in 1914, and then We had the
low. tariff Of 1SN This socond Low tariff
,,i;j ~ $500 n.o,,,,, A., $50 -" '
u. ", ny prevent 'l'c crash OF ieo''
MI ms much by way Of showing that this
is not a now issue in any OF its phases,
Neither Mr.. Tnrncr nor tho wr;tor ~ ,boeo
h. 49,. -, ,;,.,I,, ~, go,
'io i'Aeis " hllofu i'ien aualllonal
Information on the subject Indeed, es
far back rs 1913, Mr.. Abrom uewrtt NJ
Nav YorL nrom;nor,. m,nn f. 49, =.
.,,,on ]. 49,, ~, ~: in"iu1e.uter
iIIe us now, ana At TINS time a Demo-
cratic member Of Congress, made speech
that almost seemed as il it had been made
IN rrenjv 10 Mr. Tnrnor,s ;,n,on, - a.
y - : VI t'et "ti"s'itiei't VI lne
. .litih. inashuch rs II covers the very
point sought TO DO made by the latter as
regards tho farmers and wage workers OF
tho land, We can scarcely do better than
quote literally from it by way OF reply TO
Mr.. Turner. We submit the following OK.
tract us appropriate in this connection:
d Mr.. Hewitt said that "if the whole pro.
3ductiye Industry Of tho country were EN-.
,ployed in producing the articles whicl, We
sell abroad, which nre mainly brcadstulis
and provisions, cotton, rico and tobacco,
we should produce much larger quantity