The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-13
WHEELING. ". n, sEPTElIBER 10. lSas.
OhIo-ihe Democraey-The Wool Tariff


WHEELING, ". VA, SEPTEMBER 10. 1855.
Ohio-nhe DemOcracy-Fhe Wool Tariff
The Democratic party is uneqniyocslly
committed to a tariH:forIevenue-only poll
cy. The last time the national organizl-
ton spoke that is what it said. In the de-
bates in Congress OF recent years that ia
what its leading men have said; and they
are on record by speech and vote. That is
what their most prominent newspapers
say. Even in Ohio that is what SO distin-
guished Democrat as General Dnrbin
Ward has said.
Yet the Democratic campaign managers
in Ohio have the audacity to charge that
the Republican party has been false to
the wool growers Of Ohio, and they ask
votes ior their candidates as the first ster
toward righting this wrong. The false
charge against the Republican party admiti
the principle Of protection, but it is an adj
mission for votes only, and is chiefly valu
able as showing once more that the Demo
cratic party stands ready to admit any
thing by which it may hope to gain q few
votes.
From the day that the wool tariff Of 1856
the measure which gave so healthy al
impetus to American sheep husbandrry-
was introduced down to, and including thu
recent tariff revision Of 1883, Democrats ir
Congress have been against the American
wool grower. They have consistently ad
hered to their hostility to a wool tariff iol
protection. II any Democrat says this Ii
not true We challenge him to prove 1t I'm
true by the printed record.
Beginning with the wool tariH oil 1857
and coming down to date the Republic
can party has consistently stood by TIT
wool growers. We challenge any Demo
crat to show by the record that this ia no
true. Yet the Democratic campaign con
ductors oil Ohio have the sublime audacity
to put out circular in which ismade Thu
appeal Of transparent dishonesty:
tint las, in our National, Legislature out
ragged and robbed you, at the bidding OF 4 t ~
Capa ,5 81 T Ns% wFsog can not 6e tfusted
TO give you relief. The Democrats in Con
gress were your Lriends. aney soa ri,
S SyssS w nrea.I from Of ' Being down.
Tho man who wrote and the party which
.rdorsps that statement forget "Thor
.bolt not hear false witness" The state
mept il not only false without saving
cIsuse but it deals with history so recon
that all the world knows it to be false. In
tbe Senate. August s, 1852, Mr.. Beck, o.
K.u,ncky. propesed TO cut down the WOO
tariff one,half. as an entering wedge. Mr.
Bayard one OF the foremost OF Democratic
Presidential candidates, addressing him
self to Mr.. Beck's resolution, said: "What
ever NAV be the revenue, or whatever pro
lection may come from it, let 1t stand unit
VIC decide-and l hope we ultimately will
IN place it wool on the free list" Twenty
three Democrats voted for Mr.. Beck's reso
luton. and Mr.. Pendleton, OF Ohio, voted
with his party. No Republican vote wa
cast for the reduction, but thirty Repub
lican Senators voted against it. February
6 1855 the Democratic Senators got at i
again. Mr. Bayard wanted 10 do ava,
with The specific duty and make it % pei
cent adj yalorem, and explained his aim by
saving that "lhere should be q cheapeninl
of raw material" On the same day Mr.
Beck took shy at the wool tariff, and hi
was ready with an explanation ~ do moi
PROPOSE to make wool free. wish it coulG
be DONE" He would hold Oh to little
duty "for.revenue.only." Mr.. Pendletor
was with Mr.. Bayard and Mr.. Beck and
they were with their party.
February 20, 1883, Mr.. Sherman movet
AGAINST the reduction Of the wool tariff al
proposed by the Tariff Commission will
the concurrence Of Mr.. A. NJ. Cortland
member OF the Commission and President
Of the National Wool Growers Associa
ton. Mr.. Sherman's resolution was sup
ported by seventeen Republicans and three
Democrats; opposed by fourteen Republi
cans and twenty-six Democrats.
So direct a vote could not be had in the
House, but there the same relative attitude
olthe parties is shown in the debates. Mr.