The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-27
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The INTELLIGENcER Is mihed Rt Us because we 90
clIned TO enter into all agreement 70 Reproduce ~
ourcoumgs sees Of dy dS9uItLons from , sS!
baI "diScourAesy."-RegtAer.
In this behold one advantage OF garbIing
in preference TO quoting. The INrEALldES-
GER 10 not unified" at all. 1t has no reason
TO be. A free trade article.having appeared
in the editorial columns OF the Register we
inferred that our neighbor would be ready
to stand by It. Having appeared in the
the daily Register, we were willing TO be-
lieye that the article was more or less orig
inal-that is TO say, that 1t had been pre-
pared chiefly with the pen, not written
b,dily end boldly with the accomplished
scissors after the fashion Of Sunday Register
editorials and those enterprising special
dispatches, 80 called, which has given our
esteemed contemporary the fame Of the
conservative and careful" journal.
The Rtgi4er having suddenly broken out
with tariff discussion, after having been
more than careful while the question was
pending in Congress, and having with
great ingenuity condensed the whole doc.
trine Of free trade into one short article, 1t
occurred to US that or neishbor might not
be unwilling to go into the proof OF It's po-
sition. We pointed out that its figures re-
specting duties were wrong, from which 1t
appeared that our neighbor had not con-
suited that extra copy Of the Tariff Act OF
1883 which It 80 kindly offered the 1SrELLl.
GINGER But no word has since appeared
in the Register to say to its readers that they
had been misled. The INrELLidEHcER ad-
vanced seven propositions on the tariff
question and suggested discussion OF
them by the two papers. The Register
shrewdly RETAINED from giving It's readers
any idea OF those propositions, and with
less shrewdness gave its readers false idea
concerning the whole spirit Of the invita-
ton. It said that the INTELLlGEScER had
not stated which side Of any Of the propos-
itions It would take, and it must decline to
take part in starting debating society for
our amusement. The Register knew this to
be untrue, but thought its sin would not
find it out. We have not complained Of
anything. II any esteemed contemporary
desires to crawl into its hole and pull the
hole in after it, we should be hard hearted
to complain.
The point to which we called attention
before, and which we now make, Is that
the ReQisler miaepresents. The reproduc-
ton OF the articles in the discussion was
not made condition; it was merely pro-
posed as an incident OF the controversy.
We were quite willing to give ISrELLidEN.
GER readers the benefit OF anything the
Register might say, and TO be entirely frank,
we preferred to be quoted rather than gar.
bled by our genial but evasive neighbor.
We anticipated just what has happened,
that the Register would not "tote fair"
But the discussion was the thing, and
there were no conditions or contingencies
about It That is what the Register declined
To enter into, not the reproduction OF arti-
cles.
The ''discourtesy" was in telling what was
not true, as 1t has done again in the above
quoted paragraph, and certainly dds
courtesy" is not q harsh term for that
thing. We should have hoped not to
wound the pride oil the Intelligent manu-
iacturersn whom our neighbor has taken
under It's wing, and who are VIGOROUSLY
known to be violent free traders bent upon
wrecking the last vestige Of a protective
tariff. And 1t would have been our aim 10
say nothing to CRATE upon the feelings Of
the american laborer," who has been
made very unhappy by the Registers as
surance that he is twenty cents on the dollar
worse off than the Europeon laborer.
But Il the Register "does not propose to
sacrifice its reputation" by backing its
assumptions" with proof and its opinions
with argument, may we not at least hope
that 1t will be pleased to add something to
It's reputation by occasionally telling the
truth about something will do.
PERSONAL.