The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-04
MASSEY.

The \ Roads Statesman ExhOrts HI,
Party 60 stop Playing the Fool and
Break into the FaIi Treasury.
Confederit y Roads (wich is in the State
Nv Kentucky, Aug. II, 1888. For the Grst
time in twenty-five years the Dimocrisy
hey 1t in ther power to rise from The
ashes Nv defeat and attain the hight and
summit ny politikle power.
The last 20 yeers hev bin Role.depressin
and spirit sinkin to the avrige Dimocrat.
We hev bin KEEP out Nv utlis, and hev bin
compelled to subsist e. best We Good, on
SIGH loke triumfs ez the folly Nv
our enemies throwd in our way. We
hev drunk nv the waters Nv hoomillashen,
and fed on the husks Nv politikle helplis.
nees.
But even adversely hez its yooses. Samp:
son discovered honey in the carcass, and
everything evil hez something Nv good in
1t. Had the Dimocrisy bin in power for
the last twenty years, the Government
wood not now hey bin wuth plunderin, for
It wood heY bin milkt TO the degree Nv
maxim II hardly wutb while heYin c0ntrole
Nv 1t. The only excuse ther is for drinkiu
is to hey suthln TO economist on when you
need to economist. We hev bin KEEP out
Nv place, 1t is troo, and the Republicans
hey bin in power; but while We wuz staryin
they wuz nussin IN the Government and
keepin Il 10 that pint Nv fatnis that it will
stand vigrus milkin for number uvyeers.
With Treasury full and oyernowin, with
system wich will bring any amount more
than they may want, it is well for those
whohev outlived the hunger NV twenty-five
years that we hev bin KEEP out.
l motifs with alarm that many Nv our
newspapers and speakers are bawlin' for
free trade, and that when 1t is necessary
for US TO carry PenDsylyany, Connecticut
aud the Southern States which are gittin'
into manooiactrin. Wat loonacy! Them
zealots don't seem to understand that the
first and priusiple thing for US to consider
IL the postotfises and custom houses. That
ia the reel ishoo with us wich hey ben out
in the cold for twenty-foar weery yeers.
and that is the only thing to consider. The
pint is to beet the Republican party, and
wrest from their keepin' the pleasant
posishens they hev held SO long, and put
ourselves into item for four years anyhow.
To do this We must hev votes, and to git
votes We must accommodate ourselves TO
the wishes OF the indiyidooal voter. Eft
wuz practicable We should hev platform
in Pennsylvania wich wood declare for
high protective tariff, and another for lii
noy wich wood be free trade-that is ef We
diskivered that IIlinoy wanted Free Trade.
But inesmuCh Cz the people Nv Pennsyl-
vauy read lllinoy Dlmocra!ic papers, and
vice versa, that woodn't answer; and like
wise it wood be ruther renchin on Dino.
cratic speaker who he'd been howlin fur
Free Trade in Iilinoy to howl ekally fur
Protection in Pennsylyany. We must be
akoot enuf to make platform on wIch all
kin stand, and witch all kin be satisfied
with, and witch kivers all sides Nv the
whole ground.
That platform is simply one demaudin
sternly Tariff. for Revenue. A Tariff for
Revenue means sothin, or nqthin, Just ez
you are mind to take it. 1t is CONVEX
tible lice. In Pennsylvany 1t kin be ex.
plained-and rite here want to say that
platform amt with 100 nlarkSe for our
purposes which don't hev to be explained.
FL il hez to be explained, then 700 kin ex-
plain 1t in any way yoo choose, and kin
make it SCOT all ATTITUDES and longitoods.
For instance, "a Tariff for Revenue" wood
De explained in Pennsylyany to mean per.
teckshrn w the most perteckinest kind,
one which wood give every workman big
wsges and plenty Nv work.
In Illinoy, OH the other hand, it wood
be explained ez meanin reduCkahen Nv
tie tariff to jist the bare pint Nv pervidin
revenoo for the Government, practically
free trade, witch is to say ez near free trade
eE 1t wood be safe to go under eggisun ci'-
cumstances.
In mixed deestriks w6er the sentiment
is about ekally balanced ii would be- ex-
planed ez meanin war upon mOnopolies-
that bein alluz safe cry, jist the same as
reform.
Wich ia to say, in protective States the
platform wood be twisted oyer to- protec-
ton, with howl for reform, candidly adj
mittin that the tariff shood be lowered on
all the artickles witch that seCkshun don't
perdoose. In seckshuns where the senti-
ment runs to free trade 1t wood mean tariff
reform, with leanin 10 absloot free trade.
In both seckshuns We shood look wise and
remark, 1--WE are With you, but 20 slow"
The pint is 10 win the f;e ahead ny us,
and do that aeootnis is necessary. The
Radikels must be retired to the rear and
men Nv sense come to the front. We must
wipe of Nv our banners the old motto Nv
Free Trade" and inscribe In its place
"Tarif tor Reyenoo Only" or Tariff Re.
form," and under that head march conf.
deply into Pennsylvania jist the same ez
in l!linoy, apd win. ANY other path than
this LEEDS 10 certin deieet.