Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-13


and are foremost In the cutlery against
the coming Democratic onslaught upon
the business interests Of men Of their
class and kidney.
Well knowing from what source they
derive the butter that melts upon their
bread, they are the men that, campaign
after campaign, dive down into the
depths Of their monopolistlc purses and
drag forth the greenbscks that time
and again have turned the tide of battle
in the closely contested States Of New
York, Ohio and Indiana. What kind
of system is it that protects large
Pennsylvania corporation to such an
extent that last year its half dozen
stockholders pOeketed dividends to the
amount of l47 per cent. upon their cap
ital: Was this for the benefit OF the
workipgmeu who were fleeced? for the
HAPPINESS of tradesmen who were
niulcted : and for the enrichment OF the
great consuming class whose pockets
were filehed by a robber tariff?
Certainly the plain people OF the
country are not going to sustain such
excrescences upon the body polite,
such wholesale robbery of the many for
the benefit OF the few, or any system
that will permit overgrown and corrupt
monopolies to continue to salt down
and gather in such abnormal and ILL
gotten profits as in the past. We Nen-
ture to predict that the Democratic par
ty has enlisted for the war, and that 1t
will not stay its reforming hand until
it has cut up this colossal fraud, root
and branch, and sown tons OF salt over
the principles of political economy that
ever permitted such false ideas to be
written as the law of the land.
The Democratic party will make
fierce and unrelenting war upon the
tariff as IL criSts tO-doy, bat no war upon
q protective tariff, an unremitting
attack upon monopolies, but none upon
the interests of workingmen, of manu-.
facturers ard consumers. 1t will
not permit Pennsylvania corporation
to have protection which throws Ia
per cent dividends year to its stock
holders, but will see that this same
corporation has such an amount of duty
placed upon foreign products with
which it may compete, that will allow
it to pay its workmen first class wages
and declare for it stockholders annual
diyidenk Of from 10 to Is per cent.
1t will ma b nS< compromise with law
that fostersNu Eaern wool manufac-
turer at the e7ense pta Western wool
grower; but WI see t, kat both the wool
grower and th,,rco, manufacturer
have fair pro.eC. . so that both
may live and flourish. 1t will
reduce the duties on sugar
and numerous other articles, and
al the salne time will raise them in ia
ycr of many industries that to-day need
a more energetic protection that the
present tariff affords. Matters will be
eveued up and thoroughly readiusted.
Yet a protective tariff will remain.
Every American industry will receive
its share of protection, but the mOnopo-
listic features will be wiped out, lock,
stock and barrel, and the only Shrek
ers will be the men of abnormal wealth
who have thriven and fattened upon
the past system. Hence, these tears
over the election of CARLISLE.
The entire revenue of the United
States should be raised, aud will be
raised, by the tariff, and this tariff will
be 50 arranged that it will yield larger
revenue than ever, and at the same
time will be so imposed as to afford a
just and equitable protection to every
American industry against foreign
competition. But no industry will re-
ceive exclusive favor or be allowed to
become a monopoly or close corpora
ton because the Democracy believe
that equal laws for all rich men and
Yorkingmen and their industries are in
harmony with the spirit of American
institutions and the American constitu-
ZION. Speaker CARLISLE'S election
means this,
The Internal Revenue with its annual
ole hundred and thirty-tive millions of
taxes, its spies, its informers, collectors,
Il. "A hAakS nF Pannhlinan ole
tioneers must go and will not be hurried
IN its return. Ofcourse the Republican
ntIiceholders will object, but the people
don't care. Mr.. CARLISLE and the
Democratic party propose to put veto
upon any more land grants to the rail-
road corporations in which Messrs.
GOULD, WILLARD ct al are feathering
their nests and will also find a means
to compel these gentry to make Use OF
their grants for the purposes for which
hey were bestowed. No legislation
will remain upon the statute book that
will give to JOHN Roach and q few
others the monopoly Of American ship
building, and something will be at
tempted to restore to this country that
"Ieat ocean carrying trade from which
Great Britain and her subjects derive
an annual profit of nearly two hundred
nd fifty millions of dollars. Mr.. CAR.
LISI.E is upon the right track and the
leople, many millions strong, will be
1T his back to cheer on his noble battle
against monopoly and rascality. These
are but few of the reforms that the
election of CARLISLE will bring
10 the front this winter and
no outcry about ruin to
| the business interests of the monOp-
q les, no bowling about the bloody
shirt and no screams from the bloated
money bags upon whose equity corns a
| will harShlv