The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-15
WHEELIN1. 4. va. sEPrkNDER IS. 1855.
lWo VieWsofan Important Que,tioh.

Luke Blackburn has just passed out as
the Governor OF Kentucky. While in office
he kept pardon mill running and earned
for himself the proud title Of the criminals
friend. Let him stand as fair represen-
tatiye Of those laborious toilers who work
with the jaw.
Mr.. Blackburn sees and says that the
tariff is the question OF the day. He adj
mits that some of the old free traders Of the
South now favor a protective tariff. He
assigns what he conceives to BIO the reason
o. this marked change. Who can guess
what it is? ave are ruled by the blackD
and, Of coure, there still exists bitter
feeling" "There still exists in the South,
among some, desire to see the North
humbled." 1--WE have been weaned from
the North by the bloody shirt" when a
man has been knocked TO the ground he
will try to rise again. Revenge is in every
mans bosom"
Viewing the general situation in the
South Mr.. Blackburn thinks "the most
popular stand will bethe same as before
that Of tariff for revenue.only." There.
fore, according 10 this eminent Southern
Democrat, the South is divided on the
tariff question, one part favoring tariff
for-reyenue-only, the other a tariff for
revenge
This is important II true. BUTT is not
true. Mr.. Blackburn ISLANDERS the pro-
tectionists OF the South, intelligent men who
gee that the pound Of cotton worked into
the fabric in the South is worth more to
that section and to the country than the
pound OF cotton sent to England, manu-
featured there, and brought back to clothe
ths men who till the cotton field.
Manufactures have taken hold in the
South, and this, not the silly idea Of a more
silly revenge, accounts for the change in
sentiment. The sheer idioCy OF this mans
talk is still more apparent when 1t is re-
membered that Northern capital is largely
invested in Southern industrial enterprises.
A few Luke Blackburns and JEFF Dayises
can do the south great deal OF injury by
overtaxing themselves with jaw labor.
John j. jarrett, until recently President
Of the Amalgamated Association, stands as
a good representative OF the men who
work with brain and hands. He fayors q
protective tariff because it protects labor
and capital. This is the true ground to
stand on, and it is the ample justification
Of q protective tariff. 1t protects farm
labor and farm capital as well as mill labor
and mill capital. So it completes the cir
cult OF protection.
In his testimony before the Senate Sub
Committee on Education and Labor Nh.
jarrett said: "All ironworkers are in favor
Of protection because it protects them in
their wages" BY way OF example, in
retutation Of the free trade theory that the
tariff is a bounty paid by the consumer to
the manufacturer, Mr.. Jarrett added: PRO
lection does not increase the price Of steel;
but iii did not exist there would be no
employment for iron and steel workers."
Steel never was go cAeap in the United
States as it isto.day.
Here arc two very different views, one
from Southern Democratic politician, the
other from a Northern workingman Of
character and intelligence. 1t is theory
opposed 10 practical experience.