Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-01

them. Doctor the tariff with homeopathic
or allopaihic or eclectric dose from nov ua-
Ill the Thanksgiving Day of the year 1000,
and you cannot in that Way cure this
Chronio National SGaiady.
Others hope 0y change Of national sd,
minlsiration 10 correct the trouble. No
! President. though be combined the patriot.
ism Of Washington and the broad views OF
jefferson and the suavity OF g Madison,
and the courage Of an Andrew Jackson and
the old fashioned honesty Of al Abraham
Lincoln, could regulate lie inexorable lag of
supply and demand "Well," some say,
'lGt us pack our trunks and move east or
north or vest" Going east toward Europe
would be exodus into starvation. The ava
lanche Of population from Europe assures
US that that country is already overcrowded.
We all know that this is the best colntryto
live in. i have eight hundred and fifty
thousand rev reasons for saying so-eight
hundr,d and fifty thousand people coming
in one year from the other side the SEA to our
country If this had not been the best coun-
try to hye in there would have been $50, 900
Americans going to tie other side the At
lantic Shall we 60 North! Aissedy the
busiest lines Of competition are along the
81. Lawrence, snd the Androscoggin, and
the Penobscot, and the Woods of Maine, and
The waters Of the lake chain answer No
room mere
Shall we move West? There is no West.
The emigrsnrs chased it across the Ohio,
across the Mississippi, across the La Plate.
And Fremonts exploring expedition put
their spurs into their horses Hanks aud
chased the West from the Rocky Mountains
10 the Sierra Nevadas while the forty-ainers,
from California landing, from
their ships on the Pacific beach took the
West in - rear And the workmen OF the
Union Pacific and Northern Pacific and
Southern Pacific came upon it with their
.psdes and the giant West has ceased. And
hough many might suppose that 1t nigh,
be said of it as Moses: No man knOw6th
# bis sepulchre 10 this day" | think ths
he Yosemite Nslley is it's ssrcophsgus with
RI Captain, for the hesdstone and Cathe
iral Rock at the foot The millions OF for
sien population that are yet to cross th'
co for America will soon I'll all the area
oetween the Atlantic and
Tho Pacific Reaches
But in the words OF my text nov declare
another door toward the South" And
when say South, | do not mean the South
ern States OF the nation but mean mag
nifcent ininity of opportunity beyond
Portuguese America, the fifteen Spanish
American republics and the islands of the
south Pacific. Through that door will come
tie complete and glorious relief for all this
over supply. 1t will come within ten years
within i've, within three. On the 10th o.
next month at the New Orleans Exposition
hat door will begin to swing open. And II
the government OF the United States fully
ppIecisies the opportunity and the people
Ill help, the highest water mark
hat the wave of our national
rosperity has ever reached will be hun
red feet under what shall speedily be the
uh tide Of commercial, agricultural, manu-.
,cturipg, literary and moral success. In
be name Of God proclaim Revolution.
Iot by sword or dynamite or nitroglycer
ue or giant powder, but By plough sun
sw and ward stick and factory bands and
ew lines Of steamers and whole nation
islug up to greet our nation in Commercial
ni,y. Our people for the most part sit IL
| ppaliirg ignorance OF an opportunity such
= Sas never spread out before any nstion
iuCe The morning stars sang together. On
| Ie South three gates" Yea, three thous
nd gates AID all Of them
Wide Open.
have had facts put before me enough To
:eep r,sn awake nights because OF their
startling significance, and statistics 80 losieO
rith meaning that they move with the
| .ylendor and power Of the Iron Duke 5
INV at Waterloo, Scotch Greys and the
Life Guards and Packs infantry and bstsl
lions OF Ponsoby and Ryland and the Dutch
Belgisns and Highlanders sounding their
bagpipes. Aye Ayel 1t is bloodless
Waterloo which will decide the commercial
destiny of North and South America. The
.imple fact ia that the vast realms Of popu-
alton in the tropic are buying from trans
Atlantic nations almost everything and
from US almost nothing and the tide ought
70 turn and the tide will turn, and preach
his sermon to he lpi it turn Your ears vii
: II. with the intensity of this recital. In
Iato IN sva nr,n;"a and three hundred and
,ixty.nine million dos WORTH 2! SSo0a;
we're manufactured in the United States sn1
only two per cent taken by foreign markets
Is /; marvel that American msuutacto.
les .f as dead as the p-overbial door nail
Nv Only wonder is that nine tenths otthe
manufactures have not gone into bank
rup;cy, and ninety-nine one hundred rs oi
be factory hands gone into starvation or
he aims house. And it will be worse II
the battle is 10 20 on between Lowell spin
| lbs here and Manchester spindles Their,
between foreign merchants who want tariffs
| down and American merchants who wan,
,ariffs I'D. There is no relief for US in thr
markets Of Europe and will be none tili
moons shall wax and wane no more. An
other door toward the South. On the
So-th three gates" This nation to-day is
ike silly dry goods merchant who stsui'
behind the counter haggliug with small
custom er about three yards Of lace, when
there are at the counter impatiently wsitins,
three princesses waitipg TO purchase their
bridal troussesu. May God rouse this
nation from its
Commercial IdIocy.
On the south Of US are regions nearly
.hree time as large as the United States
4 N0lCQ are NlluOGI u0nuAoS11ASSI "AsAaON
WOODEN goods, without agricultural imple
ments, without telegraphS, without tele-
phones, without shoes, withost sewing ma
chimes, without ten thousand things that We
have aud they must have. Where shall they
get them? They are getting them from
,hree thousand miles away. and We at the
very next door from them are buried under
a surplus of these very things. They are
able 10 trade with Us for their sugars, aud
coffees, ard spices, and fruits and valuable
woods we need IS much as they need out
products. But look and then hang you
heads at the statement, that while our mex
door neighbors, the Southern republics anC
Brazil and reighboring colonies import 81,
huUdred and seveny-fve million dol
lars' worth Of goods in yesr
only one hundred and twenty
six millions are from the United States
Only one-6fth of the trade is ours, European
nations taking the four fingers aud les'inl
Us the poor thumb. The sister Rep1hlic'
on the American continent have foreign
commerce amounting to four hundrei aud