The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-04-08
Ano,h.r Free Trade ny .npuslu,n.

Charleston. Aprli ". ras
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Anaih.r Free Trade Ny mposium.
II Q ires traders are determined that
New York shall not want for light il they
can help It. Hard upon tho dinner Of tho
Free Trade club in New York city comes
the ipread Of tho Young Mems Den O.
cratic club Of Brooklyn. Bayard, Pendle-
ton and Blackburn were there, and Molri-
son and Carlisle, having been unable 10
comfortably diges: their lat free trade
meal, sent regrets. Speaker Carlisle wrote:
"rhe time for resolutions and declarations
has passed, and tho time for action has
come-"not word about these bull
headed .protectionis.s in the camp who
scout resolutions and declarations and
won't stand with their party in lis pro.
posed action. .E d
Senator Bayard was applauded, and
three cheers wero given for him aB "lhe
next President Of tho United S!aies." This
il what stirred up the Young Democrats:
ut is declared that taxes shall DO levied
solely Tor the purpose Of transferring the
property Of the many into the pockets OF
the few. What is such system but legal.
lied communism ?" II We understand the
meaning and aim OF communism the able
Senator's metaphor is II littlo mixed. But
never mind that. Vino hss made tho de-.
claraton? There is nothing In the doc.
trine or practice oi.protection which jus.
titles 30 coarse SANDER. Free traders
claim that protection works all sorts Of lor-
rible ills, scarcely excepting smallpox and
Bright's disease; but the RI suits Of any sys-
tenn are not to be judged by the Wholesale
denunciatlons OF men who want to over.
tn .ow it or at least to make votes by paint-
ing it black.
Senator Bayard at his best ia too sensible
man to talk in this strain, particularly 10
Youn, Democrats, who will be likely to
take what he says for gospel. lie knows
tha. in spite Of our Goulds, Astors and
Vaude.bilts, there is no country on earth
in which wealth is 80 equally distributed,
where the condition Of the wa2e.carner is
80 good, where he eau live 80 WELL do as
well by his family and save 60 much il he
will.
In England, from which economists OF
Senator Bayard's school are fond Of draw
ing their philosophy and their illustrations,
one in seven Of the population dies pau
per. 1t costs s5O,0OO.OOO year, or 81 50
per capita OF the whole popul alton to take
care OF her paupers-a against $4,000. 600
or twenty-five cents head in this coun-
try. There is not a single fact 10 which
Senator Bayard can point as showing that
protective tariff robs the poor to gorge
the rich. But, ii it were 80, how would
the Senator account for the increasing pov-
erty Of British wage.earners and the in.
creasing wealth Of the rich who live in in
herited idleness.
Senator Pendleton gave the crank turn,
and his short speech was go full Of miH.
statements that it would require column
to review them. From his direiul picture
itappears that the country is already ruined
beyond human power to save it either by
the civil service reform which the Senator's
party has repudiated or by the tariff reform
which it lacks the courage 10 attempt. II,
as the Senator says, lit obatructs the pro.
cesses Of production aud wastes the fruits
Of labor" oven he must acknowledge that
this country has q marvellous mack OF living
when tho heart has ceased to beat. This
does not square with the other free trade
argument that protection causes over-pro.
duction, making the country hopelessly
poor becauae it has more than it wants of
all the 4ecei sites Of lie.
Mr.. Blackburn roared a fortiasimo vol.
un!ary on war taxes in times OF peace.
ubiquitous and oppressive" as internal
taxes are, he did not desire to have them
taACA OA-Ac nhAlcO uco lIUu, llee
sugar, and free salt Tor the consuming
millions Of the country" because the duties
OH these articles are war taxes" Nj.
Blackburn was not frank enough to tell
tho Young Democrats that the internal
taxes are war taxes, never laid except in
time Of war, aud always repealed in time
OF peace until now. II protective tariff
is q monstrosity because some Of
the duties represent war laxes,"
what is to be said OF internal
taxes, exactsd without the hope or pretex:
OF developing Of fostering any domestic in
dustry-levied for the sole purpose OF rais.
ing a war revenue? OF course Mr.. Black
burn does not want these taxes repealed.
lie stands in with tho whisky ring, which
profits by the whisky tax.
y The meeting wound up with tho toast
"a Campaign Oh Pfinciple"-which, it ID
but just to say, the free traders insist Oh,
and the shrewd politicians don't intend to
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