Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-10-17

good money. Q,onewcd chocringJ Before
the war You mover had circulating In your
miles niles from home nc Cries OF Thats eY soi ano M
cheersl You do not Today have single
piece of paper money circulating in wost Wiz
% .srost cheerngli not bill that win not pass
rs certainly In the money markete of Eu.ope
rs in Now York or baltimore. SO that the man
who works for days wages knows whom
Saturday night comes that no is TO be paid In
good money (Renewcd cheerinPJ
Under the protective tariff your coal Indus
tries and your iron Industries, and the wealth
OF your forests have been brought out, ana II
is FOR you voters of West Virginia 10 say
whether you want this to continue or whether
you want TO try free trade. tVoices: mo, we
don't''D mako bod TO say, with all respect
that there Ia not a Democratic statesman on
the stump in West Virginia conspicuous
enough 10 bo known TO the Nation-l speak
only OF those know-who advocates pro
tcctive tariff not one. (Cries OF mot one"
Not onolD ! go further; ! do not know Q
Democratic statesman who will not acknowl
edge that tariff for protection Is unconsti
tutional and, therefore, ns honest men they
nrc bound to oppose IL, The Morrison Tar,u bill
lcries,out; ave won't havoitrD-the Morrison
Tarid bill would have struck at the interest OF
West Virginia in many vital respects, and II
Is an amazing fact that the representatives IN
Congress from West Virginia voted for that
bill. There Is n good old adagc which beg TO
recall TO your minds, that God helps those
who help themselves, and IL West Virginia Is
not willing TO sustain n protective tariff by
her vote and her influence she must not ex.
pcct IL TO DO sustained for her by others. II
she wants the benefit of a protective tariff she
must give to q protective tariff the benefit OF
her support. tCheers)
AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTH.
am glad that am addressing a Southern
poop o! a community that were elaveho .ders;
community made up of those who were
masters and those who were slaves; but am
addressing u slave State no longer Great
cheerlngj am appealing to the new South.
sRenewed cheering.l And am appealing TO
Nnae t.fNttN pnf IN N n taAsl ~
or prejudice; not TO keep her eyes to the
rear. but to look to tho front and TO the flu.
ture tcries OF "we'll do II" "we'll do it," and
would make the same appeal to other South.
ern States-to old Virginia, to North Carolina,
to Georgia, to Alabama. TO Tennessee and to
Louisiana. They are all interested In a pro
tective tariff, and tho question is: Which do
they prefer, to crafty prejudice or to pro
mote general prosperity2 West Virginia can
impregnabe barrier of the solid South.
Cheers and cries of"we'lldo itP'"We'l doitl'D
Solid on whatp Solid on a prejudice; solid on
separate the different portions OF the Union,
whereas, l invite you to JON IN n union
not merely In form. but Union In fact and
take your part in tho solution of the indus.
trial and financial problems of the time.
Great cheering.)
The repeal of the protective tariff, accord.
ing to tho terms of the Morrison bill, would
cost West Virginia vast sum of money. Be-
tween 1870 and 1880 you gained in this State
$I60001O0O; between 1880 and 1880 you will
gain much more, with tariff for protection;
but ask any business man IL he believes you
cnn do 1t with free trade? Cries of "Nolf
MOI "Nopo
Here close my words of counsel. leaving
the action to you. / leave you, not as a com,
munity influenced by sectional feeling, but
as community broadly National. 1 leave
you rs State allied on this side to Pennsyl
vania, and on the other to Ohio tcheers) us
much rs you are TO Virginia and Kentucky.
i leave you rs State that stands in the van
of the new South, inviting the whole South to
join in n great National movement which
shall in fact and IN feeling as well as in form
make rs n people with one Union, one Consti.
tuition, one destiny" Great and long-con.
tinued cheering.)