The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-30
TRUE TO HIS C0L0RS.
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST KELLEY,
.rhs Father of Profession" )" Denied by Tha.
Gentieman-He Says he Has Not Become
Convert to Free Trade-As Strong
n ProtectionIst as He Ever Was.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. 29.-In recent
issues o! the New York Times and Herald
appeared editorial articles in which it was
intimated that by introducing bill ,clat-
ing to export tobacco Judge Kelly has
abandoned the principles Of the protective
system. To-day Mr.. Kelly's attention was
called to the subject and he was asked il
he had seen the articles alluded to.
"Of course have seen them," he re-
piled. "a complimentary article may es.
cape notice, but some good-natured friend
is always ready to send you one that he
may believe TO he unpalatable. The ar-
tiCles in question were based on the fact
that had, In obedience to the direction
OF the Committee on Ways and Means, re-
ported to the House bill permitting the
establishment OF export tobacco manufac'
tories, and allowing drawback OF duties on
all imported articles used in the manutac-
ture OF tobacco exported theretrom.
We're disposed to confess the fact and
avoid the alleged consequences OF having
made such report, could truthfully say
that neither the bill nor the report was
prepared by me. and in reporting them |
acted, Us have intimated, as the organ OF
the committee OF which l am minority
member. But offer no such plea.
INSPIRED DY YALE TEACHING.
"The article in the Times is evidently
from the pen Of an unshaven youth, fresh
from Yale or Williams, and the dogmatic
teaching Of Sumner or Perry; while that
in the Herald would seem TO be the work
of all economic Rip Van Wrinkle who, hav-
ing fallen asleep before l became mem-
Der OF the Committee on Ways and Means,
does not know that my action Oh such
questions has from the beginning been
uniform. | signalized my promotion to
that committee by determined and per-
sistent effort to enlarge the free list by
transferring from the dutiable lists all raw
materials which could not be produced in
this country but would be serviceable in
the production OF any kind OF manufac-
tured goods, and claim to have added
more commodities to the free list than any
one member OF the House has ever done.
This policy is an essential element in an
enlightened application Of the protective
system. The object OF that system is TO
increase the fields OF employment for those
who depended upon their labor, and TO
the wealth OF citizens and the power ofthe
country by utilizing to the fullest extent
its material resources, which can only be
done by the widest possible diversitica-
tion OF its productions.
"When speak OF raw material mean
raw material, and not as free traders mean
when they use the term; anything that
may be used as material In q more ad-
vanced manufacture, as Tor instance
broadcloth, which they treat rs raw ma
terial because gentlemen's coats and la
dies hahItG are made OF it; and | hereby
renew my oit.repoated challenge TO them
to name the raw material which cannot be
advautageously produced in this ooEntry
that Is subject to duty under our tariff, as
the object OF the protective provisions OF
our law is to secure our market for our
own people and to enlarge the field for
American labor, logic does not require ths
application OF such duties to articles
which are imported for the express pur-
pose OF being exported after they shall
have been wrought by American labor
into finished commodities. ! have con-
sistently advocated the release from duty
OF articles imported for re,export when ad-
vanced by the labor Of thepeople,