Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-14
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ing tArid reform renewing NC DouheV
turing industries Of the country and the
people from high priced neeessaries OF HE,
that the manufacturing must be further
hurdened and the people further oppressed
I do not know any State in the Union more
interested in tariff reform than the State OF
West Virginia. Should we have no addi-
tional outlets for our manufactures. the
same plants that now, in four months time,
produce all hat. We can consume, with
their organized trade and general
business arrangements, would necessar-
ily crush out any small enterprises that
might start in new and undeyeloped sec
tons, as any business man well knows that
in an over.burdened and oppressed market
small and new enterprises cannot and
never have successfully fought against
thoroughly organized enterprises, and thus,
though West Virginia has unlimited coal
and limestone and timber, with an abun-
dance Of skill and labor to form and shape
them, they would necessarily have to re-
main idle in our soil and stand in our for
ests, for the want Of open aud profitable
markets.
There is another thing the West Virginia
people ought 70 look st. The protection
system believing in free raw material as
they call it That Is they want free use Of
sll the natural resources Of the country,
and protection only upon manufactured arti-
cles. They demand that the vast iron beds OF
Canada and the equally valuable iron-beds
of Cuba ought 10 be made free to them, as
an Eastern manufacturer told me the other
dAy, in order that their Eastern iron inter
ests might prevent itself from being driven
out Of business by the cheaper irons OF West
Virginia and the more Southern States. 1t
u nov. well understood that in most OF the
sections Of West Virginia, as well as Ten
nesSee Virginia, Georgia and Alabama,
that iron can be made and carried to Phila-
delphia or Chicago and there undersell, ct
a good profit, the iron productions Of Penn
sylvania and Ohio, and this, too. after pay
ing 81 to the lAborer, where these
last mentioned States only pay
$50. There is another aspect of
the future American policy which
makes it absolutely necessary that there
should be not only reform in our tariff laws
but heavy expenditure, both tor coast de-
lenses and for o navy. What was known as
the Monroe Doctrine" that was proclaimed
in this county years ago, suited q county
then undeyeloped. We had no need for
much foreign intercourse and cared little
for the wants Of the outside world. Bat
now, since railroads and improved water
ways have opened the wonderful natural re-
sources of this country, and its population
increases along all these highways at such
an extraordinary rate it becomes necessary
that the American people should turn their
attention to foreign intercourse and that
they should have some hand IN supplying
the demands Of the great Asisie
and African empires, and to
Get int these countries upon their
markets, there must be an entire repudia-
ton Of the Monroe doctrine. President
Arthur, land byethe-bye. they may say
what they choose about him, be has 5made
most excellent President), has fully recog-
nized this fact, as is instauced by his ap.
pointment of Commissioners to the Congo
Conference, held in Berlin, and by the
treaty he has formed with Nicaragua for
the building Of that canal. In the Congo
Conference our Government has recognized
that its necessities for outside markets have
required Il 10 90 into conference with the
European nations for the purpose OF exer-
eising equal rights with them in the con-
trolling of these new and comparatively IN.
civilized fields, and going into this confer
ence and making agreements it knows that
il must be in such q position as to
enforce respect, and If necessary compel OBJ
servance of commercial regulations by force
of arms. In other words, our Government
has gone into foreign conference and de-
maudsd It's right to interfere in the com
mercial regulations Of foreign countries, the
very thing that the Monroe doctrine declared
this Government should not do. 1t was to
give US 3 quicker and cheaper route to the
markets Of the great East for the carrying
of our own manufactured articles and the
bringing back Of their raw material With
this view the Government proposes by the
expenditure Of $l00,000,000 TO complete
the Nicaragua canal, so it will be seen,
whatever may be the differences In the
views of the political parties here at home
upon the subject of tariff and commerce and
upon the subject os the Monroe doctrine,
Republican administration, ayowetly N ia
yor Of the protection theory has by these
acts acknowledged that the business
interests of this country absolutely
demands the reputation Of the cherished
doctrine of non-interference, and, on the
other hand, gone into active cooperation
with ether nations that it might re-estab
Esh its commerce and get the benefit Of
foreign markets. In taking this very ad-
yanced step We eau only Justify ourselves
against the expenditure Of money and blood
that must sooner or later arise by foreign
ccmpEcations upon the idea that the Ameri-
can industrial interests must be largely and
steadily benefited by it. 1t is an assertion
that We must have more markets at any
cost. and that we can and must compete
with other nations. Now, know there are
differences in both political parties
upou these things. There are Pro
tectionists per Sc. in the Democratic party,
and revenue reforners and free traders IN
the Republican party. but what understand
10 be the doctrine of the revenue reform
party proper, or in other words, the prevail
emit Democratic idea upon that subject Is
such an adjustment Of revenue laws OF the
country, that while it reduced the surplus 1t
will At the same time keep in view snch q
reform in the tariff as viii relieve the indus
trial interests of this country, giving labor
steady employment fair wages, and the
manufacturers regular and open markets
for their products
We do not understand that this brings
sbou, any Eight in the Democratic party.
We presume that upon this subject the
minority inside of the party will be control-
ed by the majority Just as We expect the