Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-16
sEsAroR BrRNEs
Answer 60 che Arguments Of Messrs. Oaaa-
well aud Hubbard BEFORE the Judiciary
Committce on saturday.

i Il y
Answer 20 the Arguments Of STessrs- 0aid.
well aad Hubbard BEFORE the Judiciary
Committee on Saturday.
10 Ae Efitor Of 1s R,yi-ss.
In your report OF the arguments made 81
your distinguished townsmen, Hubbard ana
Caldwell, before the Judiciary Committee
Saturday, on the subject Of exemphng all
manufactured products from taxation. JON
omitted entirely TO mention the fact that
Senator Byrne replied to these able legal
gentlemen. 1t is needless to say that IN the
opinion of those who heard the discus
sion Senator Byrnes answer to the aFgu-
ments oft advocates Of the exemption OF
manufactured products was ample and com
plete. HIS showed that the manufacturing
interest was the largest interest in the
State, next to the agricultural interest That
according 10 the census reports of 1880 the
capitalinvestedin manufacturing in the State
was less than $l4,000,000 that the product
of that capital was nearly 81, 900, 600 worth;
that the product of manufactured goods to
the hand employed was $3.50; that the gross
profit TO the manufacturer was more than
The total amount of wages paid for labor;
that the manufacturing interest already
received very high bounties from the gen
eral government in the way OF
protective tariffs, notably, the iron inter
est which is the chief manufacturing interest;
that pig metal, now selling in the market
at less than $40 ton, receives nearly 81
ton protection; that steel rail receives Sl7
ton protection while the market price is S25
ton, and that with all this protection from
the general government the manufacturers
are demanding further protection from the
State, by an amendment to the Constitution
TO exempt all manufactured goods from tax
alton for the support Of the government
which protects them, and to place the bur
den of their protection on Other and less
prosperous and productive interests, which
receive little or no protection from the geoe'
raj government in the way OF tariff duties,
notably the agricultural interest.
Senator Byrne also showed BY The census
of 1880 that all the farms in the State were
valued at 1873 million dollars-that on that
investment the total product was only %
millions including live stock, allowing that
one-fourth of live stock was produced each
year. That the total product to the hand
engaged in agriculture for one year
was 1922, while the product to the
hand in manufacturing was about
four times as much He further
demonstrated that wherever you exempt
one class or kind of property from taxation,
the burden that ought to be borne by that
class must necessarily be placed on all
other property not exempted from taxation,
He also exposed the fallacy of the argu'
ment of the attorneys for the manufacture
ers, that because the manufacturing inte-
rest OF the State is the largest wealth pro-
ducing interest in the State, that they
should therefore be exonerated from taxa
ton, BY showing that it was monstrously
unjust 10 other tax payers that the burdens
OF government should be shifted from the
most wealthy and prosperous class in the
State TO the poorer and less prosperous
classes Of tax PAYERS. FAIR PAY.