Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-15
MR.. GIBSON AT KEYsER.
He Speaks to the Audience From Both
Parties.

Parties.
Special Correspondence Of Tie Register.
KEYsER, w. VA, October 13.-Hon.
Eustace Gibson spoke here tonight in the
Court House to an attentive audience of
both parties. He said that for twenty
years the Government had been in the
hands of the Republican party, they should
be credited with all good but should be
held responsible for all bad legislation.
We have now no questions at issue re-
lating to national banks the rights of the
states or citizenship. There is but one
great question alone before the people that
is important above all others, whether the
government shall be run in the interests OF
tbs people or for the benefit OF monopo-
lies.
He reviewed the course of the Democratic
legislation in the State and showed
the Inconsistency Of the party who
would ask change of the political control
of the State on accout of small increase
of taxes on farm products that were at the
same time taking millions of dollars from
oppressed labor and placing it in
lIt oi ihOhPOiiSNo VI iONhthk
it up in the vaults of the National treasury
while our industries were languishing in
idleness for its use.
The purpose of this party had always
been legislation for rich monopolists and
for pauperizing the laboring millions.
He showed how they had taken the pub
lie lands, the property of honest labor, in
tended for homes for the producers, and
given them TO corrupt corporations. How
millions of acres had been placed
in the hands of foreign noblemen
that should be owned by our own labor
cfS.
He told how they had swept from the
sea the American navy, that the few might
be made rich and the many poor showing
the contrast between our commerce now
and when their party came into power
Then we had n market for every produc
and our sail whitened every sea now we
can run our factories four months in the
year and supply every demand with our
warehouses packed through over produc-
ton.
Now We have not q single vessel that
can fight an enemy or run from one II at
tackled, aud our deienses along the coast
leave US comparatively at the mercy of the
weakest power of Europe When
and how did the Republican
party obtain this vast accumulation
of idle treasure. 1t did not grow on trees,
men cannot print it, but it has been taken
and kept from the hands of the laborers.
And how has much of the money spent
been applied, and what have we to show
for the expenditure? The history Of some
of the public contracts for ship building
will answer. The repairing Jobs in which
the cost was often more than the first cost
of the vessel, will answer; and for all OF
this what have we to show? Not single
vessel worthy of the name. And was all
this done through errors in judgment by
men void of understanding, or with the
deliberate intention of detrauding toll and
enslaving labor. Yet you are appealed to
give the party control of the State and
nation that has thus deliberately taken
millions from your pockets for the benefit
of monopolists.
Are the labOrers that toll in the fields
and workshops benefited through this
legislation for the few. And what is the re.
suit Of legislation, over production, on
every hand. Four months in our mines
and six months in our factories more than
suppy all our possible markets and how
are laborers to live the remainder of the
year.
Why does American wool sell higher to,
day in London than in New York? Be
cause legislation has not been for the la
borer and producer but for the capitalist
and monopolst. Why do we have labor
agitations and daily strikes with all
these projections of American labor? And
is this the result of Democratic or Repub
lican legislation? 1t is because monopoly
has had free trade in labor aud protection
for Capital.