The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-21

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So, 100000, over one-tourth the whole
amount, was raised on sugar, molAsses and
tropical fruits, which he said were arti'
cles OF necessity that the duty on sugar
ranges from one and t~hree-tourths 70
two and thres,iourth cents per pound.
l have spoken OF the iallAcies Of Gen.
GOT. l meant no personal reflection at
all; l have the highest respect for him,
But | Just call ideas Rs they present
themselves to my mind. The noun
tain has brought forth a mouse, and 1t is,
by taxing q thing you make 1t cheaper.
Good Heavens was there ever such an
Rbsurdity. BY putting 2 or q cents on a
pound OF sugar you make it cheaper
You take that SlS0,00O,00O, and you col
buy every acre OF land on which your
sugar q grows, Now Is thsre any,
thing else that Is unequal Why, men
sometimes wear fine coats, What is the
cost OF fine cloth in the wsst of England
Say S. 60 per yard; that 10 the kind Of
cloth General Golf can wear, On this
tha specific and adyaloren duties aggTe.
gate 500 per cent, What has the colored
man with his pride to pay2 Or
the young man wanting to court
kue gals, ub WAlll5 w Wpat VEoth 40 AbAI
like General GOt's as can be gotten. But
he has to take imitation; and that cloth
costs forty cents. But on that coat he
pays $50 per cent duty, Ia that unequal?
That ia what the people have been talking
about, But when you make suggestions
Of that kind, they cry out, Stree trade"
Now, General Gotf said he Is gsing to
he elected. You watch that, General
GoF will be buried politically on the I'd
OF November, and l now make proclama-
tion Of the funeral, [Oheers and cries for
both speakers Anu as there Is Consid,
cradle putrldity, the burial must be soon,
His hood!ers will bs his chief mourPsrs,
and l leave John Roach to preach the
inneral sermon.
THE TARIFF on TIN,
What other illustration can I use to
show the inequality Of the tariff, Colonel
Farnsworth's cousin startled mo with the
intelligence that no had discovered tin In
Calhoun county, l told him he would be
as rich as the mines Of GolConda, But
when they came to examine and analy2e
Il, IL was nothing bat sulphur and iron,
and when they stuck q little fire to 1t, 1t
all went to smoke, We have no tin in
this country. No man should have any
objection TO an import duty on a tin
bucket, or anything else manufactured OF
tin, but where Ia the necessity Of paying
10 per cent. on the block tin which has to
be brought into this CountTy2
The General tries to leave the impress.
sion that the Republican party Is the only
party that favors protection. Why, my
i.io,Sl, ~ tbn Aiuoa ~ fha uNoOkion ~ tho
Federal Constitution, there was q provis:
ion declaring how the Government should
be supported. Supported by excise du'
q tax on imported articles from for
eign lands. Thomas Jefferson, the father
oIthe Democratic party, declared that
the Government ought to be supported
by a tariff tax on imports. And the DEM
oCratiC party faVora protection. But you
don't want 10 tax things not produced In
this country II you can increase the rate
Of duty on those things that need proteC-
iion, and raiEO the adequate
amount OF revenue. Now, my friends,
the question before this people Is different
now from what 1t was two years ago; be-
cause, you were trying to defeat Cleve-
and then, now you have q President
who has saved by the operation Of the
party, by collecting the rev.
,nne which the law inposod $2,0O0,00 0
more than the Republican party saved.
Iudge Brannon uow attacked the syatem
II public land grants praCtiCed in this
giving as a reason that cat.
10 were 60 cheap in the West and conse. I
luently We had no markets for our bsef. [
Ie also attacked the inequalities Of rail {
.oRd charges, declaring himself in favor Of
.ho Reagan bill, closinR amid loud ap'
llauss.