Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-21

Gland, Go to all the South American state
and no man can deny that under a forelgs-
policy, adopted by the Republican admin
istration of the Government and when
has been unsversally pursued their trade
HAVE GONE CRo H OCEAN
instead of coming to us. / will not stop
either to discuss the postoffice department,
because in spite of me once and q while q
word Sims from my tongue that | do not
like myselfin discussing such subjects as
this department presents and l will pass
with hare mention the DorSeys the Bradys
and the Star Route thieves in general.
How about the management OF the
Treasury Department? ! have already
said something to you about the natural
conditions which had a tendency to bring
about the great developement OF this
| country after the war. / ask you now II
we NAV not for a moment look on the
! other side of that picture. and
ascertain what is to be found
there? How about the tariff? Perhaps,
however, | had not better allude to the
tariff in this good old town of Wheeling. L
have been admonished by some OF the
newspapers that it would be a bad-a-
dangerous thing to dare TO talk Democrat
ic tariff to an audience in Wheeling. l
have been admonished in n
| friendly way and by q source
which personally, at least, has always
commended my own personal good will,
that when Mr.. Kenna addresses a Wheel
ing audience he won't undertake to allude
to the Morrison tariff bill, or defend or
discuss it." fatter myself with at least
one reflection, that is as a Democrat | am
the same Democrat in the city of Wheel
ing that I am on the Kanawha. lApplauseI
hatter myself with a further reflection,
that | belong to a political organization
whose doctrines are everywhere, lap
pIause, which hes no e~xpedients for this
town that do not fit somewhere else; no
convictions for one State of this great
country which it
DARE NOT CLAIM AND ASSERT
in any other. How about the tariff?
1t won't do TO disturb the tar
if, they say. Ifyou undertake, Mr.. Nor
rison. to introduce a bill, no matter h
that bill may be; if you undertake, MIR.
| Randall, to offer a bill, NJ matter
what that may be; il any Demo-
crat anywhere, from any section,
or any view, dare to touch
the tariff. we will proclaim to mankind that
YOU are a Free Trade party, bent on the
destruction of all substantial interests,
alarming business, terrifying labor and
keeping you out of power. Well they
undertook to do that, hut they didn't do
it. Applause and laughter. They
undertook to alarm the business of this
country, the labor interests and all
interests of the country to an
extent that the people might be deferred
from entrusting to Democratic hands the
management of its affairs, but they didn't
do that. With your kind consideration, |
shall 90 so far in discussing the tariff, at
least as to express my w views OF 1t, and
if ! am not greatly mistaken, | am not
very far from the Democratic standard.
Why should we not
REVISE II TARIFF,
permit me to ask? What do the Republi-
cans say to that? | had about said or was
about to say that | would show you pre-
cisely what the Republican party means,
what it; position is, what its aspirations
are touching the tariff. | hold in my hand
a copy of the last National platform
OF that party, but | realize that its plat
forms are very poor evidence of what it in
tends to do. Who made the tariff which
stands to-day on the statute hooks OF this
country? The last Democratic tariff passed
the Congress of the l.. s., in 1910; the Nor
rell tariff passed some years later. 1t has
been two or three times slightly
.--l:E,l Int for a Innrtnr pf q
century, this people has lived under a
Republican protective tariff; under what
the Republican party has chosen to call a
protective tariff. My friends, has it ever
occurred to you that under this tariff as it
stands substantially, there have occurred
in this country, notwithstanding the ex-
tent of its undeveloped territory and un'
limited resources, Notwithstanding It's
m~easureless wealth, more want of employ
ment to labor, more hazard and actual
loss to capital, Il larger number In thous-
ands of tramps who have pcrvaded the
country ana more starvation than ever eX-
listed under n administration or tariff
devised hy the American pQngress?
shall not lie deferred by the
bold and false proclamation that
| am a free trader from ~denOuncing the ir-
regulariticS which | find in the existing
tariff and from demanding their reform.
Applause.
Go into my own beautiful valley. ]
understand that some gentleman in Ohio
the other day, immediately after q
speech, asked SOME gentleman from
Wheeling, how many iron and
nail mills there were in Wheeling
under a Democratic tariff. | cannot
answer that question for | have no recol-
lection on the subject, and | have not
taken the pains to ascertain how many
you had under the tarili Of lAl6, hut
should
LIKE TO ADDRESS A QUESTION
TO that gentleman and ask him how many
soap works there remain in the beautiful,
valley of the Kanawha under N
existing Republican tariff. ,ARplause.
They reduced the duty on coal and the prop
osition which accomplished it had the sup
port of Mcssrs. Blaine and Logan. They
reduced the duty on salt. They reduced
the duty on iron. They reduced the duty
on wood-four ut least of the principle ar
,icles "a which EeO. Virginians are in
tersted for their protection, and this under
a Republican government which was will
ing with reference to the tariff as it wa
willing with reference to ether things t.
draw a geographical line through you
country aud put all evil on the one sid
and all the good OIL the other. lLaughte
and applausel. You may go to James G
Blaine to-day and give him for his section
all the protection he wantsand he will Civ,
you ell the free trade YOU ya1t you Iia!
60 10 Mr.. Logan to-day and give him al
the protection he wants and he will give
YOU all the free trade, whether you want
f it or not. Applause.
Now, my friends, it is shameless tina
representatives of a great political organic
/, alton should travel broadcast Throughout
the length of this country,
DENOUNGTNG THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
individually and collectively as a party
whose highest ambition under Heaven i!
to close your workshops, drive you
miners from the mines anC
starve your people. We have hearC
and know something Of that historic char
acter which says to his neighbor, II an