The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-26
WILSON IN MARION.
HE "ENPLAINs" THE TARIFF
'y Quoting from George aud Other Free
Trade Writers Some of His NIlsstate-
meats Corrected "A Sensation
Among PRIatlue Republicans,


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FAIRNoST, W, Va, October 93.-Hon
W, L. Wilson, the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Second District, mad
his long promised speech at the rink II
this place to night, He had fine audi
euce, made up OF Democratic, Republican,
and fair number OF ladies, l suppose
Mr. Wilson put forth all his ingenuity il
explaining the position Of the Democrat,
party before the country, as he spokC
over two hours with great deliberation
referring frequently to numerous docu
msnts,
| IContess TO disappointment in listening
to the gentlemen, II reminded me Of |
criminal lawyer In the hopeless de-
iensa OF q criminal, Hs seemed Il
labor under difficulty from the starr; he
was Crlnpsd and i'll at ease, Ha had Il
meet the great measures Of the RsplbIi.
can party, under the policy Of which ths
country for the last 25 ysars has made
such wonderful strides, in all that consti'
tulaH and makes up powerful people
His first point was avindiCation Of oleo
margarine, which hssaid was good enough
butter for the working man.
He next discussed the prophBsle9 Of the
Republican party upon the election Of q
Democratic President, and drew a glowing
picture Of the prosperity OF the country
but he did not say what was the condition
Of the country until alter tho Morrison
bill was defeated, In favor OF which he
voted. Then he came to the subject oi
the tariff, which he declared he was going
10 make the people understand. In dis
Cussing the protection Of labor, hs read
with great gusto and emphasis from Mr.
Georges political economy, who Is the
Tree trade and socialist candidate fol
mayor OF New York. He also read
Charles Dickens glowing description oI
the condition oil the factory girls in Low
Ill, Mass, under Democratic rule, In 1870
and Contraated II with the eCondition Of the
workmen under Republican tariff in
1885. This picture he took from a work
published by the free trade HarperF, aud
written by an Englishmau-a Cobder
free trader-and declared that the Lowell
operators in 1885 were q most deplorabig
looking set, exhibiting poverty In theil
dress, poverty In their looks, and in theil
homes most squalid condition. The
language OF his author did not seem to bt
strong enough for him, and no character
izsd the working classes in Lowell to-day
'as beasts Of burden"
He described the working classes In the
North as being compelled 10 go to the
pollsto vote with their tickets uplifted
80 that their masters, the manufacturers
might see that they voted right, bat he
did not gay q word about the Republicans
at the South, at frst being driven from
the pills by the shot gun and then tC
smelioiate that, the Democrats put the
ballots In the box the day before the
election and counted them the day alter
In order to geo the truth OF his rRmarkt
in regard 10 the condition Of the IL vel
Sorkmen l looked, after my return home
into the statistics Of the wages paid hands
In the Lowell factory in 1880 and 1910, az
reported in the tenth Census OF the
United States, Vol. Xxx, with thu following
resulte, which certainly does not point to
Pquallor and misery among the employees
The figures speak for themseltgB: