Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-28

And tina answer Comes back, spot o tarin
dntv on il Then competing gcois cant
come in here, and can sail ny c'oSn a.
81 so a ysrd and make fortune" lcfo-
louged applause That, my lrienas, - -
tariff for protection. Tine orJec. rs LoI ~,
put m ,ney in the National IleNu'y; pu'
TO run up the price Of the article. lln~r-
raptions and disorder; Republican cries II
Harrison and Golf.
IT BENEFITS THE EMPLOYER.
Altar order was restored. Mr.. wilson
continued: Bat Gen. Goff has said ell
along that this tsri1f wa for the benelt OF
the hands, aud ros the manufac''rer.
Now, let Us take lit IL example ana s9s
how this Re :u.iful protective tariff VIC, X
for ire good of thu woIk!nguan. Here
ycu are a weaver in the city OF Wfe cling.
Your w,ees are poor and you are desper'
ate in your efforts to d. something TO
better them, when 10 and bsholi this
tsx on WOODEN gods is imposed, sll as
Gen. G If Gays for your teasht. The
government imposes tax on co:hing IN
order to pay you bstter wages; and you
start FOR Providence at once, where this
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| located. You carry copy 1T the tarin
law in one hand and Gen. Goff's speech IN
tue other. When you get there you, my
friend, hunt up the employer o! labor IL
the great Pacific mills, and say TO him:
Here am, weaver Of Scotch che9lot
II en- weave SO many yards OF
casv;ot every day. The government
puts tax ofS1 05 ysrd on il, snd my
friend Gen. Gaff who is RAINING fer Gov
ernor st home tells me that this tax IL in
oder to increase my wages. And the
manufacturer baTs to you: "Well that
lis t,us, how much do you
wan,?" Thsu you b:gia to think;
here IL the tx of Sl.O5 o
ward. You wea7e so many ysris day,
and al this tx isfor your benefit; and
You sly 70 him, HAs between man and
man, helisve tnat ought 70 have $25 a
day." end the reply comes back to you,
"There is my mill yoader full Of hards,
who a. working at 81 so day. Yo1 can
take tia o: III, brgain is ended between
u.s." GO5ears ard in serruptions by crowd
:aii med in fr,nt Of stsn5] You say Jou
can't take it; $3.50 day is no wages for
the American workingmsp, and the menu
factarer Ills you that he knows it isn't
good wages for American workingmen, but
those men over in his mill yonder orb not
American working men, they are Frer CD
Canadians, and he imported them Eere, as
many a, he wanted until the fool Demo
Gratis got control of Congress and passed q
law prohibiting it. Prolonged cheers and
contin1ad Interruptions from Republican
howlers
PROTECTION INTRODUCES, FREE TRADE IN
LABOR.
"But even now" the manu- a,turer CON-
tiuues, ''if want viewers / only have tt
let it be known scross tbs Canadian b)r.
dars, and rs many Of them fl )ck Over here
as l want can get them ct my own
pr.cs; ana you can take it or not just a:
I you want 20" We'll. winter is approaching,
my fried; you have 10 have food to sup.
polt aud clotaing to ever your wife and
Children; vGu have no money left TO get
back 10 Wheeling, and $3.50 day o:
nothing is the choice; and you accept that
manufacturer cff,r and 60 t, work, N n
tally resolving that as coon as you gave
enough money you would start back tt
VIE 5iing and bay shot gun and shoot
) Geu. Gift. Laughter and applause, and
cpntiuu q interruption from persons who
} seemed deter min I'd to howl Mc. Wilson
| down..
You 60 to work aud work, aad laho;
six DAYS f the wesk for your pittancs. On
Saturday night, you come up ID you
. employers Office to receive your pay. II
, is the 9Th of October. The weather Is
chilly. Y.ur light summer clothes are be-
ginning to be entirely inadequate to protest
! you from the chills OF early morning. Yo1
feel that you want a suit of that cloth you
have been We wing al week. You say to
that man, nina dollars is due me, and
want to get suit of that Scotch cheviot.
He tn ows down the bolt; tn sre i. is; So 50
a yard, You say to him, "Ah, Tvs go
got you now. When came to you to &c,
employment you made me tase 81 so a
day, because you could get that oh zap
labor in Canada. Now, am not gsing t.
pay So. so yard for your cloth. You mu 1t
sell it to me for $1.2 5or will serd over
to Belgium and buy it. You must cut
down the price ore-half.
AMI then the manufacturer looks at
you aad ssys: "You p or fool; don't you
know that have 100 per cent protection
in the goods that sell you, and have
free trade in the labor you ssll me-"
CGieat enthusiasm and applause.
THE TARIFF CONSIDERED TO BE FOB THE
BENEFIT OF THE EMPLOYER.
| General G ifs tariff thsr, my f;isnds,
is not for the benefit of labor, but (or the
employers o. labor. NJ stite5msn, Re-
publican or Democrat, down TO within the
last five years, ever advance such mon
strous pr p si,ion es that the high tariff is
laid only in the inteIelt, of thu working
linen. The fathers ofthe protective system
themselves never though or dared to
claim that il wa3 de Overwhelmingly t.
increase wages. Alexander Hamilton, the
first and greatest American protsc zionist,
would not have listened to such an absurd
Argument Hs admitted anywhere and
everywhere that the tariff system was de-
ksiened exclusively to b:neft the man.
1facturer, aud would not ben
eft him by making him
pay higher wages to his workmsn but by
raising the prics of goods to the consumer,
and thus impose tax direct upon every
American citizsn. Prolonged applause
foil owed by bowls and interruptions
Now my friends let me tllk. Bear with
me while my tins lasts. The Democratic
party never has aud never will oppose tariff
duties fairly and equitsbly levied. It hes
always been in favor Of, and to-day prcpo2s
a late of taxation that will equ ,liz', nay
re- than doubly equ,lizs the differ, nee
in wages BETWEEN this country ard our
European competitors. The7 talk atol at
the Democratic party teiog the enemy of
the laboriug man. Why the Democra attic
party IS the laboring man. To say that