Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-17
THEY FONT AGREE.
Blaine at Adrian Versus McCulJoch In
"~ScrIbner's."


~"ScrIbner's."
WESTON, w. Va, Oc'O5er 10, 'SS.
To hs Fl tor Of ne Register:
SIR: Mr.. Blaine, in his speech at Adrian
last we, k, informs rs that We have inter
State free trade, tus that we must have
high protection against foreigners. We
must have high protective tariff tax. He
there csslad it as it il, tariff tax That
we must have a high protective tariff tax,
Notwithstanding oar seventeen thousand
with fsI-reaChiDg continental. interstate
aud local railroads, vast il land stas and
uayigable rivers-a | ID bear off the fruits
of toll and the bounties given Us by Prov
denee, fOn q lind 50 diversified
in climate, soil and capscti-s.
Such q country ~ Mr.. Blaine
represents ours to be, must necessarily
produces q supplies, and 1t can only from it's
spp,isd labor chain remuneration in dis
tant markets. To get this the produc r,
the merchant, the navigator aud the inter
transportation people must go hand in
band. They, in this country are and will
be the agen's largo.y to supply the wants
of the world They prcdacs, gather and
NUT carry for distribution to distant
lands the products Of our country, return
ing with exchanges for our surplus, tie
fruits and products of other lands and
zones. Looking our present advanced
productive condition ~squareiy in its face.
du'y requires US to guard our labor and
syst,ms of labor against the cheaper labor
of other countIi -, and Invested capital
against an unreasonable competition from
capital employed in competing Industries
10 foreign lsnds. To 20 teJond this and
discard, rs Rsp1blie ms wish, every pur-
pose but p otectioo, builds up monoptly
aud trusts to blight he lard instead of cheap
necessaries of life. To Mr.. Blaine's exclu-
siye thoughts for p-otec i'm and Mr.. Har'
rison's declsr ton that the issue Is not ont
of schedules the rates of the tariff tax
but a principle" the inquiry naturally
occurs to ~, what is the best We can dc
with our surplus productions? Mr.. BlIine's
pauacea is ''home market''-s mcst pre-
pcstsrous p~retense Of q sy llogism STEER
reckoning Ill his boasts Of cur cspIchie
for D oduction and biz line of argument.
Gsuged hy him We a : to eat twsnsy-:o1r
per cent of breld and nearly IS much
meat more than VIC do. They who pro
duee ths surplus aud are not and caapo'
BE- protected must, in this enlightened day,
with adequate forces for tramp D~rtst;O1,
and when the infants in Nc. Gays day
long since grew rich and pletboric and have
died with seaIlty, are to continue to pay
excessive plund ring high tariff bountiee
10 their successors and ell the Q spawn.
Our capacity fo7 CO sumption folly sat
i,fed at the Home Market" faSts. leaves
3 surplus. This, to BE- of vslls, must ind
out ide markets From them we are b.
ing gradually shut out because q high
protective tariff rates more CT less stuI
out foreign competition with highly pro-
e ted manufacturers in this country and
in a spirit Of retaliation foreign Countries
are barriCading against ~. Toe English
people have built q railroad On this c IN
tinent through their possessions from thu
Atlantic to Vancouver on the Pacific
O, can, which passes through sgrest whta'
producer . country. Tdey hive bu'lt rail-
cnads in India from its coasts to the wheat
producing table lands, AMI sre expanding
wheat cu!turc il Au5tralis. No longer
wi | they buy of rs a. thy have dane,
more than one hundred millions OF doilsn
worth of wheat and breadsiutf
a year or tie quantities of beef and pork a
IN the past. This condition has beer
brought about by deIudipg tie farmers AMI
other non-protected people into a support
! of high protective tariff taxes, compelling
| those who coald furnish us a foreign mar
ket to supply their " rs far as Possibl"
| They are 'Or home market" too, and We
are being gradually shut out.
High tariff tsNes here and gradual de
c.eesipg demands abroad for n product
have had the effect TO dec ease the vslue o
farms, and there has bean q consequential
| accumulation Of vslues, in sone insts-ces
millions in the pockets Of the highly p7c
tected class This has given to protec'e
manufacturers more than tirsRty per csRtaH
on capital invested each year, aud TT
farmer with sn ability to resl'zs only trt
per eeRtHm."
If this policy il to continue, and Mr.
Blame and hIs followers are 20 have thei
purposes carried out, the esnsus Gnumers
tors at thu end OF the century will hsv'
sn HercUlsan task to number thu plupsr:
and tramPs.
Il is refreshiTg 10 turn from Nc
Blain.'s Adrian speech to the Sisws o
Nc Hugh McCalloch in his "ProblsmIi
American Politics" in Scribret's Oc:obe
number.
The greater parts Of both the SPEECH
and tie Article having substantially tn
same premises. Nh. Bki1,'s demand
make the American CDR sumer of whsteve
of the products of fourteen hundred mill
ions Of outsiders we may buy, pay the Tar