The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-16

and that Of the country Identified with Il, We make
the following declAntionI:
l. We emphhtically refuse to abandon the policy
Of home protection, on which our unexAmpled
national progress aud prosperity are founded.
2. The effect OF the Democratic policy would be
diG4SIouS BY transterring many Of our industries
thelr employment aud wages for the benefit OF
Britihh manufacturers: by eIhRuIung our accu.
mulAted capital ia the payment Of foreign debts
incurred for imported merchandise; and by de-
hanging the entire system Of our industrial and
commercial intercourse We protest Against 1t In
can enterprise.
Democratic party q tender 70 our country OF the
choice between supporting the labOren and the
industries Of Great Britain and Europe generally,
on the one hand, and on the other the support Of
| the labottDg men and industrial enterprise oil
| America. We respectfully decline the former,
which he recommends, and will standby our peo-
pie when we elect President.
l. The principle Of protection Is not founded up
on the interests Of any one section or Of any one
class Of individuals, but upon the interests OF the
entire country. It's supreme object u 70 render
America Independent OF Europe: 10 render the
United States entirely selfAustAinng; 10 keep our
money at home and give employment 10 our own
working people: 10 substitute home CONT G. ition
for toreign 10 build up towns aud villages; 10 en-.
courage agriculture and enhance the value oil
farms; TO provide home markets for the farmers;
70 adapt our manufactures TO our domestic wants;
| 10 promote the opening Of rapid and cheap com
municAtiOn between the States and Territories; 70
open mines and 10 develop all the vast resources Of
our county 80 richly blessed OF God Ia all that Is
needed 10 mako 4 people great, contenEed and
happy.
8, Believing that the development and prosperity
OF West Virginia, depends above all thiug', upon
the maintenance Of protective tariff, we pledge
ourselves 10 an earnest and united effort 10 set be-
fore the voe8 Of this State the facts and arguments
upon which We rest our conviction, and 70 use all
honorable effort 70 bring about such change In
the existing political conditions as shall plant
West Virginia forever on the aide Of the party
whose record shows It TO be the advance champion
OF protection 10 America induitries.
O. Believing In free education Of the masses, we
favor national aid 70 the public schools, and cor
daily indorBe the Blair bill.
T. In our judgment, the time hal, arrived when
the Wholesale migration To our Shores OF the
pAuper paid labor Of the old world should be re-
Stricted 70 degree at which II will not enter into
competition With the wage workers Of this country
| thereby allowing home labor 10 receive It's Just
share OF the benefit Of the protective tariff
SsWe Affirm that the question OF Tariff as u Eys
| tenn Of taxation upon foreign commodities should
be considered a q question Of protection or nc
protection 10 the labor and industries Of America
The report read, the Convention adopt.
ed It and on adjournment was taken t
1880 p. N, with the understanding that 81
that time there should be an old.iash
Toned Republican "Iovsleast."