Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-17

straints your sailors began to swarm upon
the seas. They took up our own carrying
trade, and wrested from England large
and profitable share Of that OF other
nations. Thirty years ago our tonnage
suusllJd hers. But in obedience 20 this
American system" rs working IN our
tariff and IN our navigation laws, planting
itsel; ia the path Of progress and invention,
we have called of our ships from the high
seas and surrendered to England the
monopoly OF a carrying trade lncomparably
richer than any she ever secured under
the colonial system. To the most adven-
turous sailors and the most inventive peO-
pie OF the world the mariners compass has
become lost invention.
A RUINED SHIPPING.
Cur mariners, like those OF ancient
Greece, creep from port to port along our
sgaccGst, and they who Outrode the tiervest
storms that vexed the ocean now face the
perils Of our inland rivers and brave the
dangers OF cur tempest-swept canals. \
century later England, alarmed at the
growth OF colonial manufacturing which
threatened her monopoly of her own mar
Eets and of those Of other nations, i'm
posed heavy penalty by statute on the
manufacture of iron OF of steel in the
colonies To-day the American sys-
tenn" imposes such burdens and penalties.
not on manufactures of iron and steel only,
but Of everything else, that once again
they surrender to England monopoly,
uudisputsd by us OF the rich markets of
the world. A few Years later the most
English OF all EOglishmen met the appeal
Of the American Congress and colonies
with uis celebrated brOadside, Taxation
no tyranny The men Of Massschu-
Setts answered him with the shot heard
around the world" To-day the upholders
OF the American systelL have not only
adopted old Samuel Johnson teaching
that taxation il no tyranny" they 70
further and declare il 20 be the source of
countless blessings, our only reliance as q
people for individual prosperity and ia
tioual greatness.
Mr. Chairman, the people OF MasSachu-
setts have built upon soil less kindly
and responsive to human labor than that Of
many OF her sister States, great Common
wealth, great III all the elements that con-
stItuts the greatness OF States, in wealth
population, in enterprise, in iilfused
education and prosperity. In this growth
her manufactures have been great, il not
the chief factor More than forty
years ago her Lowell stirred the
wonder and kindled the admiration of
Charles Dickens, and called forth one OF
the lew pleasant chapters in his "Ameri-
can Notes. That idyllic stage in her
manufacturing progress has passed away,
Sut her Lowell and Lynn still maintain
their easy pre-eminence. II they lauguish
al all it is Tor new worlds 10 conquer.
Taritt reform comes in no spirit OF hostility
Ut GOODNESS to American manufactures
Ii has not come to destroy, but that they
may have new life and have it more album
antly II proposes no assault on home
industries, least OF all on the wages or
welfare of the American labOTer 1t aims
to center directly upon him, as his own
freeman and best guardian, the benefits
which the existing law processes, and, as a
rule, falsely processes, to filter through
other parties for his benefit