Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-10
SHERMAN'S TALK
Befors the Home Market Cuban
Answer to Lowell.


Answer to Lowell.
BOSTON, February 9.-A large and dis
tinguished gathering greeted Hon. John
Sherman in his address to the Home Mar
ket club to-day. Mr.. Sherman was intro
duced by President Merriek, of the club.
Mr.. Sherman said 81 like the name
Of your club, for it is q name that describes
your principle; it is creed in itself: home
market for home productions. 1t has the
flavor of patriotism. When you use
the word home you do not mean
your household, your business, not
even Boston or Massachusetts,, but
your whole country from ocean
to oceen, from Canada to the Gulf Of
Mexico. The market You refer to is the
Interchange of the products of sixty mil
lions Of people, the most free, intelligent
and prosperous on the globe, engaged not
merely in manufactures, but agriculture
and commerce, and embracing almost
every employment of civilized men.
THE home market deals with over eight
thousand million dollars annually OF agri-
cultural products. and six thousand mil
lion Of manufactures, while the foreign
market deals with only fifteen hundred
million dollars of exports and imports an
nually, and more than half of these are
home products This is not all; every
part of the capital and labor employed in
the productions of the home market is
American capital and labor.
These productions are by American
farmers and workshops and they are trans
ported on American railroads, steamboats,
aud wagons. They are exchanged for
each other by American merchants, trades
men aud middlemen, and more than ninety
per cent. OF them Is consumed by the
American people. 1t is the home market
that gives employment. life, strength,
health, wealth and comfort to the people
OF the United States. 1t ia this home
market that, take it, you wish TO foster,
protect and divesify."
Speaking OF the recent meeting Of the
Massachusetts Tariff Reform League, and
the speakers and speeches, Mr.. Sherman
said:
Take Mr.. Lowell, ior instance, a gen.
tleman for whom have always enter
tanned the highest respect. He says:
Personally, / confess that 1 feel my.
self strongly attached to Mr. Cleveland as
the best representative Of the higher type
Of Americanism that we have seen since
Lincoln was snatched from us
Thus Mr., Lowell, who las been hon
ored by great party with its confidence
and trust, places Mr.. Cleveland above
Grant, the great soldier of cur country
above Hayes, who certainly gave to the
country pure and excellent administra.
tion, and Mr.. Lowell himself; above Gar
field, one of the most accomplished oil
American statesmen, aud above Arthur, in
every respect a model gentleman and a
prudent and able President"
The remainder Of Mr.. Sherman's speech
was devoted almost entirely TO an answer
to the argument of Mr.. Lowell.
Hon. Nathan Gof, Jr of West Virginia,
was introduced as the new Speaker. He
heartily endorsed the opinions of the pre-.
vious Speaker. In commencing his remarks
and relative to protection he said that he
believed in high protective tariff in a
home market for home capital, in a home
market for home labor, and in home
market for home industries