The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-19

this proposition. From that position to
the oneit now occupies is q far step OF
progress. See its new line OF argument;
In the report of the Island Republic
can meeting the paper says:
We all know that not an English nail
could come into this country, tariff or
no tariff. In fact, ii is acknowledged by
Republicans and corroborated by Mr.
Atkinson that there is no need oil the
tariff on nails, because we make them
muchc heaper and better than England,
although we pay higher wages.
And then it says, why not take of the
tariff il it does no good
What weak, what a pitiable, what a
contemplate effort to maintain an old
position from a standpoint Numerically
opposed to i'll For months Democratic
orators and Democratic newspapers have
been telling the farmer and the laborer,
every nail that goes into your humble
house is taxed. We propose to take off
the tax and give you cheaper nails"
10! to-day they say the tariff on nails
does no good; therefore why not take it
of?
Rather, since the tariff on nails does
no harm, why not let it alone and quit
going over the country seeking to de-
ceiye the people? Why pretend the re-
ductiOn of the nail tariff is to reduce the
revenues when you know this is false ?
Why say nails are taxed when they are
not taxed, and you know it2
Truly the fighting has been effective
that has pushed them SO far.
Now as to tools. A few months ago
the Register said they were made dcarer
by the tariff. On Wednesday the H.
TELLIGENcER asked if the tariff adds to
the cost of the home product, why are
saws andplanes, both protected, sold in
this country cheaper than they are in
England?
Then the RcJisiT responds that the
American manufacturer has two prices,
higherin this country than in foreign
countries for the same goods. This is
the old story about Oliver plows and
Ames shoyeIs, both proven false in this
paper yesterday. On Wednesday the
Register said Oliver plows sold in this
country for SIG. Yesterday it admits
that this was false, and that the price in
Wheeling is and has been for some time
Sll. So the Free Trade idea goes from
ditch to ditch, and on November Git
will expire beneath the avalanche oil
ballots in the last ditch, family protest
ing, "Robber tariff" taxed to death"
fosters monopolies."
In its report Of Mr.. Atkinson'sspeech
Wednesday evening, the Register quotes
Mr.. Atkinson thus:
Hon. W. L. Wilson had said there was
tax OF 50 on $40 suit OF wooden
clothes. If that was SO, then it followed
that n good suit of wooden clothes could
be bought in England for 81.
On this it comments:
Mr.. Atkinson, we suppose uninten-
tionally, misquotcs Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Viii
sons statement was that on n suit irOrtll
$40 there was Sc tax, making it cost to
the American consumer sirteen dollars.
Mr.. Atkinson's statement is q manifest
absurdity.
"An absurdity" since when? This was
the Registers own position no longer ago
than October 8, when it said in its edi.
torial columns:
Under the provisions Of the Mills bill
Brides 50 suit would be sold it is calCu-
lated for about 81 80 or S. 90.
Since October 3 the Register has learned
so last that what it then laid down as
the solemn fact it now regards as a
manifest absurdity." 1t is gradually
veering around until before the end Of
the campaignit may have abandonedils
defense of the Mills bill, which puts
lumber, salt and WOOL on the Tree isl,
and be saying once more, as it said No
vember9, 1856:
Gen. Golf is the man who is going to
carry out the Republican platform in
correcting 'the irregularities Of the
tariff" by leavingit just rs it is. Judge
Brannon is the man who is going to as.
sst in carrying out the Democratic plat
form, which is pledged to "revise the
tariff in spirit Of fairness to aii inter.
ests." Or, he is TO work to have the tariff
reduced on some things that have higher
protection than is necessary, and placed
on coal, iron, salt, lumber and tuOOl, IHGi
HirgiGd's great products, that hare Too
Hille projection under The Republican tariff
that Gen. Golf advocates.