Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-10

form of 1884 said:
The Republican party Pledges itself to correct
the inequalities Of the tariff and reduce the sur
plus.
And GEORGE forgets that the Rspubli-
can party did not do il. This may be be-
cause GEORGE isn't very familiar with the
Republican party-having been Prohibi-
ZIONIST all his life-or it may have been
that GEORGE wanted to glide gracefully"
rot of fair and square discussion of the
| How.
Thought the way ~ have been, GEORGE
to give big slice of it TO s--rrplus was
Here again GEORGES unfamiliarity 49,
the Republican party has led him into err
ror. GROVER CIEvELAND's administra-
ton has in three years given, within few
dollars, more money, in pensions, to the
Union soldiers than sll the Republican ad-
transformations put together since the war,
and not dollar OF il was given except
where it was due and not penny of il
went to buy votes.
Then GEORGE "glided gracefully" into
Crank BLAIR's scheme to paupsrizs the
South-to make the children of Southern
ers dependent on the National government
for their education, a scheme in line with
the Republican principle of Capitalization.
He thought another big slice Of the surplus
ought to go for that. Aud he thought an
other slice ought to come of the internal
revenue. GEORGE forgets that the Mills
bill takes $50, 900, 900 off the internal
tobacco taxes. He also forgets that the
Chicago platform, onto which he has
"glided" so gracefully" wants the whole
internal revenue wiped out-in other
words free whisky. There are innumsrable
other things that GEORGE WESLEY for
gets which we shall pass over, because we
can imagine how embarrassing it must be
for Prohibitionist to be put all of q
sudden on q free whisky platform and how
difficult to stand alone there without
WOOOIluk dDOut - kOOu DlI-
But the biggest part of GEORGE WIS
speech was devoted TO the REGISTER. He
took copy of the REGISTER, laid it on the
edge of the platform, took lots ofroom and
"glided gracefully" onto it. lift tripped
him up and he went on his head, we hope
he won't blame Us. He doubted Tor pre-
tended b. did-for GEORGE is sly dog
the truth of the REGISTER when it said
that taking the tax of foreign
wool would lower the price of
clothing and raise the price of
domestic wool He did not tell his su-
dience flor GEORGE is cute" and knows
what to tell and what to keep shady that
the great bulk of the wool we import does
not come into competition with our Amer
lean woods, because it is of different
quality, and that for about every pound
If foreign wool our manufacturers import
for they must have it-they must buy u
pound of American wool to mix with it, to
make the proper quality of goods. Hence,
the cheaper they can get the foreign wool
the more they will use, and the
more American wool they must use to
mix with it, and, with the
tax of the bulk OF this raw material they
can make cheaper cloth, at the same time
paying more for 4merie1R rOol. This is
why wool was from two to four times high
or when there was no tariff, or but nom-
inal tariff, on it, than it is now under a
high tariff Bat, as we remarked before,
GEORGE w. is sly-devilish sly, in fact
aud he didn't tell his audience anything
about this. He pointed out" the terrific
effects of free salt and free lumber in about
the same style, but forgot all about the
TACT that Mr.. BLAINE, who is believed by
many to be the Republican candidate for
President, and Mr.. LEVI P. MORTON, the
candidate for Vice President, when in Con-
Gress voted for free paper material, free salt,
free lumber and free coal, going much !
farther than the MILLS bill now goes,
which the cute GEORGE W. calls 'free |
trade measure"
At this point GEORGE W. paused and |
melted into tears. He Cooked his wife |
and children in the face" and otherwise |
wrung the hearts OF his audience. He |
said:
have often sat around my freside in my |
happy home and quietly looked my wife and |
children in the faces, and in my secret thought |
wished above everything else that my Father in |
aeavea would so prosper me that I might see
hem occupy that position in life which they so
Justly merit
Aud this was why GEORGE was "a pro
ectionlst." From what he said we infer
hat he has il in his mind to buy share
10 CARNEGIE's steel trust, or some other
highly protected concern, for it is only the
wives and children Of those few men that
benefit by high protection If silks, satins
md sparkling jewels can be called bene.
its-and not the laborer who must fight
utterly with the psuper laborers, whom
CARNEGIE and the rest import, for daily
,read for has wife and children. GEORGE
". then unconsciously illustrated the fact
hat labor gets little or nothing under the
Ugh tariff while capital gets it all. He
aid
A ton Of iron in the mount tain side in Southern
Vest Virginia is only worth two cents as 1t sleeps
eneath the soil; ton of coal under the noun
inns at Wheeling is only worth two cents, and
IN of limestone undug Is only worth one cent;
ut when they are taken out by the hand Of toll,
onveyed to the furnace and worked up into
N ofstesl rails they are worth $50. What is the
irference then between the raw material and |
he finished product SO IS, every cent Of which
Iference represents labor.
PRECISELY Aud how much Of this does
dor get? Let GEORGE WEsLET examine
,s scale of wages in CApSEaIE's mills, =
nd he will find that lsSor gets about one d
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