Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-12

IN Sa4uo dit thiOuSh lhiS h0o
tation, showing that the timber land own
ers have not the least fear Of the effects OF
free lumber.
The lumber trust of the North and West
is one Of the most gigantic aud burden
some of monopoiies. Millions upon MIL
lions of acres of timber lsnds are controlled
by it, and the price is placed at or close TO
tie tariff notch. The house builder, the
farmer, everybody that uses lumber in any
shape, are forced 10 pay the tariff bounty
to this millionaire lumber trust. Free
lumber viii defeat this trust, bnt will not
lower the wages of the lumbermtp, for
thy are ct rock bottom now, and will n9i
decrease our lumber production, for what
country in the world has more magnificent
forests than American
Mr.. BLAINE thought free Lumber would
be a good thing for US, for he voted for 1t
when in Congress.
Mr.. CAMPBELL inserted a strip or two OF
the bloody shirt in his remarks by assert
ing that the trainers of the MILLS bill were
Confederate brigadiers." If we remember
rightly, the Charleston Republican plat
form depreeates the revival Of the wsr
issues. But the bloody shirt is Mr.,
CAMPBELL's peculiar failing.
II the Confederate b~rigadier" business
is 10 enter in to a national campaign, o
quarter of a century after both Northern
and Southern brigadiers were mustered
ont, in the name of Heaven when are we
TO hear the last ofit? Hes not a man who
wss a Confederate b~rigadier'' ss much
right in Congress as one who was a Ncrth-
ern brigadierP The men who framed the
MILLS bill are Democrats. What has tins
fact to do with the dead irsues Of the war Z
Probably % many Democrats "a Repubii-
cans fought in that war on the side oil the
Union. The political issues Of 1855 have
nothing to do with these dead issues, and
the mar who drags them into the dascus-
sion and yells Confederate brigadier" at
the Democrat9 does so because he wishes
to avoid the real Issue, or obscure 1t by
raising a cloud of prejudice.
Mr.. CAMPBELL laid great stress upon
how the Presidents message WIS received
in England. Mr.. CAMPBELL has a high
regard for English opinion; in fact he
seemed TO think that EDglisbmen knew
more about American politics than Amer
leans and yet no American has yet pointed
out how the Presidents policy will do
aught but injury 10 England's interests
and drive her manufacturers ont OF many
foreign markets. Many EGglish editors,
on reading the Presidents message over
the second time, came TO that conclusion.
10 this connection also Mr.. CAMPBELL at
tempted to lay Ireland's restitution to the
English policy OF free trade. Now, MIR.
C. knows, If bs knows any thing oil
Irelsnd's history, that this is wholly
false. The two greatest 1rishmen who ap-
peared in public life in the eventiul period
from IT'S to 1345, a period which EN-
braces the change from ancient to modern
industrial conditions, were EDMUND
BuRKE and DANIEL O'CONNELL. Not
oaly the two greatest, but they were the
two most accomplished orators in Great
Britain during that time. BURKE's keen
intellect saw through the error OF COM
meJcial restrictions even before ADAM
SMITH, and SM TIL said of him that he
understood the true principles OF COM
MERGE better than any living man. OCON-
NELL said that protection wss robbery,
and i'll his magnificent denunciation asked
the Tories, 'If protection is euch a good
thing for the people, why are Irish laborers
starving ?" Through the corn law repeal
agitation he was one of the strongest sup
porters of RICHARD COBDBN.
While on the English side of the quss-
ton Mr.. CAMPBELL also forgot to men-
ton how John Bull received the Pres
ident's other message-the one relating TO
the fisheries dispute.
Nh. CAMPBELL eudeavored to make 1t
anpear that the President is inimical to
manufacturers; nothing could be further
from the truth. The Presidents policy Of
opposition to trusts and combinations,
were it carried ont, would prove a boon to
American industry Of all classes. With
almost every branch OF industry con-
trolled by a grasping trust, there
Is no chance for the man Of
small capital to 90 into business. If a
mill or factory is started independently it
is either crushed ont or swallowed up by a
trust. In the latter case it is paid a per
centage on its capital to lie idle half the
time as certain st. Louis and Chicago steel
mills are now paid by the CARNEGIE
steel rail combination to remain idle to
limit production and unnsturally force
MP prices. This system is the greatest
enemy of labor, which should receive
double wages when employed, to make up
for the enforced idlsness, when no wages
at all are received. But the labor en-
ployed by the trusts does not receive
double wages, on the contrary it re-
ceiyes less wages than any other
class of labor. Were it not
for the high tariff which shuts ont foreign
competition these trusts and combinations
that enforce idlensss on their workmen
half the year and throttle healthy compe-
tition, could not exist, for as soon as an
attempt was made to force up price, By a
a stoppags of production foreign competi-
ton would step in. A proper adjustment
of the tariff, namely, such an adjustment
a. would cover the difference between the
cost of production here and abroad, in
Guiding the difference in the rate of wages,
would put our home industries on a sound,
healthy basis, destroy the trusts and give
every man q fair show. OF our manulact-
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