The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-10

carries Harrison and Morton streamel
thirty feet long, and very large flag.
A commodious speakers stand was
provided, and was handsomely decora-
ted with bunting and protection ban
ners. The Sherrard brass band furnished
music for the occasion.
At half-past one o'clock the speaking
began. Hon. A. W. Campbell, at the
request OF Mr.. Atkinson, spoke first, and
ably discussed the entire field OF the
Tariff. The following is the merest out
line:
MIR. CAMPBELL's SPEECH.
Mr.. Campbell began by alluding to
the political record of Marshall county,
and spoke of her as the Gibraltar OF Re-
publicanism in this Congressional dis
trict. He spoke Of her progress in agri-
cultural prosperity and in intelligence,
both OF which had tended to confirm
and increase her Identification with the
Republican party. He said that the ex-
PLANTATION OF this prosperity in Marshall
was the existence upon her border OF
more than $4,000 people at Wheeling,
Benwood, Bellaire and other towns who
were everyday consumers of all that
she had to sell at remunerative prices.
II was familiar sight to him to see the
farmers wagons streaming along the
roads to the city and its suburbs, carry
ing what were known as the perishable
products OF the farm TO the nearby mar
kets. II all the counties OF West Vir-
ginia had these advantages they would
show up very differently in the matter
OF prosperity and intelligence. Good
wages in the mills, glass houses, potter
les, steel works, etc., made good prices
for nil the farmer had to sell, and
enabled him TO live in degree Of COM
fort unknown in many parts OF West
Virginia.
He alluded to conversation that he
had had the day before with an intelli-
gent gentleman from u remote interior
county, a county in which there were no
railroads and no industrial establish
ments Of any kind. All the people were
farmers, and ali had farm and garden
products to sell. They had no home
markets, and, consequently, while eggs
were selling at % cents in Wheeling
they were selling in that county for 7,
payable in store goods, and while butter
was drug at 10 cents II brought 20
and % in Marshall county,
THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF.
Here, said he, are your apple trees be-
fore me bending with their fruit. 1t
will not fall upon the ground and rot
for want OF market, nor will it he fed
to your hogs. 1t will bear transporta-
ton to Wheeling, Bellaire and other
home markets and will be sold ut price
that will give you some profit. He al
!uded TO conversation with Short
Creek farmer, who had told him that his
household expenses were paid by the
sale OF his poultry, butter, eggs, fruit,
&C., in Wheeling, leaving him as clear
profit the proceeds OF his wool and grain.
And yet an effort Is making by q
political party in this country to incul-
cate the idea that the farmer is a vic
tim Of the situation, a victim Of the man
ufacturing class, and that class was held
up to him as natural enemy. The far
mer was told that he paid too much for
his clothes and for his farm and house
hold necessities. Wherein are you as
farmers thus oppressed? asked Mr..
Campbell. Is it in your Clothesp Here
are many men and women before me,
said the speaker, Tell me where your
clothes were made, Were they made in
Europe or American Are they Ameli-
can or foreign goods2 venture there
is not person before mo who has for
eign thread OF clothes upon his back.
Tell me where in the world you will get
these clothes cheaper quality for quality,
than right here ON American soil. Our
domestic goods are the best in the world
Tor the price, and they are us cheap as
anybody's goods. When We come to
high priced clothes, said the speaker,
the case is different. The clothes oi the
rich, such as fine cloth, silks, satins,
laces, &c, can be bought
CIRARER IN EUROPE,
and those who wear them can afford to
pay the duty. But the clothes of the
masses are as cheap in America us else
where.
This had not always been the case.
There was day when the farmer was ut
the wrong end OF the trade. He alluded
to an old Wheeling paper wherein the
price OF nails was quoted at 7 or cents
per pound. Now farmer can buy q
keg OF nails for one fourth or fifth OF the
old price. And he does not sell his pro-
duce at the dead low prices OF those
days. He does not sell wheat at so cents
per huShel nor potatoes and corn at %.
He does not have to truck his stuff at
country stores save in those parts Of
West Virginia and other States where
there is no industrial development. The
conditions OF life have been largely re-
Versed, said the speaker, in favor OF the
farmer, and no man ought to be iirmer
| friend Of the American industrial policy
OF the Republican party than the Amer.
ican farmer.
He spoke OF the blow that had been
struck at the wool Of the farmer. As an
excuse for this blow the farmer had
heeB told by the President that he would
get his woolen clothes cheaper. That is
TO say, his wool would go down in price
to such an extent that he would find the
loss made up to him in his clothes. And
yet Immediately on the heels OF this de-
liYeraRee by the President prominent
West Virginia Democratic paper had as
sured the farmer that
THR PRICE OF Ills WOOL
would not go down, but go up, oil nc.
count OF the increased demand for his
product. But did you notice, said the
speaker, the way Short Creek Demo-
cratic farmer put that paper in a hole by
one short sharp incisive question? That
question was this, II the price OF wool is
70 SO up, as you say It will, how is the
farmer to get the cheap wooden clothes
the President assures him are in store
for hint That question completely took
, the wind out OF the statement.
You will notice, said the speaker,
that while your wool has been put on
the free list wooden goods have not been
: put on it. The woolen goods that you
, are to get so cheap, and that everybody
else is to get so cheap at your expense,
! are TO be protected, but your wool is 10
! be put on the free list.
And this discrimination against you
: said Mr.. Campbell, is characteristic OF