The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-16
THE TARIFFS MISSION.
Ben. Butterworth in the House
Of Representatives
TALKS RIGHT TO THE POINT.
Every workman Interested vltalIy
in Keeping a Protective Tariff.
The Only Use England
Has for the Irish.

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House to-day, Mr.. Butterworth, of Ohio
spoke against the Mills bill. He said
the passage OF the law would be a CON
demnation of the protective policy. II
indicated to the country that whether
the tariff was perfect or not the Demo-
cratic party was not fit instrument to
perfect it. The mission Of the protective
tariff was to place the people OF our
own country on an equality with the
producers of the Old World. The pro-
tective tariff dealt with conditions
and not with boundary lines.
From these nations, against which
the United States held the coign
of vantage-no odds were asked,
but when the Republicans found condi-
tions which would strike down our in
dustries and the rate OF wages OF our
workingmen, there they erected the wall
OF protective tariff. In skill and cum
ming the American workmen asked no
odds. The capital, the plants and the
skill were here, but the starvation
wages were not here and never would
be SO long as the Republican party
wrote the laws OF the country. Zap
plause.
Capital had the advantage Of labor.
Capital could wait longer for its divi-
dends than labor could for its breakfast.
Laughter.
In Europe there was no redress for
the workmen but revolution; here,
thank God,
EVERY WORKMAN WAS A PART
and parcel OF the Government, and
helped to shape the laws which con-
trolled the conditions under which he
worked. He made comparison between
Ohio, where protection prevailed and
the States where the free trade philo-
sophy existed, greatly to the advantage
OF his own State, which, he declared,
was Enthusiastically reserved and
modest. He asserted that the
North and West invented and
manufactured everything that the South
used, from tooth pick to cotton gin,
and argued that it would be unwise to
entrust the industries OF the country to
the hands OF men who have shown
neither the ability nor the disposition
to have industries OF their own. He
summed up the difference between the
two parties on the wool question by the
declaration that the free trade philoso-
ply created an active concern for the
sheep while the Republican philosophy
created an active concern for the shep-
herd.
In foreign countries the sheep wore the
coats and the shepherds the rags. In
this country the tender should be well
cared for; II it was well with him it
would be well with his focks.
Hc congratulated his colleague (Foran),
although he had not been sustained by
his Democratic constituents for standing
in defence OF their hearthstones even
against their protest. He could not un-
derstand how any Irish American could
stand here as the closest and most earn
est ally OF England, which was attempt
ing to do to this country what she had
done to
THE IRISH HOMES ACROSS TIE SEA.
He created good deal OF laughter by
reading an extract from the London
Times, declaring that the only time Eng
land has any use for an Irishman is
when he emigrates to America and votes
for free trade, which he almost invaria-
bly, does
In conclusion he said that the issue
had been fairly made up between the
two parties. Let there be no juggling.
Let the resolutions in the National plat
form so fairly present the issue that they
would attest that they were drawn by
patriotic statesmen and not by temporiz-
ing huckstering politicians.
At the evening session Mr.. Abbott, OF
Texas, addressed the House in support
Of the tariff bill.
Mr.. Darlington, OF Pennsylvania,
held that il the tariff was as the
Democrats said, business question,
it should be treated according to the
rules governing corporations, giving
preponderance to stockholders in pro-
portion to their holdings and interests.
The product OF the Pennsylvania district
represented by him in one year was
SSS, 600, 900, as against SIS, 10000 for dis
triCts represented by the Southern MEM
bers Of The Ways and Means Committee.
Adjourned.