Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-15

''rhats what be wonld."l Now fellow
citisens this ID the style OF argument With
which they come before the people 10 this
cAmpa'gn: Eight cents day and glad 10
get II, and I will throw the broad sbi.ld Of
American law over the Anericsn working.
man, 90 that he won't have 20 come down
10 eight cents day after ALL" And their
lands out there which are used % neral
rule - ersxing lards, are higher on Al
average than the grazing lands
In the Territories Of this country.
TARIIF DOES NOT MAKE WAGES
have here . cutting out Of South
Australian pspsr. from an interview Of
Mr.. Alexander Campbell, Of our State.
now commisioner Of the exhibition over
there. in which be says that the average
price OF the land is el an scr~, that is IS.
This y higher than in Arizona and in the
Western territories. You can get your
lands at . dollar IN acre in Texas, and not
pay the taxss-the owner psys then
whereas in Australia the grazing lands
average IS IN acre and the tsNss, and the
wages according to thsse consular reports
are not eight cents day, but better wages
than We pay here In West Vnginia.
Now there are great many other things
that would delight to talk 10 ihis audi.
eoce about hpt Let me close by saying that
this qsestien Is net one OF maintaining
wsgsa; the people that are most ,ptsreet d
to keep mp this tariff that puts 81 0l q yGd
on c'o'h in their pockets, are always ready
to bring down the wseos Of Americsn
laboripg men, BY importing foreign labor.
II they can and they pay just what tie
market compels them to pay not one cent
more. When iron bounded mp, rs il did .
few years ago from p 70 I cen ts O pound,
John Jarrett said that the manufacturers
held on to every cent Of u and the Aneri-
can workingman got no bsnstit from this
increase in price. We a2St want AmsIi-
can markets only Mf the benefit
Of the American workingmAn, bat va
want oil the markets Of TIE world
WHAT AID FOR THE FARMER?
What are you going to do for tie iarmer,
who has his wheat; what are you going to
do fer the cotton planter; what sre you
going 10 do with the surplus meat produc-
ed, the petroleum, butter, chtcs, and all
thsss things that we produce here, more
than We can consume, II We will not trade
them with the nations OF the world; then
We cannot purchase from them and they
will throw our goods back upon our hands
every time. II We trade bushsl Of wheat
for Australian wool, We benefit the farmer
who raises the wheat In giving him o
market for his wheat; wo bsneht
the American operative by giving him
Australian wool 10 mix with his own
wool, and thus widen bic msrk'ts, We
benefit the consumer OF wooleps nv 'ak,ng
away some Of thst tax which tho Govern
ment mike, up with his clothing. A coa.
trsry policy would close rs in with .
Chinese wall and make labor ssrvile de.
pendent on capital. We have had this
protective system In this couutry, and ID
has prod uced unrest, war aud conflict be-
tween capital aud labor. We have bad
strikes, twenty thousand and odd In tho
past 6ve years, chiefly in tho protested
industries; We have bad lockonts,
two thousand and odd in the p5st
6vs years, chiefly In the protected
industries. Go back to that
period between 1s48 and 1861, when we
had Democratic tariff In this country.
The country bounded forward in p o per
ity as II had never done before aud Icver
has done since. In . single decade tho
veal h Of this country increased l26 pr
cent; agriculture increased over 8O per
sat-: RapRsctHtsli ipciqGS'ffas qS ffas fSi;iIdSs fSi;iId H. Of
railroads, the increase In the wealth Of the
agricultural States, the inrIeise Of The
wealth Of The State of Pennsy lysnis even
WA greater under Democratic tariff than
IL has ever been at any other time hc'ora
or since In this country. Applause,
Now, fellow citizens, this high pro-
tective syktem Ia not tor tho
bsneHt Of American labor, but for tho
American capitalist II 10 dividing the
Do. pie Of this country into the very rich,
who are In partnership with the Treasury
of the country In taxing the people, and
tbs very poor, who are msde BY Law 10
contribute, not only 10 run the Goytrn-
ment, bat TO heap up the wealth oi their
employers. The Democratic party rc,,s
now o, it always did, broad tot,oned on
the people, and IL comes into this cam
paien 10 fight once sgsin tie baths of tho
people against that system which wonis 70
lay heavy burden Of taxation on every
homo 10 this county, 10 harden the lot OF
evsry Amer can workingmsn, and BARROW
the field OF his employment 70
favor laws for the emf ri'hmsnt
of trusts, pools, and combines for the tcns-
&c of the few and 70 bring distress snd de-
peudence 70 the many. Loud and long
continued spplsuse