Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01


Democrats, MONROE and JEFFERSON,
never favored q high tariff by saying IN
his very next sentence: d,
The Democratic party has GltOdvs favored low
tariff
Mr. ELKINs ia very selfcontrsdictOry.
Again, he ssys:
Ofthe 2,4OO counties in the United States al
but So produce wool This means Free trace W
farmers and producers in q Sol counties Oh the
United States out of 400 Cou' d anything De
more radical or farreachlng in the way oil Free
Trade?
Mr.. ELKINs gets to be absurd. Wecan
go him one better. The present Republi'
can tariff law placed things on the free hst
that are produced in erery county In th9
United States. Hence, according To Mr.
ELKISs' logic, We are row living under
free trade.
Says Mr.. ELKINs:
Since 1883 our imports Of wooden goods maze
abroad have increased to sl2, 5OO,OOO.
Exactly. The exorbitant tax on the
foreign raw material, whicl our woolen
mills are compelled to use, has caused
many of the mills to close, neeessltatlng
increased importstions. Give these mills
free raw material and they can Start up
and supply all the home demand. Aud
since they must have foreign wools--as
they are of quality not produced III this
country-and must have the American
grades to mix with them, the increased de-
mand must necessarily raise the price OF
the domestic wool, while the greatly cheap
ened foreign wool must lower the price OF
wooden goods.
The wooden manufacturers pay many
millions yearly in taxes on the foreign
wool which they are compelled TO use.
Take off these unnecessary taxes and the
wooden manufacturers will have just that
much more money to invest in their busi-
uees, and, since they must use given
quantity of A uerican wool for every pound
of foreign wool they import, they will De
enabled 10 pay the increased price for the
home wool occasioned By the increased de-
mand.
Says Mr.. ELKINs:
If wool should be put on the free list, it is esti
mated at the end of five years the United States
would not produce pound for each lnhabitant
whereas six pounds, NJ least, are required.
Mr. ELKINs must know rs we'll as We
do that this is absurdly false. He knows
that wool has been on the free list for
many years aud that the price then was
three or four times higher than the present
price, aud that>prOportionately we raised
more wool than We do now.
Mr.. ELKINs Gays "a Ieiaction Of the
tariff means reduction of wages" Mr..
ELKINs knows that this is simply cam
paign falsshood. Ga the loci page Of this
impression will be found card from Mr..
@. w. BRoCKUNIER, one of the leading
glass manufacturers of the United States,
which has something to say about the as
sertou that the tariff has anything to do
with wages.
Because ABRAHAM LINCOLN, q quarter
of century ago, liberated the slaves Mr..
ELKINs now claims that the Republican
party should have charge of the welfare
of the wage-esrners of this great country.
What has the corrupt and monopoly
owned Republican party of to-day got to
d. with ABRAHAM LINCoLNP Were he
living to-day he would not be found, We
believe, in the Republican party, but on
the side of the people. ABRAHAM LIN
coins friend and adviser and his old
Solicitor of the Treasury, EDWARD JoR-
DAN, explains perfectly the difference bs'
tween thu Republican party of to-day and
as it used TO bs in ABRAHAM LINCoLN's
time. Mr.. JORDAN tersely declares the
Republican party under its present lead
ers "a humbug." 1t has nothing left but
its name. It's principles are gone.
Break up the blood sucking trusts, as the
Democratic party propase1 to do, aud par
nit free home competition, and thereby
enlarge our markets, and wages must rise
simply from the increased demand for Ia
Dor occasioned by the increased number of
mills and factories untrammelled by the
operation of trusts, AMI at the same time
the price of tire poor msu's necessaries
must nece ,sarily greatly decrease.
The Democratic tariff argument in nut.
she'll is: Break up the trusts and permit
free home 60 mpstitiOn and We shall have
a more equal division of the profits of busi-
ness, more production, lower prices, larger
markets, more work for labor and couse-
aueptly better wages