Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-28

for Harrison, Morton and G:ff. But i
You want to vote FIR pure ant
honest government; il you want t
vote for economy and lower tsxs
and untax,d clothing, as sga'Ds
free whisky and tob icco, then in the name
Of American patriotism, in the name q
American manhood, vote for Cleveland
Thurman and reform. Great Applaus ]
high Protection on Home Industries.
To the Editor of The Register:
SIR:-Birdie Hart having reco vered from
his spell of nervous prostratiop, VII, nc
doubt, again make his appearance IN some
of the small towns in West Virginia, with
his tin pms and stone china, lsctuiing on
high tariff and is benefits to the working
man. With bi5 Characteristic gall he
claims that his speeches have been more
effective than any other campaign orators,
because his illustrati ms have all been
taken from our home Industries.
II it would not be thought djsrespe ;ttul
to so grta an orator IS our Birding tn nks
he is, we would suggest that for his future
speeches he provide the necessary appsra-
tus for giving some stsreoptican views of
the workings Of high protection In or
home industries. Among them we would
ssk for the flown 6 q place:
/. An enlarged view of the British coat
of arms, which our American Potter from
S.aff1rdshire" hiss placed upon the ware
Birdie carries with him.
2. A repvts :ntaticn of the meeting oft1e
Western Nail ASS: cation, which put in
Cd Grafton the contest with the nsilers for q
re iuciion of wages, AMI which resulted in
the practical destruction of the Nail srs'
Union and large cut 10 their wages.
8. As an illustration Of thu desperate
struggle made by the nsilers 10 maintain
their organ Stiou and secure fair wages
for their work let him show that nai'ec
and his wife, who ground corn in c?ffee
mill and lived on the bread made o. IL for
days, not having penny with which 10
bay 70 q.
4. Ole of the stockholders in the leading
mill in this contest, within year or two
after that time, depailing two hundred
and thirty thousand dollars as his share of
that years profits.
5. A view OF TIE Tack Facto V, recently
built BY the La Belle Company, in which
are all thu small machines belonging to
the Company, run by three naleIs With
tbs show the six nsiler, who had gro in
gray in thai Compapy's service, but were
comue! to give up t leirj ob', to enable the
Company TO make nails at less tina 4 Am Al
gama'ed prices.
6 The fire nailers belonging to the
Beraire MIL, who ara now, o. were bat
rece lt'y, driving cuts and handling picks
nk - n he 4 ha
mill owners, who are Sd AK Gus about
Their employees wages bsing reduced by
the Mills bi |, can make more money by
selling their steel to other mills to make
nsils thsn by letting these men have work
in their mile.
Z. A view of the four large brick addi-
TORS to the Wheeling pottery, built this
summer, Whose Tne!s made the city nag
with their cries about tie ruin TIE Mills
bill would bring to them; and also view Of
the six baildings belonging to the West
Virginia pottery, whose owners have be-
come the bitterest opponents OF that party
because they TOO were going to be ruined
from the came cause. The five of these
buildings which have been built since the
passage of the Mills bill sh,uld BIZ pointed
out 70 his hearers.
s Knowles, Taylor & KdoIles, of
East Liverpool, notifying their men OF
re iuction of ten par cent in their wages
and compelling them to take an iron clad
oath not to Join tie K. of L. This too
after tie tariff on their own wares had
bsen increased ten to fifteen per cent.
9. David Brooks turning political
souersault ard weeping b:c,uss he feared
the coal miners wages would be reduced
by the pas,sg of the Mills bill. With this,
show David in his five years struggle to
DESTROY these same miners union and re-
duce their wag;s.
10. Ay'ew of the SIN I'll army Of boil srs
and heaters, who have teen driven from
our mills in thu last five years and COM
relied to int + into competition with our
Iaboring men on the sreets, because the
high thrift secures high wages ~ and the
manufacturers could not afford to pay
such wages and make so to 100 par cent.
diyident on their sock.
IL. A bird G-sye view oftha dozen or more
wooden mills, which were in operation n
this city and vicinity, when ihs tariff was
sb)ut 35 per cent, but, which, with onei
exception, has been wipsd out in the TWEEN
ty-fnur years, in which the tariff went mp
to Al per cent.
II. The Hinge Factory closed by Trust
ten years ago and still prevented by the
same Trust, from making hinges, to en-
able the protected manufacturers TO keep
up tie price of hinges on the consumers.
13. The Mach Factory, an infant in
dustry, scarcely o year old, closed by q
Mach Trust and thirty boys and gtrls
thrown out of work, to keep up tho p,ice
Of matches on the consumer
Many more illustrations OF the BILE sings
of high protective tariff to the manusac-
turer and IFS Disadvantages to the work
ingman and the private consumer could
BE- taken from our home industries. But
if Birdie will make use of the above hs
will succte ed in convincing his hearers ut
NAV bs against his will that as tbs tariff
has gpne up, trusts and combines have
increased and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. q
wages have been reduced; their unions
have been attacked and often broken up,
and that as the manufacturer has grown
richer, hiJ workmen has b come poorer.
TARIFF REFoRMER.
Wheeling, October 81, 1888.
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