Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-29

makes your hat cost more, that it makes
your coat cost more, that it makes your
blanket cost mora. Voice, That's so."]
If that is SO why did your hats, and eoata,
and blankets cost more under tariff for
revenue only, than now under o protec-
tive tariff? Manufactured goods cost more
from 1s46 to 1860 than you have ever paid
sincs. Who will deny il? My Democratic
brott is dumb san oyster ro1. Ap-
p,ause.1 If articles today cost more In
the United Stat q market by virtue Of the
imposition of the tariff tax, Iwo1ld like
for somebody to tell me wbat they are.
Voice, 'sWilsen will tel him. All right;
will tel you some that are much cheap
er, and give you au opportunity to name
one that is higher. Applause AID
voice." That's it'll
NO THEY DON'T, GENERAL.
Democratic friends ssy that West
Virginia would bs more improved-nore
railroads constructed-if steel rails were
on tbs free list. Why, cut in the State
few weeks ago, where it was discussed l.
they were going TO build railroads over all
the mountains, and across all the valleys;
it scared nc so, that told my fellow citi.
,ns to hurry up and get oat OF tho way o.
the engine. Lsughter.] Stsel rails are
chearer to-day than ever before In the
7 hist oIy'of the, country. When yon hsd
no tariffthey cost $166 a ton; they are S2s
to day. How do you like that? They put
the duty on sttel rails, and down, down,
down went the steel rails, and up, up,
up, went the manufacturing establish
ments Of Americs. Town, down, down,
went the price Of steel rails, and labor,
every where in the Unite1 States, found
employment at good wages. [ Applause,
Prices went down and manufacturing
establishments went up; they went on
building more railroads, and we have b zen
building item for the past fifteen years By
virtue Of that cheap rail. What do steel
rails cost here to-day? You can bay them
in Liverrool to-day at $40 per ton; the
trsnsp ortation, and the commission, and
the profit, estimated by merchants at IS,
that would make $25. The import duty
is $l7; $25 and SIT is $4a. How many
tons do y IN want at $2s? Laughter aad
applause TIE tariff is tax! Re-
newed laughter.] What caa you buy
calico at? Under the tariff for Ieyen ne
from 1s47 to 1860 it raised from 10 to 18
aud "a cents q yard; what is it to-day?
5 cents yard.
THAT IS WHY THEY DON'T NEED THE
HIGH TARIFF.
It sells over in England OF s cents
yard; the transportation, commission and
prof would give cents moe; 5 and 2
are 7; the ta'iff is cents q yard; 7 and 5
are IL; will sell you million yards at 5
csnts yard. And yet they say the tariff
is q tax. Laughter and applause. You
can buy salt at the salt works for 10 cents
a buahel. It is worth 12 cents across the
ssa, to bring it over here costs &c lts, that
makes ii cents; the import duty would
average about IL cents bushel; Is and IL
is 81 csnts. And I will sell you al You
want at 10 CENTS bushel. And yet the
tariff is o tax. Laughter and applause.
The articl. has b,en brought down in
prics while the people are getting the
benefit of it. want the lab oriDg man to
remember that this great country has
bsen wrought from that tax-furnisaing
employment to hundreds Of thousands Of
your fellow lsborers. 1t has brought con-
tentment to your firesides; II has ror0ishsd
you that with which you have fed and
educated your children. [Applause.]
AND 1T HAS BROUGHT TRUSTS.
And yet my Democratic brother wants
to tear down the protective tariff system,
and give ug q tariff for revenue only.
TApplause. There is rot laboring man
under the sound of my voice that is inter-
ested in q revenue tariff; not one. 1t will
not increase the manufactures in this coun-
try. The idea of revenue tariff is to beg
the foreign manufacturer to send his goods
here that we may collect revenue on
them. [At this juncture Goffite
tried to climb on the platform, and cries
of "put him out"] Now, keep quiet;
he don'G mean anything by it. In all
probability he will vote for Harrison.
fCries of "Hurrah for Goffw] Now, my
friends, let us look at the Mills bill again.
Let us see Whist it proposes to Go. And
let me ask You, in the first place, where
are my fellow citizens who asked De mo-
cratic Congress-who asked my distin-
puished colleague-te give us the Mills
bill?
He tslls US that it is in the interest of
the laboring man. want labcriDg man
before me in this great audience to tell me
OF laboring man in the United States, or
labor organization in the United States
that asked for the passsge Of the Mills bill.
IApplauss and cries of "nons."] Demo-
cratic or Republican, where is the latoring
man of my county that pe.iticned the
Congres, Of the United States to pass the
Mills bill? [Applause. There are some
of them here, but they aiu't pet ,tioning
for that bill. Crias of disput,. D-n't
YOU know your own business? If it was
to your interest for this bill to pas, why
didn't you say so?
THEY WILL SAY so NOVEMBER 6.
Among you all, among all the labor or
carnations, among all the labor assem-.
blies, among the Knight, of Labor, not
single one of them asked the Con
sress of the United St,tes. by petition
to that body, to pass that bill. What man.
ufacturirg establishment of my conn
try asked for the pass gs of that bill? Tell
me. The foreign manufacturer who SENDS
goods to this country; they wanted it Il
pass; the importers wanted ittop.ss. TOT
American maannufacturer the Ameri.
can laborer did not. We.piled up peti
tions on the tables OF Congress. in YOU
committee room my colleague, ceilins
high, demonstrating against it's passage.
sent them in myself from my constituents
and from other States, bat I didu't lay il
one in favor of the passage of that bill
And if statements made in Congress ar'
correct, the only persons who found favo
before the Ways and Means Commit.e-
the only persons who were permitted II
PRESENT their case-Were the representa-
tiyes of the great sugar re6neries and suga
trusts, and the representatives Of great
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