Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-01
REPUBLICANS TALK.
Mr. A. W. campbslI Addresses Gold and
+ Lonely Handfull.

China Company in North Wheeling, snd
shiveIipg in the dark while two frantic
hieh-tax orstos rsyed and tore thar hair
by the light of Q f'ckering g,s jet. 1t
was the great potter's demonstration,
which the Hon. A. ". Csmpbsll hsd BEEN
advertised to address, and about 200 psc-
PIE largely women and children oonsti-
tuted the audience.
Mr.. @. ]. Rawlings wss made chairman
of the meeting, and as . prelir iusry to
the heavy weight ordnance he introduced
Hon. John A. Bingham Of Ohio. Mr..
Bingham is probably known to some Of
the people of West Virginia a. the United
States Minister to Japan who was fred BY
Grover Cleveland. He is now in the
sers and yellow leaf. He may have
been once well informed on the itsues
of American pclltics, but he has certainly
failed t) catch on since hisreturn from the
Mikado's sdominions. In the absence Of
facts or Arguments be confined his britf
talk 10 pasonal abuse Of the President.
The audience was solemnly told ttat he
wasn't fit to be constable" "bai no
common #n'e," and like beautiful and
startling truths. ,
| CLEvELAHD's PENSION RECORD.
On the matter Of pensions Mr.. Bingham
brcIme especially eloquent. He wept
tears copious ard sa,ty for the veteran
and his widows and orphans" and this,
too, when Grover Cleveland has sgned
more private pension bills than all the Re-
publican Presidents before him, and more
than 40 psr cent of TIE nan es now On the
pep.ion rolls were put there, in the three
years and Q hall. in which he has been
President of the United States. Perhaps
such substantial sympathy will strike as
resr home TO the veterans heart as the
Manufactured patert article deelt ont BY
Republican politicians.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Birghsm's
TRADE, Hon. A. W. Campbell was intro
duced. He said that he would speak
briefly. One solid fact WAS worth volume
Of argument, and, 10 the words Of Mr..
Blaine he would like to furnish thst one fact
as follows: Over 300, 600 tons o! tteel were
imported into this country Inst year under
the present tariff. Nov, said Mr.. Camp
bell, how much labor, how much wAgts,
how much consumption Of farm product,
does ice3 all this represent? And how
mech worse will it IF we lower our tariff
and allow more steel TO come in? Where
will the people in our steel mills be en-
ployed, and how will Wbt cling growr I'm.
mediately afterwards Mr. Campbell said
that this was entirely question Of labor,
and that we could manufacture sted as
cheap as any other nat on il We would only
come down in the price Of labor.
Ia Other words, Mr.. Campbell
means to say that the manufactures gets
no benefit from the tIiff. ard 1t Is only
imro ned to cover the diff, rce in the cost
of labor between this 'ou9try and Europe.
| SOME CAMPBELL FIGURING.
Well let us take Mr. Campbell at his
statement. The tsr'ff rate should he ex-
actly equivalent to the difference in
wager. A ton of steel rail, in this country
cells for sb,ut $50. Net more tban $l2 of
that is labor, yet there is a duty Of $l7 Q
ton on steel rails According 10 Me-.
Campbell's idea this foreign laborers must
make steel rails for nothing and pay IS Q
ton for the privilege. The duty on steal
could b. reduced far more than the Mills
bill co ltsmplate, and then lave o duty
more than twics ~ great ~ the diffGeacs
in the ccs's of labor here and In Europe.
Mr.. Campbell knows this and we defy him
to disprove II.
Tae dsti5 guishei gentleman tien pre-
ceeded to give narrowing picture OF tho
c,r dltion of kb,r in Europe, and asked
his hearers If they ~i.hsd TO come down
to that level. Two countries were used az
illustratio 1s, England and Germany. II
wo Id have been expscted that so promi
snt an edvocAts OF nigh t,xes would have
been more careful in fishing ont his exam
, pies. OF tie two crunJiss England II
; free trade, and G. Grma,y high protection
!, Both psy lower wsgs than the Unittt
! States, yet tn , re var Is Of labor are fifty
: p,r cent greater in Englaud to day thar
! they are IN G. rmauy. There are seme IL
. lu STATIONS that don't illustrate, % Mr..
Campbell ought to have found cut by thi'
time
r The speaker then describ,d the frAmiDJ
of tbs Mills blu, and chygsd that no MAJ
was he sd by the COMMITTEES that hsd II In
Q change. He said thee six men" (w'
quote Mr. Campbell exact words) "tbts
six men, representing les, than 5000 work
= men, set themselves up to make laws fJ
all our varied msnufst ares without hear
ing q man whose interest might be nj
: fected thereby, in his own dsfease"
;. A man Of Mr.. CimpbelPs position coult
hardly make the mistake iovoivsd IN tb.
above sentence, and we do not b.lisve !
could be guilty OF the false hood in II. Ye
= one or the other 1, true. Mr.. Campbell
! himself knows aud reputable witncsse'
r can prove that he himself was befor,
c "theee six men, " or o committee Of them
. fue several times, and each time was &C
, corded
0 FAIR AND RESPECTFUL HEARING.
= His arguments were hssrd and acted urou
= a. were the arguments o! The rspase lts
j tives Of every Industry throughout tht
8 broad land. Til malicious lie bad bee,
b repeated by Republican orators time sn'
again. Hon. VIM. L. Wilson nailed IL .
the Aibsmbra Iiok lst Saturday, aud now
even c,miDg from Mr.. C,mpbsll's lips, VI
: brand it as fa'sshood, unworthy Of d
honorable man.
ri After making this stahmfn', Mr.. Oamp
bell lsbortd hard 70 convict the D,mo
cratic party Of free trade, g,ing back 4
e war history fer that purpo:e. He coul'
have fonnd the principles of the Dsmo
q cratic party embodied 10 thsir plsifsrm
r for eighty years; he could have founi tb
! history Of it's tariff l.giilEi,n; be cJul'
I have fouud that the Democratic pAt
a built up and maintained . protSctiv
system 10 this couotry b. sfjrs tn, war m
der which the people p'ospeIed - TIE
never have done since. Tbess are fscts 9
history, but Mr.. Campbelis publo
eyes cculIn't find them. TteJ are pio,i
? that the Democratic party never has sdyc
Gated free trade; and "a far ca past reco:t
Q can DO 20, prove that IL never will.
o. my p'eas Republican orators 10 hos
free trsds" and like cries st the msn vh
desire reform Of 90 oppressive and bul
t densome sytt m Of tsI,tio Its'metims
Q pleases q Iop-esrsd, hss-bittea hound
: bay at the mooo; the one hA about NJ muc
efftcs - ths otbrr.
YOUNG MRS. BLAINE WORSE.
. Her Relatives Alarmed for ths First Tin
The Crisis Approschisg.
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