The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-29

D. to come off OF now? Woolens, cotton
1, iron, steel and all those things that th'
manufacturers Of this country and th,
"a millions of toilers OF this country are in
II terested in. Deny that il yOu dare
j. The entire reduction Of Sl00,0O0,00O
It then, that is proposed by the Democratic
Q party OF this country; that is advocated
by the great Democratic Committee o.
n Ways and Means, is to come off OF al
a the great manufacturing establishments
OF my nation; comes off OF coal come
of OF iron ore, comes OFF OF wool, comes
off OF glassware, comes off OF china ware
= comes off OF all those interests and in
: dustries that make the city Of Wheeling
the delight and the admiration OF the
1 upper Valley Of the Ohio. [Applause.]
! You may like that, my friends, but !
+ don't. II you want anything OF that
! kind, you must get somebody else than
Y me to help you get it. [Cheers.]
"wAR TAXES"
Now my friends say the war taxes
are too high and ought to be reduced
that We are paying war taxes yet. That
is the plea they make to my Democratic
friends in order to support the Mills
bill. Do you know-my distinguished
colleague knows it-that We have al-
ready reduced the war taxes, as they are
called, in the sum OF S330,000,00O? The
taxes now that were paid in this coun-
try during the war in the same rates
were levied on the articles made or i'm
ported and the taxes paid during the
last fiscal year would show q reduction
OF $3.50, 100000. or that $3.50, 900. 900, one
hundred and thirty-nine million dollars
would be from tariff rates and Sl0l, 100000
from internal revenue. Now want to
protect the tariff system OF my country.
want TO protect the iaboring men Of
my country, and il it becomes necessary
to do that-I want to sweep your in
ternal revenue tax out OF existence, ii it
is necessary in order to support the pro-
tective tariff laws OF my Nation, and
you may cal it what you please. 1t is
no more free whiskey than it is to-day.
Your States will take change OF that mat.
ter, and tax it and save your people who
are laboring now from paying that
amount OF tax. would destroy, say,
the entire internal revenue system OF
my country before would strike at the
protected industries of my State and
Nation. [Cheering.l
II is not necessary now, because the
voters have made their minds up to cast
their ballots on the 9th day of Novem.
Der 80 as to give us Republican Presi.
dent and Congress, and then you will
not fear the passage of any Mills bill.
[Applause.] Now they want free raw
material; the President wants free raw
material, and advocates free raw mater
ial in his message. [Cries of "No" and
"Yes."]
OPPOSED TO FREE RAW MATERIALS.
lam opposed to free raw material;
want the raw material of my country
protected us much as the manufactured
articles. Voices, That's right" ] | want
all the industries OF my country protect
cd. would have the protection as
broad as the continent, and deep as the
patriotism OF my people. Applause.] 1t
shall protect every establishment and ev-
cry man that labors. don't care where he
labors, or what he labors at. Iwould
protect wool; that is the farmers pro-
duct, and is as much entitled to pro-
lection as any manufactured article over
there in your mills. Applause | would
protect the iron ore us it is dug from the
ground. The man digging that ore and
throwing it on the barge or into the car,
is us much entitled TO protection as the
man working Mt the furnace, making it
into pig. would protect the man who
fells the tree on our mountain top, and
who takes it down into the valley TO be !
sawed up to build dwelling or n ship
or car for your commerce. Applause.l
Why, we have all the raw material in (
this country we need iron and coal and
wool. Why do you want to so to yon- !
der country and get that other fellows
wool? Why not manufacture your
own? Employa little ofyour own laborto
manufacture this raw material? II
But they say ii you will give us this
raw material, we will run our mills and
manufactures, aud go out on the sea and
capture "the markets OF the world"
"The markets OF the world" are what the
De nocraIiC party wants. This is asweet
sounding phrase-''markets OF the
world" Laughterl l wish my dis
tinguished colleague would tell me
where "the ma 'kets OF the world" will
be found. Were are you going to sell
your iron and yoIr steel where are you
going to find market for il? Are you
going to take iron to Belgium, England
and Scotland, and sell it over there?
Great God, they have millions OF tons
piled up waiting formy colleague to pass
the Mills bill, so they can bring it over
here. Applause. That is the solemn
faCt. And then they are going to bring
in free wool, and run all the woolen
mills, and manufacture woolen blankets
and other woolen goods, and put them
in ship and sepd them out to "the
markets Of the world" They will send
blankets and wooden goods, into England
and Scotland where they hove ten mil.
lion blankets and a hundred million
yards of cloth, waiting for the passage OF
the Mills bill. They say it is q great
wrong that our laboring men haven't II
chance to make these articles and sell
them In "the markets OF the world"
THE QUESTION OF WAGES.
How arc you going to sell in the mar
kets of the world unless you go down
to the level OF the wages Tint the people
over there get? Whenever you capture
"the markets OF the world,n you bave
scaled down your wages TO the rate over
there. Who will deny that? My Dem
ocratic friend will not deny It. My
Republican brother will not want to
deny it. II YOU do You will
have to go to the Democratic
party, and you will never get the,e with
the leave Of the Republican party. They
say that Protection is not what is max.
ing your wages higher. wonder II
there is workingman before me be-
lieyes that. ] wonder at the iaborinp
man in making out his scale of wages or
making out his card, why he always
calculate what he can get; il the tnriir
has nothing to do with 1t, why do they
always take the tariff into considera.
tion? The fact is this; the labor orga-
niEations Of the country, the laboriHg
people OF the country know this to be u
fact, know that the tariff does mid and
assist them; and the manufacturer
knows it is what enables him to keep ,