The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-10
pOINTS ON PROTECrION.
No Free Trader WIN Try To Answer Them
and None Can.


Robert p, Porter,
Why an official report recently pull
lished by the London Daily Tslegrqp
> shows that 80 per cent Of the children q
British workmen in London go to schoo
every morning without a mouthful o
food2
Why halfpenny lone cent dinners 70
school children failed in Birmingham
: and other industrial centres, because tn
children could not procure money Il
, pay for them?
Why thousands OF men are constantly
walking the streets OF the geat indus
trial centres without food or work?
Why more than 100000 in a popula
ton Of 35,OOO,00O are out Of work under
Free Trade?
Why does John Bright admit that
under Free Trade the English farmer has
lost in recent years 81 ,000,009,0002
Why does Joseph Arch admit that in
fifteen years 100000 persons have given
up the cultivation OF the soil?
Why have the number OF persons en-
gagged in the gainful occupations in Eng
land decreased in fifteen years from H.
7s6.s75 to II, 1854?
Why does Mr.. Hoyle say that the
forty.second report OF the Registrar-Gen-
eral shows that zone out OF about every
seven OF our population end their days
as paupers?" And, tuning to Ireland,
why did one in every four OF the inhab-
itants Of Connaught population Se0,0o0}
apply in 1885 for Poor Law Relief?
Why does the report OF the British
Postmaster General show that in 1865
artisansand laborers constituted % Sl-l00
per cent OF the depositors in Postal Saw
ings. Banks, und in 1882 only II $40 per
cent?
Why do women working at the forge
and anvil the whole week making nails
only earn 81 Is?
Why does the current rate OF wages
for the common laborer rarely exceed 50
cents per day?
Why does Mr.. Chamberlain say:
"Never before was the misery OF the
very poor more intense, or the condi-
tions OF their daily lie more hopeless or
more depraved." il free trade has been
successful?
Why has the cost of pauperism and
crime under Free Trade Increased from
S3OO0O,000 in 1910 to SS2,0OO,OOO in
1881?
Why did Mr.. Golden receive during
his lifetime 81 100000 cash (see Morley's
Life OF Cobdcn) from the manufacturers
OF Manchester in payment for his SER
vices to'bring about Free Trade, il twas
n grand principle calculated to benefit
the workingmcn OF all countries, and
not means TO cut down the wages OF
labor and increase the profits of monop-
olists?
Why does one iron and coal firm in
the North OF England control the annual
output OF more tons Of iron ore than
the total annual output OF the entire
Lake Superior regions if Free Trade
does not create monopOlies?
Why has the number employed in
the five principal textile industries de-
clined from 0lD,Sl7 in 1861 to SS3,30S in
1856 in England, and the number so
employed doubled in the same period in
the United States?
Why has the silk industry practically
gone to the wall?
Why has the linen industry declined
in England in tile last twenty years and
increased 800 per cent in protective Ger
many?
Why have the number OF workmen
employed in the iron and steel indus
tries in Germany increased since the re-
turn to protection 40 per cent, the
wages paid 81 per cent and the average
paid to each workman la per cent?
Why are these facts substantially true
in many other industries in Germany?
Why has Germany increased her ex-
ports OF manufactured goods under pro-
lection when free traders said she would
ruin her export trade by returning to
protection?
Why do the official reports OF British
Consuis inform us that the German En-
pire has been so benefited by protection
that it is in the atmosphere; that it isthe
strongest OF the governments policies?
Ii Protection has been ruinous to the
United States, why have we, in twenty
five years OF it, increased our population
20,060,OOO? Doubled the population OF
our cities? Increased our coal product
from 100000 tons to 00,000,000 tons?
Increased our iron ore output from $780,
600 tons to 100000 tons? Increased the
numberemplOyed i'll our metalindustries
from $4,000 to $4,000? Increased the
numberemplOyGd in our wood industries
from 10000 to $4,000 persons? The
number employed in our wool indus
tries from G0,000 to 10000? Robbed
England OF 55,0O0,O00 customers in the
cotton industry? Employ $1,000 instead
OF 1900 in the pottery, stoneware and
glass industries? Employ 10000 instead
OF 5000 in the chemical industry. In
creased our railway mileage from 10000
to 1900 miles? Increased the number
of our farms from 100000 to 100000?
And their value from SB,OOO,-
100000 to Sl0,000,0 100000? Our
production Of cereals, from ,23O,-
100000 bushels to nearly 3,0O0,O00,-
600 bushels? Our live stock, from 81 ,000,-
000, 600 to more than s., 600, 100000? Our
ilocks, from 100000 to upward Of h0,-
100000? Our wool products, from
100000 pounds to35O, 100000 pounds?
The number OF persons engaged in gain
iul occupations, from l2,jOO,0OO to III
100000? And ouraggregate OF veal til to
such figures that il makes Americans
dizzy to contemplate the totals, and fills
the advocates OF British free trade with
envy, hatred and other wrongful pas.
sions in trying to explain that which
isn't?
Why are the wages Of the laborer
higher here than in any other country?
Why do n greater percentage OF work
ingmen own their homes? Why do
their children 60 to school well fed and
well clothed? Why is labor respected
and the workiBgman supported in every
Legitimate endcavor to better his Condi-
ton? Why do algreater percentage OF
workmen become masters here than in
any other country in the world? Why
do the intelligent American wage-earn-
ers, as q rule, support protection with
their votes, and defeat lree-traders like
Hurd and Morrison? Because it is the
winning cause and the cause OF the
American people. All OF which is re-
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