The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-24

reformer says the tariff is tax, said Mr..
Dalzeli, / know he is Il Free Trader ut
heart, and all his denials count for moth
ing. [Cheers.
The important fact that under pro-
tectiye tariff steel rails are not only
cheaper than they were when on the
free list, but that they are also made
here and give employment to American
workmen, was shown in a way which
aroused the audience to q high pitch of
enthusiasm.
t'FREE SALT"
On the subject Of salt, also, Mr.. Dali
zell made telling points, saying that
when on the free list salt sold in Chicago
at So a barrel, while now il is 81, and
in Michigan 60 cents barrel, with the
barrel thrown in. Here it is-how
much? A voice: "Eighty-tive eants. ]
Eighty-fVe cents Less money than you
can get man to take barrel down to
the river bank and fill it with sand and
haul it to your door for! Applause.
Yet the Mills bill puts salt on the free
list SO as to give you cheap salt!
Laughter and applause.
The benefit OF the tariff to labor was
beautifully shown. AS an instance the
history OF Ia steel rail was followed, from
the "three stones in q hill, black stone,
coal; a red stone, iron; a white stone,
lime" dug by labor, hauled by labor
over a railroad laid by labor to mill
built by labor, where labor turns it into
something worth money. The percent
age OF labor from the ore, coal and stone
in the hill until the rail is laid upon the
ties ready for traffic, was shown to be 90
per cent, and Abram S. Hewitt, Demo-
cratic candidate for Mayor OF New York,
was quoted as stating this on his per-
sonal knowledge. He says also that the
cost Of pig iron is 90 per cent composed
OF wages for labor.
Mr.. Mills, ut Chicago, quoted Mr..
Blaine as saying that the tariff issue in
this campaign was a question OF labor
and wages from the skin to- the core and
from the core back to the skin again,
and Mr.. Mills said he fully endorsed this
statement. Mr.. Carlisle said at Coving-
ton that the tariff had about Us much to
do with labor as it had with the num-
Der Of ears OF corn farmer will raise
next year.
The tide OF immigration to this coun-
try was cited 10 show the advantages
arising from Protection.
THE MILLS BILL.
The practical side OF Protection, and
the way in which its benefits flow to the
farmer distant from manufacturing cen
tres, to the merchant, to everybody in
the land, was most eloquently shown.
Then said Mr.. Dalzell:
oh, but l would like to see West Vir-
ginia come tout from the Solid South
wild applausel to take her place where
she belongs, among the richest and most
prosperous States OF the Union. Cheer
ing.1 When the grand Protection col
umn takes up its march to Washington
[Applause1 | should like to see West
Virginia on the right of heline. Great
and continued applause.
He showed signs Of stopping once or
twice, but the audience would not let
him, and the fraudulent pretensions
OF the Free Trade Mills bill were anus
ingly shown up. Never was that poor
measure more completely and conclu-
siyely shown to be unwisely framed, bad
in its effects and put forth under false
pretenses than by Mr.. Dalzell. The
free raw materials" sophistry was also
riddled to pieces.
1t was shown that last year $4,000, 900
OF American money was sent abroad to
pay British laborers for making tin plate
that ought to have been made here.
This country has us much tin as Eng
land. There is tin in Dakota, in Vir-
ginia, and am not sure you have not
tin in West Virginia. Keep up this pro-
tective system long enough and we'll
see. Cheers.1 Anyhow, England gets
much OF her raw tin from Pacific Islands,
which are nearer to us than to England.
A number OF instances were quoted in
which raw materials arc taxed by the
Mills bill higher than the finished pro-
duct. Before they heard from Oregon,
the Democrats said this bill was Free
Trade bill. Since that it is only a
moderate reduction" Laughter.
The speaker referred to Mr.. Iams, or
Mr.. ljams or whatever his name is la
voice: "Jimjams." Laughter.l and to
the INTELLIGENCER's response to the
statement that the Republican party
had never added star to the United
States flag, whats the matter with
West Virginia 2" and Mr.. Dalzell added:
The Republican party saved good many
stars to that flag cheers, and when the
Republican party comes to its own again
in November [cheersl they will put two
more stars there for North and South
Dakota, which The Democrats have I'M
Justly kept of.
In conclusion Mr.. Dalzell asked, Why
should we abandon u system that has
done so much for us, and try theory?
What's the matter now, that We should
seek better economic system?
After three rousing cheers for General
Harrison, and an eloquent and graceful
tribute to Golf, Mr.. Dalzell retired amid
great cheering.
A Joint Discussion of the Tarirat Wheeling
A joint debate on the tariff, the lead
ing question Of the day, by William l..
Wilson, Democrat, and General Nathan
Golf, Republican, will be held ut Wheel
ing Saturday the eth inst, o'clock
p. IN.
string to attend, the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to Wheeling and return, from