Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-06

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why should it not be the IHtelligencer,
pray? That is HARRIsoN's view precisely.
HARRISON and the editor of the Lntelh'
geaeer stand upon the Chicago platform
with both feet and have q grip upon its
edges with their toes. Gen. HARRISON in
his last Indianapolis speech announced
this doctrine in economies. II is not ex-
actly new, but has never been so directly
formulated before, except by the editor Of
the IateligeReer. We cannot do justice to
this great economic doctrine without quot
ing HARRISON's words. He said:
"Our party stands unequiyocally, without eva
sion or qualification, for the doctrine that the
American market shall be preserved for our
American producers. We are not attracted by
the suggestion that we should surrender to for
eign producers the best market in the world
Our 60. OOO eco people are the best buyers in the
world, and they are such because our working
classes receive the best wages.
Let us pause and take in the full mean
ing of this great thought. Our working
classes receive the best wages because they
do the best and the most work, and be-
cause labor applied to our vast and varied
natural resources will produce the largest
results. But for the same reasons they
produce more than our people can con-
same. They have an enormous surplus to
dispose Of, and with it they m ght obtain
products from other countries, articles fol
which they could find many uses for their
qualification, which they do not produce
themselves. But no, they must not buy
from abroad" Our 100000 are the
best buyers in the world, but they must
buy only their own products. They must
live of Of themselves; limit themselves to
passing around and exchanging among
themselves the results Of the work oil
American producers, and production must
stop till all this surplus is consumed.
Thereby, and thereby only, shall they
grow rich and prosperous, says HARRISON.
If Gen. HARRISON had stopped here he
would have had complete American pol
icy-America for Americans, and no
traffic with abroad. We would buy and
sell among ourselves and use up our own
surplus, make lots of money by paying
ourselves high prices and have royal
good time preying off each other like can
nibals. But he did not stop here. Ameri-
cans must not buy from abroad, but they
must sell to abroad" Hear him:
But we do not mean to be content with our
own market. weshould seek to promote closer
and more friendly commercial relations with the
Central and South American States. And wha'
is essential to that end? Regular mails are the
first condition OF commerce The merchant
must know when his orders will be received, and
when his consignment win be returned, or there
can be no trade between distant communities.
What we need, therefore, is the establishment OF
American steamship lines between our ports
and the ports OF Central and South America"
These are to be secured by paying the
steamships subsidy, and as we are to
keep our markets to ourselves of course
we would buy nothing in Central and
South America. We would only sell.
Commenting on HARRIsoN's absurd policy
as given in bis Indianapolis speech, the
New York Times says: 1t is settled prin-
ciple in foreign trade that what is sold
can only be paid for in the products OF
other countries. Money is only used in
settling balances, and rarely passes from
one country to another. 1t is especially
notorious that Central and South Ameri-
crn States have no surplus of cash, and
where are they to get it if they cannot dis
Pose of their own products beyond their
own borders? How they are to be COM
PEELED to purchase from us is q detail to
which Gen. HARRISON has given no atten-
ton, but perhaps they could be subsidized
or furnished with the cash by taxation Of
our own people.
There he's been nothing more delightful
than Gen. HARRIsoN's doctrine Of home
market and foreign trade and subsidy.
For absurdity it excels any former utter
ance of anybody. Mr.. MORTON, when
he was received by his fellow-citizens
of Rhinebeck after the Chicago Con-
vention, said that the candidate for
President had been advised to make
no speeches and write no letters.
The advice was most prudent, but it has
not been needed. If Gen. HARRISON is
not to make himself ridiculous before the
the whole country the National Commit
tee will have to find some way of keeping
his mouth shut. On the subject of the
tariff and foreign trade he shows an igno-
rance and crudity Of thought that would
disgrace boy in the Indianapolis high
school. MATT QUAY should repeat to
him the advice he gave to Gen. BEAVER
when he was candidate for Governor Of
Pennsylyania: Don't talk"