Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-08

afforded by Pinkerton's police. Take
England "a Mr.. Blaine paints her, with
lorus, dukes, earls snd the whole line OF
rich robleman and purse-proud and
landed aristocrats, and there Is not one OF
than who has castle abroad or who pre-.
tends to live in the splendor and luxury OF
Cluny Castle. Shame on the protection
that permits one man to live on the
fat Of the earth wrung from the
sweat and foil of three thousand, and
then when they ask to participate In the
tariff that is supposed to protect, and pro-
tsst against UBIQUITOUS wrongp, they must
lsave their humble abodes and seek shelter
elsewhere, AID sac their PLACES filed by
the pauper labor of Europe, brought here
to degrade American workingmen and ID
menace them to their daily toll.
Mr.. Blaine should not attempt to de-
ceive the-hone and sinew Of the country
by these illogical haranguss about high
tariff. The country is making progress,
and il wants new light and new resources,
and it is bound to get them under the pro-
posed new conditions. If Mr.. Blaine
stands in the way and imp ades its progress
he must take the consequences. Every
man that reads and thinks-and, thanks
to President Cleveland, every man Is do
ing that now-know5 very well that the
ta1ff of to day reduces his wages; that IS,
it results in that ultimately, for the manu-
factuIer whose products are protected en-
Joys free trade in labor and brings 1t into
the country to reduce the cost OF peoduc-
ton. Mr.. Blaire knows very well that
the protection of to-day has tended to con-
centrats capital, to foster monopoliss, TO
encourage trusts and combinations, to in
crease the eo.t of the things necessary to
the life and comfort of the producing
classes, and to Lessen the rewards OF labor!
| He also knows that those persons who are
employed in the industries protected by
hish tariff receive less for labor than tEo,e
employed in industries tina. are unprotect-
ed. Mr.. Blaine is also aware that
nearly oil the paupAr labor imported
into the country is employed in the
protected industries, resulting in the dis
organization of organized labor and the
Displacement Of American workmep. The
srsst struggle that labor has had for exist
euce has been in the fields hedged in and
covered by high tariff, and the highsr the
| Tariff the more pronounced have bean the
assaults upon Labor organizations. These
facts, stated generally, are verified by high
Republican authority, Joseph d. Weeks,
secretary of the National Republican COM
uittee during the Blaine canvass of 1884.
Here is the analysis by Mr.. Weeks from
the census of 1880, compiled by himself,
under the head of strikes aud lockouts-
extraordinary excess of strikes in protected
industries.
The twentieth volume Of the census re-
port of 1880 was compiled by Mr.. Josep.
D. Weeks, one of the most rsbid advocates
of the idea that nation can be taxed into
prosperity. His report on Strikes and
Lockouts," page 5, shows that the largest
number of strikes occurred in the highly
prote cted Slate of Pennsylvania. The total
number of strikes reported was 1852, and OF
these 3O4 occurred in the single State OF
Pennsylvania, and then he gave tbs fol.
lowing table, showing the number Of
strikes and lockouts by states:
STRIKES AND LoCKoUTs BY STATES.
The table showing the number Of stIiks
l. A. Al