Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-20
RUTH DISHES UP TURPIE.

defeated Mr.. Benz. Harrison for the
Senate in 1886, (see handbills distri-
buted) made d rousing free trade
speech in the rink last Friday night.
The speech was an excellent one for
the party. suited them just to t.
But it is always best to look at both
sides of question, and while Mr..
Turpie was very busy in trying 10
cast the mote out of his brothers. eye,
he failed to perceive the beam in his
own. Now, admitting our own def
cencies, etc., we would like to say a
thing or two about Mr.. Tnrpie's
speech:
In the first place it isn't extraordin-
arily good taste to fiaunt his victory
over Harrison in the Senate, as ii has
been; considering the way he, Mr..
Turpiel got in the Senate. There was
some fine manipulating done in the
Indiana Assembly in that year, lex
GLIDING the lieutenant-governor from
his seat,) and Mr.. Henderson, now
Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue never gets left on that score.
It is not forgotten, that while chairman
of the Indiana Democratic State Com
mittee he received the appointment
he now holds as a reward for his SER
vices in the manipulation of the leg
islature which resulted in the election
of Turpie to the U. S. Senate. So it is
just as advisable not to crow too loud
ly about that election.
In the beginning of his speech he
called to mind the bill introduced by
Mr.. Logan in 1872, rebating the duties
on lumber. If Mr.. Turpie had been
speaking in some other part of the
State where lumber is one of the prin-
cipal articles of export, wonder If he
would not have been mum on that
subject. The Chinese question was
also discussed. He wants to give all
the credit of the Chinese law to this
administration; the need of this law
has just been made apparent in the
last few years, and Mr.. Turpie must
remember that Rome was not built in
a day. But according to his policy,
which allows the product of cheap
foreign labor to come in here free,
they might as well let the foreign la
Dor come free. The Mills bill was also
brought up, Mr.. Turpie says it is
much nearer being passed than peo-
pie think; it passed the House and
only lacked two votes in the Senate.
How near but yet how far. A miss
is as good as mile. Mr.. Turpie says
they will elect Democratic Senator
instead of a Republican which will
make tie in the Senate, that then
Mr.. Thurman who will be president
of the Senate will cast his vote and
the Mills bill be passed. How sure he
seems, but Mr. Thurman is not yet
president of the Senate, and from all
indications never will be, so the idol
will be shattered again. And accord
ing to Mr.. Turpie we will still have
to pay double prices for our wooden
goods and an enormous sum for salt,
etc. If the Democrats want every
thing free, why don't they put sugar
and rice on the free list? Every one
must have those articles. But no,
that would never do, for those articles
are raised in the South. We must
just have the tariff taken off the wool,
and the products of the North. 1t
would never do to hurt the South in
any way. Our wool growers in w.
Va. have something to say about that
and their say will be made apparent
on the sixth of November.
Talking about cheap coats. if he
goes to free trade England he can't
get coat for any less than he does
here.
Mr.. Turpie calls the Republican
party the monopolistic party, and
seems to think that all the trusts !"
originate in the Republican party but
if he will allow himself to believe it,
he can easily know that that is not so.
For at the head OF some of the big
gest trusts in our country are some of
the most prominent Democrats, men,
bers of the Democratic National COM
mittee.
The surplus bothers them awfully
but from established record, we find
that after taking the duty from sugar,
ETC., the sum of S13l 100000 covers
the entire protective system of the
United States.
The Democrats bitterly assail the
protective system and yet in varied
forms of argument, they try TO say
that the Mills bill has not altered the
protective features of the tariff. 1t
wont work right. Will they make
the woolgroWers believe that, and the
lumber manufacturers and salt pro-
ducers? Not much. They don't pull
the wool over their eyes in that man.
ner. Mr.. Turpie says that the Re-
publicanS are so much afraid of a
flood of foreign labor coming in, they
are afraid and have good reason to be
afraid. It can't help but cheaper la
Dor here, and no matter if coat cost
five dollars or ten dollars, its all the
same if you haven't the money to buy
it. Mr.. Turpie says suppose there is
a flood of foreign goods, there will be
flood of labor here and flood of
money to buy with. But we want
to know where the latter flood will
come from. Will it come from
heaven like Noah's flood? We are
afraid not, for no such miracles hap
pen nowadays.
He tried very hard to show that
protection is an Ubiquitous tax, they
are all trying it, but that is about all
it amounts to. Protection is protec-
tion all the world over, and protection
is what we need, and what we will
have and they can't get over it.
President Cleveland favors cheap
labor and whenever he has chance
favors England before our own coun-
try, for instance the blankets pur-
chased for our army. Cleveland is an
expert fisherman and believes in CIV
ing England full chance on the fish
cry question. England expects to
catch some big fish from America.
Turpie seems very certain of In
diana going Democratic, but that re-
mains to be seen, but Henderson is
again in Indiana working very hard.
Lastly, Mr.. Turpie congratulated
the party on their strong candidates,
who were SO closely identified with
the Democratic party. He described
Mr.. Thurman as one of the ablest
statesmen of the day, and then said
that the party had taken up Cleve-
land four years ago. not knowing
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