The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-12
VOLUME XXXyII---NUMBER II.
by Her Majesty the Queen of England.
In one industry, where skilled labor re-
THE HIGHEST PAY;

!
In one industry, where skilled labor re-
ceived
THE HIGHEST PAY,S
out of 500 men employed, only two OF
them owned their houses, and there was
not one worklngman that had any money
deposited in savings bank of any kind,
We visited a large number OF. houses.
On the outside the houses have a very
good appearance; inside, the floors are
tile, stone, bolders and earth, and it is
an exception to the rule when you find
a carpet on the floors Of the workingman
in England.
In Cradlyheth, women bIacksmiths
are making trace chains for 81 week.
In Manchester, near Glasgow, women
were working for 10 cents day. and we
found that wages did not differ very
much in any district in England.
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle OF August
q, in addition to an editorial on Ameri-
can protection, says: "The popular views
OF the Republican party on protection
are not friendly TO England" and an
American going through England, hear
ing the English landing and praising
Cleveland, would be led to think that,
instead OF Cleveland being President OF
the United States, he had been elected
for the express purpose OF delveringthe
American Government over into the
keeping OF the English nation.
THE NEXT PLACE
visited was Ireland. In Dublin we saw
q number OF manufacturing establish
ments standing idle. The same in Cork
and several other places visited. On
making inquiry why they were standing
idle, the universal answer was that the
policy Of England had prevented the
Irish people from putting u protection
on the Irish-madc goods, and had killed
the industries, because the English man
utacturers came in and sold so cheap
that home manufacturers were COM
PEELED TO shut up shop, and every Irish
man We met was in favor OF protection
and home rule. Ireland is one OF the
most beautiful countries have ever
looked upon. Her green fields and beau
tifui hills remind one OF beautiful silk
crazy quilt, and all that Ireland wants to
make her tiourishiDg country and her
people happy people IRE home rule
and protection to their manufacturing
industries.
TIE POLICY OF ENGLAND
toward Ireland has crushed the Irish peo-
pie, has driven them from their homes,
and taken all their rights away from
them. and how any Irishman can vote
for the policy that is now advocated by
the Democratic party lam unable to un-
derstand; for, rs sure us the bill that has
passed the Democratic House should
become law, the manufacturers would
be compelled to reduce wages, which
the workmen would reject; the result
would be strike, and NIL OF the indus
tries in England would boom and would;
continue to do SO until the workman in
America would work for less wages,
which he would be compelled to do.
Now, ! want to appeal to the good
sense and reason of the workingmen, not
only OF Pittsburgh, but OF the whole
country; don't let party ties bind you;
don't be carried away with party
speeches, but let all look for what will
protect the American industries and the
American people.
The six men who control the Ways
and Means Committee come from the
South. Thirty years ago they owned
labor, and they did not give up that
ownership freely, but because they had
to; and in their struggle to maintain the
ownership England helped them. These
men say that all manufacturers are rob-
bers. When workmen approach them
in favor Of protection, they answer and
say the manufacturers get NIL the bene-
fit OF protection, and you get none.
When the manufacturers approach them
on the same subject. they first ask them
how much wages they pay their work
men. Tho manufacturers tell them, and
THEN THE ANSWER COMES
very quickly: "You pay your men too
much wages, and tariff that will per
nit such wages should be reduced, and
Il you will so home and rednce the
wages Of your workmen you will have
less strikes" This is true, and knowit.
When they owned the laboring men
and women, some 30years ago, on Satur.
day evening they would call them to-
gether and allOt each one SO much meal
and pork, and II one ate his allotment in
three days he was compelled to go with
out the balance of.the week or steal. Ii
he stole that which justly belonged to
him he was tied to post and whipped.
These are plain facts. and these are the
men who are saying that they are friends
OF the workingmen; these are the men
who are controlling the Democratic
party. They are hyprocrites OF the first
water, and the platform OF the Republi-
can party guarantees protection TO the
American people; and there is one thing
true OF the Republicanparty--the have
never been afraid to take stand on Il
public question, and stand or fall by il,
and | hope all party feeling will be laid
aside, and that the American workman
will join in TO maintain the protective
system that has made the American peo-
pie the best fed, best clothed and tho
best people on the face OF the globe.