The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-20

what is right and proper to say, to d
what is right and proper to do, and re
striction against those things that ar
wrong or harmful.
Why are you opposed IS working mel
to prison contract labor? We are or
posed to it, and justiaably opposed to il
because it brings our free labor int
competition with labor that is cheape
and more degrading. We are opposes
to anything that will degrade or cheaper
labor, for
LABOR Is HOLY,
and should be recognized al such an in
stitution given by God for the good o
man. loud applause.l
Now, my friends, what is liberty,
What is freedom? Why, now, ! don
know; il had the time should like t
go into this subject ut length, because
the waiter is not understood as 1t ough
to be. Freedom is that institution giver
by God to man, whereby he exercises
the noblest attributes OF his manhood
What is it? Where am to find itP Ii
the very same spot where find the
principle OF unionism-in the germ o.
the family unity.
Suppose we take young man and
young woman tonight that have nevel
met each other before, and know moth
ing about each other. Thatyoung man
so far rs that young woman is concern
ed, and that young woman so far us that
young man is concerned, have the right
to do us they please, to come and go us
their inclination dictates. They may go
to balls and parties, and anywhere they
want to, and he may call on us many
other young women as he wants to and
she may receive the attentions OF all the
beauX she desires.
Butysome day they meet, and look into
each others eyes, and they feel for each
other something that neither ever felt
for any person before. They speak, and
their hearts begin 10 tiutter. After that,
are they free, rs before? After that the
young man is watching the young
woman jealously, and she has both her
eyes on him ali the time. Laughter.
II he goes TO u picnic or a ball, without
her, she wants 10 know why; and il she
dances with another young man he de-
sires an explanation. Laughter
My friends, we have
NO SUCH a THING AS IDEAL Law;
no such thing as perfect law. Every
law has within it the element OF com-
promise; that is, we have TO sacrifice
the lesser to obtain the greater good.
Every law is law OF that kind. This
Young man and this young woman are
doing that, and bye and bye they become
engaged and after while they arc mar
ried. Some people say they become the
slaves OF each other. Is that so? No,
sir! did not become slave when !
was welded. What did | do? ! took
upon me the highest obligation OF living
for another. fulfilled the highest law
Of God, md the woman took upon her
self the obligation OF living for me. We
became man and wife. We became one.
We established for ourselves the law OF
unity whereby we agreed to live one for
the other. And as children, God bless
them! came to us, we lived for them.
[Applause.]
1t is living one for the other-that is
the principle. You union men, why do
you unite together? Why do you join
the trades Union or the Knights Of la
Dor? Why do you sacrifice, as they say,
your individuality? They forget that
you are mutually dependent one upou
the other and that you join these organi-
cations to live one for another. That is
it in nutshell.
Jefferson says "What is life without
liberty?" My fellow-citizens, what is
life without liberty? "Give me death, or
give me liberty" were the words OF Pat
rick Henry. WeknOw the value Of lib
erty. We love to think. of liberty. Jeiler-
son went further: What is liberty un-
less it promotes happiness? What is
freedom? That which tends to promote
the happiness OF man. Anything which
tends to rob man OF happiness is not lib
erty.
Now think for yourselves and you will
find out in a short time what liberty is.
FREEDOM OF TRADE,
now, freedom Of trade; how are you
going to apply this freedom of trade?
Remember-and it is very good point
to remember-that the tariff, or protec-
ton, affects us only in our relation to
foreign labor. Please observe that. It
objects us only in our relation to foreign
labor.
Take the free trader as a rule, he al-
ways quotes foreign prices. Whenever
YOU talk about prices and about the
duty, he always quotes the price ut the
port OF export. Asmany OF you rs study
the reports OF the Bureau OF Statistics
will find that the item OF price at the
port OF export is always undervalued.
Take for instance silk; the average price
Of silk, you will find, that sells ut S2 or
s. so u yard, is entered ut about 10 cents,
simply because some grades OF silk can
be broughtiu under an nd valorem rate OF
duty. In sheet iron, for instance, it is
the same way. The finer grades OF iron
those that are thinnerand lighter than
the average, and so cost more to roll
are always undervalued. Take Il ton OF
sheet iron. The meaning OF nd valorem
duty is duty according to the value. Let
the duty be 30 per cent and let the price
OF pig iron in England be el0 per tom
about $50 OF our money. Thirty per
cent OF that is Sl5. Now, il they under
value that and say. that the ironis worth
S2j per ton, 80 per cent OF SO is 81 50,
So, by placing the price under tho real
value they pay only 81 so duty, but il
they rate It at the real value they would
have to pay $lj ton. That is why they
practice differentiation, and that is why
We ARE OPPOSED TO AID vALoREM DUTIES.
The present Ways and Means Commit,
tee, or the majority of it, believe in
giving these fellows abroad chance tC
undervalue, and they are advocating as
much ad valorem duties as they can,
But believe the workingmen will have
something to say on the subject. "a
voice; you're rightwl OF course I'm
right; they will say no; the goods shall
come in only at a satisfactory duty and
that at the actuai selling price OF the
commodity in the foreign market, aud
not at the undervaluation OF the foreign
producer or the importer.
want to ask you as workingmen: on
what principle do you organize2 On
what principle are the organizations tc
which you belong based? Is it not or
the principle OF combination2 Is it moi
| an the Drinrinlp of restriction ? Is IL no