Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-10-28


tb,t all m IN shall be treated apke ana
shall stand alike bsfrs the taxing power
of the American government. ha.s'
duty shall be 80 eQu,fzsd ana &Ju:u
that the d ffe,ence'ia wars between in's
country and the old world shall De maas
GOOD TO tie manufactures, and ne saa Dc
INSURED fair and Just p:of', buh beyond
tina. a I'd bsy ond tn, NJ ssitiss o. reVe nue.
arst;oa mus not be laid. (Long ap-
plause
r,,v,ar TRADE NECESSARY To PROS
PERITY.
We must trade with ether c1u1srlse.
Every year the great unprotected inocs.
rfrie, of tie United States preface immense
amoun.s of surplus materials, for whica,
in spite of Gen. Goff's beautiful theory
there ia no homs market. That great sur
plus is shipped abroad and there soid lof
whatever price it will bring IN falr comPe-
tit:on with products from any and every
lime. One b lshsl of ev,rg three busneis
of Whe,t i, shipped abroad and sold in the
worlds ma k sts, two of every three pounds
Of cotton produced in this country, are
shipped abroad; the producers OF msat snip
their products, and 80 Of nearly every Item
of agricultural wealth, whatever it may
be. Th ,re is not sufic lent market for
them at home, and they must
90 abroad, whsre they meet
and CONQUER al competitors. Bet what II
We build up these high tariff walls, AZ
Gan. Golf and his friends would have US
Sop What if we Ia;ss them higher and
higher and shut oct foreign produces, ana
cut off forsiga trade? Osher nations that
csn't trade with US, will not by ourwheat,
AMI our corn, and our cotton. and cur cat
t'p, and our log, and Cue horses, AMI our
agricultural implements. III, men VINO
raise III ,se and manufacture these Will De
ruined orr home markets will be destroy Ell,
and its customers rendered bankrupt.
Cheers, followed by interruptions AMI
bowls, preventing Mr.. Wilson from speak
ing].
A DISGRACEFUL SCENE.
During the disturbance Mr.. Wilson
yainly attempted to speak three or four
times, but small knots Of people kept up
such q distui bance as to make it impossi-
BILE. Continuing, he said: Gen. Golf has
told you over and over again that the
consumer does not pay the tariff
tax, and TIE statement has
been howled from the Republic
can stump and through the Rspub lean
press, until the babes in the cradle are
| familiar with it. Now lei me give you
an in stance, in which Republican Con-
pres, admitted that the consumer did pay
the tax, and passed law on that as
sumption. Many of you remember the
great Chicago fire, you remember tie
havoc and devasta ion that was wrought
in that memo fable calamity. and you re-
membe too how the gceat heart of the
nation was touched at the appeal that
went up from that stricken city, cont 'itu-
ton, a 1wed in from every side. Men gave
of their substance, their earnings and
| labor to the aid of the unfortunate, who
hid been made houseless ard homeless
within single night. The Copge:s of
the United States was then in session. 1t
was Republican Congress and not to be
behind hand in the good work o. beaevo'
lence, it passed Law, aud that law was now
listen my friends; and that law WAS t, aG-
NIT mat ,rials-buildipg materials to re-
C cate Gev sHatei hDmes-frss o. du y.
This was the law they plsatd in the inter.
ests OF uuf1rtupatss If the consumer did
not psy the tax on those building mat sri-
sis-if the consumer did no. pay the tax
what mockely it was for the Republican
Congress to pretend to bear aid to the
str ckeu city Of Chicago Applau:e.
Now we coms to the wage question, fel.
low citizsns. How are the wages Of labor
affected by these exorbitont tariff duties?
And by the favorable or unfavorab!e de-
cision of that gu sstion the Democratic party
today is prepared to stand or fall. We
fight the battle oa that line; we acc:pt the
issue that has bsen made by our Republi-
can f.isnde. 1t is q battle of labor, and in
that contest We are Prepared to mset any
and every foe.
| ABOUT THE MILLS BILL.
A bill has been introduced into the lower
House of Congress, and it has passed that
holy. II is hardly necessary for me to 90
iato the details on that bill. Most Of you
know it's provisions by heart; they have
bse t.lked about aud hammered upon and
pounded at in every hamlet in the land.
1t was the Mills bill-a bill to reduce tx
alton. By it's provisions it cat down the
internal revenue about $40, 600, 900, reduc-
ing the taxes on cigars, to:acco, IL c., and
then it takes forty million dollars off of the
tariff schedules: and Eow defy any ore,
G sneral Goff or any ether Republican
champ on, to take up that bill, study it
carefully, ard than prGdic, one single
schedule CT it all where tie duty is not
left higher, nsy doubly higher than enough
to tquaize the c,sts o. produc ion between
haze and abroad. Cries of Good, good.
Tnat ia what we have Goae. We have
left duties more than sufficiently high to
secure j as :omp .nsatio1 to labor, and we
have dOns more than than Tho, and will
tell you what it is We have cut do1n
those exc sssive rates of duty which were
unnece ,ssry either for protec ion or fJr
revenue, and which foster and build up
monop lies at the ex pense of the people
m II o poles whose deadly coils are daily
sn1 hourly encircling every industry in
this country and crushing out all 6es
competition and healthful lawful trade.
We have inaugurated war against those
financial monsters that have gown and
fourished under this iuiquitous system.
We have started in.o the cont:s st to reduce
exc i've taxs!i,p, and fight every illegal
combine whose operations a enc ourage1
by high tariff duties, and whose influence
is to cinsh the life out of honest industry.
NO INDUSTRY HURT BY THE MILLS BILL
That is whit the Mills bill! proposes to
accomplish, and in doing it it has not
touched cns e Ultimate industry or re- uc.d
one nee sslry duty dang no1s'y. We take
up fie, raw materials and hand them over
untsxed to the manufacturer. What he
formerly expended for these taxed p ducts
cnnld ha az nandad In niuinu nnaIa uuark