The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-20

this very time.
Perhaps This VIII s"lt Better.
Wheeling Free Traders have taken up
the sad refrain of Cleveland, Carlisle,
Watterson, Morrison and the Texan
steer who steers the Ways and Means
Committee, and, though they do not
like to BIO called Free Traders, speak in
the well.known language OF their tribe
They regard it as crime to bo en-
gagged in manufacturing and at the same
time to vote the Republican ticket. They
think it the sure damnation of tho Re
publican cause-so dear to their dear
hearts-that it is drawing out OF the
Democratic ranks men who have their
money invested in manufacturing and
who commit the sin Of sins when they
descend to the mean level OF employing
men to do for them what they are I'M
able to do for themselves. These en-
ployers ought to shovel their own ore,
handle their own pig metal, make theit
own steel and turn out their own tubes
hang 'em that's what they ought to dc
instead OF employing other men to dc
things for them.
We'll, admitting that it is a crime tc
DO manufacturer and 10 employ men
and that the cause OF Protection is hurt
as often as manufacturer says good
word for it, here is something from the
mon who arc employed, and from mer
who have not been regarded as particu
larly craven:
PrrrsRuRGn, Pa, June l3.-The Anal
gamated Association placed itself on re
cord to-day on the tariff question. The
Tariff Committee appointed several day:
ago has been carefully weighing the
matter before drawing up any resolu
tons, and at the forenoon session OF the
Convention they were presented. They
were received with general favor and
some slight changes were made in them
The corrected resolutions are as follows
WHEREAS, There has been introduced
and now under discussion before Con
gress bill known rs the Mills bill, fol
1.-the reduction OF the present tariff or
customs, and thereby put a check on the
prosperity OF our beloved country in
favor of foreign countries, especially Eng
land; and
WHEREAS, We us workingmen know
that any reduction on tho present tariff
would menace the wages OF those who
earn their living by the sweat OF theil
brow and
WHEREAS, There is Joy among the i'll
paid workingmen OF Europe, Joy among
the members OF the English Golden
Club because they hope TO obtain control
Of the market OF this Republic; therefore,
Ms representatives OF the iron and steel
workers OF the United States in conven'
ton assembled, representing New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama and other
States in this Union, be it
ReOtred, That VIC are in favor OF the
sentiment, america for Americans,
native and nataralized, and we endorse
the words OF Daniel Webster, who, fifty.
one years ago, saidi II the people can OBJ
tain fair compensation for their labor
they will have good houses, good cloth
ing, good food and the means Of educat'
ing their children. Labor will be cheer
full and the people happy.
Resolved, That in our Judgment the
citizens and industries OF this country
cannot DO protected in any better way
than by placing protective tariff on all
articles imported from other countries
that can be produced by our own people,
in order that those who produce them
may BIO better able to demand that to
which, as citizens and upholders OF this
Government, they are justly entitled to
an equitable sharge OF tho profits Of
their toll to maintain their families in
decency; that they may be able to edu-
cate their children and teach them, as
they advance toward manhood, to de-
fend tho principles OF oursystem OF gov
eminent.
Resolved, That We are most emphatic:
ally opposed to any reduction OF the
present tariff, and we hereby express
our unqualified condemnation OF the
provisions Of tho Mills bill, believing as
We do that its adoption as a law would
be detrimental to the interests of the
American workingmen, and we respect
fully call upon our representatives in
Congress to vete againstit.
REEs W. PRossER, JAMES PENNEY,
JOHN MIsREL, u. u. MORGAN,
G. G. MARSH, D. II. McABEE,
JAS. G. STEPHENS, JAS. GRUMPY,
l.. MURRAY, Committee.
Do the Register and its kitchen cabinet
regard it as criminal, not to say "real
mean" of the Amalgamated Association
men to favor Protection, when the high
muckamucks of the Democracy are as
surfing them that what they. actually
need is good drastic dose Of Free
Trade? Avaunt, grimspectreI Get thee
gone, thou scorn and SCOT Of tho dog
pelting small boy!
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