West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-10-12

Alliance In OctOotI, 1901, III "niSh
it was admitted that the agrlcultu-
raj interests were never in as de-
pressed condition as they are to-
day. The fallacy of home market
was fully exposed. That argument
as addressed t0-the farmer, amount
ed to saying, give me AZ per cent
of your produce, and l will find you
q good market for the remainder"
Mr.. Lucas then took up the case OF
the wage Garner, and showed that the
argument addressed to him was pre-
cisely the same rs that addressed to
the farmer-"giye me AZ per cent. of
your earnings, and will build fac
tory that may afford you steady en-
ploynent!'
AS in the case of the farmer, so
with the laborer, the door of a world
wide competition was left WIDE open
against his wages, while he was re
stricted in his market for the neces-
saries of life by Manufacturers
tariff of AZ per cent.
The speaker proved by copious
extracts from the public utterances
ofJeferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams,
and Clay, that the original idea of
Protection was not to benefit but to
cheaper labor, and render us hide
pendent of foreign powers in them
ufacture of articles of war and of
prime necessity.
The idea of Protective Tariff for
the benefit of Labor, was an invention
of modern politicians, who desired to
reduce the wage-earner into the sup
port of a War Tariff.
There was no law to require a oil
vision of profits, and when divis-
ion was demanded, the laborers were
discharged and their places supplied
by foreign importations-Italians
Poles, Hungarians, WEIGH, English,
Irisg, Scotch, Scandinavians, and
Chinese.
Mr.. Lucas read extracts from sta
tistics showing that more than 70
per cent. of the protected labor in
this country was of foreign birth,
imported or immigrant. Our West
Virginia railroads, from the Shenan-
doah Valley on the East, to the
Ohio River Road on the West, were
nearly all built by Italians, and 9th
er foreigners.
An extract from note by Mr..
jefferson to Tracy's Political Econ
omy was read, in which the great
apostle of liberty laid down the rule
of equal and impartial justice to
every class of citizens in the impo-
sition of taxes with occasional
and Incidental protection to home
manufactures, or an excise upon ar
ticles deleteriOus to health or NOR
ais. He read passage from Gen.
jackson to the same effect.
The speaker earnestly deprecated
the Apoiegetic tone and attitude to-
ward the War Tariff. There could
be no reduction without somebody
gave up something; there could be
no reform without sacrifice. Snch
reform would be as worthless, as a
religion without atonement.
The natural outcome of War
Tariff were Trusts and Monopolies
on the one hand, Tramps and Strikes
on the other. Mr.. Lucas here read
extracts from the valuable work of
Hon. w. w. Cook, of New York, on
Trusts. He showed that the Stan
dard Oil Trust was the original pa
rent ofall those combinations against
labor, trade and commerce ia this
country; and that AZ incorporated
companies, with an aggregate capt
tai of $40O,O00,000, had combined to
from this gigantic monopoly. West
Virginia was represented in it by
the Camden Consolidated Oil Com
pany, and among the signers of the
articles of agreement or combination
were o. II. Payne, John f. Rockfel-
Ter and johnson n. Camden.
Mr.. Lucas then proceeded to give
the reasons why he supported Gro
yer Cleveland for President
First, because he has reconcilet
the sections, and divided parties up
on economic, instead of sectional,
issues.
Secondly, he had by his policy
and message declared for Tariff Re
form at all hazards, and brought his
own party up to the point of reduc-
inc the surplus to revenue stan
dard. And finally, he had vetoed
the Dependent Pension Bill. which,
had it become a law, would have
cost the nation more than the stand
ing armies of Germany and Italy
combined, and would have led to
national bankruptcy.
Mr.. Lucas closed with a glowing
tribute to the Democracy of Hamp-
shire, which, he said, reminded him
of the Tenth Legion of Caesar, which
agreed to serve without pay, provid,
ed it was permitted to continue to
lead the army in battle.
He noted the fact that the poets
always located Liberty among the
mountains; and flung off a dozen
stanzas from Drake, Burns, Words
worth and Tennyson to verify his as
sertion.