Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-04

J. W. BORING, .uait ut,Ou6A'b
G F. Wagner, ma " LOTUS,
A. j. Nc iinley, JOS. OIbols,
VIM. Myles. refer DeldpIalhI
Geo. ]. Mathison, V. Vanmetre.
Mr.. Russ aid aside his bighly-taxed
overcoat aad introduced Mr.. Wilson
in a neat spsech, his PREDATORY remark
thatit lacked but four days OF Demo
cratic victory being cheered to the echo.
Mr.. Wilson was enthusiastically crested
by both ladies and gentlemen. The Gov
ernor began at once with the tearing apart
o. the very vulneratle record OF the Repuo-
lican party, and literally wiped the earth
with the remains of the 6. o. p. Proceed
ing to the tariff, he said there were now
as always, four great industries in this
country-sgriculture, commerce, manu-
featuring and mining-and said it should
always be the duty of the Government t.
go adjust the burden of taxation as to bar
equally upon al these Industries. The
tariff ought not to be so laid as to make
one of these industries pay trib1te to the
Others. This he held to be an assertion II
which all must concar. From this he
argued that tariff tax 80 laid as to nduly
ODD ess the farmer, must work the destruc
ton of all the various industrie, OF the
country, proving this in an indisputab!e
way. A system which had created Elk
thousand million aires in twenty-five years
could no. be right. TIE Republican party
had b.ed agriculture and commerce until
they had become totteriIg inva'ids.
He said:
Snow, want to show you one OF Geo.
w. Atkin. on's 'posers.' Laughter. He
SAYS it's q fearfully hard nut to crack
Laughter Just watch ME crack it open
Laughter G. Wesley has fifty or NOR.
illustrations, bat guess one or two will
settle them. Lsugbter. He tells little
story to the effect that last weak two
schooners sailed into New York tatbor'-
we've got nothing left bat scloonere.
Laughter. Both of them were loaded
with mackerel.' Oh, this is tisby one.
Laughter. One of them was a
Canadian vessel and the other was
an American veSe'.' The only
curious feature of that sihst one of them
is an American ship. The Canadian mas
ter was required to pay duty of 81 per
barrel before he could unload. The Amer
lean, of course, paid nothing. Now, if the
consumer pays the tariff tax, the Canadian
must receive 81 barrel more than the
American, but the fact was that both got
the same price, which was fixed by the
American market Now, that's his poser
Laughter. -,
"The trouble is that their mackevel
brought $40 barrel each, and if the
Canadian had not been compelled to pay
that 81 duty We would have got the
mackerel for So" Cheers
Governor Wilson teen took up Mr..
Atkinson's midnight journey to the cum
NIT of Wheeling hill, and had fun with it.
He recalled to his audience the historic
visit OF certs Lersonsgs to the top of
high mountain, &C me 1000 years ago, aud
his promise of TIE whole world if his
companion would but do his bidding, and
thought there was some similarity bet ween
the two trips.
Proceeding with his tar IF argument,
Governor Wilson stated facts and figures
relating to our local industries, which
amply and canclusivsly showed the btne-
ifs which had invariably accrued from a
moderats tariff, as distinguished f,om q
high one, and carrying his audience with
him, was cheered enthusiastically again
aad again. He wanted to know, if tie AZ
per cent tariff was a plnscaa for all ills,
why it permitted the terrible panic of
1878 to linger for SIX long years. Under
its operation the greatest monop1lies ever
known to civilization had been built W,
while the farmers, the labir ny men, and
the common people everywhere were
poorer He controverted the Republican
claim that wig were better, from the Gen.
sus ratarus of 1880, and IS be piled fact
upon fact and figure upon figure he car
ried conviction to all. A summary of his
figures for the whole United States showed
tie average yearly wages in 1870 was 1867,
and in 1880, 1901. He laid @. W. A. out
cold on this point, as on Others, his audi
tors heartily enjoying the operation.
Governor Wilson spoke for two hours,
his speech being from first to last mag
niicent one.