Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-15
Charms and OOnyincss q Great Audience in
New York.
REPUBLICAN PRETBNSIONS RIDDLED
The Issue is Made Between Republican Cheap
Whisky and Democratic Cheap Cloth
ing-Ths Mills Bill is Not Free
Trade; 1t is the Wissst
Protection.


of Kentucky, was to speak on the 1.-TWO
Platforms" and he was we'll received,
Littleton G.. SIrretison opened the meet
ing and introduced Col. Wstserson, who
said:
FELLOW DEMOCRATS AND FELLOW CIT
IzENs:-Nexs after being taxed to death
the most distressing and lingering fate
which can bstall people is to be
talked tn death. Laughter. If you
were not the most enduring and smiable
people on the face Of the globe
you might be excused for getting o new
party which would do neither bat in this
country the thing we cali politics is not
usually fist choice, it is what we call IN
Kentucky getting a place. Laughter.
/ do not think that in the Mills
bull the country Is getting anything like
what il ought to have. IApPlsuse In
the reduction Of war taxes the bill en-
braces concessions 70 what | believe to be
the urgent demands OF certain class inter-
ssts which, were it sn original proposition,
never could consent to. There are OBJ
iectjons TO il from q free trade standpoint,
bat what protectionist eau fiud 70 bs the
matter with Il am unable 10 define. /
am going to try TO night 10 put the plat
forms Of the two parties on the stand, and
let them say how they stand on the great
question.
THE HREsENT TARIFF
is a peace tariff on a var footing. The Re-
publicsns not only failed to decrease them,
bot actually did increase them. have q
little experience in platform making,
bat If / had made this platform
of my friend Mckinley I would not
be here to night. Ii is fanny in its errors,
In its blindness, in its very talsehood.
This platform says the Republican party
fsyors the reduction of letter post
age To one cent But year
before this comic almanac - Laughter
Il mean this platform-wss writ
ten, Senator Beck introduced a
bill to this effect and the Republican ma
iority in the Senate sent it to the Commit
tee on POstofices aud Post Roads, and
Senator Beck has not besn able to resurreet
it. Perhaps he will have better luck after
the cows come home in November.
REPUBLICAN CHINAMEN.
The Chinese plank amused Mr.. Waiter
son and he calculated, why, Harrison
( hisses1 was Chins's own-the best and
Iruest and almost the only friend of Chi
ness cheap labor"
Referring to the fisheries trouble, Mr..
Watterson said: President Cleveland
ICheers1 had taken the British Lion by the
tail and sustched him bsldheaded. Great
Laughter.
LET us come to the issue of the cam
paigu," continued Mr.. Watterson. They
say they are unquslifedly in favor
of the American system OF protection.
Why, this system is no more
an American systsm than Russian, Ger
man or French, for protection exists in all
those countries. We have had high tariff,
low tariff, war tariffs, and peace tariffs,
and we have had good times and bad times
under all of them. There were never such
bad times as the panic Of 1873. after we
had this American tariff ten years. This
platform denounees the Mills bill as hostile
70 the manufacturing interests Of this
country.
1t goes ont Of it's way on
THE WOOL QUESTION.
propose 10 make test case Of this aud
break down this platform whose right
wing rests on Mr.. Blaine. Its LETT on free
whisky and the centre having no support
unless 1t be Mr.. Foster. can't see why
the woolen manufacturer objects. The
Mills bill propose to give him
free wool and protection and
vet he callsit q free trade measure and
saws il will ruin his business. Why don't
we hear from the raisers Of sheep? They
don't hold mass meetings 10 protest, and
ID is because the farmer found out long ago
thst the tariff took away at each end what
be got at the other.
This platform proposes 3 scheme In lien
Of the Mills bill, and that is to abolish the
tobacco tax. Well the Mills bill does
that but they give strange reason. They
ssy IL is sn annoyance and imposition upon
agriculture. How about the tax on plows,
barbed wire fence aud everything the
farmer uses?
Then they viii reduce the tax on distilled
spirits used in the arts. Laughter. III
this be not enough, if there be still re-
naming surplus, they propose the repeal
of the internal taxes. That means
FREE WHISKY AND DEAE BLANKETS,
free whisky and dear everything else. If
I were q rank free trader would jump at
this plank of Mr.. McKinley's, but is
because am not q free trader,
because / am conservative man,
who loves his country and all the
interests Of all parts of il Ispplausel that l
reject il and take the Mills bill, defective
"a il ia, because it takes q step downward
from the mountain Of high taxes, and takes
that step downward with exceeding caution
Applause,
The Democratic platform cannot be
worse it is q great deal better. Ii Is based
on the Declaration Of Independence, which
was 3 protest against unjust taxation and
An appeal to the people from corporations,
combinations and trusts The Democratic
party meets these quick doctrines with the
simplest and plsinest statements OF facts.
''rhey take workmen upon q high
mountain and offer them the earth, which
don't belong to them. Laughter. We
saw to him: You will get work only
when there Is work to do. We do not
promise you riches, Nobody can do that.
Bot we do promise yoa to cheaper the
interests Of life and TO tighten your oaraen
for you
HARRIsoS's ANTI-LABoR RECORD.
The lines are drawn aud the fight is on
In earnest The Republican party is
wolf in sleeps clothing. All its pledges
which ID had not previously discredited
it now disowns. II has sssailed
every labor interest in the coun-
try through the antecedents oil
the head of the ticket, and in his Know
Nothing record he Is sn insult to every
foreigu-born and every Catholic citizen.
It's candidate for Vice President is not
nominated for the enemies he has made,
INIT for the money he can raise. There is
uot mouey-msking ring which will not
snbscribe 10 his campaign fund. We have
nothing 10 rest upon excepting the brave