Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-28

Mr.. ATKINSON is queer nan It Is
bard to tell whether he Is simply ignorant
or is q careless fslsier.
The REGISTER yesterday Published q
'epcrt of o speech made by that gentle
nan at welishurg, Of which we ~Ieproduce
the following:
'TYou cannot get the tariff plank from
the Wheeling REGISTER; IL did dot priut
she tayiff plsrk adopted at st. Louis. Il
ipdorses the Mills bill and the Presidents
message. There are 100 srticles on the
free list, and so far the Mills bill is . free
trade bill. He said he bad quotations
from thirty-three English newspapers that
the Mills bill was q frea trade bill; it is
practically . free trade bill. The Demo
cratic party is q free trade party or it IL
nothing. The Mills bill should not pas,
because il is unfair-it Discriminate
against one section and in favor Of another.
Why does il place sugar on b free list
salt on the free hst?"
Now, we submit to the candid Judgment
of an intelligent public whether q greater
mass of insanity and lying could be
crowded into Q speech than is contained in
The above. "You cannot" says Mr.. AT
KISsoN, get the tariff plank from the
Wheeling REGISTER" Mr.. ATKINSON de-
liberstely lies The files of the Wheeling
REGISTER are open to the public to prove
that he lies. In them will be found every
Word ofthe Democratic platform as adopted
at st. Louis, and, the next time ATKIN-
SON is in the neighborhood of the REGIS
TER, il he will drop in upon Us we shall
be pleased to give him several hundred
copies Of the Democratic platform entire,
reprinted sSrom the REGISTERS columns,
which wsbsve been distributing ss q Dem
ocrstic document
What do ATKINSON ard HART mean by
tfiS silly, utterly groundless and malicious
falsshood9 The REGISTER has given the
Democratic platform thrice the publicity
that the InteRigencer has given the Repub-
lican free whlskey platform. They ere
ashamed of that, their leaders r~epudiste II
and consequently they have some Lesson
for not advertising ii extensively. Bot
this cannot be said of the Democrats with
their platform. There is nots Democrat II
he land but who is enthusiastic over that
document and endorses every word IN II.
The Democratic committees are using 1t by
the thousand ~ &. campaign document and
The REGISTER itself is issuing il.
Another bit Of sssininity: ATKINSON
speaks of the free list of the MILLS bill
and saws "and so far the MILLS bill is q
free trade bill" All right, Mr.. ATKINSON
then we are now living under a free trade
Republican law, for there are Thousands
If sr'i>lss on it1 free lat. And, further
more, the Senate, according to ATKINSON
logic, has just completed q free trade
bill, for it places upon the free list article
that now yield a revenue Of five
millions Of dollars. If the MILLS
bill is "a step in the direction of FIRE
trade " as political idiots Of the ATKINSON
ssripe call il, then the Sansie tariff reduc,
ton bill ia also - step in TIE direction Of
free trade, and tits impossible to touch the
tariff. exc.pt to raise it, trith0ut taking %
step in the direct o, Of free trade"
He varies the monotouy of his drivel by
adding lit ia practically a free trade bill"
Only snch minds as ~ATYISsoN's can make
IS practically free trade bill' out of q
neasure that leviss an average tax Oh
dut1able imports of 424 Der cent.
He fu-tber adds, with just as much sense,
Mat the Mills bill discriminstes unfairly
betw cen the sections. We have proven
rime and again that this charge ia fhse
The South stands fully half the reduction
Mr.. ATKINSON winds up bis carnival OF
or't'csl ignorance, idiocy aud lying by tell
ing the Pc pc who went 20 hear him that
the tariff ~ not q tax Other, and mu>h
more eminent, Republican Liars tell ~
that ''the consumer does not pay ths tax.
Here are two fslsehoods at q right srgla
With each other. One "a unss thst il isn't
a tex a. all; the other tIs: it is a tax, but
bat the doesn't pay it. We
might answer: If it i-a't II, what Is
it2 and further, in the words Of the Old
Roman, 'If the consumer doesn't nay the
tax, in the name Of COP, who does?"
Ii the tarff doesn't raise the price of ths
homemade article, how, in Heavens
name, does it protect against the cheap
article? Aud who pays for the rise
ia the price of the home made protected
but the person who buys 1.-THE
consumer?
ATKINSON is reported "a saying that the
MILLS bill places sugar on the fee list.
This may be Que of ATKISsoN's lies, like
his REGISTER lie, tor use only in the coun
try districts. The MILLS bill leaves about
IS per cent. tax on sugar.