Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-07
OUT FOR CLEVELAND.
PENNSYLVANIA MANUFACTURES ALLIES
HIMSELF
With the Party Of Pure Government and Low Taxes
Mr.. A. B. Farquhr's Flop -
The Reason for the Faith
That's 10 Hlm.

largest manufacturing establishments In
Pennsylvania is that Of A B. Farquhar, OF
this place, who makes agricultural imple-
ments. He was warm personal friend OF
Garfield, and only last week pronounced
for Cleveland. In an interview to-day he
said: 'T have not left the Republican
party; it has left me. l became Repub-
lican because / believed that every man,
woman and child in America, white or
black, had an equal right to liberty and
the untrammeled pursuit of happiness. /
voted for all our Republican presidents
The Republican party has deserted
the principles of its noble foun-
ders and now stands for the
policy of shackling trade and taxing labor
to give bounties to favored classes. 1t has
become the party of Capitalization and
monopoly, imagining the government was
instituted for its benefit, while l., in COM
mon with its former great lights, Lincoln,
Chase and McCulloch, believe in the eco
nomic principles of Jefferson. No old-time
Republican owes apology for advocating
tariff reform.
"After the war ! remained with the
party called Republican 80 long as be-
lieyed the national credit (more important
than systems of taxation) was safer in its
hands But President Cleyeland's admin
istration has proved there is no difference
between the parties in this respect, and
his tariff reform policy is certainly in the
direction of national progress. The effect
of high tariff rates is to encour-
age monopolies and trusts, and the farmer
is beginning to understand this very well.
Manufacturers seek to terrify farmers with
a picture of the competition they will have
when their factories are closed and their
hands have to 20 on the farm. What non
sense! The Mills bill, by reducing the
cost of the raw material, will open dozen
factories where it will close one. 1t is,
besides, demonstrably impossible to break
up any considerable portion of the manu-
featuring industry of the country even
under absolute free trade Il am very sure
that would not have to stop, but would
rather do so than have the community
taxed to support me), while it is certain
that with lower tariff the farmers sup
plies might be more cheaply obtained.
''Iu short, no benefit is derived by the
farmer from the protective system; it is,
however, very certain that the increased
price he has to pay for supplies impoyer
ishes him and makes the monopolist
millionaire. If wool was placed on the
free list it would simply be what the wool
growing States desire. The older States
are growing less and less dependent upon
wool, but farmers everywhere suffer more
from increased cost of clothing than they
would gain by tariff on wool, and reduc-
tion of tariff, therefore, would prove ben
fit 10 the farming community.
although the prices of agricultural i'm
plements are enhanced by the tariff, the
implement makers suffer by the present
war tariff system in several ways. He is
at q disadvantage in the export of his
wares; he is at increased expense for his
raw material. His sales are diminished,
ar I the high tariff, bearing particularly
hard upon his customers, the farming COM
munity, he suffers with them. Were the
Presidents policy carried out he would,
while able TO sell his implements at lower
prices, make more OF tnem ana make Det-
ter profits upon his business.
"Potection is the father of millionaires
and paupers, and the question simply is,
shall we continue thus to tax labor and
trade to fill the already overfiowing treas
ury vaults and pockets of the millionaire,
with certain following of hard times and
disastrous commercial reverses? 1t should
seem that every one must know by this
time how tariffs are made-lobbied
through Congress by those who expet to
reap the benefit. Protection is asked for
infant industries, but the larger they grow
the more is demanded. 1t is eternally
dinned into the ears of the workingman
that all this is done in his interest. Who
is to teach him the truth that protection is
always tax upon labor, not upon capital
The duty must fall, indirectly or directly,
on the Congressman.
"As to President Cleveland, his standard
of duty lifts, him above partisanship. /
like his administration we'll enough to
continue it. He has place in the hearts
of the people such as never could have
been acquired by any amount of schem-
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