Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-15
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employment to tie lsbo:ers Of the nj
try; l believe it has hu L. up the
great manufactures, mining and IN
dustrial institutions Of this county.
My brother here today in his discussion
tas spant bis time in dwelling upon that
question, / am glad to say. 1 want to
talk to yru men now for a few minutes
upon the theory that / sand for, and that
my brother has alluded to so particularly.
Gentlemen, / am for my country all the
time. Gsp2lause.1 I am for the United
States Of America every Gay In the year:
Applause. ! am tor this little State OF
| West Virginia every opportunity that 1
have to express myself in her behalf. Jap
plause.1 am for you and your homes,
and not for the people who live across the
sea. [Applause II You don't like me
for that, you don't have to vote for me,
you kro9. Applause I am ros goirg
to change my belief upon that question
for all your votes, You may bet your life
on that. [Aptltuse I am q member OF
Congress to-day, aud I have been for the
past six years nearly, and every time l
have cast q vote, I have cast 1t for my
country, my flag, and my neightor.
Applause. ] take Issue with my u.s.
tipsuished brother upon that; he
TO stray out onto the sea and hunt ths
people out there that will come IN and sell
us manufactured goods and work for us.
IApplause. l would rather look over
West Wig, MIA, over Pennsylvania, over
the great State of Ohio and over ell the
States of the American Union AID PICK
ont the toilirg men OF my nstion and
levisla.e for them, and give them some
thing for their willing hands 10 do; is
there anything wrong 10 that, my ftl oT
citizens? [Ssveval voices, No SIR
aoFF THINKS THE TARIFF IS NOT A TAN,
What is the tariff? My brother said it
was q tax; he said / talked 10 you about
its being a tax. Laughter. 1 call it q
duty, levied by law upon tae articles man
ufactured in q foreign country, or produced
or grown in o foreign country, and brought
into this country sor sale. That is all
there il in it. 1t is a very simple PROPOSE
ton. Now, my Democratic brother, tell
me to-day, tell me why the man who
works 10 an English cotton mill, why the
man who works in q British wooden mill,
WHY thu man who works in a Belgian glass
mill, or in any of the Industries Of the Old
World, should have tie markets of this
nation in preferences to the men who live
under cur fsg and psy the taxes by which
our nation is protected. Applause
HE WANTS FREE WHISKY.
Now what is a protective tariff, my
Friends? We have talked about O tariff IN
general; what is a protective tariff? Il is
one so laid, my friends. that will bring
revenue in to the Government that the gen
tlenan has alluded to, and it will at The
same time protect our oSn Industries, our
own manufacturing establishments, our
own miuing and industrial pursuits, and
at the same time give employment to our
own homes. labor. Applause What is
srsvenue tariff? My frle I'd Wilson, Is IN
favor of q revenue tariff; what is il? A
revenue tariff, my friends, is one that ia so
ABUSED that it utterly ignores the theory OF
protection and briggs revenue only no the
treasury. A few years ago You hsd 1t IN
your platform that you wsntsd a tariff for
revenue only; then you wanted a tariff
only for revenue; now take your choice
Nv friend discusses my speech 10 'ha
Home of representatives; be said that l
would get rid of the surplus Of ths treas ury
By showing the tariff rates up and not TAX
ing them down. He need not be tur3ing
20 his authority, for God bless your
soul, I would. Now there is another
thing he says in my favor; he asks about
the repsal of the internal revenue laws,
and saws | was in favor of the repeal Of
internal revenue laws and free whisky.
Now, gentlemen, free whisky is not an
ipsus in this cinyas, but I have NJ besi-
fancy in sayi1g, "a I indicated a moment
ago. l am no skulker; / have always from
nv boyhoed endeavoIed to b y mau from
,hs ground up Applause What /
an, | am, and l make Lo concealment,
aud as between injury to our protected
lrdustriei aud tbs repeal OF the internal
evenue laws, l will vote to repeal the
int rual revenue laws every day Of my
ifs. [Applauss
ORATORICAL BOSH
Mr.. Goff then said that the Democratic
party had declared in favor of repeal OF
the interntl revenue dutiss themselves,
They wenr arurrt pver the country, de-
mlndirg il, and my brother, Wilson, you
will not deny that. II makes a great diff
ference you krow. Now when it is nscas-
sa-y, l say, 70 keep the internal revs-
nue. law in ths statute books in order to
get rid Of the surplus and destroy the pro
tec.iva system; then Presto change, lsp'
plause, and around come all my Demo.
cratic brethren, file into Inns betiad the
old lesde-, cay go along boys, it
don't make any difference,
if we did 90 tie o'her way
four years ago, trot along AID we will g,
with you. [App!ause.] I don't believe
the Democratic party is going 10 keep on
doing this tEi1g, my Democratic brethren.
They have teen doipg it long enoughnow
They are coming ont now. There Is more
independence in this canvass. Men of al
parties are Looking ahead now. Gentle
| men, some men who may have been Re-
publicans, but are now and have been for
years, as the Secretary of the Treasury,
whom YOU mentioned just now, have
tiken ND tie position Of tariff for
reveaue CT free trade. Some CT these
nea who have broken away, are g'iDg
where they belong, to your party, lap
plaure, and among all the men of this
Country, who have heen voting the Demo-
cratic tcket all their lives, when they had
hesn taught that the Democratic par Y
was in favor of pTo.ectirg tariff, they are
realizing this that they have been misled
by their p,rty, aud are coming under the
banner l carry in my hand, and are gong
to vote for Benjamin Harrison. APP
plsuse. And that is not sll, they are go
Jog to vote for William Henry Harrison
Flick, who represents this idea. Ap
p~lause. And that's not I'll either, they
are going to vote for the man who is t.lk-
ing to You TO be the next Governor of West
Virginia. Applause. And l think they
are about right ia all those positions too.
ABOUT THE SURPLUS.
"Now, my friend says that under this
prott ctive tariff sy.tem We have got az
extraordinary surplus in the Treasury Of
the United States. We have got sbout
Sill, 600, 600; now we would Imagine from
the Arguments that my distinguished
friend made here, that those laws were
made in this manner by q radical Rpub
lican Congress Just simply because that
Congress wanted to do it. Gentlemen,
these laws were passed because We required
a large sum of money tv<ry year 10 the
National Treasury, say $500, 600, 600 q