Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-31

country what - absolute nee trade. Be-
tween thirty-eieht States and nine Terrf-
tories and the District Of Columbia We hare
absolute f. 0, trade to oil, Isnd the country 4
not bsirg re-ouucsd for IL either. When you
ahip your naile, my friends, over into Ohio
no one evsr proposes 70 lay tax upon
them. No one proposes to Lay tax O
your glassware, and you make eome Of ths
most beautiful in the country. When yoa
desire 10 ship it oxer into Pennsylvania OF
Maryland, You DONE Rave to pay for tsis
privilege. There Is absolute free trade b.
TWEEN these States. But nobody proposes,
the Democratic party does not propose abb
solnts free trade, or anything that beasu
the faintsst resemblance TO II, between
the United States and foreign nations.
We all sgue that the tariff Il the most
convenient means Of raising revenue, and
it couldn't DO dispensed with. There b
not Democrat in all this country, there
is net man in the United States, who pro-
p:ses to tear down all our custom hoqSs
and have free tIede % We have between
the States. Further. my friends, there =
not mandatory in Wheeling that would
not be amply protected If the Mills bill
should become law. Great cheers, pre-
venting Judge Thurman from speaking
for some time. When this applause had
subsidized the Old Roman continued:
TIE LABOR QUESTION.
"Now, my friends, 1 have said all o.
tariff taxation that shall say. But I
would like TO cay little something to you
on smother question, which also touches
ulon the tariff, and that is what We call
the question Of capital and labor. You
mus. bear this truth In mind, for II 10 Q
truth, and that is that not one dollar can
be added to the wealth except By
labor. You say is not this . strange
assertion? Are Iot the grasses
Of the plain wealth, and they are pro-
duced without labor, but say they are
not until man puts his cattle there and
feds AID fsttens them by his labor; and
they say, Are not tie mines OF tho world,
tie gold and the silver aud tho iron
wealth? But I tell You 1t is not, until
man takes his pick and shovel aud di9s
under hill and plain and brings 1t forth
ready for use. 1t can be laid down ~ 0
truth without fear Of contradiction, that
what is known a. wealth In every country
of the world is the product and direct re-
suit of labor. Now, my friends, tners are
three classes Of men employed In the pro-
duction Of wealth. There Is the capitalist
He lends his money for the manufacture
of material and employment Of labor, aud
II he only exacts fair and reasonable in
terest no one objects. Next there 10 tho
who invests bis money
and his time and his skill, and il for these
he exact. only easonable remuneIatiou
no one objects. And third, there IL the
laborer himslf, and If the lsbO?er gets
r. asonabls and honest wages he never OBJ
iects. 1t is only when he don't get reas-
enable wages; only when he Ia troddon
down, so to speak, under the foot Of moa-
opoly, that complaint Is heard on bisp part,
snd strikes and lockouts and riots begin.
Then Re begins to complain, and Justly,
Tor we are told in the Sacred Book itsslf
that 1.-THE lsborer is worthy of his hire"
A TRUE FRIEND OF LABOR.
'The Hooking Valley >minsrs," called
out voice in the audience, and the people
realized the significance OF the cry they
gave way to another great demonstra!i,n
Of enthusiasm, equallipg anything occur
ring 10 the meeting before. 1t was grand.
A worthy tribute to the true greatness 81
the true fiieod Of the laboripg man.
THE Almighty" Judge Thurman said,
pronounced this sentence on man. 10
has becn said by some that it was hard
sentence, but greater thing than that to
mon never happened since the day Of ore
alton. For that sentence was In tia
sweat OF thy face shalt thou earn thy
brad It Waa that sentences that made
labor honorable throughout the length
and breadth of all the world. II was .
divine command and o divine command
can never be accompanied with faint a
any thing dishonorAble. So say to you
my laboring friends you have right 10
fair and honest wsges, and II you don't
get them you are defraudtd citizens.
Now don't come here to create any i'll.
feeling against any man or any manufie-
tarer in the city Of Wheeling. On The
contrary I would have peace and harmony
between man AID man, but tie lsboring
man deserves his fair share OF theprs ducts
of his toiliand without that share he u de-
ried his riqhte.
'Now the Republican party says 1t wants
prot ction for the lsboring man. They
Say they lay thu tariff for the b ,nedt Of thS
laboring man. They sly they want to tai
you on every thing you wear from the crow1
of your head 10 the sole Of your foot, and
they want TO tax your wife and Oh ldren In
the tame way for the benefit Of tie laboe-
ing man. They say 1t Is all for the be1edt
Of tie lstoriug man, ard tho Democratic
party Is the enemy Of the lsboring ms.
Why, my friends, Just think Of 1t. Ihs
Democratic party the enemy Of the labor
ing man. Take any 1000 Democratic
voters in the United States; take them any
where from the great lakes to Mexico, or
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. take any
LOCO members of the Democratic party
and 800 Of them will be lsboring meo,
and working men, cried . voice. Yes,
and working men. They all work. lGrssS
spplau'e.]
&c PRIECIPLEs.
GLOW can il be otherwise? What ma60
the laboring men what they are In this
country but Dem ocratic principles. What
enables him to vote bot Democratic pef1-
ciples2 What enables him TO bold up biz
head ard walk as high % the highest bat
Democratic principles? What enables him
10 send his child to school and give Il IN
education to 6t any place in the land but
Democratic principles? And itis your duty,
my fIie ads, TO educate those children % -
to preserve those principles. What makes
him look at any bright American boy and
think that he may rise TO be President q
the United States but Democratic prine-
rlss2 All, my friend, 10 say that Tho
Democratic party IL the enemy OF The
laboring man IL to say that the Democratic
party in the United Satesiss set Of idiots;
it is to say that Il is not able 10 take cara
Of itself. [Arplauie