Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-10
ANOTHER BIG REPUBLICAN FLOP
PER.

ANOTHER BIG REPUBLICAN FLOP
PER.
Ex-Secretary MCCULLOCH has chopped"
to CLEVELAND.
Hon. HUGH MCCULLoCH was Secretary
Of the Treasury unde, Presidents LINCOLN,
JOHNSON and ARTHUR and is scknowl'
edged to have been the ablest man ever
placed at the head Of this department Of
the Government.
And 60 they come. The abl4st men of
the country are focking to ths banner Of
Democracy and an honest tariff. The
brains and patriotism Of the Republican
party itself are DESERVING to that standard
There is no more conclusive proof of the
degensracy of the Republican party than
the wholesale desertion of such men as
McCULLocH and JORDAN, founders of the
party who have chung to it till it has lost
every vestige of IFS pristine greatness and
patriotism and become q mere tool in the
hands of few combined mill'oasires.
Mr.. MCCULLocH has an article in the
October Seribner's. In this article he
says:
The Government is stronger than it was
q half century ago, but has not this ln-
cresss of strength been at the expense Of
republicanism? We claim that the United
States is the fIeet country in the wo:ld-
the only country except Switzerland
in which the people have equal
rights. Equal right, before the law
are indeed possessed by everybody
here. but are there not combinations Of in
terests which prevent the full play of nat
ural rights, which hold in check, if Trey
do not destroy, individual enterprise? In
what other country can be found such COM
paniss as have been organized in the United
States for the purpose Of controlling the
manufacture, the transportation, and the
price of goods? WheIe can be found an
organization like the Standard Oil Com
pany, which absolut ,ly controls the mark
ct of sn article fer which there Is an i'm
mense and constand demand, and stamps
out competition; or even such companies
ss have been formed to regulate the pro-
duction of iron and stsel and cosl? In
what other country 90 manufactur-
els who ars protected by tariffs against for
eiyn comI e.itiop, combine By trusts aud
other agencies to advance or sustain prices
and prevent domestic competition? There
is no country of which / have any kro vi
edge in which business of ali descriptions
is 80 steadily falling into fewer and fewer
hands, in which combinations arc so pow
erfnl ard individuslI so powerless, as the
United Ststes-no country in which the
solution of the labor question may be more
d ffisult. We have Yet to learn that there
NAV be as little personal freedom under re-
publican institutions as under monarchies,
and that the bsss efforts Of IL good citi-
zens should be to prevent the great re-
public from being free country in name
only. That these efforts will not be want
log, 1 have al abiding faith, Congress
has the power, by opening the way by
fceer trade with other nation0, to destroy
most of the existing monopoliss, and this
power will ere long be exerted."
In another part Of the same article Mr..
MCCULLoCH ssys:
The tariff ought to he carefully consid-
cred not only with regard to its burdens
upon consumers bot in its bearings upon
commerce ard navigation. Ths leading
nations of the world have been CONNER
cisl, and ship building and ship owning
nations. Such were they in med avail
ages, and such they will always Re 1t
was by such nations that trade was ex-
tended and civilization was carried into
countries that had tean degraded by their
isolation. By such nations, in search of
markets for their productions, sn Ameri-
can Continent was discovered, and all
other great land discoveries made. What
has made Great Britain the nation
she is-the nation upon whose domain tie
sun never set? Not her manufactures
alone-extent i've, varied, and frofitsble as
they have been-but her manufactures
her comme,ce, and her shipping com bined.
Why have her merchants been able 10 take
raw materials from al other nations in aYs
1t not because SIZE has exempted tho raw
materials from import duties? Why isher
flag seen upon every seH BY what means
has her supremacy as q commercial snd
maritime power been secured and maintain
ed?