Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-20
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Them DO IL lhppidubo
ss we have had 81 many broad acres
of land, promising a livelihood 70
every one willing to make it laPpiauseI
the people of the United States cannon %
made serfs of by the cspitslistic element.
All that labor needs here IL @ fair show to
~nrotect i.eelf, and if the government Will
Int keep its hands off and give labor q fair
sbske il will come put on top every time.
.ITApplsuse. Irepest it: 80 long as there
sre millions of acres awaiting n inviting
~tiIlsge, 50 long will there be no serbs or
slaves. and so long as you retain In power
Grover Cleveland and the Democrstlc
party, 30 long will there be plenty OF lana
as a safety valve in times OF trouble ana
distress. Applause
wAGRs IN HIGH PROTECTION UNTRI
Our Republican friends tell us that it is
the protective tariff which makes high
WAGES in the United States, but they fail
10 tell us why, in protective tariff France,
wages are not as high a. they are with us.
Whv are they not as high in protective
tariff Italy? If q high tariff makes nlgh
wages here. why don't it make high wages
there? Why don't it make high wages IN
protective tariff Belgium or in protective
tariff Germany And why does England,
that they curse and bully, pay, higher
wages under free trade, than all the nien
protective countries Of Europef IL Is q
fact, that since the adoption Of a more
liberal policy in Eupland, wages there
have increased fifty per cent.
Why do our Republican friends make all
their comparisons with free trade Eugland!
If they are honest, why don't they call at
tention to a comparison between the United
States and high protection Germany,
France, Italy. or Belgium? Why single out
England? Why not tell you the truth
about these other countries-tbst they
don't paw one third the wages of free trade
England? Ia il because the don't want you
10 know the truth? When they tell you
that a high protective tariff is a blessing TO
the ~workipgmsn, ask them why, when they
want 10 bring contract labor here, so poor
that it is unable to pay its passage across
the ocean, they are compelled to yet their
supply from the high protection countries
of Europe? Applause Ask them that,
and Won will have them on the hip.
NOT IN FAVOR OF FREE TRADE.
Nov, my fellow citizens, it seems to me
plain that the Democratic party 10 no
more in favor of Tree trade than Our friend
john, whom I introduced TO you q little
while ago. Applause 1t seems to me
plain that the manufacturing interests OF
the country will not be demcralizsd 6y a
revision of the tariff, and if this ia 30, how
can a high tariff be a blessing to the work
ingmaD?
You all know about the increased price
of goods to the consumer, brought about
by a high tariff. The wholesaler, who
paws the duty, adds the tariff TO the re-
taller, and the retailer, to get even, adds 1t
to the price he charges the purchaser. You
ara ali familiar with this. From years
end to years end you are paying these
taxes 10 a government which doesn't
need the money. Everything you touch
10 plastered over with taxes, as thick as
Mr.. Blaine is plastered over with trusts.
Applause
Now, there are one or two other things
to which / desire to briefly direct your at
teptiou. nave spoken about the reduc-
tlons Of the tariff, but still there would be
many things left under a high protective
duty. In every case, the Mills bill leaves
a higher duty than the whole percentage
labor gets ont of the manufactured article.
Therefore, labor cannot bs injured.
II FREE LIST.
Again, our Republican friends say we
propose TO ruin the country by putting
four certain articles on the free list-wool.
fer instance. The Democracy puts wool
on the free list, because il believes the
interests of the producer, the manufac-
turer, and tho buyer will be alike snb-
served. We recognizes the fact that
by a law of nature, no one country on the
face of the globe can produce all kinds Of
wool. II is Il varied product; there are as
MANY kinds as there are cliDes. We also
recognize the fact that no country can ex-
cell in it's manufacture unless it has all
these kinds AZ command, and in order 10
have them all there must be free communi-
cation among the wool producing countries
of the world. In this way only can manu-
facturers get what they want and the peO.
pie get the best goods for their money. /
ask yau, in the name of the thousands and
millions Of poor people in this land-who
want wool az much rs the rich-I ask you
if the Democratic party is not acting in
their interest when it makes the wool OF
the world free. Applause,
Their we propose to put salt on the free
list. Do you want n a on this natural
product, which God made o. free to man.
kind az air, aud which occupies the same
relations to life that the Christian religion
does to the morals of the world? Protect
this, when the only result is to put money
in the pockets Of q big monopoly up in
New York State. Look at the salt pro.
ducers in our own State, aud see what
protection in this regard has done
for them.
TIN N LUMBER
And then they hold up their hands, and
protest that we intend to put tin upon the
free list. We do, and we are in favor of
this because it il something which enters
into the daily consumption of every person
in this country, from the dinner bucket OF
the workiDgman up. Aud we do it, also,
because there ia no tin plate manufactured
in the United States. and therefore, there
is no xcuse for the tax. Applause.
There is another thing we propose 10 do
in the interests of the people of the United
States, and that ia to put lumber on the
free list. Why put q tax IN the very
building we live in? Why should it be
necessary, in order to protect q few lum-
Der kings, 10 lay a tax like that upon the
whole people of the country? The Demo-
cratic party appeals to the intelligence Of
the paople of the United States upon this
question. Let Mr. Boutlier, of Maine, say
il makes no difference. You know better.
| remember when a little town up in Mr..
Boutlier's State was destroyed by fire, and
that gentleman came into the Congress of
the Uuited States with q petition to admit
the lumber necessary 10 rebuild that town
in free OF duty, in order to lessen the cost
to the people. Applause Now, just
what Mr.. B,utlier proposed to do for the
people of that little Maine town, the Dem
ocrstic party proposes to do for the people
of the whole United States. (Applauss.
THE CANDIDATES
The Democracy is right upon these great
questions, and besides that, she presents
to you candidates worthy Of your sncport
in Allen G. Thurman, the cage of the ban
dana, [spplausel q man who has gathered
TO himself the wisdom of seventy years. /
ask the young men Of the country to array