Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-19

They would say to You firmers who send
off your wheat to Europe, and your
beans and pork and the like, you send all
these thi1 g, to our county to be cold; you
shall psy such duty, such o tariff as will
support cur government; and then We will
see who will come out best in the long run,
Applacse How would you like that?
How would You like to be taxed to pay the
cost of 600, 600 men in arms in Francs, or In
Germany, or two hundred thousand
men in arms in Great Britain? How
would you like to pay for
kes ping up their immense standing armies,
to pay the cost of their kingly government
and to furnish all the appointments Of the
ROYALTY and the nobility of those coun-
tries? You would not stand it week.
YSu would not stand it two days. You
would not stand one day, and yet that
would be no more of an absurdity than
what they say to ycu, that the foreigner
pays this tax. Applsuse
WE ARE "TAXED RICH"
But, my friends, the Republican speak
ers say that this heavy taxation makes the
country rich as if it were possible that Q
country could get rich by heavily taxing
its people. They tell you that it pre-
motes The welfare of every laboring man,
as if it were possible that the lsboring
mans welfare could be promoted by tax
ing him on every thing he wears. That is
q queer thing. Look around yen, and
fiod who are the laboring men In
this country. Does not every man that
has ever looked into census book know
that two-thirds Of the laboring men in the
United States are engaged in the business
of farming, and for farm labor there is no
protection; that they are not protected by
this high tariff. How then can it benefit
that large proportion of laboripg men?
Then they say that the Democratic party
is the enemy of the laboring man. Why
in the name of all that is reasonable, how
that can possibly be.
DEMOCRACY IS LABOR.
s'Why the foundation stone of the Dem
ocratic party il, aad always has been, and
always will be composed OF laborlng men.
1t grows out of the very foundation stone
of the party. What is it that makes the
Democratic party? 1t was made by that
principle enuncissd By Thomas Jefferson,
the founder of the party. in the Declaration
of Independence that ell men are created
free and equal. That is what makes the
Democratic party. 1t is Democratic pIinci-
PIES that makes the Democratic party. 1t
is this very principle Of equslity, Of equal
rights, that has made this great party that
has Iuled this country 10 well; and l re-
peat what 1 have repeated sg'in and
SO ain and challenge anybody to con-
,rovert it bat it has never tesn coutro-
velted. There is not a single measure
that has been adopted for centuries not
only in this country but anywhere in this
woili that was for the benefit OF
working psople, that tended to ameliorate
their condition, advance tier interests in
their homee, or in their shops that has
been achieved except by the influence of
Democratic principles. Great and pro-
louged applause.
On the conclusion of his speech, which
lasted thirty five minutes, Judge Thur
man was driven to the depot, and rested
quietly in his private Car. A large crowd
was on hand to see him there, and he came
cut three times to chat with them.