The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-18

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then with calico on the FREQ list the
manufacturerwould makeit for nothing,
pay mis- men wages and give the calico
away for fun. LGreat laughter and APP
plause.l
Nails is another article. The present
actual wholesale price OF nails is about
81 70. The duty is 81 %. II the tariff
reformer's statements are not false, You
ought to buy nails in Liverpool at so
cents key. Can you do it? ["No. No."l
Salt is al article the Mills bill sought
TO put on the free list, to make this
necessary OF life cheaper. Now salt at
the furnace is quoted at 20 cents bar
rel. The barrel costs % cents in large
quantities, and the duty is "a Sc cents.
That leaves "a cents barrel Us the cost
OF the salt il the Free Trade theory is
correct. [Applause.l
NUTS TO CRACK.
There is the article of steel rails, Of
whieh We hear good deal. Let's see
about steel rails. And II hope my friend
who represents the Register here will get
these figures down and print them in
his paper. Applause. A voice: "You
won't find them there, Mr. Atkinson
it isn't that kind OF apaper." Laughter
Before there was any duty on steel
rails the English manufacturers sup
piled us, and charged US $lGB ton.
Some time afterward duty OF SIS ton
was put on them, and under that "taX"
OF S2S paid by the consumer" steel rails
made Of American material by American
workingmen were sold in this country
ut 500 d ton. The FREQ Traders would
have you believe yon could. have bought
them in England for 81. [Applause.l
The Canadian farmer is charged 20
cents duty bushel on his wheat-20
cents for the privilege OF competing in
the American market with the
American farmer [applausel land
when he comes over the Niagafh river
with his wheat he must pay that 20
cents u bushel. Well, the American
farmer is selling his wheat in the mar.
ket at 81 n bushel. Does the Canadian
farmer get 81 202 No; he must sell at
81, because that is the American price
Then who pays the duty? / asked q
man in the Second ward market house
the other day If the city charged
him fee-a tax, IL you
will-for the privilege OF selling
his produce there. He said it did
"Who pays that?" asked him; "You
or your customers?" ~ do" "How /:
that" "Why, there is SO much compe
tition here that we have TO sell cheaper
than when we go from house to house
and do not pay any iee." Applause.
That is the tariff tax over again. IRE
newed applause. Yet the Register anC
my friend Mr.. Pendleton continue tC
tell the people the consumer pays tho
duty.
WAGES PROTECTED.
One main reason am in favor of {
protective tariff is that 1t protects thu
iaborer. Mr.. Pendleton says it does not
but l can show you it does. There i.
not an article made in America oil
which it is true that the consumer pay!
the cost with the tariff added. They
cannot name one. But it is true thai
wages are maintained by the tariff.
For instance, there is n duty OF 40 pei
cent on glassware. Some time ago beef
mugs made at the Central glass works
were sent to Germany. But an Ameri
can went over there and introduced oul
machinery and showed them how to ust
it. AS soon as they got to making then
in Germany, the government there pu
a protective tariff OIL them. That shu
ours out. Now Germany sends thosC
same mugs here, pays the duty OF Q.
cents q dozen on them, and SELL
them ut 81 cents. 1t is because
labor is cheaper there. It has only beer
recently that Germany had Protectiv,
tariff, and in nine years since the tarif
was enacted wages have increased 2S
per cent and are increasing every year
| tCheers.] We need more tariff on glass
As my friend Mr.. Hearne said TO you, W.
want to put few more layers on thu
Protection fence, and not to take IN,
of. [Great cheering.
In Bohemia man is paid 06 cents ;
day to work in the glass house, and Ii,
works twelve and fourteen hours daily
Here working eight or nine hours da,
he makes 81 80, difference in our favo
of 50 40. Who says the mechanic ha
no benefit OF our Protective system
| Lond applause.l
How shall we stop the importation
and keep up wages, il not by raising th,
duty? Last year We sent S7,000,00t
abroad for glass-S7, 000,0 900 out of thu
pockets OF American laborers into thost
OF workmen across the seas. Here is
package OF chimneys which are made ii
| Bohemia. / want you to take some o
them home. They are an object lessor
you will never forget. These are sold il
this country, carefully packed as YOU
see, and the duty Of 40 per cent paid, a
81 cents dozen. The labor alone herr
to make that chimney would cost u!
cents.
AMAN WHO KNOWS,
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