Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-05
ATKINSON AND CAMPBELL.

The Former Gets on Little Recitation
and the Latter Few Misstatements NJ
Weston.
WESTON, W. VA, September %.
TO he Editor Of The Register.
SIR:-On yesterday Hon. A. w. Camp
bell and G.. W. Atkinson made speeches 1t
the Opera House in this place. Your cor
respondent was present during all the
speaking, except a few moments occupied
by Mr.. Atkinson at the beginning. This
gentleman was the first speaker, and 50 far
az Jokes and anecdotes are concerned, his
speech was quite success. he also read
q fable from Esop about the farmer and
the fox, and recited o poem commencing
MARY had little lamb" He got volt
into his poem some way, which he hkened
unto our wool producing competitors, and
Mary represented our own sheep owner.
OF course he had the wolf destroy the lamb.
Indeed, he talked good deal
about wolves, foxes and dogs,
and had some Of his credulous Republican
auditors to believe that If the Mills bill
should become law some psuper laborers
from some country would gulp them down
before breakfast some morning for an sp-
oetizer. Doubtless some Of them imagin-
ed that they could see the paupers in the
forms of wolves, foxes and dogs destroying
our poor, helpless, feeble and dependent
little country. Whilst speaking OF DEM
ocratic hostility to the wool grower, he did
not remind his hearers that the number Of
sheep in this Stats gradually declined un-
der the high wool tariff of 1867 until 1888,
when the tariff was reduced, and that
since then the number has gradually in
creased. He did not remind them that
from 1867 to the present, the number OF
horses, mules and cattle has generally in
creased in this Seate. He did not tell
them that in 1867 in the State OF Ohio
there were 1000, 900 sheep, and that under
this glorious high tariff the number had
fallen to something o over 3,0OO,OOO
in 1882. He also forgot that In 1867 the
number of sheep in Indiana was over !. :
OOO, 600, and that in 1882 the number had
decreased TO very little over 1,OOO,O 600.
Indeed be might have taken the States OF
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Penusylysnis, New York, Illinois, Wis
consin and Iowa, and shown his audience
that the whole number of sheep in these
STATS in 1867 was over sc, OOO, OOO, and
that Notwithstanding the enormous tarif
ON wool, this number had declined to
about Is, 90. 900 only about five years Later.
So that it appears that the wolves, foxes
and dogs, with which he frightened his
listeners, would have been pretty fat had
they eaten half the sheep which this mu-
nifcent tariff destroyed. He omitted to
say that the price OF wool has uniformly
been higher when admitted free than un-
der high tariff. he said he was Ashamed
TO refer to the suit which he wore, %
so much had been said about it, but
he did so, nevertheless, and remarked that
| it was not shoddy goods, but was all wool
and a yard wide, and that he had procured
a certificate which would settle the ques-
ton. He did not read the certificate. II
Mr.. A. can buy an all wool and yard wide
suit for So 90, it must be on account Of
some special favor from the tariff barcns,
in whose apparent but not real interest ne
is lecturing. This suit 10 becoming % re-
nowned as the celebrated Mckinley suit.
The Mckinley suit cost So 90, and it WA
conclusively shown that without the tariff
it was worth Sass. Now, Mr.. Editor,
here is q very nice question in simple pro-
portion: If the Mckinley $40 suit Is worth
81 80 without tho tariff, what is the value
of the Atkinson So 90 suit without the
tariff. Is il not $4.4S 1.5S Do the money
kings and tariff monopolists Of this coun-
try puposely clothe their advocates in very
cheap suits so as to hide the tariff taxi
Suppose the assessor Of Mr.. Atkinson's
counIy should call on Mr.. A. at any time
STEER the 9Th. of November, and find his
campaign suit gently laid away, and the
asss ssor should place tax Of "a sig upou
it. Would not Mr.. A. rebelr Yet this is
about the amount of the tariff tax upon
this noted suit. He said that industries
placed upon the free list by the Mills bill
would perish. He did not seem to remem-
Der that hundreds Of articles on the free
Int as the tariff now is are constantly and
probably produced. Heforgets that some
years since quinine was placed upon the
Tree list, and that the business increased
and prospered and the drug was greatly
cheapened to doctors and patients. he
said that Daniel Webster had declared
that it was the part Of good statesmanship
TO oppcss whatever England favored.
Webster may have said this but certainly
he never intended it to be understood In
the sense and 10 the extent
Mr.. A. claims. II Mr.. A. ID
following the example and advice