The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-15
REGISTER DEMAGOGY,


It's Criticism Ut Foraksr's speech Answered
Bya WorkIngman'
IT, he Editor Of he IRLslllgege1.
sIR:-I find In this mornings Wheel.
Ing Register the following characteristic
paragraphs:
Probably there Is not politician on the con-
tinent, except Foraker, who would have mad lhe
gall 10 make tho lRrn ulIerapce he did o. Bell
ale, Onuhali Of the WOTklngmen who listened
10 his tWaildlp knew fFJm their own experience
that 90 was talElag F0nkeriSm puTCdndStmple,
The words were hardly ont OF his mouth, wien
Que nal icr said " anOthefi "lInR does y cohe,
ID u, that to day there Is reduction o. from
twenty-five 10 hty per cent, fol, cutting malta
from what We got under the Cleveland admins
The esteemed !STELlIGESCER ought to. know
By this time that lie readers have some intelli'
gence and know The, dihsFence between demA'
TALK They have not forgotten The promises Of
higher wag Turing the last ca ,paign aud ihe
actual fact oil lower wages To-day,
1t Is not the first time the Register has,
In "arguing" the tariff, drawn . COM
parison OF the above nature, and II 1t ia
not "drmagOgic blalhering," | would like
To know what II Is. What tariH leRlsla.
ton has there been sluCe Mr.. Cleveland
went out Of Officer Are not the identi'
cal laws in force to-day that operated
during Mr. Cleveland's administration ?
Now, granting for the sake Of argument,
that wages ARE loser, how is the tariff
responsibleY II The wages were higher
under Cleveland, why not as high under
Harrison with the sans laws IN opera
tlon7 The Cleveland administration had
no more to do with the fixing Of wages
than lad the Harrison administration.
might call the attention Of the Reg.
liter TO a state OF things which the tarltl
as advocated by the respective admins.
tratiOns, does effect, however. During
almost the eptir0 Cleveland administers.
tiUn there was general hardness Of
tunes. Mills were closed ind therp were
more ipOrkinJnleH idle than there are To.
day. Now am Il careful reader OF the
commercial aud trade reports repub-
lished from Bradstreet's and Dun's re-
views each week IL the Register aud H.
TILLIGENCER and ] have noticed that for
tue past three months there has been a
general revival OF business throughout
the country, and general boom has set
In all along the line. The Register knows
this is true. Mills and factories have
resumed alter a long idleness; tine iron
aud steel industries haYe particularly
experienced boOnli money 10 moro
plentiful, aud thousands OF idlers have
been given employment. 1t IS not true
that wages have been reduced. In Gers
tain branches they have been elualized,
aud on account Of certain conditions OF
trade may have heen decreased In ono
or two sections, but in the country at
large, wages have not suffered and u
grt aLer number Of men are employed.
This improvement continues, as witness
the commercial reports for the past three
weeks.
Now, il II not possible to construe oil
this 10 mean that confidence has been
restored by the restoration TO power Of
the party pledged to protect American
industries2 While Cleveland was In
there was an uncertainty which deferred
men with money from investing in great
enterprises that create demand for
labor.
The Registers abuse Of Forakerism is
not argument against him. He made a
practical, buslness.like speech and ridi.
Cule does not answer 1t.
WAGE WORKER.
Wheeling, Ocloberl4.