The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-01

under Protection, this wealth Of III
country has grown to over seventy hur
dyed million. {Applause]
Gen. Golf alluded 10 tho recent ses
sion OF Congress AZ a grand session OF
glorious body. II was presided over b!
Tom Reed, he said, and Reeds nam
was greeted with the Widest applause
Tho Democrats call Reed tyrant and
despot. l like that kind OF a tyrant m,
despot. [6reat cheering That Con.
gress gave the country many wise ant
beneilcent measnfes. My Brother Hub.
bard has alluded TO some OF them.
want to tell You about the grandest o.
them all--the Mckinley bill. Will
applause.
THE M'KiNLgY hill.
He said out il some parts OF Wes
Virginia Democratic orators had mad,
the people believe TINT the Mckinley
bill was one OF those mythological mon
sters with forty legs reaching out ant
sapping the life.blood OF the country
The American Congress ought to legis
late for America. He always voted
when In Congress for The United States,
and for West Virginia every time. Hi
voted against the Mills bill and the Nor.
rison bill, and he was only sorry he had
not had chance to vote for the Mckin'
Icy bill.
lie said he had come here after tour
OF the State, to advise the people OF
Wheeling and tho First Congressional
district 10 vote for that big and brainy
man. w. p. Hubbard. This advice was
most enthusiastically received.
Gen. Coils voice was exceedingly
hoarse when he began his speech, but
got better after he had talked awhile.
tie had only been talking about fifteen
minutes, however, when his throat
again became husky, and he proceeded
with difficulty.
Taking up the matte, Of tin plate, he
used it to make plain the theory OF pro.
lection. He said he had been in the
tin region OF the West himself within a
year. The Democrats say there is no
tin in this country. There Is. abund.
ance Of it, and predict that in n year
You will have tin mills right here in
Wheeling making tin plate. The mil.
lions OF dollars sent every year to Wales
to pay for tin might as well be spent
here. 1t ought 10 be, aud the Mckinley
bill will, in my opinion, increase the
price OF tin plate just as it has increased
the price OF steel rails. Steel rails went
down under protection just as mills
went up, and from Sl60 ton they have
come down To- SO. Yet, "the tariff is a
tax" Laughter.
NUTS TO CRACK. urr
He made the broad proposition that
there is not an article that is not cheaper
and better under protective duty than
under free trade, and he challenged any.
body to name IN article, but nobody
did it. l9
He said also that every laboring man
got one-third more now than the same
class of labor got under revenue tariff,
and challenged a denial OF this, but none
was offered.
He showed how the labor not directly
employed in the protected industries,
and how professional men, business
men and farmers share in the benefits OF
protection. By homely illustrations he
showed that the principle OF protection
is applied by all communities for the
benefit OF their citizens.
Quoting Gov. Hills claim that the
Democracy are in favor OF protecting
labor, he asked, ~ wonder what some
Of his Democratic hearers thought Of
that? wonder what the model Demo-
cratic journal thought OF that? That is
the Republican doctrine, and every man
who knows anything knows that"
II it be true that the consumer pays
the customs duty, and the tariff is tax,
why does the foreign manufacturer care
how high it is? Why does Great Brit.
ain protest against the Mckinley bill2
No, my friends, the New York i'm.
porters came down to Washington and
objected to the Mckinley bill, because
it would prevent their bringing in the
foreign goods and selling them here.
And that is the reason l was for the bill.
[Cheers.] !
The neiarious scheme to force prices
up to create prejudice against the new
tariff law was shown up convincingly.
Gen. Goff turned neat point by prov
ing by statistics furnished by Grover
Clevetand's administration that the
wages paid ior labor in the United States
were higher than in any other country
in the world, varying from twice as
much here as in Great Britain to FIVE
times as much as in Austria. .Hungary.;and
he imagined mill with wages at thirty
cents a'day competing with mill pay
ing wages OF 81 so a day-just what the
world would see did not Uncle Sam say
to the foreign manufacturer, "Bsforc
you can sell your goods in this country,
you shall pay to our government
the difference between your thirty, cents
a day and our ST 50. The cheaper glass.
ware OF to-day than that under q lower
.ariN was referred to, and prices given
in detail, showing that goblets that cost
81 10 undele4 revenue tariff now sell .or
80 cents. Yet "the tariff is n taxi"
Grover Cleveland said that the tariff duty
was added 10 the cost OF the
article abroad. Well. calico can
De DOuHuL 1OI uV6 Genus q
yard what is the tariff on calico? Five
cent?. Then the calico abroad costs
nothing! daughter. You can buy
salt now at sum just equal to the duty.
Does Mr.. Cleveland argue, do you be-
lievc, that salt is sold anywhere for
nothing? daughter. isa
He showed also by actual figures taken
from the books oil the glass factories here
that wages have gone up almoat hun.
dred per cent under protective tariff.
THOUGHTS ron woRKlNoMEN.
"ftis one Of the wonders Of the age to
me that a workingman votes tho Demo.
cratic ticket. Did not your trades unions
here send, down to Washington to ask
the passage OF this bill2 Didn't you get
in it just The things you asked for
Then, my Democratic friends, why will
you vote next Tuesday for the man
who says he is opposed to the McKin-
ley billf ! don't belisye you will,
believe you will vote for the Mckinley
bill. The way TO do 1t Is to vote for Bill
Hubbard. ] would like to see Hubbard
in Congress. Jusk think OF it-Tom
Reed, Bill Mckinley and Bill Hubbard! !
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