Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-13

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further delay. Itisa vast Improvement
over the present slip-shod go-aS-you-
please. irresponsible and imperfect
method. Its operation will cost less To
the tax payer and insure a far better
sanitary condition 70 the city-two very
important requisites.
THE HON. GEORGE W. WHISTLES
WITH THE TARIFF.
The Hon. GEORGE W. ATKINSON has
finally collared an opportunity TO un-
bosom himself upon the tariff in the
Congressional Record. II was imposSi-
BILE for him to DO 10 during a daylight
session when AN the members were
present. SO he accomplished the feat
during night seSsion-an institution al
lowing members who cannot otherwise
deliver speeches TO the House TO infict
them ON each other, OF simply have them
printed in the Record.
Mr.. ATKINSON, taking advantage Of
this. has worked his lSsS campaign
speech into an eulogy Of the Mckinley
Din. and the faithful Intcllgaccr repro
duces 10.
After an introduction. the West Nir-
ginia statesman proclaims himself
.protectionist from principle and
dives headloug into the bill. He goes
smack against "a snag in the first sem
tencc. II he had his way he
would restore the wool tariff of lS67.
Here he runs foul of Mr. BLAINE
and his own home organ which endorsed
BLAINE's policy Of trade reciprocity or
free trade with south and Central
America. whence comes the bulk OF our
imported wool Nothing dauutcd, how
ever. the able statesman caroms oil and
butts Mr.. Mckinney hard I'm the region
of his wind by declaring that he would
place "a duty high enough ON sugar TO
encourage the growth Of cane and beetS
out Of which TO produce every pound Of
sugar that could DO possibly consumed
by the American people" The Hon.
GEORGE W. declares that the tariff isn't
tax and yaliantly dehes any Democrat
10 dispute it. Mr. MCKINLEY, In his
report. declares that the tariff is a tax
ON every American who uses sugar,
which should be taken of and a direct
bounty ON homemade sugar of two
cents a pound substituted, TO De- paid TO
the sugar trust, and the American
people allowed cheaper sugar.
We leave the bold West Nirginian
and Mr.. Mckinney 10 fight 10 out on
the question whether the tariff is tax
OF not, aud pass ON the next proposition
Of Mr.. ATKINSON. After Incorporating
three-quarters of column the IN
tcligcncer'S type-of his IS speech, 90
ing back to 1859. 20 show that this coun-
try has always been prosperous under
high tariff, and poverty-Stricken UNI
der low tariff, which has been SO often
shown to De- not only false, but the very
reverse Of true. that the subject has
grown 20 be a wearisomc chestnut, the
Hon. GEORGE W. makes this crushing
statement:
/ hold in my hand "a price list taken from
the ledger of Hewitt, Rutfner X Co, mer-
camille firm I'm the Great kanawha Valley
Of my State as far back as l>i1. time when
We were living under revenue tariff Prices
in that old ledger We're given upon forty
one different articles. which were needed
then as now in every home.
Then Mr.. A. proceeds TO quote the
prices. which, OF course, were far above
those Of to-day We wouldn't accuse 50
nice a man as Mr. ATKINSON Of know
mgly and premeditatcdly acting the
dcmagogue. So that We can only assume
that he is ignorant OF the worlds COM
mercial evolution since 1857 Then
our manufacturers had nothing like
the facilities they have to-
dav. either for manufacturing
or transporting their goods when manu-
featured. The tariff did not cause the
astonishing Improvements that have
been MADE in machinery since 1887.
Science aud inventive genius did that.
The tariff did not cause the old road
wagon Of 1887 to be Supplantcd by the
fast freight train OF to-day The inyen-
tor of the locomotive did that To
charge the reduction in the price OF
manufactures since 1887 TO the tariff is
20 say that our vastly improved ma
rhinerv. which enables one man with its
aid. now to do what 100 men could not
do fifty years ago. aud our equally vast
~ improved. cheapened and increased
transportation facilities all go for
naught
Mr.. ATKINSON doesn't believe that or,
at least. ne wouldn't il ne would stop and
think for one brief moment
This is the chief argument Of the blind
worshippers at the high tariff shrine
and the average school-boy Of ten years
OF age who looks into the matter can see
that II has not even the shadow OF foun-
dation. To show more fully and COM
pletelv the falsity and aoSurdity
of the thing we need only point out the
fact that our present system Of tariff tax
alton was not begun tin 1861 and then
not for protection but to raise money TO
carry on the war.
The Hon. Mr.. \. sticks 10 IT, how
over that it Is an owing 10 the tariff