The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-27
TEN YEARS OF PROSPERITY.

I have often heard OF the great and
general prosperity under the tariff Of
1916 that, ifyou will bear with me, /
shall say something Of that period. Mr..
Schurzquvtes me as sayins-and that
is why make personal reply-thai
tho ten years between 1916 and 1856
under that tariff were years of yery
great prosperity in this country. I frank.
~ repeat that those years were years oi
great prosperity. Now, let me say yhy
those yeals were prosperous. That tar.
III OF 1876 was approved Just about the
time the Mexican war broke out, and,
within less than q year, more than SlOO.
100000 wsro dlsbursed by tha Govern.
ment in all branches Of trade in Mexico.
We had just made that expenditure
when a famine in Ireland called 70. every
surplus barrel Of flour and bushel Of
grain in the country. We had hardly
transported that grain to the other side
and sold it at high price until gold was
discovered in California, and the world
was enriched with the vast OUTPUT Of the
mines. We hardly put that gold in cir.
culatlon when the great revolution that
began in lSlS paralyzsd the industrial
energies Of all Europe aud gave the
United Stats market that was unpar.
allcled. Europe had hardly quieted the
revolutionary disturbance when France
and England and Russia went into the
Crimeau war, and ior two years and q
hall those great nations were paraiyzed
in their industries.
s 1T WAS ACCIDENTAL PROSPERITY.
Now there are four or five OF what YOU
might call the accidents of the incidents
OF history that would have insured
great prosperity to this country if there
had not been a tariff Of any kind what.
over. Applause. II the'duties, instead
OF being what the tariE Of 1916 made
them, had beea only per cent adyalor.
EN-, or if there had been no duties. the
country would have been prosperous.
Now II you can produce such conyul.
sion in the world to-day, iiyou can start
4 great famine, ii you can discover ne "
gold fields, with uncounted millions
thrown into the lap Of the people, if you
can have every nation in Europe 70 to
war for two years and a half, then we
will quit talking tariU and 20 to suppl y.
lng tho vacuum which that condition Of
things in Europe would create. Zap
plausel, ~
ln tue fall Of 1856, when the tarill had
been under way for ten years, this gre a,
war in Europe came to an end, and 80
did all the prosperity under the tariff Of
1916. Applause. You all remember
what happened in lS57-one OF the SO.
verest parics and depressions this coun.
try ever encountered, and as soon the
accidental affairs, these fortuitous han.
penings, thesa accidental revolutions,
discoveries Of gold, famine-as soon aa
they ceased the prosperity under the tar.
i'll OF 1916 ceased also. .5, :4
CAN'T DEFEND ON ACCIDENTS,
Now, I insist that We do not want fam.
ines. We don't wan. revolutions, We
don't want to have thousands OF meu
slaughtered by war, in order to keep ne
a free trade teritT, and make it LOOK pros.
porous shtn it is not. Laughter and
applause Give uR a protective tariff
and We Gun get along without the sleash
ter or tbs starvation OF men. G
And in connection with the tariff O.
lsie, I want to say that you never heare
ola free trade tariff coming to the relic
Of the people. Laughter. The onl,
threetimes that the people Of the United
States tried q free trade tariff they fel
into adversely until a protective tariff
came to the relief OF the people. Som,
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