Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-03
PENDLET0N.
LContinued from First Pnae. I

lcSl>ldle on the principle lnat the more
power you take away from the people
and put in the hands of few the better
il will be for the country. This is di-
rcctly i'm line with much OF their legiS-
lation. The destinieS of the nation rest
in the hands Of the people as a whole,
and | venture 10 remark that it will be
MANY LONG YEARS
before the people will submit to such a
uSurpatiou of their rights 1t is safe TO
predict, and by big odds, that the fed
eral election law will never disgrace the
pages of the statutes.
The all-absorbing question at the
present time is the tariff. We claim
that the tariff is too high and under the
Mills bill propose TO reduce that to an
average of II per cent duty,
la small, q reasonable and Il
moderate production. In order to
make the people believe that what they
call protection really protects, the Re-
publicanS have reSOrted 10 ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain, and
fOrmany years by deusionS and miSrep-
reservations have been endeavoring TO
scare and hOodwink the people. But
the cause Of tariff reform has made such
unlocked for strides in the past two
years that our friends OF the false pro-
lection are non-pluSSed. Their fuel is
about exhausted; which way they turn
is death.
The Republicans want the home mar
ket in this country. They have come
to the strange. novel and startling con-
cluSion that it is not good for nations
10 trade, one with another. Every ma
tiOn on the face of the globe has repu-
dated this doctrine. Even China has
long since abandoned the idea. Cur
enterpriSing, enlightened, patriotic Re
publican friends have Solemnly resolved
that the less we trade with foreign ma
tons the better it is for our country
If that doctrine be true, why not be-
tween State and State? Why should
not West Virginia be cut off from trade
with Ohio or Pennsylvania, or even let
10 apply To counties. and We may ask,
why not prohibit inter-commercc be-
tween Ohio county and Harrison county,
or any other county? You might as
we'll
Prohibit YOUNG MEN
from coming into town and counting
and carrying of as fair captiveS the
lovely girls of Weston am surprised
in this enlightened age that such doc
trine should be- agitated.
In order to encourage you in this de-
| luSive belief of protection, the Republi-
cans have discovered that it is neceS-
Sary To DO something more than they
have done in the past. They have
lately undertaken in quiet way to in
veStigate the journalistic field To find
out the newspaper pulse on the matter
of protection, and were more than sur
! priSed To find such a majority of the in
llucntial sheets SOlidly on the side Of
tariff reform, and in many instances
papers that two and three years ago
were their supporters, had seen the force
OF logic and were now with the people
i'm the great fight against high tart #.
Particularly were they chagrined at the
situation i'm New York. Boston and Chi
cago, where every issue has such a far
reaching and telling effect. When
the gentlemen who undertook
the investigation found that
SO many of the papers were
advocating tariff reform he very ScnSi-
bly, come 10 the conclusion that the
coming campaign was going to be
campaign of education. And he further
discovered when he analysed the cleo
ton returns OF lSSS that that campaign
had also been one of education. He
found that the issue upon which the
Republicans wagcd their campaign,
their hope and their mainStay. was ON
the wane. Our Republican friends
claim that the tariff is not a tax. If
the tariff is not a tax, why in the
name of God, does Mckinley offer
chat bill? In the coming campaign it
has been found necessary by the Rcpub-
/ Leans 10 look more carefully after the
agricultural class, to do something for
the farmers. i'm order 10 have them in
cluded, i'm what they are pleased to term
the broad field of protection. And for
this reason Mr.. Mckinley allows the
| increased and intOlerant tax To play
prOmiScuouSly around the agricultural
products. Just how the increase is 90
ing TO benefit the farmer it would per-
| hapS be difficult for Il sane man TO see.
but theoretically and Republicanally, it
/ is supposed to, however. And now
what is the first thing that Mr.. McKin-
/ ley does to help on the tiller of the soil?
He goes TO work and puts an increased
duty on imported bags.
| The farmers must pay Sl.50 for every
hog brought into this country. Last
year the farmers of this country sold
abroad some $4,000 hogs, and imported
about 1000. The uniuStneSS of this
tax is shown by these statistics. And
/ the next thing that Mr.. Mckinley does
is 10 impose tax on the foreign pork
brought into this country, and here the
SAME STATE OF AFFAIRS
exists. These are but few Of the in
iqu;ieS of the bill. The Mckinley bill
is the most communiStic, most bold
| faced robbery that was ever perpetratcd
upon a free and enlightened nation.
In the coming election we shall make
an assault upon the Senate and if ncceS-
Sarv upon the President; we shall bring
our opponents face To face with the ir
REPUTABLE tariff reform arguments, and
| il is safe to predict that it will not be
long before the advocates of high pro-
lection will fee from their dangerous
position and call for the rocks and noun
tainS 10 fall down upon them.
In the Mckinley bill we find that they
are endeavOring TO raise the price Of
corn. Last year the tax was 10 cents.
The Mckinley bill proposes to raise it
TO l. cents. And so it is with num-
Der of other like articles. 1t is
placing an import duty or tax on the
very articles the farmers import from
abroad from which to get the seed TO
raise their products. If the tariff be not
q tax why is it imposed? When this eN-
action was first imposed no one thought
ANYTHING about il. and no one objected.
IL was first imposed to create revenue.
Mr.. Pendleton then went on to give
svpopsis of the history of the tariff from
its inception up to the present time.
Few regarded with any serious oDjec-
tions tho tariff known aS the war tarlh.
The promiSe was made. however, that
As soon as the necessity for a tarlh was
over il would be removed. Hut 1t never
was. and we soon find growing up In
this country a certain
CLASS OF MONOroiISrS
who are growing enormously rich. Ihtn
came that startling announcement that
the tariff is not tax. Those who sell
goods soon find out who pays the tax.
One of the gross abSurdities OF the
Mckinley bill is what it proposes to do
I'm relation to our trade with canada
In order To protect the American farmer
IL proposes to absolutely shut out the