The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-23

under CULTIVATION now amounts l
three hundred million acres, With
tho Last thirty years the corn pr,
duction has increased from I've hui
dred to two thousand million an
wheat from 100 to 500 million bushel
The oat crop reached In 1880, $50 millio
bushels. Tho cotton crop amounted /
100000 bales. In thirty years We hAv
received from other countries and give
homes. employment and occupation I
over 100000 Of Immigrants. TIL
United States stands the greatest agri
cultural country in the world, or tina
ever WAS. producing 30 per cent OF III
lood OF the world and fixing the price o
food products In the best markets Of tn
world. Railroad. rates In twenty year
have been reduced 90 per cent. W
have twenty-five States with more thai
million Of population and three cite
with moro than u million each, Will,
Europe with more than thousand year
OF civilization and progress, can boast o
only three cities with over a million. II
the iaat decade, one city OF tho Unior
Inns Increased over lis per cent in popu
lation. In the last ten years under pro
lection, State debts have decreased
about sixty million dollars, and thu
United States has reduced lis deb
about one thousand million o
dollars, while the debts OF European
countries have been constantly increas
Ing. Under thirty years OF protection
tho United States has been able not only
to build up and establish vast manuiac.
turing industries, so that our people
can now compete, in selling many man.
uiactured articles, with European coun.
tries, but during this time there has
beena gradual reductionin the price Of at.
ticles TO her own citizens. Manufse.ttfinp
establishments have increased until they
now number three hundred thousand.
Our exports were never so great as they
arc to-day. The working people OF the
United States have now on deposit in
saving institutions and building associa.
tlons about six thousand millions OF dol.
lars; and this ia more than the savings
OF all the wage.earners OF Europe, Oui
operatives deposit 81 to the English Oh.
eratives' 81. On basis oisixty.liyemil
lions OF population the public debt per
capita Of the United States is about S95 :
this Is less than any other OF tho leading
nations OF the world. Q
Between 1870 aud 1880, England, uu.
der free trade, increased her ratio OF tax.
alton over 81 per cent. The United
States under protection diminished near
ly 10 per cent. 1t is estimated that fifty
millions OF English money WIS invested
last year in our protected manufacturing
plants. No American money has been
invested in the free trade plants Of Eng.
land. From 1876 to 1890, inclusive, our
exports have exceeded our imports more
than one thousand FIVE hundred millions.
The Republican party claims that all
these magnificent results arc due largely
to the fostering care of protection to
American industries. II, however, this
claimshould not bs well founded, can it
be possible that a country could prosper
as this country has prospered, under
txenty'nt1t years OF protection, il the
people are oppressed with the burdens
OF taxation, aud protection is n system
OF robbery to build up one interest
against another? II the tariff is nothing
more nor leRs than robbery, as claimed
by the Democratic party, and is oppres.
stve, onerous and exacting, how can the
progress OF the country be reconciled
with high protection2
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS NO FIXED
POLICY on TAXATION.
The Democratic party since 1860 has
lost the power to govern and has proven
itself to be without the faculty Of admin
istration. 1t has no fixed policy, no cor
rect methods; it lives on obstruction and
opposition to the Republican party in its
attempts to secure needed legislation.
dt long inierrGls il is sonelimrs riqht on he
principle that The clock that ncrer Soes speaks
correctly tuice Il day. While their leaders
in Congress and out of Congress have
constantly declared that the tariff should
be for revenue only, and this has been
incorporated in their platforms, yet in all
debates in the House and Senate, wher-
ever any particular State had an interest
that should be protected, and it was pro-
posed to take the duty off OF such pr,.
tected articles. Democratic members aud
Senators have been found to be the loud.
est for protection. Maryland Democrats
in Congress have always favored the pro-
lection OF coal, and the West Virginia
Senarors the same, this bting the most
important production ofthese two States.
The Moth and South Carolina dele
cations IN Congress have resisted reduc-
tlon OF duties on rice; tn. Texas mem.
bess on hides; the Missouri delegation
On zinc and lead. And this has been
the case in every Democratic State Of the
Union where there has been special
interest to be favored or protected.
THEORY OF PROTECTION.
Tho renrbl;con ror,v o,,;mn ~. ~
..;a,o. as's.. p' "' .t,". al,
Ihanulactureu IN the United
States in competition with like articles
produced in European and other conn.
tries, should be protected by charging
the foreign producer Tux to sell his
products in this country. tn tbe rxtent
at least of the difference In wapes or tha
difference in the coat of production he.
cause the foreign producer could il
there were no license or tax imposed
upou him, sell his nroducts in Tho
United States cheaper than orr own
people. The Republican party uluo
Claims that home competition under pro.