The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-28
GRADY'S HARRANGUB.
A Great Big Bluff from a Funny
Little Man. e
FIGURES ON STEEL RAILS.
Very Weak Points made without
my Voucher FOR tho Statements
on which they Rcs,...WhaL he.
Really Proves ~ them.

Hon. TLomas +. Graiy talked some
st'el rsil Free Trade last light. His
talk 10 given below. @A
Mr.. Grady neglected 70 give his au.
tho.ily for his figures. Not working.
man who heard him believes It costs
only q cents more for tho labor in ton
Of American rails than for tho labor in a
ton ot English rails. There is not an
EngiisL born workman in the steel
works OF Wheeling, who has performed
Xix, work In England who does not
know thu! he is much better paid than
he was IN England, and that the di1e-.
once Is not expressed by Mr.. Grady's 81
cansG ton.
But Mr., GrNdy'a desperate effort to
win votes for FREQ Trade is really 60
gool an argument for protective tariff
that 1t does not matter whore he got his
figures or whether they arc right or
wrong.
lie saya that tho tariff allows the man.
ntsc!urer to sell his eteel rails "all the
way 10 500; II ho sells thou for S33. he
is getting 81 O6 bounty on every ton OF
rails he sel!s." Steel rails can be bought
to-day at tho mill for $50. M current
quotation is higher than S3l. lfS33a
ION would represent "a bounty Of s. 06."
how much ia the bounty with the sell.
inS price at $50? Ii there ia any force
in Mr.. Grady's figures the manufacturer
gives his bounty to the consumer and
throws in 9i cents to boot. Perhaps Mr..
Grady will fad this explained in his
Democratic Campaign Book and give
tho explanation in his next speech.
lie may be able also to tell why 1t is
il "the tariff is q tax" which allo VS. tho
manufacturer ito sell his rails all the
way Up to $780," that the grasping rob.
ber Of manufacturer does not take ad-
vantage OF The law and get the $50, in.
steal OF contenc;ng hinself with $40 u
ton leas. This won6erous moderation
should also be capable Of an explanation.
Further remarks ''the silver.topg.ed
orator" from New York, "put on the
SIG n tax, and tha. makes it impossible
to yet ton OF steel rails into this couE.
try less than $50 O4.' With American
rails aellipg ct $40 ton, this is another
flat rad CONCLUSIVE contradiction OF Mr..
Grady's Free Trade contention that "the
tariff is a tax" In 1883. when the tarif On
steel rails was SIT a ton, l36, 100 tons wers
brought into this couutry and sold in
comnetition with -the home product,
Which was selling at S3l ton. Who
paid that tax? Not tAa American con.
,suner. 1t cost about the same then as
e,ow 10 produce ton Of English rails.
ii bfr. Grady's English figures aro right,
he must End some way To account for
little matter OF Sll co enls ton on the
whole importation OF 1888.
III lSGS the average ptius OF steel rails
in t.'is .couatry was SloS 5o-Engiaad
was supplying US with steel rails. We
have broken the back OF tina. monopoly,
and a protective tariff has done it, atthe
same time maintaining the highest
standard OF wages in the world.
It great pleasure to print Mr.. Ora.
1y's speech Just rs he wants it to appear.
The 1ErsLLleENcEE wo.E have felt hurt
If IL had mlssed so coed a thing.