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


which we paid four hundred million
could have been made In this countr
and employment given to our own pee
pie inn!ead OF 10 foreigners.
The very fewest manufacturers in th
country have accumulated vast fortunei
Statistics show there lsla larger per
centage OF failures in attempt
10 successfully establish and carry OF
manufacturing interests than In mos
any other class Of business. ManuiaC
turing Is hazardous. II requires iarg
capital, sound business judgment ant
economy 10 DO successful. The grea
fotlunesin this country hayo not beef
made In manufacturing, but In railroads
oil, gold and silver mining, speculation
and real estate, with which protection
had nothing TO DO except Indirectly
Not a dollar Of the colossal iortunes,,o
tho Vanderbilts, the Goulds, Rockaiel
lcss, or tho AsioB came directly from
protection or manufacturing. ThCitot
tune oil Mr.. Andrew Carnegie-aud 1t 4
the most conspicuous example-was no
all made in manufacturing and 1t Is thu
only case in which n very largo forum,
has been accumulated on tho part oil I
manufacturer. The fortunes made IL
tho railroad world, in mines end min
lag, real estate and oil production are {
hundred times more numerous thar
those made in manufactures, and many
times larger.
il hall the factories aud mills in the
country should be DESTROYED or shut
down for any reason, general disaster
would overtake the country. The injury
to the farmer would be direct and wide
spread; hundreds OF thousands OF people
would have to seek agriculture as q
means Of support and become competi.
tors OF the farmers; besides hall OF the
present market would DO taken from the
farmer. Free trade or tariff for revenue
only would close large number OF our
industrial plants.
WEST VIRGINIA A PROTECTION STATE.
II any State in the Union is irreyersi.
by and irrevocably protection State.
and must depend upon protection, 1t is
West Virginia. West Virginia depends
almost entirely Tor her progress and
prosperity upon her large quantities Of
coal, iron ore, timber and salt. Under
protection she produced last year more
than 5,000.0 900 tons OF coal, ranking the
hrst coal producing State In the South
and the third in the whole Union, II
the products OF West Virginia were not
protected, but thrown open to foreign
competition, her RAILROAD development
Won!d stop. lumber mills cloge and coal
and iron minesshut down. Iffree trade
should obtain, or the Democratic theory
oil tariff Tor revenue only, prevails, as
for by our Democratic repre-.
sentatives in Congress, the progress of
West Virginia would be retarded and
the development Of her vast ma
tural resources set back cen.
fury and her people become
impoverished and bank. dpt. Coal aud
iron would lie dormant in her m.ues
and the timber in her forests stand un.
touched.
The progress and prosperity OF West
Virginia in the future depend largely
upon her becoming 4 manufacturing
otate. Wherever you 90 IN Vest Viz.
Hl1ia the cry is for more coal aud iron
mines to ba opened, more manufacture.
ing plants, iron furnaces, coke ovens.
lumber and wooden mills, :auneries and
paper factories, and there is not town
IN tho State but wants to encourage
these industries,-aud most of them
have the material at hand TO establish
them If capital could DO found. Suited
rs well as any State In the Union and
mora than most OF them to manufacture
Ing OF all kinds, West Virginia needs
more capital invested within her
borders, more men with money
TO come among her people. In
word she needs sca.terel all over the
sides OF her beautiful mountains
md through her fertile valleys more
manufactoriesand more industrial plants.
How best to get capital and these desir.
sbie things, is the question. We are
low at the crucial point in the argu-
nent. AS Thomas II. Benton often
'ald, the knife is on the nerve" And
ust here begins our difference as citizens
u West Virginia with the Democratic
party, and moro particularly our cause
u complaint against our Democratic
senator's ant Congressman Wilson. Can
'VesS Virginia get all these things
through free trade? Without argument
: say no, never. Can she best get them
" Mt all through constant war on pro-
echon, the manufacturers Of the coun-
~ and notwithstanding interests? a |
state and the temper OF the people is
,iten judged by the official utteraucee OF
Is chosen representatives. Capital is
imid, msnufac.urers-the people we
iced most-seek investments only
There they are welcome, sure OF
protection and partial immunity at
east from unwise legislation. Read
he speeches OF our Senators
md Democratic member OF Congress;
heir violent attacks even in Congress
IN protection and manufacturing inter
ats, and then answer whether capital,
nsnufacturers and factory builders are
authorized to believe they would DO well
'ome to West Virginia. | quote briefly
rom some oftheir recent speeches.
OF WEST VIRGINIA DEMO.
CaATlC DELEGATION AGAINST PRoTEC.
ten AND MANUFACTURERS.
Mr.. Wilson, in his Barbour county
pecch. in speaking Of the duty on tin
'lase, calls it unjust taxation" III an.
'tLer place, speaking Of the increased
ak on wool in the Mckinley bill, he
avs it is unjust and merciless." Fur
her On he says lit is not in the blood Of |
bis paople to rest quietly when they |
NOW that an unjust tax is daily and |
hourly robbing them and their wives
md children" In speaking OF protec.
ion, he calls it IAN iniqnitous system,
ad it will not be many years until the
,eople sweep it out OF existence"
In speech in the Senate, September
/. on the pending tariff bill, Senator
Aenna uses this language: "That the
enormous largessss levied upon our neo-
'le were made possible by the conse-
Iuences Of war and have been made
profitable by the manufacturers, who
.ave been thereby enabled to maintain
no prices OF war in time Of peace. That
ur surplus cereals are to rot in their
,arns, and our farmers to starve to en-.
bile our surplus manufactures to find
profitable market in foreign coun.
ries." THAT the syetela Which this
,iil is Intended 10 perpetuate has given