The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-07


she is or not | will bO hanged II any
outsider shall tell me she isn't, or tell
me why she isn't. And il were one OF
YOU free traders l wouldn't always DC
iinding fault with my own country. j
am for the United States OF America
first, and England afterward don't you
see, and II had my own way 1t would
be a good while afterward too. laugh
ter and applause.l
RAW MATERIAL
You know next to his clothes free
traders sympatllies are with rev mate
rial. [Laughterl Next time you hear
that assertion made you ask your free
trade friend to natne some raw mate
rial. You don't. want him to be in u
hurry. After he has had time for re-
lection ask him again. Don't crowd
him. worked for ten months before 4
got anybody to name an article ct raw
material. Down in Massachusetts an
old farmer got away with me on raw
material. He said he could name one.
said wish you would do it. Why
he said "rags." And the more ] think
OF it the more / think he is
right. Rags, we are all max,
ing them all the while. Wool
is raw material for the man who is
making blankets and carpets out OF 1t,
But how about the man who is market
ing the wool? Unless you get over two
shillings n pound for wool, you don't
yet money enough to pay for the labor
on any pound OF wool raised in the
United States. But, says some free
trader, thought you put tdrili on
wool to increase the price, and we don't
get rs much this year as last. That y
true. admit it. You are the last fell
low that ought to speak OF it. You are
telling us that the tariff will raise prices.
Now you are blaming us because it don't.
AS rule, farm products do not follow
the rule that manufactured products do,
because you can only raise single crop
a year. You can't increase the supply
as you can OF manufactured goods.
We put a duty on wool to give
the wool growers OF this country
an advantage over the wool growers OF
the old world in our markets. We
didn't stop to ask whether wool would
go up or down. We proposed to let our
farmers supply our own markets. Wool
has decreased in price all over the
world. Without tariff on wool you
would get eighteen cents q pound Tor
wool instead twenty-eight. II is only
bringing eighteen cents in Canada, right
across the river from where live. And
the reason we get twenty-eight is on
account Of the tariff that protects our
American markets. guess We Will
get better price for our wool by and
BY and for all our agricultural products.
In the last four months | have been
from the Rocky mountains in the ter
ritory OF Utah to Boston on the Atlantic
coast-travelled over twenty-onc States
Of this Union. never saw such crops
loading the earth as are growing all over
this country at present. And it is
simply plea entered by Isracls God IN
favor'of the protective system and the
rule OF the Republican party in the
United States. [Applause.]
STRIKING ILLUSTRATION.
Talk about raw material! A ton OF
pig iron is raw material to the man who
works it. 1t costs as it lies in the
ground from % to 40 cents. Go into
the enormous factory at Dunkirk, n:
Y, where they manufacture railroad
locomotive almost every other day. l
asked the foreman OF that mandatory
tho cost OF locomotive. He said
tirst.class locomotive engine costs SlS,-
900. said show much Of that is raw
,noterinlp He and his master me-
chanic figured it up and said tits S3I 80;
Sl7,062 80 OF that sum represented
human toll and brains.
But some free trader says, you are
always talking OF protected labor but
you don't pay any better wages for
work here than over across the water
Well, what brings them over here
then? Are they coming to make their
condition worse? Do you know OF very
many of them going back? The old
adage has always been that government
should seek the greatest good to the
greatest number. But mans first
duty is to make of himself thevery best
man he can. His next duty is to his
wife and family. He should always
hold his own town and country against
I'LL Iut NUIiu. DuIt shHs eSAhS 49,
trader, lyon Republicans are always
talking about protecting labor, and the
moment you get an industry started
then you are the very first fellows to
send right off over the ocean and bring
in paupcr labor to drive down the price
OF workin the United States" thought
YOU said that this tariff law did nothing
Int make paupers everywhere. Then
we ought to be able to pick them up
here like blackberries.
] will Join party now,and you and l
will start it right here, and we'll COM
mence from this moment on to stop the
influx OF ignorance and crime into the
United States. am ready to begin now.
Are you? No, you are not willing to
ioin my party. You are just dying to
see the Republicans do this work, but
you never as much as open your mouth
to help.
HONEST MONEY.
1t was expected that 1 would say
few words on the subject of honest
money. Ibelieve in the present system
Of money in this country. / want every
dollar to be equal. II the gold dollar is
the best standard, l want all OF them
equal to gold. ! have found out that il
YOU undertake TO do business with
good and poor currency that the good
will retire and the bad will do all the
business. Now my objection TO the
free coinage OF silver is that it is IN at
tempt to unload the silver Of the old
world upon us ut a value greater than it
has intrinsically. Value don't come by
legislation. / know they say that the
verS moment the Government stamps