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


i'll on it? Is salt peculiar? II itis'tell
me Of some article that We have not
cheapened. Don't all speak at once. ]
make this bold assertion, that salt is not
an exception, that salt is simply fol-
lowing rule
AMERICAN HARDWARE.
Some one says take hardware. Isn't
there duty on hardware? Yes; we
Protectonists put one on it in 1861; did
it on purpose 10 make some hardware
in the United States. Don't you recol-
lect when We we're boys that every
knife we ate with had Sheffield stamped
on it. Made IN Sheffield, England. So
dull you couldn't cut anything with
back or edge. And yet those old
knives cost moro money than We pay
to-day for the elegant goods made and
used right here in the United States.
bought a moving blade, q scythe, in
1852, good old free trade days, you
know. remember what paid Tor that
scythc. In debate had with Brother
Springer in New York, he sud he
thought it was funny ] could recol-
lect what paid for that scythe l
bought forty Years ago When came
to reply, l said, "if you had been COM
pelled to work for fifty cents u day to
got money to pay for that old scythe.
you would remember ittoo." Laughter
and applause. It would mako it hang
around Il fellows memory. l paid
81 40 for that old blade, and / bought
better one for use on my little farm
this summer for Is cents, Ill steel and
made here in the United States. And
one Of my neighbors got one for 60
cents. Will my Democratic friends tell
me OF some farm implements that have
not followed the same rule as hard
ware? Hardware Is as bad as salt, isn't?
laughter.
TIE WIRE NAIL.
Twas in Congress in 1888 and some
gontlcnen from your own State, right
near here, some gentlemen from Bur-
lington, Iowa, and some gentlemen
from Pennsylvania came down to
Washington. They said there was a
now kind OF a nail invented and made
in Europe, called tho wire nail
mono OF you saw many wire nails until
after 's3-they imported them at q cost
OF So key. These gentlemen said, "If
you will put tariff on so as to protect
our higher wages we can make wire
nails, and make them cheaper than We
can get them now" can never forget
the touching speeches our Democratic
brethren made in opposition to a tariff
on nails. 1t would make man weep
now to think Of it. They said, "a tariff
on nails! Why man could not put a
board on his fence or shingle on mis-
barn, or couldn't patch up his hen coop
or fix his pigpen without beingrobbed."
We didn't belivve it. We levied u
duty OF 81 q keg on wire nails right then
and there. We never had made any in
this country. Now, if the theory Of our
free trade friends is correct, wire nails
should have gone up to $40 key. But
they didn't. We made about hundred
thousand kegs the first year, and they
were cheaper the very first year than
they had been before, and the next year
still cheaper, until, my good free trade
friend, we made this year in the United
States OF America three. million, one
hundred and eighty-three thousand kegs
OF wire nails and sold them by the
wholesale for 81 % and s. so keg.
What is the use OF talking against facts?
What good is your theory when the facts
are this way?
am dealing with facts, not theories,
and that is why have the advantage
in this discussion. rArplausel met q
man the other day in the cars who told
me he was Just dying to get his wife
silk dress, but he said there was an in.
IL n,tT s,t1g
: him there was no tariff on silk wedou.t
produce any silk in this country; silk is
on the free list. Yes, he said, but on
silk goods? Yes, told him, there was.
We Republicans put it there because
we wanted to. There was no silk made
in this country previous to that time.
And to-day can buy a silk dress for
less than half what it cost when you
got silk goods abroad, and ribbons are
selling for less than one-third, and
many of them for less than one-fourth
what they cost in good old Democratic
free trade days. And we make all our
ribbons in this country, think OF it, my
good Democratic free debrother. Last
year, under the tariff law, we produced
in the United States SOS, 900 worth
Of silk goods, employed forty thousand
human beings, furnished food and shell
tor with that one industry for hun
dred and fifty thousand American peo-
pie, and then furnished the goods to
you cheaper than ever before. Now what
is there about that that is wicked?
no MORE cHRoMo PLATES.
They told us it was an awful thing to
put Il duty OH crockery, when all our
crockery was bought abroad. Don't
yon remember every plate We used
when We wcro Young men had picture
oil u lion and unicorn in fight, every
last ono for them. Now, il there is any
thing am thankful for it Is 10 the pro.
tcctionigts Of enabling us to eat \ mcal
without that chrome staring us in the
faco, for now. we c au cat our victualS Oft
OF American ware.
Take cotton goods. Is there a duty on
calico? Yes; put there OH purpose by
the Protcctionists. Has calico become
dearcr cincc we began to make it in the
United StatesH You won't need to toll
any man who las any memory, about
that. In debate with young Hartcr, OF
Ohio, Just elected to Congress, he
Thought 20 prejudice tho audience by
telling them that when Mr.. IIorr
came to talk, che would be always re.
ferring to your recollection" Hc said
tint Il mans memory was tho worst
thing he could follow, and went on to
tell about what wicked, trcacherous
thing n mans memory was. In reply
said, that il / understood Bro. Harter's
proposition | agreed with him ell