The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-23

[crcs OF "Thats truc"l but there arc
thousands hero who do know from their
own personal experience tho blessings
Of n protective tariff. Cries OF "Right."]
They know that after thirty years OF
protection thoy have employment and
comfort and good wages, while .
UNDER A REVENUE TARIFF
thcy had want and depression. Cries
OF Fright you are!" and cheers,
You cannot import manufactured
goods without having Just that amount
OF American made goods displaced. No
man can deny that. Tho more goods
we import the loss by just that much is
made at home. Tho leaders OF tho
Democratic party (and l speak Of the
leaders because the rank and file OF the
party are not following them this year,
wild cheers and lauchter.] The lead
ers OF Democracy in tho past--Jcilerson,
Tildon, Randall-wore protectionists.
But this present day finds tho party
placed by its leaders on the side OF free
trade.
Governor Campbell is so reckless in
statement that | have ceased to pay
any attention to what he says. His
first speech was ut Sidney. lie said an
increased tariff OH linseed oil had
raised tho price to sixty-nino cents. /
showed tho next night at Cincinnati
that every Democratic paper quoted
linsccd oil at thirty-six cents. Laugh.
ter and clecrs.] Governor Campbell
said the price OF oatmeal had been
raised by the new tariff law. l showed
by Democratic testimony that oatmeal
was cheaper this year than before the
late law went into effect. Ee said in
his debate Mt Ada that glassworkers'
wages had been reduced, but when l
went to Findlay tho gassworkers there
said this was 4 SANDER. Enthusiastic
cheers and crics.l lie said | gave the
Standard Oil Company 4 rebate OF
ninety per cent on tin. ! showed lie
had voted for the Mills bill, which gave
the Standard Oil Company free tin. He
said American manufacturers soldthcir
products abroad cheaper than at home.
| showed this was not true. lie has not
said 4 word OF any OF these things since.
Laughter and cheers.
Every leader and teacher ought to be
honest. These things arc questions OF
principle and ought to be so discussed.
The effects OF tho new tariff law arc
demonstrated every day. 1t is over 4
year old, has celebrated one birthday
and will have many another. [Checrs.
We never before had SO much domestic
commerce as we have had in the first
eleven months OF the now tariff law. We
never had SO much prosperity at home.
1"Right." We have bought more nom
articles from Europe than
ever before in the same time, and we
have sold her more stuff than ever we
did before. When Europe came to set
tie with lis the balance OF trade i'll our
favor was S52,000,G0n. [Cheers.1 The
campaign prcvaricator is out Of 4 job.
Laughter. The prophet OF evil has
gone out OF business on this new law
Cheers. The same manufactured
goods in any line to-day cost less than
than they did 4 year ago by from fifteen
to twenty per cent. Only one article
costs more, and do you know what that
is? 1t is pearl buttons. Laughter.
We put
A ZIG TARIFF on THEN
because there were G,00O workmcn in
this country who could not make pearl
buttons to compete with the prison
labor OF Austria. So VIC slapped the
duty on, and to-day every ono OF those
G,O00 men is employed and prosperous,
Cheers.
\ voice-Wcrc they from this coun-
try?
McKinlcy-Nhat do you mean by
that?
Voice-Wcrc those G,OOO men our own
is.
McKinley-Evcry one OF them. [Grcat
Quoting with some scorniul comments
Mr.. Crisp, OF Georgia, who said this was
the most un-American tariff law ever
passed, the speaker said it was meant
for America and ior Americans for no.
body else This was again chccrcd
wildly.
\ Cincinnati wholesale merchant
told him retailer had bought from
him enough sewing needles to last him
thirteen years, saying that he bought
them because OF the increased tariff on
sowing needles by the Mckinley bill.
Tho fact is that that law took all the
duty oil needles, putting them for the
first time on the free list, for the reason
that none arc made in America. ~
The objection urged against protec-
ton that it concentrates wealth in tho
hands OF 4 few WAS concluslvcly dis
proven by 4 comparison with free trade
where wealth is more concen-
tratcd than in any other country in the
world. limo land are there as many
people owning their own homes. There
is no other country where workingmcn
ars as prosperous, as well paid, ,as happy,
as comtcntcd as in these United States.
Great cheering and cries OF "Right you
4 re, McKlnley!" Laughter.
The claim has been made that the
benefit OF the tariff goes to the manu-
facturcr and not to the workmen. II q
man gets in Great Britain ST u week
and lie comes horc and gets SIC, what
makes the difiercnce? Voice: Nlc.
Kinley." "-Chccrs1. The tarilfdocs. Is
it true, then, that the laborcr. gets no
advantage from protection? ["Nom
"Nowl.
The speaker quoted an eloquent COM
parison by Cardinal Manning, printed
last. December, between the depression
in England and the prosperity here
When; Major Mckinley said, the
European employer consents to pay his
men what is paid III America, We will
consent to meet him on an even footing
in the open markets OF the world, but
we will not consent to have our laborcrs
levcled down to their standard. [Chco-s
and cries OF 'Ncvcrn']
They say we cannot make tin!
Laughter and dcrisivc cries What do
YOU thinl; OF a man. Governor of n ,rrrot