Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-18
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL
TConttn,.ca From First Poge.l

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Those who have investigated recent
labor troubles say that the iron ana
steel workers have lost more strikes IN
the last three months than in the three
preceding years. Major Mckinley
omitted to tell this to the operatives at
Mingo, where he spoke from a platform
constructed Of steel bars.
THE TARIFF AND WAGES.
It would be TO tedious to relate the
daily reductions in wages, and the fire.
ouent strikes for retention Of wages
which have occurred under the new tar
if. Sixteen thousand Pennsylvania
miners were on strike at once because
of a reduction Of wages Miners wages In
Illinois and elsewhere have been
reduced. No end Of workers in glass,
iron, steel, cotton, etc, have seen their
wages reduced. The same thing has &C.
Cured time and again when tariffs were
raised. In 1872 iron, wool and cotton
goods were reduced, and Immediately
wages were raised, while in 1878 the
tariff was raised and wages were reduc-
ed that year and for four consecutive
years.
Everything, almost except labor, Is
protected. There is no tariff on that.
Wage workers come into Castle Garden,
but no custom house veXes or taxes
them. Henry George states the case
with great clearness. He says:
1.-The cry of protection for American
labor comes most vociferouSly from
newspapers that lie under the ban or
the printers unions; from the coal and
iron lords who, importing "pauper
labor" by wholesale, have bitterly
fought every effort of their men to
claim anything like decent wages; and
from factory owners who claim the
right to dictate the votes Of men. The
whole spirit of protection is against the
rights OF labor.
MIR. A. b. Farquahr, President Penn
sylvania Agricultural works, manu-
facturer of high repute, says:
THE thing I can obtain cheaper than
all rivals in other countries is labor, and
I am free to admit that our system or
protection cheapens labor"
Considering the increased prices for
goods, and lower prices for labor, the
following from McKinley's opening
speech is unique:
at is always better to be frank aud
candid and honest with the people. One
thing is certain that the price OF manu-
featured articles have not advanced,
but as a rule have diminished in price.
Another thing is equally certain, that
existing industries have been stimulated
to greater activity, and there is a wider
demand for labor than there has been
for many years"
ALIENS BENEFITED BY THE TARIFF AT
OUR EXPENSE.
Mr.. Mckinley also says Of protection,
that:
at believes In America for the Amer
leans, native and naturalized. 1t legis-
lates for them and nobody else"
Does it so legiSlate? Most emphat-
ically it does not, but just the reverse.
How many leading articles Of merchan-
disc are manufactured in this country
and then sold cheaper under other flags
than under our own? Advertisements
of one hundred and forty-SiX can be
produced from foreign papers, and they
are not nearly all. We can only emu
merate a few to-day. The duties on
cutlery have been nearly doubled.
IL has been conclusively shown,
however, that upon the principal
grades of cutlery the American man u
facturerS control the home market, and
send their wares abroad. The adver-
tisement of the Northampton Cutlery
has recently appeared in Australian pa
pers Offering its wares at prices from 16
to sc per cent. below the prices which
we have to pay; yet pocket cutlery was
increased from rs to 115 per cent. Since
then the manufacturers have met near
ly every month to put up prices on
American buyers, and, in some cases,
have advanced them 40 per cent.
The Slate Trust, whose product is
protected 30 per cent, sells cheaper to
England and Germany than at home.
The LinSeed Oil Trust, whose product
was advanced from twenty-five to thirty
two cents, sells to us at sixty cents and
TO England at thirty-four. Pig lead,
with heavy duty, is sold cheaper to
Canada.
syndicate, and their open and unblush
ing rapacity with respect to their own
countrymen, and their confederation
with Frenchmen and others to eXtort
vet more from US than the bare-faced
robbery authorized by the tariff, has
been too widely published to bear repe-
tition.
Congressman Neidringhaus, Of tin
plate fame, obtained an increase on his
''agate" ware, when he was already
shipping it to Canada, paying duty there
and selling it cheaper than at home.
There Is scarcely a farm implement
that is manufactured here which is not
sold che aper to foreigners than to
Americans. This list includes plOws,
cultlvators, drills, hay forks, hoes,
scythes, axes, hatchets, feed cutters,
portable FORCES, wind-mills, etc. The
duty on cotton ties was raised from So
per cent to 1O3 per cent, although it
was shown that even at the old rates
the American manufacturers were un-
derselling their foreign competitors. In
view Of all this, we are prompted to In
ouire, in the language of that eminent,
but somewhat sarcastic, Republican,
Thomas B. Reed, "If we must have a
tariff to protect our business in New
York city, how can we compete with
the same rivals after we have shipped
our goods to some distant republic in
South American"
THE UN-AMERICAN TARIFF.
An investigation of the present tariff
disclOSes the fact that we have not
legislated in the interest Of America,
but in the interest of aliens. We hear
much vain glorious Wanting of the
american" system Of protection. 1t
is not American at all. We inherited ii
from England when we were her colo
MOS IL Is EnoliSh. and nhsolata Emo