The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-16

American industries were $4,000
richer in single month, without IN
creased cost or competition to any
American worker or consumer. This
kind Of tariff is not tax"
American Protection aud Foreign
Tariffs.
The Martins Ferry Republican Club
has struck the keynote of success. 1t
was happy thought to have practi-
cal workingman who had worked at
his trade in France and America, and
who consequently knew the conditions
which governed him in both places,
tell about it and to make the differences
plain in his own words and in his own
way. His is the ounce of practical ex-
periencc that is worth more than tons
OF theory. II the Republican clubs in
every town in the Union would adopt
these tactics there could be no doubt
OF the result and no harm could come
II nil the Democratic papers in the
country would attempt to retute the
statements of these practical men by
such alleged arguments us those used
by the Register yesterday.
Tho Register says that workingmen
are usually level-headed and are not
caught by such trash as that presented
by Mr.. Foose. The first part Of that
statement is true and that part Of the
great body OF workingmen included in
the American Flint Glass Workers
Union proved it satisfactorily recently.
The heads of that organization, OF
whom two at least arc Democrats, after
making thorough study of the glass
situation, advised that nil the local I'M
ions prepare petitions and send them
to their representatives in Congress
asking that they vote for the Mckinley
bill. Democrats and Republicans alike
signed these petitions, because they
had the good OF their trade at heart and
were not tagging after the Stuffed
Prophet and "Bull Puncher Mills"
"Wages, as rule, are naturally high
or in the United States, new country,
than in the old and over-crowded coun-
tries Of the old world. But to claim
these high wages as the work OF the
tariff is absurd. afss II a high
tariff makes high wages, Italy, which
has a tariff even higher than that Of the
United States, ought to be paying high
er wages than the United States, and we
know that the condition OF almost every
body outside of the protected classes
in Italy is little short of dcstitution,"
says the Register.
In the first sentence quoted, the
Register undoubtedly taps the nail
smart blow on the head, but in the one
following it shows that it was an acct
dent. In the glass business, which is
the point at issue, the American home
market, if not opened to the foreign
manufacturers, is sufficient to give
profitable employment to all those
engaged in it. In France the condition
OF the people is such that their pro-
duction is far in excess OF their capacity
for consumption. They must find sale
for their excess elsewhere. The only
question is: Do we want to ameliorate
the condition of Frances glass makers
by opening our markets to them and
buying their wares? If we do, the men
who make the glass here will be the
sufferers, for they will surely have to
lie idle or work for the same wages that
are paid in France.
The Register has the same defect Of
vision that all the other free traders are
afflicted with. They will only look at
one point and will not make a logical
study OF the situation. They say, if
high tariff keeps wages up in America,
why doesn't it raise them in Europe?
and because it does not always do the
Inter, they would have US infer that
the former ia not true. They should
take into consideration the circum-
stances that surround the two PROPOSE
tions.
The Register says that all but the pro-
tected classes in Italy are destitute.
Probably this is true, and it at once
shows that the tariff which it alleges
that Italy collects is improperly levied
and that its protection is only Incl
dental; Just what the Register and
others of its class want to try here
tariff for revenue with no regard for the
industries OF the country.
The Republican policy is to SO ar
range the thrift that 1t will yield NIL the
revenue needed and at the same time
protect every industry that is worthy Of
consideration, end to foster and create
industries that do not, but may be made
to exist and prosper,
Tho Worlds Fair.
The croakers who have been predict
ing that the Worlds Fair would be
failure; that there was not sufficient