Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-03
PRETENDED PROTECTION.
[Conttnucd From Fnst Paqe. ]

it. incumbent upon me to introduce a
few chunks of information upon glass.
/ thought that If 1 had to pay duty OF
$50 per cent. ION glass l would let
| little light in on 1t, and so told a few
truths, and the next day at Pittsburg-
I'll say the glass men Of Ohio didn't
mix in-but in Pittsburg, where
they were safe from the work
! ingmen of Ohio, they began hiring
at me at long range. One Loet1er
and several other officers of the United
States Glass Company got after me.
said they formed trust, and I'll repeat
il here, In the presence OF these glass
men. Some of the trust may live in
Bellaire, and if they do, I'll give you
and them notice that the end OF trusts
is near. Applause In the good old
Democratic days trusts were unknown;
and tramps were about unknown, then,
too. Applause. The United States
Glass Company is trust They don't
call it trust. Oh, no. The name OF
trust is odious. There will be no more
trusts organized, under that name. In
stead of trusts, they are "com-
blnations." But they are trusts
In everything but name, own
ed and controlled by the
same set of men. When these glass gem
tlemen began to deny, they denied too
much. You have heard of the witness
es in Court, who want to tell more than
they are asked. They are known al
willing witnesses, and the Court. and the
Judge, and the jury all lose no time In
setting down on that sort OF witness.
So with these glass gentlemen. When
they were finally cornered, they said 1t
wasn't trust. What, then, was it or
ganized for? To cut down expenses.
How? BY discharging the people who
worked for them. What about their
product? Why, they control the pro-
duct Of the country. What will they do
with it? And finally they admitted
that they were going to raise the
price. What is trust? A
concern which consolidates the tacto-
ries in some one industry, for the
purpose of restricting the output and
raising prices. If a combination. does
this, what is it but trust? They deny
that it is trust, but admit all the
characteristics of trust. II that con-
Germ is permitted to live in this coun-
try, 1 predict that within thirty days
after this election is over they'll cut
down wages and raise prices. 1t has
always been done in the past.
The speaker gave an example OF a
trust with an innocent name In the Co
lumbia Patent Company, the object Of
which was to control all the barbed wire
factories in America, and make the
farmers pay tribute. The oatmeal COM
blnation was also detailed at length,
and after referring to it as the shame Of
Ohio, he detailed its organization I'M
der the laws of his State, and its mi
Quitous operations under the provisions
of the Mckinley bill. The price of oat
meal had been put up by this combi-
nation from 81. 90 barrel to S7.25.
Governor Campbell then passed to the
consideration of the iron and steel ques-
tion, under the operations Of the tariff
law, and held up Carnegie and others
Of his ilk to eXecratiOn and ridicule. He
read list Of thirty iron and steel man
ufacturing concerns, protected by
the tariff bill, which permitted no Anal
gamated men to work, and elected aD-
plause again and again as he showed
how the practical operations of the Nc
Kinley bill afforded fat profits for the
and the people at large. A
letter from citizen OF Clearfield coun-
ty, Pa, threw flood of light upon this
portion of the Governors remarks.
He took up the tin-plate farce, and
said that when it was fully understood
the effect would be to laugh the Repub-
lican party out of Ohio politics. The
pretensions of Westinghouse and other
alleged tin-plate manufacturers were
thoroughly exploded, and he set his
audience roaring by illusions to the tin
plate industry at Martins Ferry,
and McKinIey's farce Of manufactur-
ing tin by dipping sheet OF
iron in lead bath, and said that to
crown all, the Major had not only i'm
posed upon few people, but had sub
iected a good Democrat to ridicule and
remorse by borrowing five hundred
pounds Of lead from him.
The pottery industry was in like man
ner treated effectively and exhaustively,
facts and figures being given to back up.
his statements, the data being used in
most convincing manner.
One of the most effective arguments
of the Governor was upon the subject
of steel rails, when, after referring to
the extravagant claims Of Republican
orators in that regard, he showed that
the cost Of producing ton OF rails In
America was S11.59, and in Europe
S11.32, a difference in the labor
cost of but twenty-seVen cents,
and yet there was duty,
before the passage of the Mckinley bill,
of SIT a ton, and under the Mckinley
bill, it was still S1344. eff they were
after the labor difference alone, as they
say they are, why didn't they knock off
the thirteen dollars, too, for the forty
four cents would still be fifty per cent
too high"
A voice-"How about sheep"
Sheep! That wouldn't do here.
There are no sheep here. Laughter,
They have pulled the wool over the eyes
Of the farmers, and they'd pull the
whole sheep skin over the eyes Of you
protected working men. Laughter.
At the close of Governor CampbelPS
remarks, Colonel Arnett introduced
Judge Wellington, of Saltwater, Ohio,
who made an able and effective speech.
At the end of the meeting Governor
Campbell was driven to the Globe
Hotel, where he was later seres
naded by the Wheeling delegation,
and afterwards held reception,
at which he was shaken by the hand
by several hundred West Virginians.
A speech or two was also made from
the balcony of the hotel, by gentlemen
whose names were not obtainable.
As the Wheeling train pulled out, at
eleven O'Clock, Rellaire was bright with
red fire, rockets were spouting in all
directions, bands were playing and the