Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-23


Of a protective tariff. Assume for
moment that his statement
is correct-that his election
this year means a death blow TO pro-
tective tariff. Then want to know
what answer you win make to that chal-
lenge Of the Governor, here in the Ohio
valley, where for sixty miles, from East
Liverpool to Bellalre, there is one con-
tinuouS line of manufactures. sustained
and supported by protective tariff,
and without which their fires would be
put out. | want these citizens of Ohio
Representatives of the Republican and
Democratic parties alke-to take Gov
ernor Campbell's challenge that his
election means the supremacy OF British
free trade in the United States and the
suppression of tariff in the United
States, and on that issue am willing to
meet him, not only here, but in every
section and corner OF Ohio.
"a Democratic revenue tariff never
built factory In the United States. a
Democratic revenue tariff never opened
mine in the United SeateS. A Demo-
cratic revenue tariff never lighted fire
in a glass factory or in a blast furnace,
or in q pottery in the United States. A
Democratic revenue tariff never started
an industrial enterprise in all the years
it was in operation in the United States.
No, not one. On the contrary, every
man within the sound of my voice, who
remembers the conditions existing be-
tween 1850 and 1860, will tell you that
a Democratic revenue tariff put out the
fires in the furnaces lighted by the tariff
of 1916. You have but to read the his
tory of our country TO tell you how you
want to answer the challenge Of Gov.
Campbell. From 1850 TO 1860 every In
dustry in this country was silent, and
thousands and tens Of thousands OF
workingmen were driven from their ac-
customed employment, and were COM
PEELED to tramp the country begging for
bread. That, my fellow citizens, is the
history of the effects of the Democratic
tariff idea, in force from 1850 TO 1861,
and If the men who lived in that period
tell their neighbors and tell their boys
what they saw in those years 1t would
be all that would be necessary in this
campaign to win a magnificent victory
for high protective tariff. do not
ask you to take my testimony; ! do not
ask you TO take the evidence of parti-'
san; only ask You to take the history
of the country, from 1850 TO 1850, com
mencing with the message OF Presi-
dent Fillmore, in 1851, and following
that with the message of President
Buchanan in 1857, when they Informed
Congress of the condition of the country
in that period. These messages told Of
how the expectations of agricultural
products had fallen off, and of how the
home market had been destroyed, and
of how domestic industries had been
compelled to put out their fires, and OF
how thousands of workingmen had to
beg for bread in a land of plenty, and
yet Governor Campbell tells you that
that period was the golden period OF
our history. If that was the golden
period of American history, l pray
God that we may never have another
such time. Since then we have had q
protective tariff, and we have never had
such prosperity in the history of the
country. There is not a man In the
United States who wants work, but can
get it, and that Is more than could be
said of the period from 1850 TO 1860 A
voice-Right you are. Laughter. You
have been told that protective tariff is
q burden on the people. Democratic
speakers tell you Of the awful burden
on the people of the United States. ]
want to say tonight that there is not
man in this audience who knows, from
personal experience, that there is such
a thing as high protective tariff in the
United States, judging from the burden
it imposes on him. But there are thou
sands in this audience who know OF the
blessings it brings in its train. They
know that they get employment where
they got none thirty years ago; they
know that they get wages where they
got none thirty years ago; they know
that there is market for all our pro-
duets, where there was none thirty
years ago, and they know that In these
last thirty years we have taken front
rank as a mining and manufacturing
naUion, and that in 1850 we had no such
rank. II was the purpose Of the Demo-
cratic leaders TO make this an agricul-
tural country. We were TO grow wheat,
corn and cotton, and send these products
abroad, and get manufactured articles
back. The old Wing party said that
would not do, and they knocked that
out, and under them we had prosperity.
Then the Democrats came back, aud we
had blight and stagnation. The Demo
cratic party encourages the foreign shop
and the foreign laborer and discourages
the home shop and the home laborer.
Everything that Is manufactured and
imported takes the place Of just that
much made in the United States, and
lust to that extent you deprive Ameri-
can labor Of employment No one can get
away from that proposition. The more
products you bring in the less you make,
and'yet the Democratic leaders, speak
of the leaders, for the rank and file OF
the party are not with them this year
those Democratic leaders are urging on
a free trade programme. The Demo
cratic leaders of to-day are the Republi
can leaders Of twenty years ago. An
drew Jackson was protectionist, so
was Samuel j. Tilden, and so was
Samuel J. Randall, that good old Demo
cratic commoner, who used 70 come
along this Ohio valley and who used TO
tell you that the Democratic party was
Just as good protection party as was
the Republican, but under these new
leaders of the Democratic party they
have been put on new platform. But
they say that this party ensures for
eign market. There Is nothing which
so delights a Democrat as something
foreign. As for me, and those for whom
1 speak, there is no place like home"
This will give a very fair idea Of
Major McKinley's speech. There was
not one word about silver; very little