The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-09

mon kind has been taxed since 1889
Laughter.
CHEWING CrrsTNuTs.
The duty under the tariff Of 1888 was
40 per cent. Major Mckinley raised 1t
to 90 per cent, although Mr.. Blaine said
seven years ago that it could be pro.
duced us chcaply in thiscountryus any.
where else in the world. [Applausc.
Tho fact IL, this kind OF ware is made
cheaper than anywhere else, and Is
shipped all over the world. Yet 80 per
cent OF the former rate was added to
protect it against competition that
does not exist laughtcr.l Glass
chimncys, from 10 per cent under the
tarihoi 1888, the major raised to GO per
cent. We have been taxed 100 years
on cotton cloth which Mr.. Blaine saws
can be made here as chcaply MS any
where else. Why not, since We grow
the cotton? Yet under the Mckinley
bill the tax was raised from 45 TO O2 per
cent.
before tho Mckinley bill five pound
blanket cost to make 50 50. The labor
cost was 35 cents and that blunke. is
now protected under the Mckinley bill
to the amount OF 81 90. And that, they
would say. is 10 equaliao the cost oil
labor between this country and Eng
land. [Laughter.l Expensive carpets
are put up from 40 to Go, and cheaper
ones from 40 to 50 and S. per cent.
Continuing, Governor Campbell said
taxes had been doubled since the war
and then read from the certificates OF
the Republican Secretary OF the Ohio
State Board OF Equalization, showing
that in ten years the appraised value OF
farm land has deprecated S9S,0O0,OOO.
lave other classes suffered alike?
Foicc-"Carnegic." Yes, Carnegie
has 100000 OF it. [Laughterl.
THE FARMERS WE'RE THERE.
III spite OF this depreciation in farm
lands, the report of Superintendent
Porter, OF the Census Bureau, shows
that in the ten years the State OF Ohio
has increased i'll wealth S243,000, 900.
How much have tho farmers gotten OF
that? LApplauscl.
Is there Il farmer in sound OF my
voice who is better of now than he was
in 1880?
[Cries OF Eyes, ycs."l
Where is he?
["licre we are, from various portions
OF the house, and general laughter.
"But he has more mortgages, and has
seen more sheriff sales" shouted II
Democratic agrlculturist, and dozen
others, "ics, right"
state it rs fact that not one farmer
in 10000 in Ohio is as well oil to-day us
in 1850. ['!Right, right, that's iact,"
shouted various voices.
The Major says they don't icel the
tariff taxation; but they feel it when
they compare their condition now with
that OF ten years ago. Last October the
tariff OF this country was raised from
Il 10 60 per cent for the avowed pur-
pose OF beneftting labor and increasing
its compensation. Will every laborins
man in this audience who has had his
wages increased since the Mckinley
bill passed please stand up and be
counted.
No one stood up and the Democrats
checrcd Justify.
A LITTLE DEMAGoGY.
want Major Mckinley, when he re-
plies, to tell this audience where these
worliinglnen are who have got better
wages under his tariff [Applausc1. In
this country there have been great
manufacturing establishments which
have reduced wages since the passage
OF tine Mckinley bill, and I don't know
one which has increased them [Cheersl.
In the iron industry We have had more
strikes which are unsuccessful since the
passage OF that bill than in three wears
before. | hold in my hand a list of
thirty establishments, including Carnc-
gies, working 3G,300 men, in which
organized labor is banished. will ask
the Major ii he ilvors the Punishment
OF organized labor from the great
factories OF the country. Chccrs1.
have said before that the United
States Glass Company, organized since
the passage oi the Mckinley bill, and
which has thrown ont OF employment
already 800 men. is q trust. say now
that they are trust by their own con-
icssions. What did those companies
consolidate for? To reduce the expen.
scs-to control the product was what
they organized for, and they don't like
to be called n trust because trust is an
unpopular word in this country. It
was not in the dictionary until after the
high tariff laws wcrc passed. Tho glass
manufactured at I'ilIin, Findlay and
Fostoria, ! understand, is made by Bel
gians, and imported to this country. |
want to say now that ii I had my way
l would put prohibitive tariff upon
some things [applauscl, and the first
thing would be upon an alien who
comes here without the intention oibe-
coming an American citizen, and with
the intention OF displacing American
worllingmcn. [Great applause and pro-
louuab rbnnripc,