Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-07

yard or bolt or any other given
amount OF cotton goods is less
in the United States than in
Great Britain, France, or anywhere
else. Now, don't misunderstood me-
Not less wages per day, or per week,
but that American workman did so much
more in any given length Of time that
the labor cost in any given amount Of
the product was less, and so. in fact,
our labor was cheaper. Then suppose
we apply the Republican theory,
and make the tariff duty the
difference in wages, when, in fact,
there is no difference, or the diff
ference is against US? Then, suppose,
there should be no tariff on cotton
goods. But there is. Take woolens in
the same way. The census reports
ought to be good Republican authority.
/ Laughter. 1t makes some disclosures
similar TO what l have related regard
ing steel. According to Mr.. Porter the
amount paid for wages In manufacture
ing S33S, 600, 900 worth Of wooden goods
was 224 per cent. Now, my fellow
citizens, the interest Of wages in $685.
600, 600 OF wooden goods, according to
the census, is 924 per cent, ard yet
the duty is
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PER CENT,
or four times as much, not only as the
difference in wages, but four times as
much as the whole labor cost. Tell me,
my fellow citizens, IL these duties are
not 10 enable manufacturers 10 reap an
exorbitant profit, and If the declaration
o. the Democratic platform and the
Democratic party are not true, and II,
In your own minds, you don't believe
that Republican protection Is fraud?
Applause.
Mr.. Daley then took up other Repub-
lican tariff claims, and quoted from
number of Republican campaign docn-
ments, among them Hon. G. w. Atkin-
sens "a. B. c. Of the Tariff" to carry
out his claim that the Republican theory
and practice of protection was falla-
cious one, making the clearest and most
convincing demonstration OF the accur-
acy OF his position, and being frequently
interrupted by applause. He was par
ticularly effective when he referred to
Homestead as an example OF what thirty
years Of Republican protection had
done, saying that after capital, as rep
resented by the Carnegie interests, had
been sufficiently protected, wages were
reduced, aud workmen were told that
they should DO longer combine, and that
the Amalgamated Association must 60
TO pieces before the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, Limited, and the Mckinley tariff
bill.
Again he was effective when he re-
ferred TO the Republican claim that the
tariff was not tax, and brought out
u. w. AtkinsOn's' mackerel story, as
published in his "a, b G." as an exam
pie OF the Republican theory. He read
the little story about the Canadian
fisherman having to pay two dollars
per barrel duty, while the American
fisherman brought ia his fish free, and
then demolished the Republican delu-
sion at breath by telling his hearers
that If there had been no duty the
Canadian fisherman would have sold his
FISH at eight dollars q barrel and made
just as much money, while the con-
sumer would have paid but eight dol
lars TO both the canadian and the
American fisherman, and saved just
two dollars barrel on every barrel
consumed. That was a conclusive
demonstration, by Republican argu-
ments alone, that the tariff was tax
and that the consumer paid it.
Then MIR. Daley proceeded to demol-
ish that eminent Republican, Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins, Secretary OF War.
He said;--
But Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins tells US
that il the Democracy gets into
power there will be no coal
mined in West Virginia and there
will be no timber cut in West Virginia!
Yet in this city OF Wheeling Mr.. stephen
Il. ElkinS, when he addressed the Boom
Convention, on the last daY of Febru-
airy, 1888, declared that In West Vlr-
ginia coal was cheaper at the mouth OF
the mine than in England. He was not
speaking then as politician, but as
man interested in the development OF
the State. Then he said that West Vlr-
GINA produced the cheapest coal in the
world What's the use of talking in
the face OF evidence like that? Mr..
Elkins talked about West Vir-
GINA in other ways. He compared
1t with Pennsylvania aud with Ohio,
referred TO their greatness, their pros
perity, etc. thought the benificent
influences OF the protective policy were
over all. IL ought not have skipped
from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and left
West Virginia in the lurch. Laugh
ter. But in one of his Republican
speeches he attributes the trouble in
West Virginia to Democratic rule, and
the prosperity in Pennsylvania and
Ohio to Republican rule. To Demo-
cratic rule? Let US see. Elkins spoke
in the Boom Convention, and he referred
to West Virginia in glowing
terms. 1t had no State
debt its taxes were low, its
people were liberty-loving, the law was
enforced, crime was promptly punished,
the rights of labor were secure, and
capital was amply protected. What
more could be done by any party? II
that Is the record OF the Democratic
party in West Virginia, why do they
need to change it? Applause. Is it
not a little bit singular that the Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins should have passed
by the great States Of Pennsylvania and
Ohio and selected the little, benighted
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