The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-01
THE vooNGEsTED DISTRICT"
In Iroland-Tho Condition to Which Free
Trade Has Brought It.

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In Iroland-ThO Condition to Which Froo
Trade Has Brought It.
To ne Editor OF nc intelligence.
sIR:-With your permission l will
tell the young men OF Wheeling what q
"congested district" is.
l know that the natural good quail
ties Of these young men would over
balance their short comings, if they
have any. Their steady tread and
march under the stars and stripes in
the procession OF each party, proves
conclusively that they love their coun-
try, and hence my desire to talk TO
them on the eve Of the battle, in the
| kindest words that can use.
"Congested district" is word sell
dom used in our American politics, in
fact, it is only to bo found in the tory
newspapers Of England and in the
houses OF commons and lords OF Eng
land, where the law makers nowadays
have to sit up in all night sessions trying
10 remedy the evils they inAict on Ire
land by free trade The "congested
district" under free trade in England is
larger in area and population than the
Panhandle counties OF West Virginia.
II is q place where eight out OF every
ten men mourn from the age OF reason
to the grave because they cannot leave
it, or because their kindred in America
have forgotten to send for them and
help them out Of it.
It is place where the bell or steam
whistle is never heard calling men or
boys to work to any kind OF workshop
or factory. Where the butchers wagon
is never seen standing at wage-work-
er's door; where the wage-worker never
steps on brussels carpet in his own par
lor; whore the voice OF the news boy is
never heard selling the evening or
morning paper in any town or village.
Where the labor walking delegate is
never heard contending for higher
wages and shorter hours for the work
ing class or handing the employer his
ultimatum. English free trade forced
ut the point OF the bayonet on Ireland
has banished all the above conditions
OF life from the "congested district"
But that is not all that free trade
banished from the "congested district
in Ireland.
1t is u populous district without Ii
brary or theater, brass band or pro-
cession, except at an occasional funeral.
No costly carriages follow the corpse OF
the honest workingman to his grave.
The spade that sometimes digs that
grave IL the highest grade OF tool that
is manufactured in that district. The
shovel that fills the grave must be
made and bought in England. This
tells the story why strong ablebodied
men work there in the field for shill.
ing q day "a cents). A twelve-year-old
boy in glass house in Wheeling will
earn twice that amount in q day. |
must stop. l hear some free trade
Democrat say that that is desolate,
barren district that God or nature
never intended for man to inhabit. L
must contradict him. It is a rich, fer
tile district, where all kinds OF animals
fatten quickly for the English markets.
The population now living there, and
all who have died for the last hundred
wears, never eat as much beef MS Is sold
on the foot to English drover5 at one
fair out OF the many that are held in
the year Ships are daily departing
from the many harbors loaded with all
kinds OF provisions, whilst the mass OF
the people are idle and hungry, and at
this very time that the leaders of the
people, lay and clerical, are appealing
to the Christian world to send relief to
keep strong men and boys from dying
with hunger.
The strong protectionist shouts:
"Cleveland is not in it" Bourke Cock
ran, the 1ammany leader, shouted at
the Chicago convention that "Cleye-
land was in it andthats all that was in
it" The free trade orator OF West Vir-
gtnia says when he comes around here,
There is something else in this cleo
ton; besides Cleveland, and that thing
is free trade" Well, that is encourage
ing for Irish-American citizens who
saw the results OF free trade as above
stated.
1t is wonderful what hankering
good honest old Democrats have to see
old England coming over the sea, COM
ing in free with ships, loaded with GIN
lets, to tap the American tills.
l have greater hope for the American
boys in general and the Wheeling boys
in particular than to believe that they
will vote for condition OF affairs such
rs is found in the "congested district. !"
INSTANTANEOUS CITIZEN.
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