Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-13

managers have almost unlimited re-
sources back OF them this year is the
fact that to every voter in the State
whom they deem at all doubtful they
are sending the New York Tribune
free Of cost. One small postofflce in the
"interior" is, we are informed, hand
ling $50 free Tribuncs. This, OF
course, is perfectly legitimate campaign
work and if the Republican managers
never engaged in any worse transactions
than the harmless one of giving away
Triblmes there would be no ground of
complaint against them. The Tribune
is a foolish, ponderous, illogical, old
womanish organ that never did, never
will and cannot see beyond its party's
necessities and is entirely and blandly
INSCRIPTIONS in attempting TO supply
them.
The Tri5une's latest argument" in
favor Of McKinleyism is the publishing
of series Of articles embodying list
OF the miuiouaires of the country, show
ing that there are more millionaires who
made their money in the non-protected
industries than there are Of those who
made their money in the protected in
dustrieS.
Undoubtedly there are, No one, we
believe, has ever disputed this we'll
known fact.
What does it prove?
1t proves that the non-protected in
dustries are the more prosperous and
the more lucrative, not only to the labor
engaged in them but to the employers,
who carry them on. 1t is well known
that in the non-proteeted industries
such as carpenteripg, brick laying, etc,
the average wages paid are much greater
than the average rate paid in the pro-
tected industries. While the latter has
been going steadily downward and with
increased rapidity since the passage of
the Mckinley bill and strikes, lOck-outs
and reductions have been the rule, the
case has been different in those indus
tries that are not protected by tariff.
The only effect the new tariff has had
upon wages in the latter has been to
lessen their purchasing power through
increasing the cost Of the necessaries
Of life. For the past thirty years, ac-
cording TO the census reports, carpen-
ters. brick and stone masons, and others
engaged in industries Disseminated
against by the Republican tariff system,
have made from two to three times the
average wages of the labor engaged in
the protected" industries. Naturally,
the rule holds good for employer as well
as for labor Though some Of the man
ayers of protected corporations, perhaps
a third of the whole number, get richer,
through trusts and combinations foster
ed by the Republican tariff system, than
they would if they kept politics and
business apart, it is in the long run as
bad in a business way as it is illegiti-
mate. The number of wooden mills for
instance, has decreased more than one
half during 30 years of mixing politics
with business in the wooden manufac-
turing industry. The st. Louis Republic
says
In the long run protection" pays no one
All forms of dishonesty and oppression fail
when the test Of the long run is applied to
them. To lie in wait on the highway and to
force those who have money 10 surrender
10. seems 10 have many advantages over
other methods of acquiring the largest pos
sible wealth in the shortest possible time
The highwayman seems TO profit by IL, but
in tne long run it is profitable Tor no one,
the highwayman least OF all.
So when a tariff bounty OF S0OO,OOO,O OO
wear or a direct bounty of Sl0,OOO,OOO year
is voted by laws passed through the pOliti-
cal pull of favored corporations, IL seems
that the favored few would profit immense
lv bv the legalized larceny Of the rest. For
awhile they do, but in the long run those
who do business on a business basis OF free
exchange and fair dealing, with no law to
use as a highwayman's pistol at the heads
of those they deal with, fare far better
Neither the monopoly tariff nor any other
form of dishonesty or oppression pays IN
the long run. Even when honesty is con-
sidcred merely as a policy for those VINO
will not be honest except Tor the sake OF
noIipv III ig the hest DOliCV.