The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-08
Trco rrndcrs lizard Up for Arguncnt.

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FREQ Traders Hard Up for Argument.
The Now York RcrGla Is on tho FREQ
trade sido OF the controversy which re-
lates to the bread and butter Of tho
American people, and which is ono OF
the sharp dividing lines between the
Republican party and the Democratic
party. Being o FREQ trader and the
most distinctly foreign of our American
newspapers, the Herald comes at the
Republican party in this fashion:
selGshuess, not unsellshress, Is still tho rulc
Nc talk Of solidarity. VI boast OF our pro-
ErcSs. We deprecate the methods Of tho past.
But on tho Top Of this we pass q Mckinley bill,
involving misery to millions. And because
those millions nro not our compatrtots we rub
our hands and beam Gnd smile and chucEle at
our W prosperity.
mnny-and the many In this instance means tho
mass-who hold broader, moro far.siShted,
moro thoughtful views OF international duties.
These do not relelce at such news IS me cable
and hmine: OF working men and women with
out work; OF parcnts forced to sl1y their starving
children; Of r1ot!ng and strikes and trade up
heavals.
Protection and Mckinley have much to an.
swer for just now. To these two factors. which
have come to be synonymous, must be ascribed
part. at least, OF the evils described! IN n. Jacques
St Ceres despatch. tn fortunes oil a few men
in this country may be bought dearly-bought
with tho lives and happiness OF thousands upon
thousands IN Europe.
More trouble Is expected in the Old World.
The adyont OF the First OF May Is aEaited with
the streets o mauy cities on that Firot OF May.
But what do our professionals caref
The Herald does not treat its cores
pondcnt, jacques St. Cere, with much
moro fairness than it accords to the
odious protectionists. It is true that in
his dispatch from Paris published with
tho above comments N. St. Cere, who
should be above all things q sincere
man, puts some of tho blame on the
Mckinley tariff, but he also makes a
strong point Of tho vast and costly mil
itary establishments maintained by
Europe.
Men withdrawn from industriea in
which they might support themselves,
their support thrown on tho men who
do work-add this to the old systems OF
government by which the fow are able
to eat up the many, and without look.
ing across the Atlantic for a cause there
is reason enough why there is chronic
distress aggravated. when short crops
ibefall or when 3 customer who has been
buying determines to set up as a pro
Queer and supply his own wants.
To lay on the protectionists of the
United States the moral responsibility
for tho acts OF parents who STAY the
children they cannot feed is an accuse,
ton as monstrous as it is insane. What
is it tho protectionists have done to
Europe? Simply bought less of certain
OF Europe's manufactured products than
heretofore ard provided more employ
mont for the people Of their own coun-
try. They have provided better for
their own household than formerly.
II the nations Of Europe suffer by this
it is because, unfortunately for them,
those nations have SO adjusted their
economic rotations with the rest of the
world that they cannot stand industrial
Development on this side OF the Allan.
tic. They havo builded.o on tho assump-
ton that the United States would never
find out the advantage Of maintaining
ita ownw workshops and would go on in
definitely drawing its supplies Of manu-
features from foreign workshops.
The Mckinley tariff has taken en-
ployment from foreign w~age.earnora
and given it to our own. This protcc.
t%ionists hold to BIO right, polite, patri.
o!ic, and on this they arc willing to &c
to the country. But the Mckinley
tariff is worry far from erecting q barrier
against the Interchange Of commodities
with other nations, and so lar from the
imports having fallen off under the
s operations OF that measure, they have
increased.
During the twelve months ending Do.
ccmber 81, 1891, our imports amounted
to sS2S, 737,.tS7, against SS2o,475, 457 tol
the previous year. Last year our i'm.
ports were in round numbers 8 O,o0O,.
600 above tho average Of tho preceding
five years. We bought OF foreign coun.
tries last year s26,751,09o OF manufac.
lures OF cotton, s~S,752,lS+ OF earthon,
ware, stone and china, of fax, homp,
jute and tho manufactures thereof SCI.
100000, of glass and glassware $500, Sls
OF manufactures Of iron and steel S41,.
100000, Of leather and its manufacture
Sl2,+42,534 OF wool and ita manufacture
$4,000, 900.
Still moro Of these commodities should
have been produced in our own coun.
try, and this is the end to which pro
t~ectionists are bending their energies.
It is only recently that they have been
accused Of the crime Of starving the
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