Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-03
DOES IFS own TALKING.

That was q happy hit Of Governor NC
/ Kinlev's when he said "the tarln Is DONG
| its own talking" IL is, in truth, and IL Is
an eloquent speech 10 Is making TO the
American people 10 Is saying, tor m u
/ stance. to the poor man: u have MADE u
possible for you % get twenty pounds Oh
sugar for dollar. Intelitgeneer.
Beg pardon; we are under the impress
sion that the reploUol Of the tariff on raw
sugar did this. SO far from being
vindicatiou Of the principle upon which
the Mckinley iuiQuity IS built, ii is
condemnation Of it, aud al illustrious
example OF the benefcence Of the Dem
ocratic principle Of free ran material.
When MCKINLEY boasts of the effect
OF free raw material be downs his own
bill with Democratic argument. The
Mckinley tariff, speaking through the
Ii,telliqencer, continues:
you can buy American made carpets as
cheap as YOU can buy English carpets IN
England
This, when quality is taken into con-
sideration, is simply fslsehOod. The
latest census bulletin shows that in 1890
We used 54,754,234 pounds Of foreign
wool and only 9,145,632 pounds Of do
nestle wool, or tlgenty-SLr times as much
forsign as domestic lrooL in the manufac-
ture Of carpets. England gets this wool
free while the American manufacturer
must pay al a0normally heavy tax on it,
which greatly enhances the cost OF
every yard of American made carpet
above the English price. 1t continues:
You can buy all-wool clothing as cheap
and, IN 10 many Instances cheaper, than
YOU ever could before, while the free trader
told YOU YOU would have TO pay more Tor
these things. Your wife pays less than
she did before for her dress, and the free
trader tOld you she would have 10 pay
more. Nothing you buy which is the pro
duet Of American labor have made dearer,
but in Inauy cases have l made the necessl-
ties OF life cheaper"
On the contrary in no instance has
the tariff made anything, bat labor,
cheaper. New inventions, improved
machinery, ETC., have reduced the cost
OF almost all lines Of manufactured ar
ticles AZ over the world. They have
cheaDened things to a greater extent in
Free Trade England than anywhere
else. If the high tariff is responsible
for 10 I'm this country what is RESPONSE
Die for it in Free Trade England? This
high tariff argument is the most unten-
able and most absurd Of all. 1t con-
tinues:
Look over this broad land and see on
every hand new industries springing up.
See your mines being opened and railroads
being built into new territory, and the vast
natural resources Of the country being de-
velOped. and the free traders told you that
the Mckinley bill would bring you hard
times and stop the march Of progress"
History, endorsed by JAMES G.
BLAINE in his Twenty Years of Con-
gress, tells US that the most prosper
Gus era of this country was the low tar
if, or free trade tariff" era, as our
Republican friends call it. During that
time more new industries were started
and more mines were opened than ever
before in our history Under the high
tariff era that. followed and which is
still with US higher than ever, panics,
business stagnations, strikes, lockOuts,
reduced wages, failures, idleness, i'm
poverishment OF the farmer aud the
gradual destruction Of our merchant
marine have been the rule. Since the
passage Of the Mckinley bill business
failures have increased and reductions
Of wages have been the order of the
day. This is not ancient history and is
easily verified.