The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-25

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Our Little Mountain State is known
to the world by, and only by, her vast
natural resources-coal, iron ore, lum-
her, salt and numerous other kinds OF
natural wealth with which u gracious
Providence has filed u hills and I'M
derlaid our beautiful valleys, gifts to u
favored people which have been wrung
from their grasp by a selfish DEM
ocracy. Ever since the Democratic
party has had the manipulation Of the
machine Of state it has been doing its
utmost to thrust down all advance.
ment, retard the development Of wealth
that lies buried in every hill, that
crowns with verdant grandeur the
mountain ranges that overlook vast UNI
developed valleys. How well the Dem
ocracy OF West Virginia know that with
the enlightenment and intelligence
that will surely follow tho advancement
of a community will tear from the eyes
OF the people the scales Of prejudice
and admit 10 their sight the selfish mo
tiyes that cloak their every action. So
surely would the people rise up in
their might and bury West Virginia
Democracy go deep that no trumpet
sound could aver resurrect it.
The Democratic principle is an
ancient one. Everybody for himself
and the devil for us ALL" So it is with
Democracy. Massachusetts, through
her leaders, demands free coal" and 4
tavifF on her own productions. Con-
necticut wants n tariff on her manu-
featured products and free trade in
everything else. Louisiana wants her
sugar protected and free coal and iron,
and so with the rest OF the states.
Free raw materials. Did our miners
and our mine owners, our railroad en-
pIoyes, our steamboat men, and our
thousand OF other wage workers ever
consider what that meant? Have they
ever cast their eyes northward across
the blue sea to the great coal fields OF
Nova Scotia where they have al all
water route from their mines mouths
to the docks OF Boston, situated over
500 miles nearer the coveted goal than
West Virginia is-where they can put
coal out for 81 o. per ton, pay 81 % for
transportation, 10 cents for loading, %
cents for unloading, and lay coal down
on the wharves OF Boston for y " per
ton? Add the tariff Of 10 cents per ton
and it costs So AZ.
We can mine coal in West Virginia
for So cents per ton, again 81 OF in Nova
Scotia, because for every ton Of Nova
Scotia coal brought up two (2) tons Of
water have to be pumped out. 1t costs
us 81 % per ton for transportation to
tide water, 80 cents from tide water to
Boston BY vessel, 10 cents for unload
ing and % cents for unloading at Bos-
ton, and wol put coal down on the docks
for S. 81 per ton, against g ~ for Nova
Scotia coal. Now, take the tariff of
Nova Scotia coal and you have coal de-
livered in Boston for 81 81 per ton, or
6S cents cheaper than West Virginia
coal can be put there and pay our
miners good wages. Over 100000 tons
of West Virginia and Pennsylvania
coal superseded blythe English product
West Virginia miners out OF employ
ment; English mine owners rolling in
the wealth snatched from West Vir-
ginia industries.
Let us look to the southwark and see
the limitless coal fields OF Venezuela,
situated on the very banks of a deep
water river, nearer by hundreds OF
miles to the southern markets, working
f'peon" labor ut 40 To 60 cents per day,
waiting for an opportunity to swoop
down on our coal markets in the south.
Has the miner ever realized how quick
Iy these foreign producers will snatch
the bread from out his mouth? How
surely it will raise the wall o! hunger in
the mouths of his innocent children,
who depend on his sturdy right arm to
hew from out the bowels OF this mother
their daily bread?
Surely no man could stand quietly by
and see this grand little state OF ours
snatched from out her position as the
third coal producing district OF the
United States. SEQ the enormous
wealth that belongs to her and her peo-
Pile suatched from her grasp and hand
ed over to foreigners. Soc her mine
mouths clogged up by nature undiS-
puted. Sec her thousands oil miners
homes wrecked and unoccupied. See
her miner population seeking other
employment OF other kind in other
lands. No true American could. Yet,
my friends, you have this free trade
enemy at your door.
Wake up, miners and working men,
and thrust this venomous serpent from
Out our midst. Every man that Yields
a pick in our mines; every man that
blasts the dusky diamond from out its
natural tomb; every man that assists TO
carry it over the trunk line railroads;
every man that grasps the wheel or
holds the throttle of the mighty engines
OF the steamers that pillow the bosom OF
the beautiful Ohio; every man that
hews the timber on the mountain tops,
that guides its floating course down the
great arteries that wander through our
fertile valleys; every man that forms
the timber into shapely vessels to carry
the mighty product to the sea, should
come forward on the Sth day OF Novem-
Der next, and with his honest vote
rivet to the constitution OF the United
States that grand principle OF American
protection for American industries so
securely that no Democratic endeavor
could ever tear them assunder. II. A.
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