The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-19

YER Cleveland q Detter conAtltutlonal
lawyer than Thomas Jefferson? [Great
laughter.1 Do you think Adlai Stew
enson can be more safe and reliable
than Andrew Jackson7 Laughter and
applause. Can all OF them combined,
no as safely reliable as the Supreme
| Court Of the United States. That body
has over and over again sustained the
constitutionality OF a protective tariff.
That supreme judiciary-and it is
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the tariff law oil
1890. [Long continued applause and
waving OF hats and handkerchiefs.-
Cries Of "Hurrah for tho Mckinley
billl"l That act was made to protect
every interest in the United States, and
not one was omitted-not one. When
we made that Law we made up
minds it should be what Burke said Of
liberty, at should be for all or for
none" [Great applause.
DEGENERATE PARTY.
The old Democrats had 10 trouble
about a protective tariff. They we're all
for it. Thomas Jefferson, and jackson,
Benton, Buchanan and Wright-all
great names in Democratic history
were in favor of n protective tariff. 1t
is the new Democracy that is not.
Laughter and applausel
Let me read you the platform made
in 1882, when Andrew Jackson was
nominated for the presidency and Mar
tin Van Buren, for the Office of Vice
President. The convention was held in
the city of Baltimore, on the 22d OF
March, 1892:
Pesoiued, That an adequate protection
to American industry is indispensable
to the prosperity OF the country; and
that an abandonment OF the policy at
this period would be attended with
consequences ~ruinous to the best inter-
ests OF the nation.
That is all old Democratic doctrine.
[Great Laughter.l That is the Repub-
lican doctrine OF to-day. That is the
doctrine that elected Andrew Jackson
and that is the doctrine that will elect
B. Harrison. tGreat applause. 1t is
not Jacksonian Democr Acy that protec-
ton is n fraud; it is Cleveland Demo-
cracy. They say your protective tariff
law keeps this country out OF a foreign
market. The Democratic leaders always
did see something beyond [a~pplausel
and away from us. Laughter.
don't know how you feel about it. l
have got no objection to a foreign
MARKET l believe in encouraging it,
and we have got plenty OF it. But for
me and my own there is no place like
home and there is no home on the face
of the earth like the Republic OF the
United States. [Great applause.J A
foreign market! Why, in the past
twelve months we have had more fore
ign commerce than we ever had in any
twelve months Of our history. Our
foreign trade last year was $l,SS0,00
0O0-a point never reached before in all
our national life.
Why they call the 81 Congress that
made this new tariff law a billion dol
lar Congress. 1t is better than that, it
is 81, 800, 100000 Congress, [wild cheer
ingl for it opened up that volume Of
trade to the American republic.
We imported last year $~S50,000,000
worth OF foreign products. We export
ed last year of American products of
the factory and the farm, S2S0.O00,000
worth. We never had such an export
trade in all our history; and at the end
of the years business we put into u
Golfers $500 0 900 in gold-the balance
of trade in our favor. That was the
sum we got from them. which was the
excess OF what We sold to them from
what we bought OF them, and that
money we have got in circulation
to-day. Under free trade rule we would
not have had it. Under protection We
have got it. [Applause.J They have
got GU r products, and we have got their
money. [Applause.l Why, they say
reciprocity is a sham in their platform,
and yet under the third clause of this
new tariff law we have made treaties
with Brazil, with Cuba, with San Do
mingo, Paraguay, and with other coun-
tries, which has opened up u new mar
ket for our agricultural products,
amounting to $25, 100000. And yet the
Democratic leaders are not happy.
Laughter and applause.
They say ii we had free raw material,
then we could go out and capture the
worlds markets. Laughter. Why,
we never had anything but raw mate
rial under a Democratic tariff
[applausel, and it was the rawest of the
raw. Laughter.
The coal and the iron aud the rich
minerals which abound in our hills and
u mountains were sleeping the sleep
of death through all the years OF a
Democratic tariff.
1t was when protection raised factory
and shop and made n demand for coal
and q demand for iron ore that the pick
of the miner dug out and converted it
to the uses OF men.
And they say we can't make tin
plate. Applause and cheers We
! never could under their tariff in the
world. They said rs years ago that we
couldn't make steel rails, that We
couldn't make silk, that we couldn't
make plate-glass, that we couldn't make
watches, and we never did make them
under a Democratic revenue tariff.
[Applause.l But to-day, after 80 years
Of protection, we make these products
as good as can bemadethe world, Voice,
and make them better and not only
do we make them better, but we
brought down the price to the Ameri-
can consumer. He gets them cheaper
to-day than he ever got them before.
Well, they said they knew we couldn't
make watches, that required too much
skill for the American workman.
[laughter1. But we could, and to-day
in every civilized country in the world
the American watch is ticking Hail
Columbia. wild cheering and APP
plause.l
TIN PLATE.
Can't make tin plate! Why, we can
make ANYTHING we want to make in the