The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-21
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.

The Democrats held that the taxes
should DO only what was necessary for
the government, honestly and econom-
ically administered. Tho Republicans
on the other hand hold that they have
a right TO levy taxes for the benefit OF a
few. those favored few in nearly every
cgse prescribing their own schedules in
the tariff law. This fight must 20 on
like that on slavery until ono side was
completely triumphant and the other
side admits its triumph.
The Democratic party did not ignore
the doctrine OF protection, but rs it
accepted it it went hand in hand with
the idea Of protection for revenue.
Referring TO wages, he denied that
protection raised wages. An English
bread baker receives So week and an
American bread baker gets SIS, the
Republicans tell us. They forget to tell
us what is fact, that the So has vast
" more purchasing power in Great
Britain than in the United States.
An English orator might tell English
bread bakers that in free trade England
they got So for baking bread, while in
Russia and Germany, high protective
countries, the bakers get but So and
IS %, for the same work. Look, then,
Mt the advantage OF free tradei There
being five protection countries where
wages are lower than in England, the
argument Of the English free trader is
five times as strong as the American
protectionists.
Tariff has nothing, or very little, to
do with wages. Before the American
revolution there was as great disparity
between wages in Great Britain and in
the American colonies. Australia, a
colony Of England, pays higher wages
than the mother country. The Now
England shoe maker gets one-third less
wages than the western shoe maker.
So it is in all branches OF labor. II the
tariff regulates wages, why are they not
uniform the country over.
The Mckinley bill raised the tariff
from AZ to Us per cent. Will you tell
me Of one case in this city where wages
have been increaeed by that. / have
asked the question all over the country
in all earncstness, and have heard Of
no case. Where is the increase OF
wages2
A voice: Homestead"
In the past thirty years the Republic
can party has passed all the tariff laws
that have been passed. They have re-
peatedly promised to reform the tariff,
and the country has now come to I'M
derstand that they mean by reforming
it to raise it. England has advanced
wages as rapidly as this country has.
They are not as high there, because We
have eighteen people to the square mile
while they have about 200.
He said he regretted to say that the
Democratic party had not been as frank
on this issue as it ought to have been.
but this time the party had expressed
lis honest view in way that left
NO ROOM FOR MISUNDERSTANDING.
He referred again to Homestead, and
the word was applaudei. He said he
wanted to show how the Mckinley bill
was fashioned. Mr. Whitman, WOOL
en- manufacturer, framed two clauses.
A wholesale clothing dealer submitted
memorandum which was included.
Manufacturers OF fire arms dictated an
other clause. The manufacturers OF
tin -[laughterl that were to be-
renewed laughter framed the para
graph as to that article. So the McKin-
ley bill, so called, with which Mckinley
had little to do, was drawn up.
A mention of W. L. Wilson's name
provoked loud applause, in commenting
on which Colonel Fellows paid him a
glowing tribute as an orator, a states
man and q scholar, and the applause
was increased to enthusiasm.
This way of drawing up bills, he said,
was easy and gave the committee time.
But even in this way there was fayorit-
ism and doubtless Mr.. Campbell, OF the
Wheeling ISTELLiGENcER, could tell how
this favoritism went. Was it not Mr..
Campbell, Of the Wheeling INTELLIeEN-
GER, who went to sec this Republican
Congress on behalf OF the manufacture
ers OF Wheeling and found that Mr..
Carnegie, OF Homestead fame, had been
there before him? Was. it not Mr..
Campbell, OF tho Wheeling INTELLIGEN.
GER, who filed the whole capitol
grounds with his protestations against
the way Wheeling industries Jared?
Mr.. Carnegie got all his raw materials
on tho free list and all his products
protected, and MIR. Campbell, of the
Wheeling INTELLIGENcER, and the in
dustries Of Wheeling got left. Then
Mr.. Carnegie, having gotten the seized.
ule he wanted in the tariff law, adjusted
his wage schedule accordingly. And
willie tho trouble at Homestead was
going on Carnegie sat in an upper
chamber OF his Scottish castle and
wrote another chapter OF his Triumph
ant Democracy.
John Minkemyer caused good deal
Of amusement at times, by such inter.
pellations, as YOU'RE doin' good, old
boy! give it to EMP His talk about
Carnegie and Mr.. Campbell caused con.
slant laughter and applause.
He referred to thesenate finance COM
mittee's report on wages as showing
there was no increase, and then quoted
COMMISSIONERS PECK,
of New York, whose statements, he
said, even ii true, only meant that thi:
country was going forward and moi
back. He said more wages was paid in
the year last past than the year before
He might as we'll have said the popula'
ton was greater. Immigrants are com.
ing into this country at the rate oil
6o0,G00 year, and ,of course more
money is paid in wages.
The question, though, is why you
make me pay more for wooden goods
than they are worth, and moro than is
necessary to raise the needed revenues
OF an honesta and economical administers
ton Of the government. Tho protec-
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