Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-31

OUR NEIGGBOs AGAIN EXHIBITING.
The esteemed Tntel}Igencer has enga-
ged in . collar and elbow wrestling match
with the fact that the Hon. JOHN BAs-
Sell, Of Clarksburg, has returned from
England with several articles of wear
ing apparel purchased there which cost
him from a hundred to two hundred
aud fifty per cent. less than would SINH
lar articles which he priced in New
York and Philadelphia.
The esteemed, but confused, IntelH-
Geacer takes Mr. BASEL to task for
having the temerity to purchase these
blarsted British goods where he could
get them of better quality and a whole
lot cheaper than like goods in the
United States and expresses its re
gret that so short q stay in Europe has
got him in the notion Of wearing only
imported commodities" Our nelghbor
felt the same regret, though unex-
pressed, when Mr.. BLAINE on his re-
turn from Europe landed in New
York with so many bales
and bundles and trunks full OF "pauper-
labor" goods that a two-horse truck
had TO oe called into reqHisition. Why
did Mr.. BLAINE, why does everybody
who goes TO Europe patronize the terri
BILE British free traders and come home
loaded down with their purchases? Is
it not, dear Intelligence, because they
can get them so much cheaper and OF
better qua ity than they can in the Uni
ted States? Mr.. BASEL purchased a
pair of wool and silk socks in London
for As cents; he priced the same quality
of goods IN Philadelphia and the price
was from SIPS TO Sl.5O! The Intel
Igenccr explains this tariff iniquity in
this way:
The interest Of the foreign manufacturer
IN those commodities did not follow them
into Mr. BaSSelS possession. Ee had SOLD
them in his own home market, and that
was the end of the transaction tor hun. II
be hod been exporting them for sale IN this
country be would have paid the duty.
In other words for the privilege Of
selling these As cent socks to Ameri-
cans the benevolent British manuiac-
turer pays the United States Govern
ment a dollar. How good and kind of
thar British manufacturer not only TO
give his socks 10 the American people
free, but TO put dollar in the toes Of
every pair! Don't say another word
against the British manufacturer He
boats Santa Claus all hollow.
Really, dear, if you are running
funny paper-and, by the way, you are
you should post your readers before
hand, so they'll know how to take you,
Our contemporary continues:
For example, the IHtsIigsucer has been
comfortable and happy all sumner N
dozen pairs Of black socks that cost three
dollars iu Wheeling, twenty-five cents
pair, fast color, but there Is no silk IN
them.
The public will DO interested in this
and glad to know not only that the m
tsIIj3epcsr wears socks and a dozen at a
time, butthat they are of tho fashionable
color, though we regret there is no silk
in them. Our neighbor is too pretty to
wear common every day socks that have
no silk in them, but being martyr to
the cause Of McKinleyism he is forced
to do il. He has already exhibited the
beauties Of high protection in his own
person by bursting on the public In
nine dollar "all-wool" suit, and now ne
has added Mckinley socks to the outfit.
The REGISTER suggests that he now
do the skirt dance. II would more firm
Iy impress those 25-cent black socks on
the public mind aud would be beau
tiiul object lesson on the tariff
To return TO the question Of who pays
the tax, our neighbor pulls his trousers
down at the bottom aud says that if Mr..
BASEL "will be satisfied with Ameri-
can products Of high quality neither he
nor anybody else will have to pay any
duty on them" True, there will be no
duty TO pay on them, but every pur-
chaser will pay a heavy bounty to the
protected American manufacturer, who
under shelter Of the tariff, forms comoi-
nations 10 keep prices up to the tariff
point. If this is not so and goods are
as cheap here as in England, what
is the use of the enormous tariff? Why
did the protected manufacturers insist
on an increase from - per cent. to
60 per cent. tariff if they sell their
products as cheaply As the English man
ufacturer does? Was it to raise the
wages Of labor, as we were told? If so
why have the wages Of labor in pro-
tected industries been cut down since
the passage of the Mckinley bill? And
what about the 500 strikes, lockouts and
reductions Of wages in the United
States under the new tariff?
Pull up those Mckinley socks, neigh
Dor, and let US know how this is; and
also how Free Trade England pays
higher wages than any other country in
Europe?
DANIEL O'CONNELL in his great fight
against tho Infamous corn laws" Of
England uttered these memorable words