Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-13
/ WORD TO ULrRA-PRorEorION
MANUFACTURERS.

There are a good many people in this
country who seem to~labor under the
impression that no one in it besides
themselves hiss a right to a choice in
the matter Of governmental policies.
They are not only decidedly wrong
In this but decidedly foolish and those
manufacturers who are predicting dis
aster, threatening wage reductions,
that "now wen give you taste Of free
trade, " ETC., are standing in their own
light.
The sum and substance of the over
whelming Republican defeat is that
that party, urged on by the special ben
efciaries Of the high protective tariff
policy, went too far.
President HARRISON, the head and
front Of the Republican party, than
whom a more staunch friend OF the
protective policy does not exist, has so
stated in an interview on the result
Of the election. Mr.. HARRISON takes
the common-sense, conservative and
sober view of the situation and the
causes and effects of the overwhelming
defeat of his party, namely, that the tariff
legislation Of the Republican party, and
the extreme limit to which the high tariff
policy was pushed-beyond the endur-
ance OF the peoples the chief cause
of the Republican defeat.
And the Philadelphia telegraph,
which has consistently supported the
Republican party and President HAIR
RIsoS, says these words of wisdom and
warning TO those arrogant benefciaries
Of the policy which President HARRI-
son himself now condemns, who are
going about shrieking calamity-they
are worth careful and sober perusal:
1t will not make much difference, for the
time being, what course the Republican
political managers pursue. They WI! De
pOwerless to prevent the other side from
going ahead and doing about as they please.
But there is an element in the party which
has been so overwhelmingly chaStised IN
the face Of the civilized world which can
do very much TO prevent even an attempt
upon the part of the enemies Of reasonable
and Just protection TO carry out their Wild
threats. These are the Republican manu-
facturerS. Let Us hear no more talk ABOUT
taking it Outn of the men at the bench, at
the loom and at the forge. Instead or there
being angry threats 10 reduce wages, 10
give them "dose of their own medicine"
to give them "a taste of Democracy" to
let them know "what free trade pauper
labor means" and all that kind OF thing,
let these employers call halt upon them
selves and do-iust the opposite.
What would be the result! Grover
Cleveland would be the first man In the
United States 10 insist that tariff revision
should not only not be tariff destruction,
but that his personal pledge to the estao-
lished industries OF the country should be
honestly maintained, Strengthen his hands
for the conflict that is inevitable. He Is
the friend of American industry, the friend
OF the American workingman, the Ameri-
can manufacturer and the American farm
er. The cause Of the recent political revo-
luton is so plain that every intelligent man
can see it, The duty of the special class
here referred TO is equally clear and imper-
a tive A battle for self-preservatiOn on
any other lines will simply be suicidal
Think il over, now, and see If this cOnclu-
sion is not Just and right, timely, aud the
only one which can be sustained by Just
reasoning.