The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-13
anti Protection plGHk:ol
ths DenOcrdtlc

who made the constitution:
Anti. Protection plaHk;ofP rmmbh Of the ,frst
he Democratic tariff art, pnSed
platform, Jutp4, 1883.
We denOunce Repub. Whereas, II Is Hhces.
Lean protection as a sary for the support OF
fraud upon the great government, fot the
majority OF the Ancri.I dlschIrge Of the debts
eau people for the ben of the United States,
eft Ofthe few. We c I1nd ne encouragement
clare II TO be a iunda.I and protection OF mdnu-
mental principal OF the Jdctiires, that duties be
Democratic party thRtliaid on goods, wares
the Federal q oYcrnIand merchandise i'm
ment has no constitu- ported: Be 1t enacted.
ttOnRl power TO impose &c, thai from and after
and collect Tariff duIthe first day OF August
ties, except for the pur- next ensuing. the sew
pose OF revenue only. lerll duties hereinafter
We demand that the mentioned shall be laid
collection OF such taXeslOn the following goods,
be limited to the neces. wares and merChnn-
stiles of the Govern discs imported Into the
ment when honestly United States from any
and economically Rdl foreign port or place.
minlStered.
Well may George Ticknor Curtis, the
great Democratic constitutional lawyer,
inquire whether ~ex,President Cleve-
land, Senator Hill, and other leaders OF
the Democratic party, at the present
day, are better opponents of the consti-
tuition than Madison, Washington,
Hamilton, Jefferson, Randolph and the
generation OF men who established it.
A Demagogue aud His Defender.
The Register will pardon the INTELbI-
aENcER for asserting that it is not dis
courteous to Mr.. MacCorkle when it
states that he is guilty of the rankest
sort of demagogy and falsehood when
he declares that if Thomas L. Davis is
elected governor Of West Virginia
there will be mixed schools in this
state. Every intelligent citizen knows
that when Mr.. MacCorkle makes this
assertion, as he has in nearly every
speech in the southern interior coun-
ties OF the state, he INDUCES in the sill
lest bosh, because it is impossi-
BILE under the state constitution
to establish mixed schools in West
Virginia. The constitution expressly
forbids such a thing aud Mr.. Mac
Corkle and the Register both know
1t. They know that mixed schools
could not be established without
a repeal OF the constitution, and
that this cannot be done without a vote
OF the people, and that neither Mr..
Davis nor any other man in the state,
white or black, would favor such a
proposition.
knowing these things to be true, does
the Register sustain its candidate's
course in endeayoring to create so base
less a prejudice for the sake of making
votes? Is a man fit to be governor who
will adopt such demagogic methods?
Tin Plato and tho School Children.
The free trade Democratic officials Of
New York city have recently engaged
in a peculiar crusade and the course
pursued furnishes additional evidence
that somebody is badly frightened at
the progress Republicans are making in
this campaign Of education. The story
is interesting. and we CLEAN it briefly
from the american Economia as follows:
The little medal OF American tin plate entitled
Harrison Reid and Protection, 1892, had been
largely used for distribution among school
children OF the city OF New York until last week,
when the free trade Democratic board OF educa,
ton Of this city became greatly alarmed lest
some Of the Democratic parents OF the children
should learn through their little ones OF the ben
etts ofthe protective policy. Quickly the police
board ordered that this distribution, which was
strictly within the law, should be stopped, and
an agent Of the League Distributing meda!slto
the school children after they had left the BChoo
roem and were on their way home, Yves ordered
to stop under penalty OF arrest,
We trust that every protection newspaper IN
this country will let It's readers know Of this ut
tempt to prevent the distribution OF wholesome
matter teaching the principles of protection: As
q result, however, OF the publicity In New York
city, the school children are taking the matter
into their own hands and every day. bcsiego the
League rooms for quantities OF the tin plate
medals for distribution.
We grant that II may not be pleasant for a
Democratic father TO have his child come home
singing:
Projections banner guards our land,
From EnglRnd's greed and paupcr pay,
And when ! play Great BrltAtn's hand,
Please take me for Il BLOOMING JAY,
and asking what It means, but this IL the very
purpose OF the distribution. 1t Is our idea that
II the children In the homo eau bring the sub.
ject to the attention of parents great good VIII
result. The school children OF New York Will
receive thesd medals, Notwithstanding the at
tempts Of the free trade ollgarchy to prevent II.
MacCorkle Gcneralship.