The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-17

stead affair may be found in the fact
that the wages paid at Homestead aver
age from g o. TO IS 20 per day.
CONDITION OF NORWAY.
Norway taxes tea and coffee from 800
to 500 per cent and admits manufac-
tured articles free; the result is her
people arc leaving their country to
find homes and employment in the
United States.
The Democratic party in declaring
for tariff for revenue only would have
the United States levy a tax on the
things coming from other countries and
which are not produced in this country,
and admit free or place only light tax
on the same goods and products COM
ing from ABROAD to be sold here in COM
petition with what we produce.
WAGES IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES
In July wages were reduced in the
Lancashire cotton mills, in England, 10
per cent. About the same time, at Fall
River, Mass, the Cotton Manufacture
ers' Association voted to pay all day
help employed in the mills the same
wages for fifty-eight hours work that
had been paid before for sixty hours
work. The operatives employed on
piece work were advanced 3l-3 per
cent on their wages, and this action on
the part OF the manufacturers IN the adj
vance Of the wages was had without the
knowledge or demand OF the operatives.
What answer can Democratic free trad
ers make to such facts?
ENGLAND LEvIEs HIGHEST DUTIES IN THE
WORLD.
England collects from tariff duties
Sl0O,OOO,0OO annually, and levies the
highest duties OF any country in the
world. The actual rate imposed and
collected in 1890 on manufactured to-
bacco was 40 per cent. Suppose the
Republican tariff OF 1890 had imposed
any such duty, or one-fourth as high,
what would Watterson, Cleveland,
Henry George and other Democratic
free traders say?
DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS BANKS IN ENGLAND
AND THE UNITED STATES.
England has behind her more than
thousand years OF organized govern
ment. Under her free trade system the
United Kingdom OF Great Britain and
Ireland in 1890 had deposits in savings
banks, in round numbers, about $685.
100000. Under protection, the United
States, after a century's existence, in
1890 had deposits in savings banks to
the amount OF Sl,524, 800, 00O-neaRly
81, 900, 100000 difference in favor OF the
+ United States.
cLEvELAED's WAR on SOLDIERS.
Cleveland vetoed tho dependent pen
sion bill, which was afterward passed
by Republican Congress and approved
by President Harrison. West Virginia
sent into the Union army a great many
soldiers, many OF whom happily sur
vived the war. 1t cannot be possible,
having in mind Mr.. Cleveland's opposi-
ton to the soldiers in the matter OF
pensions, that he can now have any con-
siderable following among the soldiers
OF West Virginia.
Under Cleveland there were issued
1874, 900 pension certificates, while under
Harrison there have been issued about
100000 certificates.
CONVICT LABOR IN DEMOCRATIC STATES.
Convict labor, like slavery is an enc
my to the wage-earners. 1t diminishes
tho quantity of work for the honest
man, and tends to reduce wages. This
! kind OF labor is authorized by law and
encouraged largely in Democratic
states. 1t is'not permitted in Republic
can states; possibly there may be an
exception.
NO PEOPLE LEAVING THE UNITED STATES TO
ESCAPE THE TARIFF.
No emigrants are leaving the United
States to better their condition, al
though the burden OF the Democratic
campaign cry is that the country is tax
ridden; that trade and commerce are
languishing because OF a robber tariff.
But there comes TO this taX-ridden
country six hundred thousand people
per annum to better their condition,
and out OF this number ono hundred
and seventeen thousand are from free
trade England. What answer can free
traders and Democrats make to these
facts? Il this not full and complete
reply to their claims.
FOREIGNERS SHOULD BE TAXED.
The Republican party says to for
eigners, if you want to send your goods
here made by cheap labor, and in some
cases starvation wages, to be sold in
competition with our goods made by
fair wages, you must and you shall pay
something for this right or privilege.
You shall, at least, pay the difference
in the cost Of labor to make the articles
YOU bring here. This is simple justice
TO American wage-earners.
An American is taxed to support his
government; why should a foreigner
living in another country be permitted
to bring his goods and products into
this country, do business, have all the
protection OF our laws, and pay nothing
towards the support OF the government?
This free trade notion is direct dis
elimination against the American and
in favor of the foreigner, and is just
what the Democratic party proposes in
the Chicago platform. In effect, it
would treat foreigners better than
American citizens.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS NOT ORIGINAL
ED OR PASSED ANY GREAT MEASURE
IN THIRTY YEARS.
For the last thirty years the Demo-
cratic marty has had the house nearly
half of the time. 1t has had the Presi-
dent one term. During this time what
great measure has it brought forward
in the house or has its President pro.