Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-19

gleny V diiOg, VIC AAo"o"NA -
and st. Louis, the Cleveland and Pitts
burg and the Baltimore and Ohio. A
great many Of the largest glass works
window glass, tableware, bottle and
green glass-were started and continued
in successful operation steel at that
time was only made in crucibles, and
few understood the process, and conse-
oueptIy hut little was made until after
the Bessemer patents were perfected,
about 1870; everybody had employ
neut who wanted it. at good wages,
and everything brought good prices
In his twenty years Of Congress Mr..
BLAINE says that everybody 'oos salts
fsd iyith the tariff Of 1916, so much so
that IN the Presidential contest OF 1856
neither party mentioned it in their plat
forms, =" and further he says, "by this
law-the tariff of 1S57-the duties were
plated lover than they had been at any
time since the war OF 1912. The act, F."
be says, was well received by the
people, and, indeed, was concurred in
by considerable portion OF the Repub-
lican party"
The statistics show that more fur
naces were lighted, more factories built,
more miles of railroad constructed, more
iron mills started, more mines opened,
more glass factories operated and put
mp, better wages paid workingmen, and
in everything else useful TO the Amert-
can people there was greater advance
ment and more prosperity every way
during this period than has existed at
any time since.
Yet MCKINLEY told his audience yes
terday afternoon that "a Democratic
tariff never lighted furnace fire nor
opened a mine in the United States. J"
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Jr., should ask
his father how it was in those days?
Mr.. MCKINLEY talked at some length
about the constitutionality of his tariff
law, but he did not quote the decision
of Justice MILLER, Of the United States
Supreme Court, who said:
To LAY WITH one HAND THE POWER
OF THE GOVERNMENT ON THE PROPERTY
OF TIE CITIZENS AND WITH THE OTHER
BESTOw 1T UPON FAVORED INDIVIDUALS
TO AID PRIVATE ENTERPRISES AND BUILD
Up PRIVATE FORTUNES, Is NONE THE
LESS ROBBERY BECAUSE 1T is
DONE UNDER THE FORMS OF LAW
AND Is CALLED TAXATION.
When MIR. MCKINLEY quotes the
Supreme Court on this subject he should
tell the whole story.
1.-THE first great tariff law Of our
country" said Mr.. MCKINLEY, twas
passed by the fathers of our country
who were greater constitutional lawyers
than GROVER CLEvELANDw But Mr..
MCKINLEY forgot to add that the first
tariff was something like eight per cent.
while the tariff he is sponsor for and is
defending is StTty-Sir per cent. He de
voted some time to quoting
WASHINGTON, JACKSON and others,
but he did not tell his au-
dience anything about the changed
industrial conditions in this country
in the past century, aud he did not
quote this from WASHINGTON who in
1856 said:
indulge fond, perhaps an enthusiastic
idea, that as the world is evidently made
! less barbarous than it has been its ameliora-
ton must still be progressive; that nations
are becoming more humanized in their
policy and we find that the period is not
very remote when the benefits of liberal
and free commerce will pretty generally
| succeed to the horrors of war.
More than a century has passed and
yet MCKINLEY is quoting WASHINGTON
as being in favor of 66 per cent. tariff.
Mr.. MCKINLEY quoted HENRY CLAY
on the tariff, but he neglected to quote
these words which fell from HENRY
CLAY's lips in 1910, ffty-two years ago.
No one, Mr.. President, in the commence
ment of the protective policy ever supposed
! il was to be perpetual. We hoped and be-
| Heved that temporary protection extended
| TO our infant manufactures would bring
! them up and enable them to withstand
I 1. IL. ,s,f no
| protective policy were entirely to cease in
/ 1912 it would have existed 20 years from
| 1916, or Is from lS24-quite as long as at
I either of those periods, us friends supposed
might be necessary.
Yet MCKINNEY quotes HENY CLAY as
favoring his &C per cent. tariff Of to-
day. Why didn't Mr. MCKINLEY quote
these words from JACKSON:
There is perhaps no one Of the powers
conferred on the Federal government so
liable 10 abuse as the taxing power. The
most productive and convenient sources Of
revenue were necessarily given to il, that it
might be able 10 perform the important du-
ties imposed upon il. aud the taxes which
il lays upon commerce being concealed from
the real payer IN the price Of the article,
they DO not so readily attract the attention
of tue people as smaller sums demanded
from them directly by the taX-gather
But the tax imposed on goods enhances by
so much the price of the commodity TO the
consumer and as many Of these duties are
imposed on articles of necessity which are
daily used by the great body Of the people,
the money raised by these imposts is drawn
from their pockets.
Congress has no right under the consti-
tuition TO take money from the people un-
less il be required TO execute some one OF
the specific powers intrusted to the gov
ernnSnt: ard II they raise more than Is