Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-19

perCepLl0ie, ELMER up UT uOWu as tuo
condition Of the property justified, and
every property owner would have been
satisfied.
The moral Of this is, follow the law
and then you're sure TO be right,
THE "GLAss BUDGET" ON MKIN-
LEYISNL
The National Glass Budget, the ma
tional and non-partisan organ of the
glass industry, and the official organ Of
all the glass workers unions, has in its
current number a most excellent article
arraigning the Republican party for its
falsehood, hypocrisy and dishonesty to
American labor. The Budget recognizes
| as must all men Of common sense, that
there is a proper field and scope for a
protective tariff, but that thoughtful
men also admit that it is an artificial
system easily abused and not TO be en-
trusted to political quacks and dema-
gogues. As our cOntemDOrar puts IL:
II is well TO nourish an infant industry
/ through its early perils. A baby whose
! mothers breasts have failed TO supply
/ enough food may very properly help out
| with bottle of cows milk; tnat IS protec-
| ton. but is a beastly substitute for d.
| vinely ordained method. The man or wo-
/ man who should advocate IL as desirable
/ Improvement on nature would neither make
| the world over again nor be elected Gov
| ernOr of Ohio.
The fact that all the great leaders Of
the Republican party have time and
again denounced and deplored its pres
ent tariff policy and given warning after
warning that its continuace meant ruin,
and all without avail leads the Budget
to compare the Republican party to q
confirmed drunkard intoxicated with
the dangerous stimulant OF high pro-
lection. "It is now staggering to de-
feat" says the Budget, 1T has ceased
TO be aggressive and whines in pitiful
tones, excuses and palliations 1t has
parted with it's morals, its reputation,
its good men, its high purposes and its
open methods. 1t is as groggy as Sulli-
van at New Orleans" Speaking speci-
fcalIy Of what the stimulant policy Of
high protection has done for the glass
business Of the country the Budget
says forcibly and truthfully:
With the best raw materials in the
/ world, the best and cheapest coal in the
| world, the best markets in the world, we
see to-day with shame that we only do sec
| ond rate work in all but few OF the
/ minor branches of the business.
/ When natural gas came as pure wind
| fall did 10 do any permanent gOOdi Dld II
as 10 should have done give Us the greatest
markets of the wOrld-as 1t might easily
I have dOue-against Germany and Belgium
with coal at 81 per ton and England at
I $500 while ocean freiCbtS were only 500
| per tOu3 No, 10 did not even give us the
| markets Of Mexico or Canada or the South
/ American RepuOlicS-Our natural markets.
| IL was ike the prize won in lottery. IL
| turned ten men into gamblers where 1t
/ found one able 10 use il intelligenty. As
/ long as 10 lasted it stopped al furnace I'M
| prOvemtnt, even made 10 retrOSrade.
/ Glass factories now 20 about like travel
/ ing circUses. Glass manufacturers live IN
I hotels with their grips already packed 10,
/ move on. Glass blowers have become
/ trampS, calling no city their freehold and
| no house their home and boom towns are
\ bonding their corn fields for the money
\ that brings with il no good thing. Natural
/ Gas las In a small way zone FOR the morals
l and character of the glass business what
\ the protective tariff has done for the whole
| country. Wealth accumulateS anu men
/ decay
Attention IS called to the fact that az
ter thirty years Of high protection the
country finds itself less obie to meet for
/ eiql competition than cUer before. The
glass manufacturers Of England, Bel
GUM and Germany, says the Budget
compelled to stand on their own merits
only, have put so much knowledge and
attention to improving their melting
methods and cheapening their raw ma
terials that they now make better glass
at less cost than we 30 with our mis-
called protective system, adding with
biting sarcasm:
What was the use Of spending money for
| careful scientific experiments when by go
ing into politics we could get a revision OF
the tariff and SO assure greater profit.
Ii is much easier 20 invest a few thousands
in a campaign fund than to go into the pit
OF a gas producer and work at improve
ments in melting methods.
Isit not a shame for Us to allow that our
window glass is inferior TO the imported
because our highly protected manUtactur-
ers have not takes the trouble 10 build the
best furuacel The boloware branch is
but little better.
The Budget then asks this important
question: 'Tf some chemist should dis
cover a chemical or electrical method of
uniting sand and soda into glass by
water power instead of coal, as is not
at all impossible, what would become
Of cur American industry that hangs by
the slender thread Of cheap fuel? II