Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-28

than that and had decreed that this tri-
butte should be largely paid to one great
/ combination.
Agriculture, he said, had suffered the
/ same. The men engaged in that noble pur-
/ suit had felt the burden, aud they had fall
| en- from owning one-half OF the wealth Of
/ the country in 1850 and 1860, TO one-fourth
/ in 1880 What the statistics of 1890 would
\ show was impossible TO say, but it would
\ be in the same line. The value of farms
/ had fallen, and So had the value Of the pro-
/ duets thereof He need not call attention
/ 20 the condition Of manufacturing. In this
| the baueful results could be seen. Years
| ago, under the Walker tariff, this city was
BUSY HIVE.
] Iron, silk, cotton, wool and glass were
/ all manufactured in Wheeling in that
I favored time. but since then sOTue Of these
\ branches had entirely ceased. The rate OF
I wages under the Walker tariff increased
I lG per cent. per decade, while under high
\ protection they increased but 10 per cent
/ IN a decade. Many other things combined
\ 20 show the truth Of the UtJerance of James
I q. Blaine that 10 was the golden era Of
A 0rri. prosperity" whoever heard Of
tram In be g I'd old days OF a low tariff,
hen lI class S prOSpered, when all classes
. stood like under The effects Of favorable
and equitable laws. But under high pro
. lection the American people had almost 10
T coin a word 10 describe the great class Of
/ miserable men who went from town to
town and from State 10 State, seeking aid,
/ and bread ana work
/ Free raw material, and particularly free
| coal, came up for consideration, and the
/ Senator said a very large element Of the
| Republican party was in favor OF free coal,
/ but were only restrained from making it
/ free by certain considerations Of policy.
The Senator
THEN TOOK Up ANOTHER BRANCH
Of the taxation issue, and said it was rec
/ Ognized principle OF government that taxes
/ should be collected for the support OF the
! government. But the people paid more
! than a tax under Republican rule; they
4 paid a tribute, aud not 70 the government,
| but TO the high protected manufacturers Of
! the country. Heillusrated this point In a
| very clear and fOrcible manner, amid the
\ applause Of his audience. The trouble with
I the manufacturers was that they wanted TO
l be mllliOnaires in five or ten years, instead
\ Of ITS being the work Of a lifetime, as in
\ good Old Democratic days In those
\ times Of prosperity, one could count
\ the milGOnaires OF the country. Now
/ One-half the wealth Of the country was in
/ the hands OF -, 600 people. In Cleveland,
| Ohio, there were sixty milliOuaires and in
/ New York City there we're five hundred,
\ and one of them had the wealth Of the tax
I alton assessment Of fourteen sovereign
| States. That was an illustration Of the eff
/ fects Of protective legislation.
THE Repu bliCaus say: Look at the
country. Look at the statistics Of Mr. Por-
/ ter, which show an increase Of wealth Of
/ eighteen thousand million dollars Well
| that is true but who has i'll Haveyou any
part of it, wOrkingmen Of Ohio county! /
| venture you have little Of it. No, II has
gone into the pockets Of
A FAVORED FEW,
instead of being distributed among the
great BODY of the people That alone makes
| a nation really wealthy and prosperous"
Hedwelt with elOquenCe upon the fact
that the burdens of the Mckinley bill were
in excess of the taxes levied to carry on
the war. There was no shadow OF excuse
for this additional burden. THE Republi
cans make the excuse that this extra our
den is TO protect labor. docs it 90 it,
The Mckinley bill has been In operation
twenty months. Tell me, in what
protected industry has wages been
and have asked this question upon every
stump. III any workman has had his
wages increased, by reason Of the Mchin-
ley bin, stand up, for 1 ask for informa-
tiOn. IL there be none, then forever after
hold your peace, and don't 90 out on the
streets and swear that the Mckinley bill
has benefited you. The truth is, that the
rate of wages is solely upheld TO their pres
ent rate
BY ORGANIZED LABOR.
[Cheersl. John Jarrett swore to the truth
when he stated that TO the Congressional
Committee [Appiausel. lThe thing is illus
trated in many ways. At PlttS0urg tue
puddlers, who are organized, get 8 30 per
ton, while at HarrisOnburg, Va, where la,
boris unOrganized, but $3.50 is paid and
vet they tell you it is for the wage Garner
that this is done
Even the tariff act of 1888 increased the
cost of manufactured articles $6S9,OOJ,O 0O
annually oyer a fair profit, while the labor
cost was but $3.50 coo, 600. in other words,
in each year you pay a profit to the
protected manufacturers or over $4UO,-
OOO,0lO and still you wonder why you
are getting poorer. Under the Mckinley
Dill. for which l haven't the statistics, the
difference is greater still" He quoted
Stephen b. Elkins' statement that be was
a Republican and q prOtectiOnist because
III put money in his pockets, and from tnaC
text made a most effective appeal TO his
hearers to open their eyes 70 tibet truth, aud
TO make an effort to avert the calamity
whichimuSt inevitably come to this country
if the present policy was to be continued.
The continued piliug up OF vast wealth, IN
the hands of the few, while the many were
getting poorer, would open cnasm IN
America which would only be closed by
being filled with the bodies of American
Going back to the effects Of labor
organizations in keeping up the
rates of wages, Senator Faulkner gave
some striking examples OF the fact, show
ing that where there was a good organiza-
tien. even the "unprOtected' hod-carrler
and the brick-laysr often got more money
per day than the skilled workmen IN "pro-
teCtedN industries.
The Republican claim OF cheaper prices
under protection was met In q most EN-
cient manner showing how
IMPROVED MACHINERY AND ADULTERATIoN
had combined TO pull down prices. In GER
tain lines Of plated buttons, man earning
So per day could only make three dozen
buttons day by hand. Now
nov. at 3 a week, turned out 5000.
In the cotton industry man work-
ing thirteen hours day, could formerly
only turn out y. 900 yards in year NOW,
i'm ten hours a day he produced SOO Yarus.
Ii was such things as that that pulled down
prices Another thing was the universal
adulteration. Hair and shoddy entered
into "woolens,7 poorer dyes were used IN
calicoes and cloths, and in the line OF gro
ceries everything was adulterated even
down TO unerOund spices. That was the
way prices had been reduced unuer the
policy OF protection a.,
ATTENTION was also called to the radical
SifFeronce between Democratic and Repuo-
li,.on ideas of taxation. The Republican
go, ,-,as IN mt the high tax on the neceS-