The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-19

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to do it, and yet these croakers go
around and say you can't do it. Why,
they would be voted in every commu-
nifty as a public enemy, and ought to
be. They are saying just what the
Meishman said two years ago, but tho
Welshman is not saying 1t any more.
[Great cheering and laughter.
We have made in the last fifteen
months Il, 100000 pounds OF tin plate
made from our sheet steel, in our
own mills, by IL own workmen.
But they say you could get things a
little cheaper II you had FREQ trade.
Well, my fellow-citizens, whether a
thing is cheap or whether it is dear de-
pends upon our financial condition. 1t
depends upon what money We-have got
wherewith t o buy it and what We can
get for our labor. There are plenty Of
old men in this audience who will re-
member away back in the sixties when
articles were the lowest in nominal
price they were the highest to get, be-
cause you didn't have money wherewith
to get it. Free trade cheapens the arti-
Gle by cheapening the artisan. Protec.
ton ~cheapens the article by giving to
the artisan the highest protection and
by getting from,that artisan the highest
and best labor. Free trade c~heapens
the product by c%heapening the pro-
Queer, and
PROTECTION CuEAPENs THE RoDuc
by improving the producer and getting
from him his best skill and best genius.
Under free trade the product is the
master and the producer is the slave,
and protection is the first law Of nature
and of self-preservation. 1t is the law
OF the home and the family, and it is
the law Of acknowledgements 1t Is the
law Of self. advancement.
Mr.. Cleveland says in his letter OF ac-
ceptance that we must consult morals
as we'll as markets. He is discussing
the free trade and tariff question, and
he undoubtedly means, il he means
anything, that protection is immoral;
that it is immoral for these people to
take care of themselves. / fear Mr..
Cleveland has not read recently that
scriptural injunction which declares
that he who does not provide for his
own household hath denied the faith,
and is worse than an intidel. daughter
and applause l commend that to him.
Repeated laughter. You cannot
elevate sixty millions of people without
elevating the whole race of man You
cannot elevate this nation without
~elevating the world. We cannot take a
step in the pathway OF progress that
does not make room for the nations be-
hind US to advance.
npa nj Tho no~ime NJ froa trade 10
to buy where you can buy the cheap
est. That means labor as well as every
thing else. Let me give you a maxim
that is worth n thousand fold more
than that one, and il you don't remem-
Der anything l have said to-day, re-
member that. My maxim is, Buy
where you can pay the easiest"-and
the place where you car pay the easiest
is the place where you can earn the
most for your money-and that place
is tho United States OF America. [Long
continued applause and waving OF
handkerchiefs.
i will tell you when we can have free
trade in'this country-when every rival
nation shall pay its labor as we'll as we
pay ours. [Great applause Whenever
they lift the mass of their countrymep
up to !
SAME LEVEL AS OURS,
we will meet them in the markets Of
the world, and it will be a survival of
the %ittest, and the United States will
take care of itself. Much cheering. ]
Give us equal conditions with other ma
tions and we can meet them anywhere.
But We do not want equal conditions
with other nations of tho world that
will bring US down to their level. Let
them bring their level up to ours. Why
should we permit the foreign producer
to bring his product here and sell it
along side of yours upon the same
terms that you sell in this country?
Who's country is this? [Great APP
plause.l Who made it? Who built it?
Who sustains and supports its pillars?
Why, you do, and your fathers did be-
fore you. Who builds your public in
stitutions? Who maintains them? Who
builds your public school houses? Who
improves your rivers and harbors2 Who
| builds your great national highways?
You do. You tax yourself to do it.
The foreign producer never has con-
tributeda dollar. You cannot reach
him. The government of the United
States can tax every bit of the property
you have in order to sustain itself, can
look into your books, ascertain what
property yon possess, and tax it-bht
the government OF the United States
cannot reach the foreign producer in
such way.
RUk Tho nyarnnonf nnn 1n moro
than this. 1t can go into your house,
hold and take your brightest and best
boy and put him into it's service and
make him fight to save the nation. You
cannot reach the foreigner in any such
way. The only way you can reach him,
when he brings his products to COM
pete with yours, is to say to him he
must do SO upon conditions named by
you, and these conditions will give pre-
ference to our W people-that is a
protective tariff. [Long continued APP
plause. That is the law OF patriotism.
That is the law of self preservation.
That is the law of humanity, the law of
the home, and that is the doctrine Of
the Republican party. 1t is what any
man would do ii he consulted the best
interests Of his own country.
do not think We appreciate what a
market we have. 1t is the prize mar
ket OF the world. Do you know that
our internal commerce OF this country
is greater than the foreign commerce
Of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Aus
tria and Hungary combined? [Cheers,]
The foreign market OF Great Britain is
about one.sixth of our domestic trade.