The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-29
Stirred un q Hornet's Nest.

fearing their sting. The fat-footed
tariff plank of the Chicago platform is
being SO vigorously jumped on and the
clouds are gatherings SO thick and fast
that something must be done.
What do you suppose that something
ISL 1t would be source of innocent
merriment If 1t were not so sad. The
esteemed Register has been put up to
cast out that trouble-breeding, yote-los-
ing tariff plank. Brother fancy, the
accomplished general manager of the
Register, Joined his eloquent and power
ful'voice with the rest of the West Viz
ginia delegation to vote that plank in
against the report of the platform COM
mittee. Now, Brother Taney's power
full and eloquent Register repudiates the
plank that was adopted and endeavors
to restore the plank which he threw the
whole of his great influence to cast
out. Behold what the Register says:
The Democratic party does not want free
trade. II II did-if both political parties were
to demand free trade-lt could not DO had IN
The chief source of governmental revenue In
the United States Is customs duties. They can
not be abolished. and with bankrupt treasury
which the present administrator WI leave ,SS
the trri1 cdn be TtJormcd, soAS 90 Giye equal pro.
lection 10 the farmer, the lRbOrer, the conAumer
and the manufacturer.
Il is not only absurd but unpatriotlc for any
set Of men to proclaim that the majority OF the
American people. who compose the pcmocrGtlc
party are enemies OF their country industries.
The Democratic party does rot ask taef snS
American industry be deprived OF It's legitimate
protection. But II does declare that no industry
shall have more than that or be favored AZ the
expense Of other industries and the people as Is
trusts aud combinations, organized 70 throttle
legitimate industry and arbitrarily contrpl
prices These pernicious combinations OF eapl'
tal created and fOstered by an unjust tariff are
what he Democratic party opposes.
Here is the tariff plank which Brother
fancy helped to knock out OF the pro-
posed platform. Note how closely it
resembles Brother Taney's able editor
ial exposition of Democratic doctrine as
he declined to accept that doctrine:
We reiterate the olt.repeated doctrines Of the
Democratic party, that the necessity OF the gov
eminent Is the only justification for taxation,
and whenever tax Is unnecessary 1t is unlustl-
fable; that when customs house taxation ~ y
levied upon articles of any kind produced ~
this country, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TIE COST OF LABOR HERE AND LABOR
ABROAD, when such a. difference exists, iu!ly
measllres any possible benefits TO labor, and the
enormous additional lmposltlons Of the existing
tariff fall with crushing force upon our farmers
and worEingmen, aud, for the mere adV9ntGge
OF lew whom It enriches. exRcts from labor a
grossly unjust share OF the expense OF inc gov,
eminent, And we demand such revision OF
the tariff laws as will remove their iniquitous
inequalities, tighten their expressions ana pun
them on constitutional and equitable p4 1I S,,r
But. in making reductions In taxes, II Is NOT
PROPOSED TO iNJURE ANY DOMESTIC N;
DUSTRIES BUT RATHER TO PROMOTE
THEIR HEALTHY GROWTH. From the Ionnda-
ton Of tins men b Se S S soee
federal revenue. Such they must continue 70
be. Moreover, many industries nave come 70
rely upon legislation for successful continuance;
EVERY STEP REGARDFUL OF THE LABOR
AND CAPITAL THUS INVOLVED. The pro-
CrcSs OF reform must be sub ject In the execution
10 this plain dictate OF Justice.
The two might have been written by
the same accomplished hand, for aught
we know to the contrary, we're. The
gentle reader will now be good enough
to fix his attention on the tariff plank
which Brother fancy helped to put in
the platform on that memorable night
in the Chicago convention when our
other talented and always honest
Brother Waterson, OF the Louisville
Courier-Jourlal, begged his party for
Gods sake not to disgrace itself with
another disgraceful straddle:
We deuouncc Republican protection rs
fraud-as robbery OF great majority OIL tns
6 6Es[lSnf f n fo he PRiN
CiPLE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT
THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO C0NSIITu'
b boEiAR FORT FOR TA \ EXCEPT FOR PURPOSES
OF REVENUE ONLY, and demand that the col
lection OF such taxes be imposed By the govern
mcnt When honestly and economically ad'
mInlstered.
This is genuine Democratic doctrine
as proclaimed by the Democratic ma
tional convention Of 1892. We regret
to say that the pronouncement of the
Register is spurious. It holds up as
Democratic tariff doctrine the very
thing which Brother fancy helped to
vote out of the platform.
The Democratic party denounces the
protection ofany industry as an uncon.
stitutiopal fraud-states as clearly and
emphstically as language can say it,
that revenue is the only purpose for
which duty can be lsid-there can be
no duty to foster, promote, protect any
sort OF industry.
Tho man who earns his bread in the
mine, in the lumber camp, in the pot
terry, in the glass house, at the furnace,
in the steel works, in the rolling mill
no matter where he tolls and where no
earns, must understand that the govern
ment Of the United States cannot take
any notice of him or his industry. The
only business the government can have
with the custom house is to get revenue
through it. So says the Democratic
party
It is nothing short of pitifur to see
Brother fancy regulating the plank
he helped to put in tho platform, and
all because that plank destroys the last
hope OF the Democratic party to hold
the state of West Virginia in tho Demo-
cratic line.
GROVER, Grover, four years more Of
Grover,
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