The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-10

uLlu poufS u HoOu OF iSHt on
tho tariff question. Republicans every
where ought to promote its circulation.
Nothing Gun be learned from tho tariff
for-revenuc.only speeches and docu.
ments put fortha present. They are
intended for effect mercly-to hide and
obscure and not tostatoth real doctrine
OF lrec trade.
10 get at tho truth thinking men
must so back and consult tho Demo.
cratic fathers-the plain-speaking old
Southern Bourbong OF Jackson's time
who had tho courage Of thcirConyictions
and said just what they meant.
THE CAT OUT orTnE DAG.
In "Tho Tariff Riddle" viii be found
n careful reviewed. two memorable oc-
casions in Congress when the cat was
out OF the bag and everybody could see
the way she jumped.
The tariff reformers to listen to are
the blunt old-fashioned Democrats who
talked right out in meeting and express
ed themselves ina way that left moth
ing to be guessed at.
A HIGH DEMOCRATIC FREE TRADE AUTHOR
IrY on LABOR.
First and foremost was tho Hon.
George McDutlic, chairman OF the ways
and means committee OF the house in
1892 and thelcadcr on the Democratic
side. Heis quotel with unusual full
ness, not only on account OF his posi-
ton us leader OF his party in the popu.
lar branch OF Congress-. Replying to
Davis, OF Massachusetts, who had asked
whether it was expected that northern
white labor would compete with black
slave labor on equal terms the Demo-
cratic leader gave an answer not lacking
in honesty or candor. let me tell the
gentleman once Tor ALL. tliundcrcd Nc
Dufie in his great free trade speech
summing up and closing the debate ON
the Democratic side, "that utterly. dis
claim his right totmake any inquiry or
question,as to the description of'labor
employed in the southern states and to
assure him that ii God gives the people
OF the South the spirit OF his ancestors
and mine he will be obliged to compete
with just such labor as they choose to
employ and upon terms, too, OF periec!
equality" ~
WAGES HERE OUGHT TO DE THE SAME AS IN
ENGLAND.
General NlcDuilie was perfectly con-
sistcnt advocate OF a tariff for revenue
only. He didn't make the slightest con-
cealment OF his desire to cheaper labor.
Replying further to the northern cham.
pions OF protection he said:
II will now tell the gentleman from
Massachusetts, if he will pardon tho
liberty. what is the natural price OF tho
manufacturing labor OF the northern
states estimated in money. 1t is pre-
cisely the same rs the manufacturing
labor OF England and not cent more.
"ExrEAvAGANT WAGES" IN THE NORTHERN
STATES.
General 3TcDuil;e did not demand the
entire repeal OF the tariff, but said he
would be satisfied if it was brought
down TO tho basis ofrcvcnuc only. An
swering the claim that this would com
pei mol thcrn factories and workshops to
close, he said:
1.-THE people OF the North will con.
time to manufacture il the duties arc
entirely. repealed. The only difference
would be that they would have to cur.
tail their enormous profits and reduce
the extravagant wages OF their labor
and sell their manufactures cheaper"
LABOR DANGEROUS ELEMENT, "BLGAcHED
or uNILEACHED: ;,
After the close Of tho session Of Con.
cress and the defeat OF his bill to make
q horizontal cut of the tariff to 70 pei
cent, General McDuhie returned to his
home in South Carolina and in speech
he warned his constituents to prepare
for q contest with the North; told them
that the northern people were declaring
openly and boldly that "the free labor
OF the North must not, shall not, be de.
graded to tho same. footing with the
slave labor OF the South" Shortly after
this General McDuiiie was elected gov.
ernor OF his state and in his message tc
the legislature he declared the laborin.
population, "blcached or unblcached,
dangerous element in the body polite
NORTHERN WHITE LABOR WANTED CHEAPER
THAN SOUTHERN BLACK.
McDullic was strongly backed by his
Democratic associates in his attack or
protected northern labor in the debate
in Congress. lewis OF Alabama, who
ranked us one OF the heavy-woights o.
the house, said he opposed the tariff
because it forced wages up to an unnat
urally high point in Tho North. Dc
claring that "thc average price of labo,
in the southern states is not more thar
twenty-five cents u day" while in the
North "the average price OF labor is nj
this time 1882 fifty cents day." Mr.
Lewis added: "But ,ior the operation
OF the tariff Laws in enhancing the price
OF northern labor tho state OF thing.
would have been completely the reverse
OF what it now is, and q days labor ir
the cotton field would have commanded
two days OF northern manuiacturin!
labor"
This opinion, it must be remembered
was not that OF q protectionist, but of
free trader and tariff smasher. As Mr.
Lewis plainly and emphatically said, he
wanted q low tariff to bring dowr
northern wages and make white labo,
worth less than black.
woRKINGMES NOT FIT TO VOTE.
In "The Tariff Riddle" the debate 0
'S2 is COMPARED and contrasted with m
other which took place Just before til,
outbreak OF the rebellion. At this tim
Gen. NJ. r. Fl. Garnett, OF Virginia, wa
ono of tho Strnn rnst ndvncntns Of n tnriI