The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-20
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A Plain Explanation OF tho Tariff and Cur
renoy OuestIous-Tho Difference Be-
tween tho Parties.
Hon. John Y. Far1ren IN Ne,c rOrs Independent.
The American people have the candi-
dates and platforms OF the two great
parties now before them, from a careful
study OF which, in the light OF the past
and present history OF our political
economy, they will certainly be able to
answer the above query, particularly il
they consider the outcome OF free trade
and free banks in the past, and OF pro-
lection and a national currency since
the war OF the rebellion.
President Harrison, tho nominee OF
tho Republican party, stands squarely
upon 4 platform OF protection to Ameri-
can labor and capital, and OF q sound
currency, US the lifehood OF national
prosperity. Grover Cleveland, the
/ nominee OF the Democratic party, stands
~squarely upon a platform OF free trade
and OF unlimited state banks with the
possibility OF forty-four different kinds
OF paper money, such as the whole
country was cursed with prior to the
war OF the rebellion
The theory OF free trade and state
banks. under the specious doctrine OF
state rights, may be beautiful to con-
template, in imagination, when the
millennium shall have arrived, and all
nations are studying the welfare OF each
other, as much as Or more than their
own; but while national and individual
seltishness continues to rule the minds
Of men and nations, individual nation
alities must observe facts, and act upon
them, rather thun theories, il they
would advance ON all.the lines Of human
progress.
In the good old days OF practical free
trade before the war, the laboring man
could get the magnificent salary of 70
cents per day for his labor, and have
the .prfvilegs, ot-paying q dollar and a
half yard for English cloth with which
to make his trousers; and | speak from
actual experience. Our war, having
necessitated protection for ? revenue to
meet expenses, has now given us over
thirty years of protected labor and in
dustries, and the result has been an ad-
vance OF 100 per cent in wages to the
laboring man and he can buy Ameri-
can cloth for his pantaloons at so cents
a yard, only one.third OF what was paid
to English manufacturers before the
war.
The state banks were taxed out OF ex-
istence by the necessities OF tue occa-
sion to give place to q national curren-
CIV, which has given US money that has
been at par in ~allquarters OF the United
States and in many parts OF the world,
while with the old state bank notes, it
was impossible to cross state lines and
pay for your dinner with their bills.
Who made the laws before the war?
I answer, Democrats. Who made them
after the war? | answer, Republicans.
The whole nation has seen a exodus
from financial bondage and distress,
into the promised land OF liberty and
universal progress under Republican
leadership for the last thirty years,
with the exception of one four years
reign under Grove. Cleveland.
II the farmers and the laboring men
Of the United States cannot, in the
light OF these facts, answer. Whom
| shall | vote for for President? and ighdt
platform of principles has best served
my interests in the past? | submit that
| they should make an assignment OF
their right to vote to the "heathen
Chinee," or some other agent who
knows nothing, and cares less, as to
what makes the basis OF prosperity in a
country like ours. II they will not be-
lieve facts like these, then they would
not believe if the bankrupt merchants
and farmers Of anti-war times were to
rise from their graves, and tell them
| emphatically, that free trade and state
banks were the cause OF their ruin. The
old men Of to-day who went through
! those experiences have constantlyvoted
| the Republican ticket from that date to
| this, and will again next month.
Our great prosperity, under the be.
| nign influences Of 4 stable national
| currency, and OF protection to our la
Dor, capital and industries, has practi-
cally hidden away these skeletons Of
Democratic rule. By what alchemy in
politics have they boon resurrected as
a platform for Grover Cleveland to
stand on?
If free trade, and unlimited state
banks, on a national platform in 1892,
are not evidence OF political madness,
VIC need not look any further to prove
the leaders OF the party insane.
1t is within the recollections OF men
now in business, that in the financial
panic and general bankruptcy OF the
| whole country-and particularly the
west in 1867 and 1S5S-that state bank
wildcat currency was the cause, and
that eastern indebtedness could be dis
charged best by buying wheat and -four
with these bills, and forwarding them
TO Now York for sale. Wheat wps the
only stable currency of that time The
final redemption OF those wildcat bank
bills, was by tho sale ot-mostly-
southern state bonds, lodged for their
security, at a loss OF twenty to fifty per
cent on their face.
l would like to ask every voter to fig
ure out the result to this country il free
trade should be inaugurated. on the
basis that only 81, 0 0 0,0O0 Of foreign
manufactures should take the place OF
homemade goods, which would be driv-
en- out OF use by the cheap labor and
capital products OF the old country
How would these cheap (H goods be
paid for, after all our wheat, that for
eign countries would take, was eXhaus-
ted, il not in gold2 Where is the gold
coming from? and what will become Of
labor thrown out OF employment by
stoppage OF our mills?
Tho Brooks Ltconso LAW.
Since the enactment OF the Brooks
Bill our hotels, druggists and dealers in
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