The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-24
To,,, for calamity shriekers.


The free traders are keeping up their
howl Of calamity and doing their best
to make the American people believe
that they are the most miserable, be-
cause the most "tarif-taxed," on earth.
In the same breath they shout the
praises of Great Britain and ask the
American people to behold how that
country has prospered under the eco
nomic policy which the Democratic
party proposes for this country.
Every days news dispatches, every
trade report, every publication from the
great commercial agencies, every mans
observation and experience-every fact
that comes within anybody'a knowl-
edge, all the facts that come within
view Of all who read and hear-every-
thing that has value as testimony bears
witness that this country is at this very
time enjoying the greatest prosperity
in its history, prosperity universal in
the United States and solid as the eter-
nal rocks. More than this, ours is such
prosperity as has never been matched
by the most favored country OF the old
world in its most favored days.
Though it were true that Great
Britain has equal prosperity with our
selves it would be dangerous experi-
ment to abandon our policy and take
up hers, for each country is surrounded
by its own conditions and its states
manship must meet these conditions
with view to the highest good OF the
people who make that country. II 1t
be not true that Great Britain is pros
perine under the tariff.for-revenue-
only policy, if by her own despairing
admission she is falling behind-selling
less to foreign countries and consuming
at home less OF her home product
would it not be rank idiocy to let go our
hold on American protection to go ex-
perimenting on British free trader
In another column will be found the
views OF British newspapers on the
present situation. 1t is chorus OF
calamity that would delight the hearts
OF the calamity shriekers in this coun-
try if they could find like state OF
affairs here. These British reports deal
with the depressed iron and steel in
dustry; with the tin plate trade, which
we are told is "going from bad to
worsep because tin plate works are
being established in the United States;
with ship-building; with cotton'spin-
ming; with British industry in general
and with the workingmen's savings in
stitutions, which are threatened with
complete disaster. These extracts from
foreign sources do not tell the whole
story, but they tell enough to show
which way the wind blows.
Lord Salisbury, then prime minister,
in his speech at Hastings, May Is. 1892,
speaking of the tarif-for-reyenue-only
policy OF Great Britain, said: ut may
be noble, but it is not business" This
utterance was greeted, as the London
7Tmss report says, with cloud cheers"
and then the prime minister added: "If
l may aspire to fill the Office of coun-
sellor to the public mind, should ask
you,to form your own opinions with
out reference to traditions-not to care
two straws whether you are orthodox
or not-but to form your opinions ac-
cording to the dictates OF common
sense"
This rule OF common sense every
business man tries to apply to every
business transaction. 1t is the only
safe rule to guide nation. Never
mind traditions-if you have been
Democrat apply to your party's plat
form and policy the test OF common
sense, and if 1t will not stand that test,
how can you vote its ticket? What
need you care for the denunciation of
politicians-if you are hungry will they
feed you? naked will they clothe you?
Bad Medicine for West Virginia DEM