Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-02


.-.-pa tat, therefore. you
q vote 10 continue in power the men
who passed that act. Laughter. Let's
see how dearly you paid for II. But how
cid il decrease the cost Of sugarl Haven't
we been taught by our Republican friends
that the consumer don't pay the tax-that
the foreigner pays It'll But now the claim
IS made that sugar is cheaper. Let me
tell you. fellow citizens, that when the
Republican party. undertakes 70 tell
the people about the tariff, and
points to an object lesson, they stand on
dangerous ground, for If II be true that
taking the tax of sugar makes cheap su-
gar, why would not the same result follow
If they would take the tariff of OF COolens,
and boots and shoes and all the other nee
essaries Of lifel Applause. But before
we give too much consideration 70 these
few pounds Of sugar, let Us see. Don't
sou know that the Mckinley tariff bill
contains a provision that for ten years So,
O0O, 900 a year shall be taken out OF the
traasury-aud don't you know, by way 4
psrenthesis, that every dollar in tue treas
ury comes from
THE POCKETS OF THE TAXPAYERS
Of the countryl The people have been
slow TO learn IL, but they have learned 1t.
TApplause.l Under one provision Of the
Mckinley tariff bill Sl0,OO0,0O0 is 70 Be
taken out OF the pockets of the people for
the benefit Of a few sugar growers in
Louisiana and Kansas aud other States,
and TO render their business profitable at
the expense Of all the rest Of the people.
That is one Of the provisions Of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill That in order to render
sugar production profitable, they make
sugar c little cheaper-taking a few cents
with one hand out Of your pockets, and
with the other they take S10,0OO,0O0 year
out Of the pockets Of the people that
the profitable production OF sugar may
80 on. IL YOU like that form OF legislation
there may be some farmers here. "A
vOice-Tnere are. Another vOice-LOts Of
them Lots OF them. Well, did 10 occur
to anV Of YOU Democratic farmers, RepuO-
lcan farmers or Farmers Alliance farm
ers, Laughter did it ever occur to you
that IL would be as just and equi able for the
government TO pay YOU PC or SC buShel for
every bu hal OF wheat or corn you raj cd in
this beautiful country, that your business
may be profitable, IS 70 pay bonus 70 the
sugar producers tnf they might have pro
dlctive businessl Now, one word 10 the
farmers. You are told, you farmers OF
West Virginia, and Ohio, and Illinois, and
Of the Mississippi valley-you are told that
YOU ought 70 support the Republican party
and the high tariff for the reason that
YOU HAVE A TARIFF
OF 25 cents a bushel on wheat and Of 10
cents 8 Oushel on corn. Well, YOU have
got that, 0ut j want 10 say 70 my farmer
friends that You may pillow your heads TO
night with the conviction that the wheat
growers Of the Baltic, and Of Africa, and
Of the islands of the sea will never ce per
mitted 70 bring their wheat here. APP
plausel. WHAT answer will you give them
when tell you that in 1889, when this law
was enacted. this country imported but
3SS bushels Of cOrn-GbOut as much as
q could raise on gOod-siZed farm.
ughterl. / state this from the Official
uents-and that was for seed corn,
that the farmers who bought IL
.arif tax. Laughter and applausel.
he same year this country sent 70
,untries but a little less than 10O,-
hels Of corn. During that same
he impOrtatiOns Of wheat from
q Asia, and Africa, and the
sea was but 2,S21 bushels.
II was for seed wheat, aud
who bought it paid a
il, aud in that same
an 100, 100000 bushels
exported from this
countries, where you
surplus products of
~ that data that you
nkful for the Nc
lghter.l Ny fellow
that this tariff
5 pretended pro-
a frsudl The
lection 70 the
your products
N to Liver
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