Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-23

that the Democratic party believes II
taxing ourselves. I am afraid we mus
admit this charge. What right or eX
cuse have we for taxing anybody else
With
A CONTINENT FOR A COUNTRY,
with freedom and intelligence as the
instruments for its development, we
are disgraced in the eyes OF mankind II
we can not, and If we do not support
our own Government. We can throw
that support to other people only by
beggary or by force. If we use the one
we are pauper nation; if we use the
other we are pirate nation.
The Democratic party does not in
tend that we should be either. No
more does it intend that they shall
falsely call it taxing other people to
tranfer our taxes from the possessions
OF those who own the property Of
the country to the bellies and
backs Of those who do the work Of the
country. 1t believes that frugality is
the essential virtue Of free government.
1t believes that taxes should be limited
to public needs and not be levied by the
plain rule Of justice and economy.
But gentlemen we are confronted with
a new cry in this campaign. The Re-
publican party, says Governor McKin-
ley, now stands for protection and reel.
procity. He was protection alone when
he framed his bill in the House, or rath-
er permitted his benefciaries to frame
1t for him, and firmly resisted all efforts
Of the statesman from Maine to annex
reciprocity to it. No wonder that he
favors the reciprocity order by the Sen
ate. You may explore the pages Of bur-
lesQue literature for anything more SUI
premely ludicrous than the so-called
reciprocity of the McKieley bill.
at is not reciprocity at all, it is re-
tallaton, and worst Of all it is a retalia-
tion on our own people.
IT Furnishes AMERICAN CITIZENS
for the necessities or follies Of other
people. 1t says to a few small coun
tries south of IL, "If you are forced by
our necessities or led by your necessi-
ties to make bread higher and scarcer
to your people, we will make shoes and
sugar higher and scarcer to our people,
and now we are told that reciprocity is
to be their battle cry. Already we are
RECALLED with pictures of Benjamin
Harrison clad in armor and going forth
to battle for reciprocity on a plumed
steed. Simple Simon fishing for whales
In his mothers rain barrel, and in great
triumph capturing an occasional wiggle
waggle is the only true realistic picture
of the reciprocity OF the Mckinley bill.
1--WE are for the protection that pro-
tects and for the reciprocity that recip-
rocates. We are in favor OF protecting
every man in the enjoyment Of the fruit
of his labor, diminished only by his
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acy and Presidential proclamations, but
by laws of Congress that remove all I'M
necessary obstacles between the Ameri-
can producer and the markets he Is
obliged to seek for his products.
"But, gentlemen,I must not keep you
from the work that is before you. Let
us take up that great work as brothers,
as patriots, as Democrats. In so large a
as this, larger in numbers
than any previous gathering OF our
party and representing a larger constit-
uency than ever before assembled in any
it would be strange II there
were not some differences Of opinion on
matters of policy and
SOME DIFFERENCES OF JUDGMENT
or of preference as to the choice of can
didates. 1t is the sign of free Democ-
racy and it is many-voiced, and, within
the limits OF true freedom, wears no col
lars: il serves no masters. We cannot
shut our eyes to the fact that many who
have heretofore followed our flag with
enthusiasm are to-day calling with ex-
cusable Impotence for Immediate relief
from the evils that encompass them.
Whatever can be done to relieve the
burdens, to restore, broaden and In
crease the prosperity OF the people, and
every part Of them, within the limits
and according to the principles OF free
government, that, the Democratic party
dares to promise; that it will do with It's
might. Whatever is beyond this, what
ever IS incompatible with free govern
ment and our history it dares not
promise to any one.
sInveterate evils in the body polite
cannot be cured In moment any more
than inyeterate diseases in the human
system. Whoever processes the power
to do so is himself deceived or himself
deceiver. Our party is not quack or
a worker Of miracles.
1T is not for me, gentlemen, the i'm
partial servant Of you all, to attempt to
foreshadow what your choice should be,
or what you ought TO do, in the seec-
ton of your candidates. You will make
that selection under your own sense OF
responsibility TO the people you repre-
sent and to your country. One thing
onlv I venture to say. Whoever may
he YOUR chosen leader in this campaign,
no telegram will flash across the sea
from the castles OF
LBsENT TARIFF LORDS
10 congratulate him. But from the home
of labor. from the Preside Of the toiler,
from the hearts of ali who love justice
and do equity, who wish and intend that
our matchless heritage OF freedom snail
be the commonwealth Of all our people
and the common opportunity OF all our
youth, will come up prayers for MS sue
cess and the recruits for the great Demo
cratic host that must strike down the
beast of sectiOnaIism and the moloch oil
monopoly before we can have over again
a peoples government, run oy a peo
ple's faithful representatives.
Mr.. Wilson's declaration that the
Democratic party would never permit
this to become either a pauper or
pirate nation was cheered roundly. The
] statement that the reciprocity OF the
| Mckinley bill meant rather retaliation
and retaliation against our own people
was applauded heartily. Simple Simon
fishing for whales in his mothers rail-
barrel and catching an occasional wig
Qle-woggle presented the true realistic
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