The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-20


wages, when that product will have TO
compete IN n short time with free coal
and iron and free trade wages. A man
doesn't put out his good money when
he doesn't know what will come back.
Do you wonder nj our present Condl-
ton? For thirty-three years we have
been under protective tariff, and every
business, every fabric, every price cost
and selIing-every product, every bond
has been made to conform to that
tariff. Last year the people
had an election, and they voted for
party in favor OF breaking down tho
protective system, which they called
fraud, unconstitutional, and the greatest
atrocity OF class legislation. That party
is now in power, and the business men
have taken note of the change, and they
govern themselves accordingly, and you
know the rest. ii Il protective tariff is
fraud aud unconstitutional, it must go.
II the tariff OF 1890, under which We had
so much prosperity, is an atrocity, 1t
must 10.
THAT CHINESE WALL.
They say We have built Chioes1
wall around our country; We have put
up fence that is pretty helped
to do it lots of applause l am in
favor OF putting up duties to protect our
own property, productions and labor.
Take that fence down and foreign made
goods will glut the market, and close
American factories. If we do not make
our goods at home, home labor will not
be employed mo employmentno wages;
il labor doesn't earn wages, labor Will
not spend its wages. If no wages are
spent the merchant does not sell to the
laborer. II he does not sell he does not
buy from the manufacturer, the manu-
facturer does not produce and labor
employed by the manufacturer is idle.
What We want to do is to set every
mill going, every piece Of machinery,
Just as it was last year; then there will
not be an idle man in the United States.
Less labor is followed by lower wages,
Tor il there is one days work and two
men to do it, neither gets as good wages
as when there is two days work for
two men. The farmers OF Belmont
county and OF West Virginia, across the
river, having work 10 do, do not think
it economy to 20 to neighbor and get
his sons to do the work when they have
several big, strong sons OF their own
who can do the work Just rs well. We
do not think it polite or wise to so to
Europe tor our goods when
THERE ARE IDLE MILLS
and men at home. II we don't take care
OF our country, nobody else will. Whose
business is it2 Your business. [Some-
body in the crowd yslled out, at is
your business to take care OF it for us. y
Your democratic president says the
pledges Of the platform Of his ptrty will
be fulfilled. II your house is decrecd
to destruction you don't wait for the
dynamite TO explode under you. You
move. The people are waiting to see
what is to be done. Nobody is doing
other than living from hand to mouth
lcries OF that's SOY waiting for the
change that is TO be pursued, to see
what to do. Waiting is business is
death.
I'll tell you what would start things
going, and in twenty-four hours. If
Grover Cleveland will announce that
he will veto any tree trade bills from
the free trade house, confidence will ut
once come back. Business would at
once resume its old time prosperous
condition and every idle man would Sc
cure employment. He'll not do it. He
ought TO, though. 1t would be pa
triotic act that he owes the country. Ii
he had little moro OF the old time
Jacksonian Democracy he would do 1t.
Governor Mckinley then proceeded
to discuss the various allied subjects
that come under tho head OF the tariff,
and in such convincing manner that
has only been heard in this section from
Mckinley himself. He also addressed
the audience brity on state issues, but
these issues arc nearly identical with
the national ones this year.
THE PENSIONS.
His arraignment of tho pension policy
OF the present Democratic administra-
ton was particularly fine, and went
right to the heads and hearts OF his lis.
teners. "The pension roll is roll Of
honor; no unworthy man should be
there. II is a rare distinction to be
there, but once there by the
Judgment OF tho secretary OF
tho interior and the commits
sioner OF pensions, he must be not so
stricken down behind doors by &c part
testimony and under star chamber
process. Ii he is to be put off, do it
after an investigation; let him look his
Iniormer in the face, and then let the
infofmer look the old soldier in the
face. If aman commits an unprovoked
murder he is given the benefit OF trial
before q jury oil his countrymen, to
moot and face every witness, and
confront his accuser. Ii this admins
tration wants to cnt oil the pensions,
let it have the manliness to repeal the
law. don't believe that the men who
inflicted the wounds OF tho war should
ba permitted to cut Off the pension OF u
single old veteran OF the war. am
tired OF this talk about the old soldiers
who get pensions being bounty jump
crs. They were the best mon Of the
country, they came from the best
families OF the north, and OF West
virginia as well, to fight for
the union. know these West
Virginians fighting nobly for our cause
and know the stun they arc made Of, az
well as our Ohio soldiers. You would
think from the talk that tho soldiers