The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-29

make any sane man believe that the
Englishmen are not smart enough
where they work for small! margins, rs
they do. 10 keep raw Material in Inc
where America shall not compete as
against America? They take good care
10 carry of lions share Of this bnsi-
ness. An advance of 10 per cent would
be something enormous for them, and
vet with that advance our woods would
have TO stay in the same ratio as they
are to-day. The Register ~ one OF ITS
communications, sneakiug OF MS SAID
that IL can make 10 difference to MS
what wool sells ut, since We are only
buyers aud not growers OF tn" staple.
This IS true in n sense, /. we were not q
great deal better American citizens
than we are Germans. We are as firmly
convinced that the ultimate result can
only prove disastrous 10 the flock
masters OF this country"
Mr.. Bernard Ilorkheimer said:
"When you ask us what We think OF
nd vuiorem duties, 1t simply gets down
10 this, it opens the gates TO fraud. 1t
matters very little what duty you put
on in this country, so long rs the fellow
on the other side makes ont the Dlll.
You understand that importers lay
awake at nights studying how to get
around the law, and at no time yet have
we seen ad valorem duties that they do
not defeat their enforcement. IL 10
simply holding out inducements to
make false invoices in order 20 get the
duties lower. 40 per coat may mean
p per cent, where a specific duty would
have avoided this. Honest merchants
are either forced TO compete against
such contrivancos, which means failure,
or do likewise in sell defense.
"Siuce We must undergo TINS
ordeal now, we would like, in
conjunction with others, say to otler
SO towards huge prize, or say
three prizes. subscribed for by the peo-
pie Of the United States for the con-
gresham or senator who can make the
best aud shortest speech on the tarll.
We are perfectly nauseatod with con-
GresSiona and senatorial eloqueDce,
and perhaps this is the reward We get
for sending 90 many lawyers to repre-
sent us at Washington. They have n
faculty OF drawing things out, making
black appear white, and muddllng
things up in general. We wonder il
the Democrats Themselves would not be
glad to have the bill defeated and give
tho country rest. Here is what one
OF our friends writes from the east: He
says should not be able to sleep nights
ii | were responsible in any way for
the idle machinery. We are losing
more than the Democrats could
save the country in taxes the
next twenty years by keeping men
idle who arc anxious to work. A
manufactures told me yesterday that
when he was before the ways and
means committee, Wilson, your friend
and fellow Countryman, kept him busy
listening to something somebody said
in 1858. He says 81 have not the pa
thence for such rot, it is like taking an
excellent trimmer OF oil lamps and put
ting him TO manage dynamo, or say
because man writes good hand he
ought to be a good telegraph operator:
What is the uso OF hollering Gee Whoa
to an electric motorP When | get
arguing tariff with a man who quotes
anything that happened before the
cable and fast steamers were in vogue l
tell HIM to talk to somebody else. | quit.
Well. we hope VIC will have better times
and all be happy ever after"