Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-18

Democrats, on "fear" that the Demo-
Gratis would do what they had been
elected 10 do, namely, reduce and
equalize taxation. A more foolish and
u1founded claim could not be
imagined, but 1t was the
only campaign material of the
Republican party and it had to serve or
tae party must go to pieces, and it has
been made to serve ever since. Nc
KINLEY and his followers have been
hammering it at the people and ding
donging it into them ever since. Every
thing dates from the Democratic vic
tory of 1892 in the Republican calamity
calendar; before that all was serene
and smooth sailing under Republican
Administrations. The Intelligenccr
dates wage reductions from the advent
of Democracy. There never were any
wage reductions before last year, so far
as the Intelltgencer has anything to say
about them.
What an assumption! 1t would be
laughable In its rank absurditY il the
persistency and ingenuity with which
q. It is dwet upon by every Republican
speaker and organ in the land, were
not a menace to Democratic supremacy
and the cause Of the plain people.
The InteIli5eneer pursuing the party
plan Of campaign, quotes instances Of
reductions in wages that have taken
place siuce the CLEVELAND Inaugural
ton and credits them Of course to that
Democratic threat" 1t purposely
neglscts to go any farther back than
1898, because that would show that the
wage ordinations siAes the advent of
| Democracy were simply a Logical
/ and unavoidable continuation OF
what had been going on he
fore at an ever increasing rate
ever since the Inauguration OF the Re
publican monopolv-breeding tariff sys-'
TEN, and which, of course, was not
stopped By the mere fact of Demo
cratic victory, the Republican sys-
tenn which degraded labor and built
up the trusts being still in full force.
For instance the IRtelligGncer says;
/ The D,tclt1eneer has taken the trouble to
/ investigate the wage situation in this COM
muuity during Democratic times, and nndS
/ that the redU ctions which the REGISTER
mentions have occurred during the past
I wear. or since the assault on the protective
tariff began.
The IntelliqcnecT took good care to go
no further back than the past year Its
statement that reductions 10 wages
mentioned the other day in the REGIS
TER which occurred during the last de-
cade Of Republican high tariff, have
occurred during the past year" is simp-
lv a positive ialsehood which the Inteli-
qencer holsters up through a typograph-
zeal error, known to be such by the
Eqtelligencer, which credited the pud-
dlers in the iron mills of Wheeling with
having been reduced in the past decade
| from SIS. so per ton TO $3.50, which should
have read from SIS. so and SO to $3.50. But
to suit it's own purpose the IRtelligcrlcer
goes no further back than the $3.50
rate OF last year. Does the Intelligencer
call this honest? II 1t has
Investigated the wage situation in this
community, as it says it has, it knows
that the reduction in the wages Of pud-
dlers not under McKiuleyism only, but
under every other tariff law passed by
the Republican party since the incep-
ton Of It's monopoly tariff policy has
been from at least 50 to the present rate
OF SO. so. To be sure the reduction was
more rapid under McKinleyism than
under any previous Republican tariff,
but why does the HltetligCRcer figure
the reduction only since the advent OF
Democracy? Why does it take no cog
nizanee Of the much greater reductions
under Republican administrations FOR
the past generation when every time
I kl6 tAElN WAS tOuCutu IL was ouONCN y \
notch? Why? Because the Republi'
can campaign is one OF gross and reck'
less dishonesty. It is desperate
chance the Republican party is working
on this year and the only possibility II
. has OF success is in lying its waI
through.
The IBtelliqeIlcer acknowledges this
when it resorts 30 the Himsy trick o.
stopping at the $50 pudding rate o.
, last year as the limit of the wages pud
, dlers used TO get when II and every pud
dler knows the reduction dates de
cade sDd more farther back and wa
t much heavier. And why stop at tn,
puddler?
The REGISTER called attention to tn,
r fact that nailers who used to make any
, where from IS to $50 day now are sat
1 ished with IS. NALL eeders who use'
Z TO get from SIS TO ss0 week aow gs
mostly boys wages, OF which tn
. TntsllSgenccr carei gnOred. VII
! the lntelligencsr eDd simiN
Z rssions tbsOu, industI