Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-25

do so. / stand with Grover CleVelahu On
tariff reform, and with him, oeiieVe III
the curative processes OF future leSisla-
ton. Absolute perfection does not OeIone
TO any work Of human brains or human
hands, and certainly was never acnleVeu III
mans first effort on any disputed SUBJECT
"A few words are required on auOtues
much disputed and much misunderstood
subject Of tariff legislation. Nothing coulu
possibly surpass the audaclty and lnso-
lence of Repu olican leaders IN assalIlng
the Democratic party on tue question u
sugar. The sugar trust is telOnlouS
monster, sired by the Republican party,
and damned by every honest man IN all
the parties that exist. IL has no other
origin than Republican legislation ana no
other creator than the Republican party
I'm looking into the Mckinley Dill you
will ind that the sugar trust was granted
n protection OF one-half OF l cent per
pound laid on all refined sugars imported
from abroad. or, as il is often stated, on al
sugars above No. 10 Dutch standard IN
color. Under this iniquItOus provision the
loot and plundew accruing TO the trust mas
been not less than Sl5,00O,0OO per annum.
Yet the Democratic party IN It's death
graDple with the sugar trust, ana without
any reliable majority at all IN the senate,
when in the face OF such Zoe, mas cut
DOWN Lug pEOLlLAAOn lLA Al--A~eN ----a
one-half of l cent per pound 10 one
eighth of l ceAt per pound, thus Wlp-
inc out in our first encounter three-tourths,
or 75 per cent Of the entire fount or tue,
trusts protected pillage. IL is needless
me 10 saw that we would have wiped y
ont if we could have done so. A sollo
laux on the Republican side OF tne<
chamber, allied TO a small but w
contingent on our side, IS the
wn the trust OaS even One-e
a pound lett 20 swear
swear az, as ii las bee9\
the Senate dill became
you, however, that
stances a great W.
that we have fea
II will not be so DIM
ter 70 a glorious hnisN
FREE SUGAR IsN
al pray aud hope for theV nd hour
of free sugar, but until thatNIhe comes
the people can better afford TO pay mod
crate duty into the treasury, which light
ems their burdens in every other direction,
than TO pay increasing millions OF bounty
into the pockets of private individuals Tor
no other purpose, and with no other resuIt
in view tnan 10 make few people rlch at
the expense of everybody else.
In regard 20 the general operations OF
the new Democratic tariff law and its ultl-
mate approval Oy the American people
there is neither fear, misglving nor doubt IA
my mind. A State like Maine, whose chief
wealth has come from high protection on
lumber, aud the enormously protected
prices at which il was sold 70 the people OF
other States. may Oe expected 10 revolt IN
high dudgeon against tariff reform Of all
kinds aud more especially against meas
ure which makes lumber free, and cOnSe-
Quently 100 per cent cheaper 70 every fam
lily 10 the United States who wants 70 build
a frame house
Il will call your attention next 70 the ad-
vertisemeutS of the leading Republican
wholesale and retail merchant in Phlla-
delphia, and also one Of the leading RepuO-
lican politicians in the United States, John
Wanamaker, late pOstmaster-general I'M
der President Harrison. a man with piOus
re5ard for the truth, as well as fdt his own
interests He adverties in whole broad
side OF the Philadelphia Record that owing
to and solely on account Of the new Demo-
cratic tariff he can aud VIII right OF,
now, make to his customers the following,
among many other magnificent reductions
in prices over his counters.
''What answer can be made from the
standpoint Of prOtectiouist 70 the force
of these startling figures. None what
ever, except TO admit that protective
tariff is q TAX.
when the protectionist, however, is
driven 10 the wall on the great Outstand-
ing fact that low prices for goods always
result from low rates Of tariff, his last and
desperate resort is to persistently assert
that high protection assures employment
in the manufactures, the work shops, the
coal mines, the blast furnaces and other
industrial enterprises of the country, for
the working classes, and at fair, honest
and steady wages, 1 speak now directly
70 the wage-wOrkers of Indiana, and in the
light of their own experience, which
call to witness, when / say that the
claim, by whOmsOever made, that protec-
tion of the Mckinley kind protects labor
ers in getting employment or in keeping
il Gt fair living wages, without reduction
or change of contract on the part of their
employers, is a falsehood, gross, palpable,
transparent; a falsehoOd, brazen, impu-
dent, and proven 10 be such in more than
a thousand strikes and struggles between
capital and labor under the high protective
tariffs, which for the third of 4 century
past have cursed the laboring classes Of
the United States.
ATTENDING TO LABORERERs' NEEDS.
"Wha the American labOrsr most needs
is not the abOminatiOn Of tariff protection,
the bloody reign OF McKinleyism, but
strong and carefully preDared enactment in