Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-25

pound differential. notwithstand-
ing his statement OF moment
before that the foreigner paws all the
tariff taxes. The reciprocity clause OF
the tariff between the United States
and the Sandwich Islands on sugar was
then cited, and by peculiar set Of
sophistries he attempted TO show that
its abrogation was for the purpose OF
allowing the sugar trust TO set the
urice OF sugar He called the
Sand witch Islanders mlssionary-eat-
ing heather. presided over by a cool
queen, Notwithstanding the high
praises of those people by the Harrison
administration and their efforts TO get
them under the American flag.
TIE Captain told Of an old farmer
who traded a pound of wool for sugar
ia 1893, and another pound In 1894, aud
how his wife kicked when ne
brought the last purchase OF sugar
which the Captain, on his own un-
supported word, said was considerably
lighter than the first This was used
TO demonstrate the fallacy OF Demo
cratic tariff legislation. The Captain
told a few more funny stories and came
down to his opponent.
"My friend Howard; he says he Is
not rny friend, but insist on being his
friend. My friend Howard is man
who was for years engaged In the pro
tected industries and l give him full
credit for all his achievements. his
personal character is above reproach'
and | would not say word against him
If I could and l could not II l would.
If any man in this audience says any
thing to asperse his character
he will find in me defender.
But he has said he is against
projections; he is for foreign coun-
tries and foreign workingmen. | can
not follow him there. am for home,
home sweet home He tells you he was
A bow once up near Cherry Hill school
house, and worked on the farm and in
the glass works. l give him credit for
all that. l was once a boy myself ana
worked in a sawmill at % cents day;
and very good protection wages for
those days; but l am not running
for Congress on sawdust, but on
the strength OF the protected industries
here, (waving his arm.) Howard
thanks God he lives in country where
he and the humblest BOY in the land
NAV aspire, even to the White House.
but object TO his statement that these
free and glorious institutions are the
work of one organization, the Demo
cratic party"
The Captain then told Of his schooI
DAYS and said he was out on the frontier
fighting to keep men away from "oul
friend Howard" when he was years OLD.
going TO school at Cherry Hill.
"Our friend Howard says the glass
blower needs no protection; but Howard
owes more to these old time protection
ists than he knows. 1t was the protec-
tionlsts who made the glass factories
possible, and thus made 1t possible for
Howard to work in a glass works" He
told of the early cost Of glass tumbIers
and the fall in their price, due, as he
said, to protection establishing the In
dustry In this country and maintaining
II, and furnishing a place for John" to
learn the glass business when he arrived
at the age at which he desired to go To
work.
In conclusion he gave long drawn,
artisttically modulated Calamity howl,
zy..%.,,...-- inCended TO move the work
ing men in the audience.
He admitted that the mills are re-
suming and are working full time, out
he complained about wages.
He predicted that there would De
resurrection Of protection in Novem-
Der. and advised all to keep their lamps
trim med and burning, for the BRIDE
groom cometh.
"There will also be resurrection OF
the decaying industries Of the past two
wears. Then up will come an infant,
only born few months ago, and 1t Will
be asked: VINO is your father" ana IL
point TO William Loudon Wilson, out
he will deny it, aud say: The Senate
put 600 patches on you and re-
nounced you Then it will turn
to the Senate and be denied, and
TO Cleveland aud be denied. Then the
farmer will arise as its accuser and
charge that it promised 35 cent wool
and 81. so wheat. Then the tall gaunt
figure of want will rise and point her
bony finger and say You allured me
from the green pastures Of prosperity
to the sloughs OF want and misery
the best school teachers will tell
YOU that you can study better on an
empty stomach than a full one. The
people have had an elegant opportunity
for study the past eighteen months and
they have solved the problem"
He promised to quit talking half a
dozen times, but kept on till nearly ten
o'clock.
MIR. c. B. Hart and Mr.. Nelson E.
Whitaker were in the carriage, and
when the Captain was done there were
loud calls for Whitaker, aud few de-
sultory demands for Hart. They
seemed to want Whitaker, but they got
Hart. He began by taking of his hat
TO the ladies. aud announced that he
was in favor OF allowing women to vote.
He had a page from the REGISTER, con
taiting the carteen showing the reduc-
tious in the cost OF the living OF the
American working man. He described
the cartoon, evidently being unaware