Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-13

4 ICIc arc SOu1S VI Tue Prices OI dSElCulbl
raj implements, under the Republican pr
tective system, to American and foreig
farmers:
Foreign America
Price. Prize
| Ploughs, one style...........s $500 SIS
! Ploughs, another style. 10 81
Hay tedderS............- ............ 80 % A.
mowers .-.........................4 40 % % I
morse raNe...... sees. ...... IL W % 7
Feed cutters, No. 3.......... 90 % % {
! Feed cutters, No. 2............. y 90 40 Q
! FEED cutters, No. l-........... l6 90 % 9
Lever cutters ................... p
Cu!Ilfalors .................... % W 81
S"eep S........... -................ 0O W W
And yet the Republican farmer has bee
| voting for protection for 10, these manI
years
Conscious of this robbery of the Ameri
can farmer, and determined to correct il
the trainers OF the Democratic tariff bill
which lately became law, placed sgri
cultural implements upon the free list
with the certainty that at the Republican
prices charged for these essentials of thu
modern farmer there would be large i'm
portation of foreign farm machinery
These old prices will not stand, however
40 AA4CilOau manufactures W III a
once cut their domestic price list to such s
point as to shut out the imported article
and this revision of the list will mean al
immense saving to the farmers of the
country annually. And yet, with this in
evltable result staring them in the face
the Republican friends of the farmer are
found going up and down the land de
nOuncing the Wilson tariff DILL and its dis
tinguished author, and endeavoring Il
convince the people that unless there is az
immediate return to the old order Of things
there will be no salvation for any Ameri
can voter.
But the Republicans have not confined
their claims of friendship 10 the farmers
They have long professed an equal paternal
interest in the workingman. and particu-
larry in the miner. And, strange to say,
the practical working of this deep interest
has been about the same with the miner
that it has with the farmer, in evidence OF
which the deliver Of black diamonds will
be found to be much worse off to-day, after
q long siege OF Repu blican Friendship, than
he was ten, fifteen or twenty years ago.
About everything the miner uses in the way
Of toolS-picks, drills, crow-bars, lamps.
Wheel-oarroNS, etc.-waS taxed by Re-
publican statesmen TO the top notch not,
strange as it may seem, for the benefit Of
the miner, upon whom this great Republi-
can friendship was l2vished, but for the
benefit of manufacturers. The new Dem
ocratic tariff law has reduced these taxes,
and the result will De a substantial saving
to every miner; yet Republicans at once
setup howl at the great wrong" which
had been perpetratsd upon the American
laborer.
And what has here been said about the
miner applies with equal force to every
other wage-earner using tools, to say moth
ing Of the reduced cost of clothing, and
many other articles Of daily consumption
necessary to the poor man. Under the
operations of the new tariff ls ". there Ivi Il
will be money saved to the wage-earner
and farmer. and this undoubted fact should
cause the voters of these classes to leno
very reluctant ear 70 the Establishments OF
Republican orators and the assertions OF
the Republican press.
The Republican cry over the removal OF
the duty on foreign wool is another in
stance OF prophecy Of evil to come not
well grounded. That it will work ruin 10
the American wool grower, is fixed GER
taintv in the mind of every Republican
campaigner, and the columns OF tue he
publican press is daily filled with croaA-
ines as TO the result Of the free WOOL para
graph of the new tariff bill. Yet Repuoli-
cans nave but TO turn back TO their expert
meut in removing the duty from beef hloeS
tn he confronted with an unansweraoIe ar
gument in favor of free wool.
Twenty years ago, or in 1873. with a
high duty on foreign hides, very large
proportion Of the shoes worn by Americans
and a very considerable part of the harness
used here was imported from abroad, Iroul
sheer necessity. Both shoes ana harness
were high, and the quality OF the goods ana
the, workmanship upon them were allKe IN
ferior. A Republican Congress placed macs
upon the free list, and IN few years Wnat
a change was wroughti The American
shoe and leather industry at once took on
an unprecedented activity, under the re-
vivinR effects of free raw mate
rial. while the importations Of foreign
manufactured goods rapidly and steadily
fell off. In other words, American work
men began. in truth and in fact TO make
the leather goods used by the American
neople. and while employment was thus
given 10 thousands OF new workmen In AZ
expanding industry, the price to the con
eunoer steadily fell. while the quality Of
the goods as steadily improved. AS re
snlt. every one in America now wears
American made shoes and uses American
made harness and other leather prouucts
and the foreign importatlons OF theSe Srtl
cles are now insignificant
These truths as to leather will be speedil!
DUPLICATED as to wool and manufacturer
thereof. AS America consumes NOR
leather than can be taken from the back
Of American cattle, and must draw for tn
remainder upon the South American coun
| tries and upon Mexico, so she consume
| more wool than she raises, and must q
| into foreign markets for the remainder
! To buV both Of these commodities as cheap
lv as possible is the thing 70 &c
| and with cheap foreign woo
| there must follow a revival IN IN
wooden industry of the couHtry, an II
creased demand for the American product
which will be mixed with the foreign, an
q lower price for the manufactured articl
IN the consumer. The experience wit
| free hides will be duplicated as 10 ire
wool. TO the corresponding oenent an
prodt of all American citizens, and partlc
| uIarlv 10 the advantage OF the America
| farmer and the American workman.
BRIEF JOTTINGs