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

! Pennsylvania and some OF the other
States the House passed q tariff bill in
the session Of 1s59-6O, which raised
duties 10 general by substituting specific
for ad valorem duties, The Senate
passed 1t practically in the same form
as it had when passed by the House, at
the next session In 1s6O-61. Mr.. Nor
RILL, the Chairman OF the Ways and
Means Committee, and the author Of
the bill, declared that 1t was the lnten-
ton Of the act TO restore the duties OF
1916. Why did not Mckinley quote that
fact? This tariff of 1861, or as it has
come to be known, the Morrill, tariff,
does not mark a distinct return TO the
protection feeling. To be sure IL was
supported by protsctionists in Congress
and to some extent outside. Ga the
other hand it was opposed by the mass
Of manufacturers in the country, This
was admitted by Mr.. MORRILL,, in 1870,
when he said that the tariff OF 1861
'l0ds not asked for. and but colby lDeL-
coined, by manufacturers lUho Arrays
and Justly feared Instability" And JOHN
SHERMAN, of Ohio, afterwards Sscrs-
tary of the Treasury and now Senator,
be declared during the Debate on that
bill: "When Mr, Stanton says the man
lGdct1Uers are urging and pressing this
bill ne says lCh0t he certainly k1l2lOs is
not correct. The manufacturers asked
Ouer and oUer again to be let alone. The
4arif Of 1851, Is the manufacturers
blu"
Why did not MCKINLEY quote NOR
RILL or SHERMAN, men Of his own
party, instead of garbing BUCHANAN?
Simply because, like tho simple facts
presented by the REGISTER, they would
have made him ridiculous aud given the
lie direct to his whole false and dema-
gogic speech. For the same reason he
did not quote Mr.. BLAINE's plain state
ment at Ieagth regarding the unprece-
dented aud never since equaled pros
perity OF the country under the Demo
cratic "free trade" tariff Of 1876.
The Intclltgencer accuses the REGIS
TER OF Rarbling BLAINE because it does
not go on aud quote Mr., BLAINE's theo-
rles as protectionist regarding the pros
perlty of that period, which he claims
was due not to the freedom OF trade al
lowed under the low Walker tariff, but
TO the Irish famine and war in Europe,
negIecting to state, however, that we
could not have taken advantage of
these things had there been high tariff |
barrier between US and Europe.
The InteUigencer cannot in any way
show how we have garbled Mr.. BLAINE
by quoting him only as a historian and
not as political theOrist. We quoted |
the facts given by Mr.. BLAINE, not his
theories. We know the latter. Mr.
BLAINE differed from the MCKINLEY |
school OF protectionists in that he at
least gave the facts if he did indulge
IN sophistry regarding them. MCKIN-
LEY and his followers never give facts.
They distort them.
The Intelttgencer, or MCKINLEY, quo
led one manufacturing firm in New
York against the tariff Of 1916 and ere
..-.F-~
,ylvania! Itmight have quoted dozen,
,ut what do their assertions amount to
against the great array Of facts pre-
,ented in this fourteen years Of Ameri-
IAN history? There were fourteen
years OF unsurpassed, unparalleled and
lnequaled growth OF industry in the
aud the mill and in the mine
md the field, and OF prosperity and
progress among all the people OF the
and, the like OF which we have never
seen since, and Gao but hope for in the
future under the returned rule Of the
party OF all the PEG pie.