The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-11

ftectionist opposition than this poor,
timid, little Wilson bill will, but it would
not be sneered at audit would arouse a
mighty support that this bill cannot
get.
MR.. DALzELL's EEc
Mr.. Dalzcll, of Pennsylvania, said:
THE election of 1892, which.rosulted
in the ascendancy in all branches of
the government OF the Democratic
party, had no o occurred than a
crisis ensued amongst the most ap-4
palling in our economic history. All
our industries suffered Immediate col
lapse trade, foreign and domestic, be-
came paralyzed, the ghost of dlstrust
stalked, threatening in all the
of commerce and fear fell on all men,
rich and poor alike. As a people We.
walk to-day in the valleyo of desolation.
"In q few months that the dominant
party has held the reins of government
it has proved itself c~onspicuously in
competent to deal with q single inn
5por4ant question presented by the re-
probabilities Of civil administration.
The executive, with an ignorance of
the limitations of his Office, inexcusable
in an intelligent American citizen, has
usurped the functions of Congress, not
to meet any %exigency or for any justi-
fable end, but to undertake and mis-
erably fail in a foreign policy which
would be grotesque if it were not con-
temptible. This house has been organ
lied on the basis OF ante-bellum days so
that the section of the country which is
least familiar with American industries
and enterprise dominates the policy OF
the nation, while it deals out as of yore
to its servile northern contingent the
crumbs that fall from the party table.
I'm this deplorable condition of
things, clouds and darkness all around
us, what do those who rule our destin-
les propose by way of relief? A tariff
bill that, if enacted, | predict posterity
.lative crime of our history. Instead of
relief it brings ~aggravation. To the
manufacturer, whose idle capital ig
bringing him no returns, whose plant,
disused, is depreciating, and whose in
come has been sadly narrowed, or en-
tirely cut off, it offers the deceptive lure
OF free raw materials and the ignus
fatus of the worlds markets, while it
strips him of the ability to compete in
any market and be just to his employees.
To the farmer it offers instead Of pro-
lection an enlarged competition from
abroad in the products of his farm, in
stead Of a vast and growing home mar
ket, a market abroad in which his in
creased surplus cannot but degrade
prices. To the cry of the laboring man.
clamoring forswork at American wage
rates, to the end hat he, his wife and
his children shall live like Americans,
its brutal answer is lower wages or war
with your employer.
THE OF IT.
sand for the empty American treas
ury, depleted beyond the power to meet
current expenses, what ,Erelief? Oh,
shame to tell it. Further depletion by
reducing national revenues by from
seventy to one hundred million dollars
per annum. To be made up how? By
an issue OF bonds in time of peace; by
layingon the backs of the American
people, now of all times least able to
bear them, direct taxes never hereto
fore in all our experience sought to be
justified, save amid the roar Of canno
and the clash of arms.
..If his bill, instead of being a mon
strosity; if it were wise in its pro-
visions. its enactment at this time
would be unwise. Under the most
favorable circumstances, even in pros
porous times, a revision of our tariff
laws inevitably unsettles business, and
requires a general readjustment to meet
new conditions.
DO you find any duty in this bill on
tea or coffee, or sugar? There are no
sources of revenue SO sur as these.
Why are they not taxed? They are the
n~ecessaries of life and a tax on them
will certainly raise the revenue. Has
the getting Of votes anything to do with
framing of q tariff bill? If SO, I warn
you, gentlemen of the majority, that in
the opinion of the poor man the TX
emption of his breakfast table will not
compensate him for the deprivation of
his opportunity to labor under such
conditions as to earn American wages.
There is not a single industry in which
we, compete with our fellows across the
seas in which our laborers do not reap
richer rewards than their fellow toilers
abroad.
"Read the testimony of those men ask
ing US for fair play before the ways and
means committee and then read the
schedules OF this bill and you cannot
fail of the conviction that the subject
you are dealing with to-day is in the
last analysis the subject of American
labor.
JAMES BENTON HANCOCK