Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-31
No help FoR WHIrARER.

NO BELP FOR WHITAKER.
It will be noticed that the Intel
ligenccr dare not defend Mr., n. L.
WnlrAKER's shameful record Of be-
travail OF this community and Of the
workiugmeu in the Legislature.
The HnteUtgencer does not defend his
acts aud vote against the Wheeling
Electric Light bill for the reason that
one of the IuteIIi gencer's editors, who is
also one Of It's proprietors, Mr.. A w.
CAMPBELL, was on the commit
tee named by the mass meet
Jog Of members Of Council
the Chamber Of Commerce and the citi-
zens generally, which was sent to
Charleston TO pray for the passage OF
the bill. And long did Mr.. CAMPBELL
labor with Mr.. WHITAKER TO get him
TO take the peoples side Of the case
against the corporation, but in vain.
And during that time many mild
',roasts" of Mr.. WHITAKER did the
IlteIligenccr indulge in for his treachery
to his constituents and TO this city in the
interest of a private corporation, thus
preventing the city from making and
selling the new light, for which reason
we are TODAY threatened with a deficit
in the revenues and an increase of taxes
owing to the general change from gas to
electricity, which has diverted the
revenue the city should get for lighting
to the pockets of the private electric
light monopoly, together with big
profit which the city would not demand.
Hence the Intelligencer'S care to refrain
from anything like defense of WHIT
AKER's course. 1t could not defend him
without stultiiying itself. For equally
good reason it dare not attempt
defense of Mr.. WHITAKER's unbroken
record Of hostility to the interests Of
labor. That indefensible record which is
not relieved by single redeeming act
in the interest Of labor, no newspaper
dependent upon workingmen's support
dare defend.
The Iptclligepcer for these reasons
was lukewarm over Mr.. WHITAKER's
candidacy at the start and now the I'M
usual spectacle is presented of its State
Senatorial candidate raging impotent-
Iy against the exposition of his legisla'
tive record, while his party organ has
not word to say in his defense.
THE TIN-PLATE REDUCTION FRAUD.
Though the tin-plate industry is flour
ishiug all over the country under the
reduced rates Of the Wilson bill, and
dozens Of immense new tin-plate fac
tories are in course Of construction over
the country, the Republican organs and
speakers point to one or two shut-uowns
and wage reductions made for political
effect and howl calamity and free
trade lower wages"
Every intelligent person who reads
the news knows that there is not the
least reason for any tin-plate mill re-
naming closed at this time when those
in operation are over-run with orders,
many running double time. Aud every
intelligent workingman knows there is
not the least excuse for any reduction
in wages because Of the new tariff.
The Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers knows this and so do
its 900 members at Demmler, Pa, whose
EMPLOYERS, the United States Tin Plate
Co. Of that place, are now anxious TO
start up, but insist on reduction OF
wages Of skilled Eorkmen because of
the new tariff. The workmen who un-
derstand their business and its relation
to the tariff, do not propose to be guIled
By any such political rot and refuse TO
20 to work at the reduction, which they
declare is Hncalled for; and they assert
that the manufacturers are following
out this course because the new tariff
cut down their enormous Profits, by
which fortunes were being piled up in
no time. All Of which is gospel Truth.
Commissioner of Labor CARROLL D.
WRIGHT, who is a Republican, in his
reports shows that the whole labor cost
OF producing a box of tin-plate in Amer
lea cannot possibly exceed Sl.5l, which
is an excess over the labor cost il Wales
OF 80 cents per box or the equivalent OF
one-half cent per pound. The new
Democratic tariff bill puts duty Of
Is cents per pound on foreign tin
plate, or more than double the difference
bctlcceu the cost Of labor here aud IN
Wales.
The pretense that the enormous Nc
Kinley duty was levied to give Ameri-
can labor employment was seen to be
hollow as soon as the farce began, for
the American tiSSR1RaR bine set TO
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