The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-05

planned 70 mo tnAt tnnt Nhs h0nueElul
manufacture, shat every one was made
upon the other side Of the water--that
wss the BFisish coat Of arma. Then,
when turned over that plate. that cost
about twenty-five cents-you know how
inany you eau get for twenty-five cents
noWl-thsn ] discovered another won.
derfui thing right under Il, the old
fashioned tWo.tined fork and knife with
the red bone handle and right on that
was Manchester, England"-not one
Of them made In the United States Of
America, and 81 70 q set, and when We
broke OF one time We Just "gigged"
with the other. And my mother was
always careful about those kniyes. She
instructed the girl in washing them
never 70 pour hot water on those kniyes
aud forks, because II you did. those
handles would come of; just like the
hull OF q hickory nut after heavy
frost We made them. and We protected
them; and the consumer and the pns.
chaser OF them never paid o price with
the duty added, and they came down,
and down and down. You remember
TnE OLD BARLOW KNIFE,
don't you, made in England? You
know you cut butter with them nicely
Il you showed one in hot water. VIZ
bought them because tho boys couldn't
cut their fingers. But you haven't seen
Barlow knife in the last quarter Of q
century. They are superseded by Amor
lean cutlery, the finest 10 the world,
and the production Of which was slim.
ulated by protection, and American 10.
genuity and American brains and
American sinew manufactured them on
this aide OF the water, and oil owing TO
protective tariff. [Applause.
Now, my friends, they told you fur.
Their that the consumer paid the tax,
aud, they say, they have taken but Que
step. They arc following after England;
they wantto tax something with the
idea that they get just as near to free
trade as possible, and the best thing
that they thought Of was sugar. We
were only producing about seven per
cent Of 1t. Ninety.three per cent came
from over tho water aud from other
countries. And they found It com.
ing in free. And they said in '9S
to the farmer, after they had used the
arguments" I have spoken of-appeals
TO prejudice-they said TO the farmer:
"Give us the President Of the United
States, and the Congress Of the United
States, and the Senate Of the United
States. aud all things shall be added to
you-increased prosperity shall be the
result. The farmer shall have, instead
OF ninety cents to 81 a bushel, 81 80 for
his wheat" Am I correct or not2
And wool, instead Of being twenty-six
cents and twenty.seven cents, by the
stimulated industries and demand shall
bring you thirty cents and thirty-fye
cents" They said 10 the laboring
man: "Vote for US aud you shall have
no more strikes in this country" And
that came true. Applause. There
was nothing for a long time to strike
for Laughter. They said to YOU
Here the speaker was interrupted by
a cry OF "Bah!" from the house, fol-
lowed by ceiea OF "Put him out" when
Captain Dovener said: .No; don't put
him out. This Is a Republican meeting.
and any sheep that wants to. can bleat
as much as he pleases. 1suppose he
got that idea from my friend Towards
sheep argument the other day. It may
sound very nice to US, and the young
man enjoys 1t; let him enjoy himself.
Don't say put him out Let him
bieat."
After great laughter Capt Dovener
continued:
Now, my friends, let us look at this
proposition. They said to you at that
time, give them the congress, give them
the senate, give them tho President,
and they would do these things. we in
1851 put protection into operation
under
THE MORRILL, TARIFF BILL,
as my friend referred to here, and I say
to you it was a success from the very
start. We didn't go around two years
afterwards aud ronew our promises and
say "Give US another show to get into
working order" Applause and cry
from the stage: Now bleatW APP
piause.
Now, my friends. let us look at this
sugar business. My esteemed friend
the Register says that had criticized
their taking the bounty that was paid
to the sugar growers OF Louisiana oil,
and said that the people did not pay 1t.
I said the people did pay Il, but said
tho consumer OF sugar did not pay il.
So l say yet. What was the difference.
Sugar was coming in free; you were
getting sugar at the price Of production.
carriage and reasonable profit.-no
duty upon ii. We were paying the
Louisiana planter who had been pro-
ducing seven per cent OF the sugar, a
bounty Of two cents on the pound.
Mr.. Wilson, finding things in that con.
dition, and taking the tariff of OF wool
and other foreign products and reduce
ing tho duties on other articles that
were projected, added in the Wilson
bill, or there was placed by tho senate
forty per cent. II sugar was selling
aud say for illustration sugar cost five
cents, forty per cent would be exactly
two cents on the pound, two aud one.
eighth for tho manufactured article.
Tho sugar trust which fixes tho price OF
sugar can add that, and will add that to
the price OF the article, and the pur.
chaser OF that article pays the two and
one.eighth per cent-if that Is the per
cent. Now 1t is taken of the Louisiana
sugar planter. They were receiving
about ST., 100000. Il was not paid by
the consumer OF sugar; It was paid out