Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-17

course, the prices 90 down.
1 have been criticised because
I dared sit down in London at banquet
given by the greatest merchants on the
eartn. The men l saw there not only
sell in this country but they buy every
year tens, yes hundreds of millions or
dollars worth of your food products.
AS l sat at that table one Of the Eng
nshmeu commented on the excellence
OF the beef. Yes, I said, i recognize
the flavor Of il. That beef came irom
the South Branch couRty 10 West Vir-
ginia.'
"McKiuleyism protects American
labor, be declared, "by
DEPRIvING IT OF EMPLOYMENT.
A fair field and honest taxes is all the
government can give to labor" Mr..
Wilson described the method OF eX-
changing products between two coun-
tries. Standing 10 the Bank OF Eng
land he had computed that should Eng
land pay the United States in cash for
what it buys OF US We would have all
the money of that country inside OF
three years. Such enormous purchases
cannot be paid for IN cash. They are
paid for in products or Ia orders on
other countries and the commerce OF
the world is system Of exchange. As
soon as we shut our ports
to the products OF other coun-
tries we shut their ports
to our own and deprive that many Ia
borers of employment. We need
wider markets ana we can ind
them II the government doesn't
step iu 20 take the ha.f OF all We make IN
return Tor them.
Mr.. Wilson cited the history OF Japan
10 show what a country can accomplish
in a few years after tearing down the
barrier which separates IL from and
keeps out the products Of all other
countries.
II can look you in the face" con-
tinuen the speaker, and say that no
eighteen months legislation has been so
crowded with measures for
THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE
as have the past eighteen month"; Of
Democratic supremacy. l am glad TO
meet you, now that the sun Of pros
perity is again rising 10 the land, and
YOU know as we'll as l do that prosper
itv is coming. We have made war on
this thing they call protection, and en-
deavored TO legislate for the masses,
and not for a favored few. We have
endeayored to give you an honest gov
ernmaut under an honest and econo-
/ mical President"
This alusion to Cleveland provoked
/ hearty applause. After detailing the
souaudering by the Harrison admins
| tration OF the magnificent surplus left
I bv the Cleveland administration, and
the consequent precipitation Of the
/ manic. he sas. 81 say ne took the ship
I wnen the water Was aires - breaking
I ing, when the treasury was empty, anu
\ commenced 10 re-ecOnomize. We have
cut down the expenses of the govern
ment 100000, 600 a year. And it runs
better now than it did then. We sbol-
ished 600 useless officers, the salaries Of
which were paid by the sweat Of the
people.
"ProteCtiOn throws its heaviest taxes
and greatest burdens
on THE WORKING CLASSES
and on the necessaries of liis. 1t bur
dens those least able 10 bear them and
lightens the loads OF those well able 10
sustain the burden. Protection taxes
are levied 10 TO take from one mans
pocket TO put in auother's. This is q
country that can and does produce twice
as much as it needs, and more markets
are required. II they are not forthcom-
ing wheat goes down, not to so cents a
bushel, but 20 -; steers not 10 cents
pound, but much less.
Protection destroys the only market
you have aud throws labor out of en-
DlOymeDt Its highest tax was on the
lOwest-Driced goods, such as the com
mon people use, and the lowest tax on
the highest-priced goods. Under our
law the greatest TAX is on the highest
priced goods, aud the lowest tax on the
lowest priced goods. Cnder their sys-
TEN two men were looking for one Job
instead OF Two Jobs looking for one man.
heard Of prominent Republican who
said the other day that for every pound
OF WOO. brought into this country some
American was deprived Of the oppcr-
tuuiJy OF raising that much My
friends, every pound Of wool thas comes
into this country gives an American
wOrk'Cgm8u chance 10 employ his
brains aud skill To- working 10 up and
sending it out manufactured product.
I'VE are false 90 ourselves and false
to oug people In we don't
"OUEN UP NEW MARKETS.
"Iarif reform means new era,
jusJer laying OF taxes and the opening
up OF more markets. One OF the great
est crimes OF protection is that il has
robbed 50 many millions OF occupations
they might have had Oue OF the first
things 10 did was to drive American
ships from the seas ia order that the
American manufacturers might be
pleased. But we are going to have our
own ships, and we are going to build
them, too.
"BetOre my departure on my sea voy-
age ! spent day 10 Philadelphia and
visited the great CramD ship yard. Mr..
Cramp taCitIy admitted that il il wasn't
for taxes on msteria, used in the con.
StruCtiOn Of ships we could build them
as cheap as any country. These taxes
were put on for the benefit Of Mr.. Car
negie aud others. With an the hamper
.ng of the WOO industry We never pro-
duced one-hsli as much as We needed in
this country. / can speak for myself,
and l think for every head of a family
here, 10 saving I feel I would like each
year 70 have more aud better clothing.
rDhatS right cried man in the au-
diencel. We will have under the new
law cheaper clothing aud less Shoddy,
too, ." continued the speaker He then
went on to say the tariff schedules bad
been changed with tender consideration
-or the masses Of the people.
His description Of the operations Of
tha iDonuna fay