Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-01
RESULTS OF REPUBLICAN TEACH
INGS-
For thirtv Years the Republicans HI

RESULTS OF REPUBLICAN 1EACh-
INGS-
For thirty years the Republicans have
been steadily at work evolving a policy
Of which Coxeyism-as it is called to-
days the inevitable elimination. For
thirty years they have been steadily in
stllling into the minds of the public the
doctrine that the government must
provide for all its citizens. The natural
love Of liberty, innate in every Ameri-
can citizen, has been discouraged, and
instead there has been distilled into the
minds of all who would accept it the
doctrine OF dependence. The province
Of the great American government
has been perverted and its orig
nal objects lost sight OF until
to-day, by those who have been taught
the true protective policy, the govern
ment is looked upon merely as source
from which the support Of the people
may be drawn. With limtless re-
sources and endless powers Of legisla-
ton, the governments ability to pro-
vide for all the country's citizens, nor
its obligation TO do so, is never doubted
by these apostles Of Repubicanism.
Fortunately, as yet, this theory has
not been widely acted on and the coun-
Try has not yet been called upon TO fur
nish subsistence for its entire
population. So far the theory has
been taken up and acted on by
only one great class OF men
the manufactIrers-who have been
handing and receiving the assistance
OF the government ia carrying on their
business and in adding TO their fortunes
at the public expense. Republican la
boring men, deluded with the idea that
their wages would thereby be increased,
have Joined their employers in demands
upon the government that they be TAX
en- care Of. and Republicans in power
have given the protection the manu-
facturers wanted. The workmen have
received no bene6t from it, but the feel
ing which they have that the govern
meut owes them its support and main
tsuance is evident
Seeing that their former efforts to i'm
prove their own conditions were such
dismal failures, the laboring men have
made another move. Imbued with the
same Republican idea that the govern
ment must provide for them, they are
following the example set them by the
manufacturers and demanding what
they deem their rights from Congress.
There ls no difference in their demands.
The manufacturers rode in Pullman
cars and stopped at the highest
priced hotels, the workingmen can
not do this and so they 90 on foot and
live on charity, but their demands are
the same. Each is asking the govern
ment for support. The manufacturers
ask the government to provide a mar
ket for their products and keep out
competition. TheLaborers ask the gov
eminent to provide employment for
them. Both are acting on the Repub-
licau idea that the government must
provide subsistence for It's citizens, and
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CoxEY and the armies" that have
sprung up since his march began are
doing nothing more than do the mann
facturers who flock by hundreds to the
Capitol whenever tariff bill is being
framed. Their demands that the gov
eminent must furnish work for all the
idle labor Of the country are ABSURD, but
no more so than the demands Of the pro-
tectionists that the government must
supply a market for all the products Of
the mills.
The whole thing is the outgrowth Of
the Republican doctrine of paternaltsm
the theory that the government owes
every man living and must provide for
him.