The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-02
go down or wo must 20 out. Our laws
have invited money and men and We
have grown great and rich thereby,

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Black has noticed that mon come here,
and no docs not want thcm 10 Gomez;
hence no Ia willing that our wages shall
be lowered to koop people away. Well,
this 10 not tho iimG TO discuss lmmigra.
ton. but while people are coming, | am
glad they have not yet imbibed tho
gcntleman's ideas and have not got DO.
gun to cIamor for lower wages.
10 sum II up, II this protection gives
us inonoy and men and our vast Coun.
try needs both. it may show why wo
haro so wonderfully prospercd. II II
docs ! am incllnod to think that tho
way TO have two jobs hunting ono man
Is 10 koep on making now mills and try
to prevent tho committee on ways and
means from pulling down old oncs.
But what do you say about tho farm.
or? Well, Oh TINT subject ! do not pro.
fess any special learning, but thcre Is
ono simple statement wish to make
and loayo the question there. II, with
cities growing up like magic, lnnnufac.
turing villages dotting every eligible
site each, and all swarming with
mouths TO DO filed tho producers OF
food arc worse Of than when halt this
country was q desert, abandon sense
in favor OF political economy.
Ono other thing | have noticed in
this debate. When tho gentleman from
kansas Mr. SIMPSON, gots little
money ahead no docs not put II into
stocks in thoso immensely profitable
manufactures; he has too much sense.
lilo adds to his farm, and has 80 told us.
Example Is richer than prccept.
If the hopo OF ngriculturlsts Is in Eng
lish FREQ trade they Ind be.tcr ponder
on tho fact that while the wages OF ar-.
tlsans have increased in England
s. 43 por week since 1850, tho wages OF
agricultural laborors have onlyincrcased
~ cents, and while the Lancashire
operatives in the factories live as we'll
as anybody, except Americans, the ae.
ricultural laborcrs arc hardly better of
than tho continental peasantry. Eng
lands example will not do for agricul-
ture.
FAIRLY MET.
Here let me meet ono question and let
me meet it fairly. We arc charged with
having claimed that tho tariff alone will
raise wages. We have never mSdc such
claim in any such form. Free traders
have set up that claim for us in order 10
triumphantly knock 1t over. What we
do say is that where two nations have
equal skill and equal appliances, and n
market nearly equal so that ono OF
them can hire labor at one.halt less,
nothing but tariff can maintain the
higher wages, and that we can prove.
We arc the only rival that England
fears, for we alono have in our borders
the population and the wages, the raw
material, aud within ourselves the
great market which insures TO US tho
most improved machinery. Our con-
slant power to increase our wages in
sures Us also continuous progress. II
you wish US to follow the example Of
England, 1 say yes, with NIL my heart,
but follow her real example and moth
ing less. Let us-lkeep protection, as
she did, until no rival dares to invade
our territory and then We may take our
chances for future which by that time
will no, be unknown. So
SPEAKER CRISIS SPEECH.
Among other things Speaker Crisp
said:
~ feel embarrassed by this vast audi
ence here assembled, embarrassed in
the idea TINT ! may not no able TO full
fill the expectation Of my friends when
l undertake in the period allowed in
the rules Of the house to reply and
mako corrections to this house OF tho
errors In the arguments TO which we
have just listened. I assume that the
cause OF protection has no moro able
advocate; I assume that tho arguments
for protection can be put in no more
forcible form than that to which you
have listened to-day and shall ask you
to dispassionately examine with me
that argument and then ask theiudg.
mert OF tho house as to whether the,
cause attempted to DO sustained can be
established consistently with right and
justice to the people OF the United
States"
After his Introductory remarks, Mr..
Crisp declared that an examination OF
tho protective system would show that
while it was builtup for tho ostensible
benefit OF labor il. was in truth con.
structed tor the benefit of the manufac-
turing classes. Flo pointed out that the
wages OF labosers in protected indus
tries went down and those in unprn-
tectod industries went up as a result OF
the Mckinley net. This was shown by
the statistics gathered by the senate
committee on finance. The speaker re-
forred to tho artificial conditions created
by protection. 1t took mon, he said,
from their natural channels and .di-
rertcd them to unnatural channels.
Tho same was true in diversion made in
the channels Of trade. Protection was
Chinese wall which not only shut out
the world but shut in the United States.
rs Mr.. Crisp was greeted with applause
when he said that the thirty years Of
protection was period of}unrest, dur.
ing which the mnssos of tho people had
constantly reballed -asainst.tho heavy
burdens OF taxation. The people had
always boon stilled at tho polls by the
Republican promises to reduce the
tariff. but once successful Mt tho polls,
tho Republican legislators surrendered
themselves body and soul to the manu-
featuring classes. 81.
Tho speaker declared that the :gcntle.
mnn Mr.. Reed) had throughout his
speech refraincd from tho arguments Of
reason and had resorted to those Of
prejudice. 4,
1iepointed to the Chinese as an OK
ample of what had resulted from pro-
teciive policy Of hundreds oil years,
which had thought to make China rich
by trading with itself.
p Mr.. Crisp said that for twenty-five
years the Democratic party had been
trying to get into power. 1t had told
the people thatit given power it would