Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-12

paying American wages, aud that price
estimated Ia labor service 10 which all
men ultimately pay for what they buy,
IS less here than anywhere else in the
world. Our protective system simply
says 10 the foreign producer or manu-
uiacturer: Before you can sell
your products in our market you
must pay into our treasury a.
duty sum equivalent TO
the wages you withhould from the labor
which entered into your goods aud
which our manufacturers paid TO our
workingmen.' This policy. continued
Tor - years, gave US almost uninter-
rppted prosperity; gave our working
men IN 1872, wages siXty-eight per cent
ln purchase power In excess of the
wages % 1870 aud made Us the greatest
agricultural, manufacturing and mining
nation in the world. II Is only year
since the result OF the elections OF lSgS.
fore, e,hadOwiug a revolutionary change
ia this policy, first began 20 cause dis
trust, which has Increased from month
20 month until industries and business
are disordered, paraiyzed, opportunities
for employment narrowed and red duced
VIII the remoustrauce OF the people ia
the recent elections coming in from
workingmen To all parts OF the country
be hecded.
Mr. Springer, tDem.. Illinois.) who
was Chairman Of the Ways and Means
I Committee OF the last Congress, follow
et. He spoke on the tariff question aud
tried 10 show that laborers ana agricul-
turaIists ehad not been benefited by
protection. he quoted Census Office
statistics on the amount Of mortgage
. indebtedness.
Sew NJrS has larger per capita OF
mOrtCaged Indebtedness than Ne
bras6a,' iuterpo-ed Mr.. Reed
"les, sir replied sir. Springer
"Ihat shows" said Mr.. Reed, what
those nxlres are worth AS showing the
Dlut tiou OF agriculture" Laughter.
SIR. Springer commended thc free list
OF thr Wilson biII. but said that ii he
had been framing tho oil he should
have made some material mod fcatious.
ln concluding. MIR. Springer predicted
that with free raw materials this coun-
try would become the greatest manu-
featuring country Cf the world. a, 10
was now tAe greatest agricultural coun-
ry.
lie pictured the condition OF affairs
ln l~5G, wuru the low tariT was threat
rued, comparing IL with to-dav's con-
dltiOu when three million people are
1 witnessed. he said, was the Phil adclphia
delegation % manly young men in the
/ Ways aud Mean, Committee room few
mouths ago, pleading, not for their
employers uut for their employment.
/ Applause. They represented two
/ hundred thousand -oue-ffth OF the
| population OF Que OF tine largest mauu-
/ featuring cities of the country He
| spoke OF the NILS DlIl aud said IL was
( measure which ln comparison with
/ the pending bIl seemed like the work
/ OF "a Statesman.
| Mr.. Hartcr lDem., OhioI, a large
/ mauuiacturcr OF agricultural umple-
/ mrut- aud tho wcl known free trade
. advocate, declared that 10 by law the
prices Oi goods were reduced for the
/ benefit OF tue many 10 matterrd not how
mach 10 Injured the few; but when the
/ law put up prices the Wroug was mani
| fest, because 10 benefited the few at tho
/ expense OF the many The law should
| give the greatest good 10 the greatest
number
Nr. Hartcr was bOmbarded VITA Qucs-
/ tluus by Mr.. Blair, OF New HAMPSHIRE.
and others. and finally proposed 10 90
. back and review the tariff facts OF his
f tory
Mr. Bro--ius rep, Penusylvanis)
closed the debate for the afternoon in
. opposition % The lIil.
He defended the theory Of protection.
The committee az $3.50 rose and took
a recess Until o'clock.
There was "a meagrr gathering A. the
night session % the House the EepuO-
.."an side HaIug entirely deserted an i
the Democratic side showing only hf-
t"rl u1rr-. Representatives Ma
gH.rr .Dew., CaaI aud t1ckrcII.
Dru.. Texas. spoke Boo support ~ the
WILSON biH. Sir MaguIre Said that the
aI. was bsi in many particulars. yet It
Va, an honest effort Iu tus right de
rrcuan al3 would therefore have bis
support Str. D..srr'. speech was de-
voted ta constitutional amendment
aga..-t protection.
40 tte usual hour tbe House adjourn
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