Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-12

eiS6WneFe, WOuiu uOb ~ w i0pCeV nOie'
TIE day before, at Fairmont, however,
he said: wool is Is cents" Indeed.
Will Mr.. ELKINs tell US what kind of
wool is Is cents? Mr.. ELKINs cannot
buy good average fleece hereabouts for
less than 81 or % cents, and in Ohio %
cents was lately refused. Wool was
16 and Il cents under the Mckinley
tariff, but since the removal of the duty
it has advanced all along the line from
10 to 40 per cent Mr.. ELKINs is a
cent below even the intelhgencer'S ca
lamity figures. SIT makes an end to
ths sheep husbandry of our country"
said he. Mr.. ELKINs must have been
reading the InteIIigencsr'S idiotc sheep
at-l5-cents-a-head fake. Sheep and
lambs, as we'll as wool. have advanced
25 per cent. in the PittSburg market
since wool was made free. Does not
Mr.. ELKINs know this? II be does not
he should aot make wild assertions
upon subjects he knows nothing about.
Ia his speech last night Mr.. ELKINs
was guilty OF deliberately garblng Mr..
WILLIAM l.. WILsoE'S London speech.
Though Mr. WILSON has since been
correctly quoted in every Democratic,
Independent and honest Repubi-
can paper in the country, and
though MIR. ELKINs was fully
aware of what Mr.. WILSON had really
said, he deliberately took up and read
to his audience the garbled extracts
from Mr.. Wilson'S London speech,
used by MCKINLEY and Republican
organs like the lntelIigGucer.
Here is what ELKINs quoted Mr., WILL
son as having said in London:
Our protectonists have been building
defeuseS to keep you and other nations
from competing with US in our home mar
kets The tariff reformers are breaking
down these defenses.
Here is what Mr.. WILSON said:
Protection in America has been cur vol
untary withdrawal from the seas and from
neutral markets; our prOtectionists have
been building defenseS to keep you and
other nations from coming in to compete
with US in our home markets.; our tariff
refOrmers are tearing down those defenses
TO let US out TO compete with you and other
nations in all the markets of the world.
The manufacturing supremacy of the
world must eventually pass TO that nation
which. having the largest supply ana cheap
est access to the basic materials OF indus
try, shall apply the highest intelligence
and enterprise, the freshest results OF
science, art and invention to the produc-
ton and distribution of finished products.
We are constantly confirmed in the belief
that our supply Of these materials IS more
accessible to transportation and markets
than that Of any other people.
Mr. ELKINs again deliberately gar
bled Mr.. WILSON by leaving out the con-
text, as follows:
We are rapidly being sobered, though
unappalled by the truth forced upon US that
of all human governments free govern
ment is the most complex aud dltcultand,
Judging from the worlds experience, the
most uncertain.and short-lived.
Here is what Mr.. WILSON went on to
say, which Mr.. ELKINs left out:
Your institutions and Our institutions, as
derived from them, are sJrong because they
are deeply rooted in the past. 1t is for you,
and it is especially for US, to show that
while other nations in other ages have been
great in the greatness Of war OF commerce,
OF science and literature and art and iurls-
prudence. we car be great il all of these
things. and also great in the greatness OF
permanent freedom.
1t was quite evident that the majority
Of Mr. ELKINs' audience had read Mr..
WILSON'S London speech and k"""
that ELKINS was deliberately garO'lnR
him, for his remarks OF TINS
point fell amid blank silence
a silence which spoke eloquent
" of the contempt in which
the majority of mis- auditors evidently
held him for his rank unfairness and
deliberate dishonesty.
His audience was restless and shifting
and stinted its applause which came
languidIy and only when he actually de-
manded and waited for it. His worn
out calamity howl, which was simply
McKINLEY's old speech barely re-
vamped, every point of which has time
and again been disproven, seemed to
fall with a dull, depressing thud on the
Republican heart.
M'KINLEY's DISHONEST GARBLING.
Two Republican papers Of Pittsourg,
the Commercial Gazette and the Chron'
iclc-TeIeqraph, have fallen out, and