Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-11
1aNOKANUr. OR DISHONESTY.

The Inteliiqsncer is obliged once more to
confront the REGISTER with Prof wilson.
First the REGISTER;
How ths esteemed Intel igeHcer can figure 1t
out that the price Of labor'S products when mo-
artihcially enhanced by $ trust can iaIl ana
the WAGES OF labor not follow TO the same level
Is a piece OF astounding reasoning that Is en-
tirely original with our nelghOor. Al any rae
II Is not true as every workingman WHO Is ola
enough knows Of his own experience, nor Is the
Jl,eliiseHcer's statement borne out by tue
census. 20 which it recklesslY alludeS, evidently
without having examined
Next Prof. Wilson, who is champloned
by the REGISTER as man who cannot
make a mistake on these questions;
II is found that it has become almost truism
to-day that hiEE-priced labor which Is Always
competent and intelligent labor, ana cheap
products 90 together almost the world over.
The REGISTER will observe that the Intel
RgencCr'S reasoning is not so astounding as
to keep Professor Wilson from falling IN
with it.-mtelRgenccr.
II this is not simple and inexcusable
ignorance on the part of our neighbor,
there is nothing left to call it but dis
honesty.
The IntelHgencer must cert9inly know
that Mr.. WILSON referred only to the
we'll know fact that competent, intelli-
gent labor, which is always the highest
priced labor, because OF its superior in
telligencs, industry and skill turns out
the best and cheapest product. Which
has nothing whatever to do with the
entirely distinct fact pointed
out by the REeIsTER-a fact
which is, also, almost truism-that
the price of labor's product, unesss IL
has been artifcially enhanced by a
trust. cannot go downward without TAX
/ ing the wages Of labor with it to the
same corresponding level. Every en-
ployer of labor and every workingman
possessing ordinary common sense and
perception knows this. And it is the
basis Of the sliding scales Of wages in
our mills and factories, by which, when
the prices Of labor's products 60 down,
wages follow to exactly their CORES
ponding level.
If the Intelligencer does not under
stand this primary law of wages which
is being constantly illustrated under its
very nose its ignorance is beyond com
prehension.
If it does understand it its attempt tC
disprove the REGISTERS reasoning
thereon by quoting Mr.. WILSON on al
entirely different subject is nothing
more nor less than simple dishonesty.
Mr.. ELKINs should not neglect tC
state that when HARRISON took hold o.
the government be found the 500, 600,
600 gold reserve and SEQ, 600, 600 Of sur
plus left by Mr.. CLEVELAND and tina
when HARRISON let &c after four year
OF Republican profigacy the surplus
was gone, the treasury was bankrup
and the incoming Democratic admins
tration was forced TO issue the S50,000.-
600 Of bonds, for which HARRISON
Secretary Of the Treasury had had th,
plates made. Secretary FOSTER haC
int uded honestly to Issue the bond
himself, but little Mr.. HARRISON
haughtily said he wOuld have no in
crease Of the public debt under his ad
ministration, and. so. periodically shirk
ed his daty, allowing it to fall on Mr.
CLEvELAND's bread shGpI6srR