Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-04
POLITICAL MEETINGS
HELD BY DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS AND
PaOHIBITIONSlS LAST NIGHT.
howard at BsnwoOd, Dovsnsr at TIE Opera House
and Holl at Odd Fellows Hall-Othr
Political Matters

An immense audience greeted hon'
John A. Howard at Benwood last night.
Ii was intended TO hold an open air
meeting there. but owing TO the ex-
IRENE condition OF the weather 1t was
decided to bold it 10 Dolan's hall eli
Water street. The hall began to I'll up
early with ladies' and gentlemen, and
when Mr.. Howard entered the hall at 8
o'clock it was filed to overhOwing with
a large audience OF workingmen and
their ladies', who had come TO hear Mr..
Howard expound the principles OF
Democracy.
The meeting was called to order at
$40 o'clock and Mr.. j. h. Barrett
chosen as Chairman. In few words
Mr.. Barrett presented Hon. John A.
Howard as the speaker Of the evening.
Mr. Howard spoke for more than an
hour 10 an eloquent and impressive
manner, and his address brought round
after round of vigorous applause.
After partial review OF the issues OF
the campaiga on both the Democratic
and Republican sides Mr.. Howard
spoke about protection aud its effects
on the workingmen. Among other
things he said:
ave don't need any protection for
brlcklayers and carpenters, because
house cannot be built in foreign coun-
tries aud shipped here. The Republicans
say you must have protection to keep
I'D your wages. How do you stand with
these peopleP Now for instance Of the
fallacy OF that declaration, take the
printers. They need no protection TO
keep UP their wages. 1t is impossible
for printers in foreign country TO get
out q daily paper and deliver it to pat
rons in this country the next morning.
The reason printers need no
protection is because they
are better organized than any other
class OF skilled labor Ia the country,
and II the Amalgsmated Association
was better organized and its members
would stand together they would be the
same as the printers.
The Republicans tell you that under
the Walker tariff OF 1916, there was
great suffering and distress, and
the reason of IL was because that
bill reduced the tax or tariff
on imported goods. 1t was
not the Walker tariff bill that caused
the distress but the Republican pro-
tective system in vogue previous to
that bill's passage. Why was it, ii the
reduced tariff under the Walker act
was the cause of the distress they tell
YOU about, that in 1856, after ten years
OF il, that not one of the three parties
then in existence said anything about
restoring the high tariff which preceded
10, but on the contrary there was senti-
ment to reduce It still more. If there
was some suffering at that time there
was no Mckinley, or Harrison, or Dove
ner, TO howl calamity. The low tariff
continued until the breaking out OF the
war, when IL was found necessary To in
crease the tariff, in order to meet the
expenses OF the govern ment.
After the war was over the high
tariff was continued. The manufactur-
ers commenced putting up more works
aud the country had a very prosperous
era. Wages went up, but IL was not on
account of the tariff, but because labor
ing men were scarce and there were
two jobs for every man, and conse-
queutly wages had to go up. The Re-
publicans claim that the high tariff OF
those days was responsible for sll this,
but I say IL was not the tariff that raised
wages but the law OF supply and de-
mand-"
Mr.. Howard spoke In regard to the
markets of this and foreign cities, and
OF the infant industries. Ia speaking
OF the infant industries he said he be-
leved with Bob Ingersoll In that mat
ter. That il was all right to protect
infants If baby needed rocking In
cradle be believed in doing it, but ne
did not believe il the proper thing to
do if, after a while, that infant got big
enough to get up and wipe the floor up
with you il you did not continue rocking
its cradle. That he thought the infant
industries of this country, which are
about thirty years old, were big
enough to take care Of themselves with
out being rocked in the cradle OF pro-
lection.
Said Mr.. Howard: "When my oppo-
nent, Mr.. Dovener, spoke In Mounds
Vile short time ago he ventured the
assertion that the mills were all closed
down. That gentleman must have gone
across the country in some roundabout
way; he certainly did not pass through
Benwood, or else his cheek would have
been blistered by the flames from the
mills, which are all running and making
good time. When Capt. Dovener made
that remark a gentleman Ia the au-
dience called him down and then he
corrected himself and said, oh, yes,
the mills at Benwood ars running
some, but the mills all over the coun-
try are shut down, and he tried to
make his audience believe that the
country would never be prosperous
again unless the Republicans were
again placed in power.
Mr.. Howard spoke very eloquently
about labor organizations. and said
that was the only way workmeu could
secure any recognition from manufac-
turers under a Republican admin
fstratiop That ha faVorpd lah0r mr.