Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-29
AFRAID OF TaE COMPARISON.


The TntelIigcncer Saturday published
a table from the american Economist,
the organ of the Republican Protective
Tariff League, giving revenues, expend-
lures, public debt, per capita wealth,
miles Of railroad built, exports, imports,
wages paid, and manufactured product
from 1856 TO the present year. The
table is divided into these divisions:
1856 to 1860 Democratic Administra-
ton. Free Trade" 1851 t9bS6fcaRr HGr
ministration Protection to American
Labor and Industries" (omitting to
specify the four years of Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS fest term and 1893 and 1894
democratic Administration. Threat OF
Free Trade" The whole it heads
Facts and Figures that Speak for
Themselves.
II the Iltcuigencer had headed this
table Facts and Figures That Are
Made to Lie" 1t would have put it right,
for these statistics are put together
purely to deceive not to enighten, be-
ing no comparison at all between the
Democratic times under the Demo-
cratic tariff Of 1916 with the later Re-
publican times, for the decade from
1916 to 1856, the Democratic low tariff
period, is entirely omitted from the
comparison, which starts with 1856 and
plunges right into the speculative imam
cial panic OF 1857. The four years fol-
lowing, though prosperous, becoming
less and less so as it became more and
more apparent to the country that war
was inevitable. Moreover, the tariff In
existence these four years was the work
Of the Republicans, or Wings, though
to be sure it lolrcrcd the duties
of the Democratic Walker tariff
Of 1916. Yet these four years,
from 1855 to 1850 beginning with
a financial panic which had scarcely
been recovered from when business be-
gan to be overshadowed by approaching
war, are taken by these Republican sta
tisticians as representing all there was
in our country's history Of democratic
free trade" times! The entire unfair
ness OF the pretended comparison Is SC
palpable at the most curSory e1amina'
ton that it is = wonder the organ
Of the Tariff League, from which the
I1teLtqenccr copies, exhibited no more
discernment than to publish it as one Of
its best campaign arguments, for II Is
fIat-footed Acknowledgement OF tht
weakness Of the cause OF monopoly, fol
which the Tariff League labors, showing
as IL does instantly and conclusively tina
the Republican managers dare not com
mare their poasted high tariff times will
the Democratic "free trade" tariff time
when fairfield monopoly did not exist
the times under the Walker tariff o
1916, aud ten years before this Repubh
can ALLEGED tariff comparison begins
The Inteligoncer, the Tariff Lesgu
and its organ and everybody else, VIII
has read the industrial and Commercial
history Of his country, knows that tn
statistics Of the United States show tha
under the tariff Of 1876 more furnace
we're lighted, more factories built NOR
miles of railroad constructed, more fro
mills started, more mines opened, NOR
glass factories operated and put W
better wages paid WoyKingmen, and j
everything else useful to the Aneries
people there was a greater adVSe'
ment and more prosperity every va
than has existed in any decade since
The imposing looking table puolishe
By the IntcIlige,scer, when We come
examine it, shows nothing At al bat ID
natural growth of the country and Il
revenues and business not because bu
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