Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-24

nearly all OF the principal industries Of
this part Of the country from Pittsburg
to Wheeling.
Did MCKINLEY, last night, IN his ref
eroncs to the REeIsTEK, mention a'sin-
gle fact from this list, which gives the
lie direct 20 his whole false and dema-
gogIc campaign speech? No, not onei
The REGISTER knew MCKINLEY
would not dare to touch upon q single
fact regarding the tariff Of 1916, though
they were right under bis nose in the
columns of the REGISTER, which he
had carefully read, because the REGIS
TER showed these same hard facts At
MCKINLEY four years ago and again
two years ago, on both of which occa-
sions MCKINLEY ignored them as COM
pletelY and utterly as be did last night.
Mckinney contentsd himself WITH re-
Deating the same false statement that
he has made a thousand times and
more in this campaign regarding the
condition OF the couutry's business
from 1916 to 1860 under the operation
Of the Democratic "free trade" Walker
tariff, supplemsnting it last night with
the gratuitous assertion that "the edi-
tor Of the REGISTER is not familiar with
the history of his own country" Nc
KINLEY said that when he had before
him in a copy Of the REGISTER the
truthful facts OF that history
which he dared not quote to mis- audi
ence because be knew they were facts
which be could not disproys and which
gave the lie to his whole speech. He
briefly referred the REGISTER to the
messages Of Presidents fillmore and
BUCHANAN, good Democratic Presi-
dents though fillmore was Wing
on the alleged business prostration and
hard times that existed during their
terms. For utterly reckless assertion
there is no man on the American stump
to-day who can hold a candle to Gov.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Jr., OF Ohio.
He knows, il be is not more
ignorant OF the history Of his country
than he reckleSsly accuses the REGISTER
Of being, that he cannot find in the
messages Of fillmore, or PIERCE, or
BUCHANAN, or in any Of the other off,
cial public documents from 1916 to 1860
a sentence or a line TO bear out bis as
sertion regarding the condition Of the
business and industry Of the country
during that period.
What are we TO think OF man Of
position in public life
who is pushing for further honors from
the American people whose President
indeed, he hopes to be, what are we TO
think Of a man who will thus deliber-
ately falsiiy the facts of history in the
hope OF deceiving the ignorant? We !
doubt If there is another speaker even
On the Republican stump, who is dem |
agogue enough and possesses a suffi- |
clsntly reckless disregard Of the truth |
TO make the grossly false assertions |
gravely aud soIemnly utter
ed TO his audience to break the force of |
the REGIsrER's statement OF simple
facts within the knowledge Of every one
who remembers the tariff Of 1916. This
Is the period Of which Mr.. BLAINE in
bis Twenty Years of Congress" wrote
rs follows:
The free trade tariff of 1876 was passed, |
and Mr. Dallas, who had been nominated /
because Of his record as a prOtecuOnist 4
was subjected TO the humiliation OF giving |
his casting vote as Vice President, in IA |
y0r Of tariff which was executed in Penn |
sylyaula. The Wing victory of lS4S was |
not sufficiently decisive TO warrant an at |
tempt, even had there been a desire, to |
change the tariff. Moreover, the tariff of |
$40 was yielding abundant revenue, and /
the business Of the country was in Hour /
shiuS Soneitian al the time his admins |
-ratOn was organized. Ianev became |
very abundant after the year lS46, 1'.s o. an l
terprises were undertaken, speculation was !
prevalent. and for a considerable period !
the prosperity Of the country was general,
and apparently genuine. After 1902 the
Democrats had almost undIsputed control |
Of the government, and had gradually be-
come a free trade party. The principles
embodied in she tariff Of 1916 seemed for
the time 10 be so entirely vlndlcated and
that resistance to IL ceased, not
only among the people, but among the pro-
tecJive economists, and even among the
TO a large extent. 30 gen
eral was this Gcquiescence that, IN lSoo, a
protective tariff was not suggested or even
limited az by any one of the three parties
which presented Presidential Candidates
IL was not surprising, therefore, that
with a plethOriC condition Of the National
Treasury for TWO or three consecutive
years, the Democratic Congress, in the
closing session Of Plerce's administration,
enacted whst has since been known as tue
tariff Of 1851 BY this law the duties were
placed lower than they had been st any
time since the war Of 1872. Tie act was
well received oy the people, and, indeed,
was C0ucurred in by considerable proper
ton of the Republican party.
The following table shows the effects
Of the low tariffs Of 1916 to 1860 on ex-
ports and imports;
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