Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-27

| but what Republican speaker, what Ne-
publican newspaper, what kepuohcah
platfOrm-State, county or toWuShlp-pro-
! poses 10 restore the old battered Mckinney
I law They talk against our act-and l
/ SHALL come To that in a mOment-out VINO OF
them hugs that bantling and carries u
/ homel keed said that the oil we passed
was a banting that nobody Will father.
But where is McKinley's little Cnld! W no
/ is taking uD tins deserted orphan IN tue
time OF his sorrow, desertiOn and woe;
| Who proposes TO bring him back 70 the
1 house Of his fathers aud set him up again al
/ the family tablet Nobody IS far as 1 KNOW
| haven't heard single Republican speaker
/ I haven't heard single Republican plat
| form mention the subject Of bringing back
I the Mckinley act What, then, IS the ex-
| act position on the subject Of the tarlH as
understand itl Now, am one OF those VINO
/ do not believe that the Senate bill, as pass
| cd. accomplished all that might have Oeen
/ accomplished. l am not here 70 denounce
/ il because regard il, with all its Imperfect
/ tions and uufulhlled pledges, as vast step
/ on the road 20 commercial freedom. what
/ do they say aoOut it, What is toe issue that
I we make about iti / have found tnat ~ Is
! ALWAYS necessary when you are discussing
\ with an antagonist 20 get at the precise
/ issue in dispute. What is the issue ABOUT
/ tue act which the Democracy placed upon
/ the statute book relating 10 tue tdrlu! Our
! position, as / understand 10, IS TINS; IhaL
/ tariff Oill-lmperfect as 10 ISIS 10 re
main. not Cuniect 70 general revision ana
\ overthrow; il is 20 remain en- the sta ute
\ book until by its own uualded action IL
\ itself tells the story, breaches the sermon
J and carries homo conviction 10 tue Amerl-
I can publicOf the great benefits OF relieving
/ the Industry OF this country from unjust
taxation Applause.
We propose. however 70 amend IL in two
! or three certain particulars. those pattlc-
ulars are, first free iron ore, free coal ana
/ the reduction of the sugar duties so JnaJ
\ they shall produce revenue, AL OF wnlca
/ saall 90 To the United States, and none OF
I which shall 50 70 the American Sugar he-
/ timing Company. Applause.
| understand thai when you come down
| to the specific case that we make, we are
not here asking 70 throw the industries OF
\ the country, as Major Mckinley and Mr..
I Reed would say, Unto turmoil" we ask
/ for repOse, for a fair trial of the Democrat
| ic tariff. For myself / am willing 70 make
/ the test none item In that tariff, and tnat
/ is the item of free wool and reduced duties
/ on wooden goods I believe with the cele-
/ brated New England tariff refOrmer that
\ YOU can light PrOtsctiOn VS. Free Trade
\ don't be airaid-Free Trade around wool,
/ ana l believe that when Wilson struck
\ down the duties on wool taat we captured
| the citadel OF protection. while stands
| the Colosseum OF Rome, Rome stands. When
/ falls the Colosseum Rome falls" Wnen
/ the wool tariff weut down, you have pro-
/ cured for yourself the finest object lesson
| 10 teach tariff reform that ever was placed
| upon the blackboard for the public 10 look
at / say, therefore, that the issue-pre-
/ else and specific issue--ls shall the wilson
I "a, al M g
we desired it-shall 10 remain on the stat
/ ute book and the country have repose SUD-
/ ieCt 70 the the three chief things that
| nave spoken OF which remedy its defects;
or on coal and sugar. Or shall we have
again new fight over that tarih Dill and
/ its destruction by the Republican party and
| Mr. Mckinley Now, what do they pro-
pose in lieu of that tariff billi Let me ask.
/ Have you heard a Republican speaker say
that be would restore the duties on WOOL
| and wooden goods Has Republican plat
/ form been adopted anywhere that has sta
I ted that the wooden duties must 90 back
/ upOn the statute book Nowhere.
! ] know how futile it is to make political
/ predictions, but l predict tonight that
/ even IL the Republicans should carry In
/ lS95-HOuse, Senate and President-never,
| aever will come back upon the statute
/ book q duty on wool. Applause
] 4
/ show YOU samples Of it-havlUg tasted du-
/ ties of uutaxsd material Republicans will
/ do as they did with the Sherman act: they
| will come and bear willing testimony
/ a the value Of the Democratic doctrines Of
| free wool Have any Of them said that
thew propose 70 restore the duty on coal, or
the duty on iron, or to put lumber back
/ from the free TO the dutiable listi What
is their positive programme!
| j spent this summer upon the coast OF
| Massachusetts for some weeks when Mr..
| Reed was running his campaign in Maine
/ He is the constructive statesman on the
| Republican side. He stands on their side
like William l.. Wilson does on ours
| What did be propose in the campaign Of
| Names Never a word as to what he would
do with a single duty, never statement
/ that back would so the Mckinley bill,
I wool iron ore. His constructive states
mauship was such that be had no plan TO
! propose. All the time that he spent was
/ simply the old woman scolding the Demo
/ cratic party because they had disagreed
about the tariff.
Now if YOU will bear with me just few
moments-I will not keep you great while
\ with what I have 10 ssy-let me discuss
/ this question OF the tariff on a little differ
ent line.
What do you mean by protectionl What
isitl It's well enough 10 define terms.
/ Who is 70 be protected! And what's he to
be protected againstl And who are the
! fellows YOU are going 10 protect them
againstl It's a fair question TO ask,
| isn't itl
Who are YOU 10 protectl In 1880 you
/ had something like seven million farmers.
/ Couldn't protect them against any fellows
| outside. You had q million men who were
running railroads, They were not 70 be
/ protected against any foreign fellows. You
/ couldn't run a railroad in America from
/ England You had a couple OF millions Of
/ men engaged IN professional duties-clerks,
/ LAWYERS, doctors, etc. There was no for
/ eigu labor competing with them that 1
/ know OF. Amt going 70 protect them.
\ Who did 10 come down 20 in the long run
/ IL came down 20 about one million people
\ when YOU carefully analyZe it-yOu have
\ about one million people engaged in the
protective industries. To hear the
| Republican speakers talk you would
\ understand that they were like the
/ three tailors: I'VE are the people,
/ Out Of some seventeen or eighteen million
/ workers, one million are really engaged Ia
/ protected pursuits, and that one million, or
/ rather lust a little representative OF the
| one million are able TO make all this Outcry,
/ howl ABOUT calamity ana overthrow Of our
| industries; because, fOrs0Oth, we don't
| let them keep their hands quite as deep
/ in the United States Treasury
as they did. Applause It is
| the old story OF the Britain that the cricket
/ or the grasshopper in the British meadow
made all the noise, and you thought he
| was running the whole businessman little
/ grasshOpper-while the British OK that did
I the work Of Great Britain wasn't saying
word.
Soitis with these protected industries
We fiud them OF this limited number Now
of that limited number. some are par
ticularly greedy. You always md tina
You noiiced-I always did, on the farm
that there was one hog with his feet farth-
est in the trough. All in the trough, you
know, but some yet a little farther 10 the