Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-22


throughout our forty-four States and Ter
ritories That is because we are one fam
ily. one country. We are one nation. have
one standard of citizenship one flag, one
constitution, one destiny That is why we
have free trade among ourselves. Our re-
lations with foreign States are necessarily
different from our relations with one an
other; they are our commercial rivals. we
denv TO those foreign States trade with US
upon the same terms as we enjoy our
selves.-McKtnley at NeiC Orleans
MCKINLEY acknowledges the bench
cent effect of free trade between the
States Of the Union. He acknowledges
that its effect is equally benefcent to
all the States.
MCKINLEY cannot reconcile this &C
acknowledgement with his denial that the
same thing would be equally beneficial
between the nations. And MCKINLEY
very wisely does not attempt to. Nc
KINLEY never attempts to carry his
theory beyond the laying OF it down.
He never carries it to the logical con-
clusion which would be fairly illustrated
in the terrible condition of things
which would result If every State
Of the Union were to build around itself
tariff wall to prevent trade with all
the other States, except upon payment
of q high tax. How long would our
prosperity last2 Industry would simply
die for want of outside markets, which,
when taken in the case of the United
States as whole, mean the worlds
markets, which MCKINLEY calls "de-
lusion."
MCKINLEY is wrong, wrong absolute
ly, wrong from beginning to end. The
United States, under MCKINLEY's tariff,
was toward the world in exactly the
same attitude which one Of our
great manufacturing or agricul-
tural States would be were it
to be cut off from all
markets for its products outside of the
confines of its own State boundaries.
Under such a policy how long would
the great manufacturing State OF Penn
sylvanIa prosper, having no market for
the product Of its vast manufacturing
plants other than that furnished by the
people of Pennsylvania themselves? Its
industries would suddenly die and over
half its people sIarve to death, IL they
remained there. Yet policy which we
all can see would certainly produce that
fearful result, il tried upon a State
MCKINLEY advocates forSthe nation.
When applied to the United Estates Nc
Klnleyism is not less sure in the end to
produce the same results, because
having a vaster territory to effect 1t is
much slower. But after thirty years OF
that policy its effects have been seen
plainly, and already we have in the
United States manufacturing plants
sufficient TO supply in six months the
demands of the home market for
whole year, all of which produced the
very condition of things we have just
passed through, over production, stag
nation, idleness and starvation. These
ills almost altogether are directly due to
the Republican policy which has for
thirty years confined American industry |
TO the home market, compelling 1t 10
feed of itself. The inevitable re-
suit has been the formation
Of trusts to maintain prices 0y
tbrottling competition and limiting pro-
duction, paying large percentage OF
trust stockholders regular dividends 10
kesp their plants idle. For all this the
people have had to pay; it all has come
off the farmer and the laoorer-the pro-
ducers-and under the Republican pol
lev these have grown steadily poorer
and poorer while monopoly has grown
richer and richer.
And the country having been brought
to the verge of industrial ruin because
of this policy MCKINLEY and his fol-
lowers are now pointing to that
very fact and shouting calamity
as reason why they should be
returned TO power and that destructive
policy continued 1t would be
almost beyond belief that men existed
capable Of such unparalleled brazennesS
if we did not have MCKINLEY before US
in the very act. And it makes no dit-
ference to these apostles of woe that
with the Inauguration Of the DEM
ocratic policy Of tariff reform
the business aud industry OF the
country have already undergone won
derful revival that has swept almost eV-
cry vestige OF business depression away
They go right on in the very face OF the
grand revival singing their tale OF woe.
A FOUR DAYS TOUR OF MAGNIFI'
GENT ELOQUENCE
The grand four days tour Of the Sec
ond. First and Fourth West Virginia
districts which Hon. WILLIAM L. VIII
son and party will make beginning at
Keyser next Wednesday morning will
be magnificent and unprecedented