The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-20

Saturday evuniuu Hon. G. W. Atkin.
son opCnod tho campaign iGr tho Ro-
publtcaus In Marshall county by ad-
dressing an enthusiastic gathering in
North Bonwood. Mr. Atkinson was at
hi1 bost, aud his gpCoch was cbececd
from bogluutng to cloeo. 10 0poke
about an hour aud q hall. Mr.. Jacob
LandeTs presided.
Tho speaker began By couGratulNtiug
tho Democratic party for having adopt
cd tho Republican doctrine Of Protec-
tIon, notwithstanding tto fact thatthey
had mado their campaign In 1902
agaInBt %, charging that it was uucon-
stitutlonaI, u robbery and q fraud.
SIN, they indorsed tho Republican
idea by the adoption OF tho senate tar.
10 bill, and rejecting the house bill,
known as tho "Wilson bill" Tho law
they enacted is protective tariff law.
but II is not high enough TO afford sui
flciont protection, nor is it low enough
to raiso tho necessary revenue to carry
on tho government. Now that every
body Is in favor Of protection, the thing
to do Is to CloCt RopubllcaR congress,
aud II will readjuSt tho law 80 as to
mako Il fair to both capital and labor.
Tho speaker stated that tho senate
law scales tho Mckinley law from about
90 per cont, on tho average. down to
about 9S pcr cont, but 1t will not mate.
IL Ill, In Fgtll
simply cut labor In proportion TO the
cnt on tariff duties, and tho working.
man will have to hold tho bag. Instead
OF 1t boing Ii law to reduce taxation, Ills
really law to reduce tho WACO rates OF
labor. II the workingman has not
already found this TO bo true, he will
get onto II before many moons in tho
future.
Said be, "I am not hero to abuse
Democrats, but to sympathize with
them. They havo boon doeply humtli.
ated by tho dofcat by their own sena.
tore Of their cherished desire 10 foiBt q
puroly rovenuo tAriil upon tho country.
From President Cleveland down 10 the
Wheeling Register, thoy must c1t crow
and whilo thcy can eat crow, mono o!
them can conscientiously sny that he
haa a particular hankcrinR for It. Mr..
Cleveland said in his famous Wilson
letter that tho passage OF tho oAen0to bill
would make tho Democrats guilty OF
"party pcrady aud party dtshonor,"
passed; but he daro not voso it Ho
must take his medicine along with tho
rest Of his Democratic brethren. He.
howover, has loft to him tho consola'
ton OF tho old colorod man, who caught
a rabbit in q trap, and whilo cogitating
In his mind what IN excellent dinner OF
rabbit pio he was gOing TO have, the rab.
bit escaped, and os 1t darted across tho
field, ficketY cut, tho old man exclGifn-
cd, "Go it cotton tail, you arc dry meat
anyway" So the honest Democrat
will say Of the failure to pass tho Will
son BIZ, "Its no good anyway" and tho
country is tobo Congratulated that the
rabbit getaway.
The speaker thcn contrustod tho con.
ditIon Of tho country under Republican
administration with tho past eighteen
months OF Democratic rulo, and charged
that tho more anticipation OF tho full
tlllmcut Of Democratic pledges was tho
causo Of tho existing depression. Tho
peogle could not bo hoodwinked as to
the real cause OF tho prevailing hard
timos, Notwithstanding Democratic
statements that 1t Is chargenblO to Re-
publican Legislation.
The Republican policy Is to work up
our own raw material, and not allow It
to bo shipped abroad to give employ.
mont to foreign capital and foreign Ia.
bor by manufacturing our own raw
mntoriais we thereby supply our own
markets, employ our own labor, and
kcep our own money at home. The
markess Of tho world 90 constantly
harpod upon by the Democratic party is
n fabrication and delusion. What we
ought to look attor is tho homo market
for our own people, and this tho Ropu5.
lican party has always done. Under
Democracy wo wero nation ot farm
ers-under RcpubliCanism wo arc ma
ton OF gkillCd worknen.
Tho Republican policy is tho policy
Of levclng. Tho MeEiDlOy law was
enacted upon this idGn. A duty was
placed upon every article that wo cGu
manufacture, high enough 10 represent
tho difference in the lower priced labor
OF the old world and tho higher priced
labor Of tho now world. II a shoo man
rfsc.urer on the otheF sidc Of tho Ohio