Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-16
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ment was that everything nau Oeen gOInR
down for a generation, and most OF all
wages IntCliigcncer.
II there has been modification in any
thing Mr.. POLLOCK has said on this
point it has been simply to emphasize
the fact that, while the rate OF wages
had gone steadily down since the inaug-
uration of the high tariff policy Of the
Republican party, it had gone down
more rapidly than ever under the Nc
Kinley tariff-a fact which Republican
organs now deny but content them
selves with simply denying, for the
facts, which may be had from
any middIe-aged workingman in
any Of the protected" industries
in Wheeling, or anywhere else, prove
that Mr.. POLLOCK speaks simple, plain
facts. Unlike the IntelljgenCer Mr..
POLLOCK is not accustomed to dealing
10 anything but facts and truth, which
are within his personal experience.
The IntelIiqencer knows nothing Of the
matter upon which 1t has the supreme
impudence to attempt to criticise Mr..
POLLOCK. It's information is gained
entirely from lying campaign text books.
As for It's impudence, that comes
natural. AS a specimen of the latter it
says "the voters will see that he Mr..
PoLLocKl tarries In Jericho until his
beard is grown" Mr.. PoLLocK's beard,
by the way, was full grown long
before his smart-Aleck critic of
the Intelligcncer was out of
swaddling clOthes8 and the difference
between the knowledge and intelligence
Of the two, in Mr.. POLLoCK's favor, has
been increasing ever since. Here is
sample of our neighbours ignorance:
Mr. Pollock has been buyer and grinder
Of wheat for a long time; long enough, as
be says, 10 have paid three dollars per
bushel for IT, Three dollar wheat is
good deal like 26-cent wool; 1t needs TO be
taken with good deal Of reservation and
with a suthcieEcy of explanations.
The IltcUigeRccr does not know that
in the first six months OF 1867 wheat
went as high in this market as S3.25
per bushel. Mr.. POLLOCK has records
of over thirty purchases in that time
covering thousands of bushels for which
he paid from So to SO 95. That
was under a tariff which was
25 per cent lower than the
Mckinley bill, and would be called a
free trade tariff by the Republican
party to-day, not that the REGISTER mr.
Mr.. Pollock elaine shas the tariH had
ANYTHING whatever to do with the price
Of wheat then any more than 1t has had
to do with it since. The price Of the
farmers wheat is regulated in the mar
kets of the world, in Liverpool, for In
stance, where he is entirely unprotect-
ed. This reminds us that the Republi-
can trick OF putting a tariff on wheat to
hoodwink the farmer into the notion
that no was being protected was one of
the bOldest, most ridiculous frauds ever
attempted even by Republican politi-
clans. ltis, however, not whit less ridi-
culous than the TptcIligencer'S claim thai
the present Democratic administration
is responsible for the present low price
Of wheat 1t purposey ignores the fact
that wheat Tell to its present price
under the Mckinley tariff. Since the
repeal Of the latter wool has advanced
because the Mckinley duty shut down
the WOODEN mills and hence reduced the
price OF wool But wheat has remained
at the same level as before, because the
tariff has no effect upon its price one
wav or the other. 1t is down to its
present remarkably low price LARGELY
because o! the Unprecedented competi-
ton Of Argentine Republic, whose
shipments are 100 per cent. heavier than
last year, and the genera glutted con-
dition Of the European markets because
OF the heavy shipments from the other
wheat growing countries. The price of
wheat like the price of labor is regu-
lated solely by the law of supply and
demand, the tariff having nothing what
ever to DO with it. Hence the Intellt-
qcacer is simply absurd when it says:
Itremains for the Democracy to give the
farmer hereabouts 80 cents; yes, 80 cents
for wheat; Just as it remained for il to
give him 10 cents for his wool.
Our neighbor knows it was MCKIN-
LEY who gave the farmer sixteen cents
for wool. Since then the Democracy
has sven him twenty-five cents and
more. The advance in wool was direct
" due to the removal of the tariff. The
price OF wheat, however, has remained
the same because, being an article of
export, its price is not aud cannot be
Influenced by the tariff and is still at
the level to which it fell under McKin-
leyism.
The Intelligcnccr mounting its clap
trap, ignorance aud falsehoed at Mr..
Pollock reminds one OF little yellow
cur snarling at the heels OF noble old
New Foundland. Its attempts to mis-
represent him are so shallow as to be
beneath his contempt.