The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-06

Poor Mans PRrty-The Great Iadus.
tries of tho North Sacrificed Co
Southern Plan.ers-A Speech That
Every workineman Should Read.
Tho following speech was delivered
by Mr.. Michael Grogan TO his fellow
workingmon at the Sixth ward RepubliD
can club. Il should be read by every
worklngman who has bis own Interests
at heart:
In tho national campaign Of 1892 we
were told by the Democratic party that
tho words protective tariff" wore un'
constitutional and that il they got In
power these words would be expunged
from tho records Of Congress and
senate. They denounced protection"
as q plant instrument to create
monopolies and trusts. giving 70 the
favored few exclusive rights and prlvi-
leges, TO draw tho life blood out OF the
toiling millions by oppressive taxation
10 pay tribute TO these few. Their
voluntary acts Of kindness were pledged
to the poor man Gs being his party, and
tho friend Of tho oppressed and down
trodden; that they were destined to
crush and exterminate, under the
Leadership OF Grover Cleveland, Che
monster OF protection so long nurtured
and petted by the Republican party.
The speeches made by their orators
contained loud sounding promises, that
II they, tho great Democracy, wore
elected TO control the reigns OF govern
ment, their first act would BIO to destroy
root and branch tho protective policy.
These pledges were faithfully kept and
fulfilled by tho Democratic Congress, as
the Wilson bill clearly indicated. This
bill has shown that this Democratic
body was not rocreant 70 It's pledges OF
promises. II put Goa, iron ore, lead
ore, lumber, wool, sugar aud q variety
Of other articles OF great importance to
the American workinginen on the free
list Il opened O way for commerce
in free raw material; that would not
enrich anybody, but on the other hand
would force our miners down to the
same wuge-level with the European
miners, or close our mines up altogether.
Il will act in similar manner with our
wool growers and forest owners. They,
too, must compete with tho Australian
wool growers and Canadian lumbermen,
or else abandon these pursuits entirely.
The Democratic senate "retOrmers"
differed with the action OF the house on
the Wilson bill. They repudiatad tho
Wilson bill" and substituted the
Sugar trust tariff" bill in It's stead.
THE SENATE BILL.
Through the influence 6t Senators
German. Brlce, Camden and others,
who have deep interest in coal mines in
Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland, they
amended tho Wilson free trade coal
schedule by placing duty OF
forty cents per ton on coal. On
June 9th last the senate "reformers,"
by vote OF thirty-ave to twenty.eight
repudiated their silly bombastic doc
trine death and destruction TO trusts
and monopolies" aud voted 10 put q
duty OF forty per cent advalorem on all
raw sugars. Under the Mckinley law
this raw material up TO No. 10 Dutch
standard, which is q high grade Of yell
low sugar, came in free. This advalorem
duty together with one-eighth OF one
per cent was placed on refined sugar.
Will the Democrats object TO adding
this duty to tho cost price OF sugar2 Tho
secretary OF the sugar trust gives the
price Of raw sugar to be - 70 per 100
pounds. ,
Under tho senate reform bill the re.
finers will pay 40 per cent of this cost,
or 81 10 on every hundred pounds i'm.
ported. Refined sugar CELLS at s. 65 per
hundred pounds; 10 per cent OF this
price would DO 81 40 aud the specific
duty one-eighth Of cent, OF 12!, which
would be total duty OF LOST cents on
every hundred pounds OF refined eugar.
Under the Mckinley robber tarid there
was only a specific duty Of one.half cent
per pound, or fifty cents her hundred
pounds.
The sugar trust ''reformors' Of tho
United States senate propose TO adopt n
law for the benefit OF tho few to tho rob-
berry OF tho many that Republican son.
ate would mover undertake..
This Is tho most direct imposition Of
taxation ever attempted BY any party
on tho American workingmeu. This
couutry cannot produce much moro
than oue.seventh Of tho eugar needed
for consumption among our people.
Was IL not the cry Of tho Democratic
party that IL was an imposition and
open robbery TO tax The people for an
article OF consumption that could not
be manufactured hero? Now tho Dem
ocrntic senate is imposing tho worst
kind OF blnckmail on tho people by
lowing tax on tho nocessarios OF life
we cannot produce. Tho following will
provo this to be fact: Tho total i'm
ports OF raw sugar last year was throo
billion, eight hundred million pounds.
HOW TIE TRUST WILL uENEplr.
Our domestic or homo product Of
cane, beet and sorghum sugar last year
vas flvo hundred and sixty.threo mil
lion pounds. Our imports OF sugar,
raw mud refined, last yGar wcrc $780,
537,5 $40 poundH more than wo could pro.
duco ourselves. Tho imports OF this
article and what We produced ourselves
mnlo total for tho reiners Of 4,S27, :
2JT, 5lO pounds. We wcrO told By tho
nress dispatches that Il was Secretary
Carlisle who drafted tho suEar schedule
Tor tho beno(lt Of his friends, and Ito did
a good Job for them. For inatanco, ro'
iirod eucar raised 10 81 per loo pounds