Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-09

for the products OF American labor, ana
a general dawning Of an era OF national
Individual prosperity. On the other
side lie corrupt government, fettered
and imprisoned industry, Limitation oy
law on the markets in which we are 10
sell, aud limitations by law for the
amount which we can pro6taOly pro-
duce. Those are the two systems now
AZ issue before the American people,
and as have said before, giving a
somewhat local application to what l
am going TO say today, the question
for the people OF Jefferson county Is
more markets tor wheat and for the
mechanics, more markets for manulac-
tUred goods.
II there is one thing TO which l gave
more attention than another during my
brief absence from this county, 1t was
the
CONDITION OF THE WHEAT MARKET
of the old world. When inquired why
il was that wheat has gone down to a
price much lower than it has ever sold
before in the history Of at least modern
sutt' 90 vtt.r~aa ae.s r.f- ss-u s pIV-
duction beyond a profitable demand;
that not only is the United States in
creasing her surplus export OF
wheat and Russia increasing her sur
plus export OF wheat, but Argentina is
coming forward and is now third In
quantity exported TO European markets
l cannot but recall the fact and l have
stated il again and again before the
people Of this country that the Amer
lean tax on the woods of Argentine
made them give up their sheep
raising aud go into petition with you
In the production Of Wneat. | say IL is
for you to-day a question Of markets.
question OF consumers the world over
for the products you produce. l be-
lieve, so far as the great cereals are con-
cerned, we produce enough 10 feed
population twice as large as
our own. believe. so far as
staple manufacturers are concerned we
produce enough TO supply a population
twice as large as our own. The ques-
tiou is, where are we 10 get these mar
ke:s? Upon ole system we have been
holding up for thirty years tariff walls
20 keep other people from coming in TO
compete with US in a home market al
ready glutted. We have now begun 70
TEAR DOWN OUR TARIFF WALLS
to let Us out with our products to com
pete with the rest OF the world ia all
the markets OF the world.
While / was in London about two
weeks ago, I was honOred very uueX-
pectedly 10 myself, with an Invitation
by the Chamber OF Commerce 10 be their
guest at q public diuHer. l was sur
prised, I was almost sorry iu one sense,
TO receive such al invitation. because
was seeking rest, and 1 knew then as
veil as I know to-day that what /
would say on that occasion would be
perverted aud falsiied before the Ameri-
can people, and yet l did not think l
need be afraid TO talk TO the people OF
London as talked to the people Of West
Virginia. And so / told them just what
I have said % you today, that Ia
the past We had been building up our
tariff 20 keep them out OF American
markets and now We are tearing down
the tatitf 10 let us out into theirs aud
all the other markets OF the world.
And | said u them that not only 10 the
great products of agriculture, not only
in our wheat, corn, cotton, beef and
meat products, but In the products OF
our manufactures they might hence
forth
FIND Us COMPETING WITH THEM
in al the markets that they sought.
Thirty years ago We began to shut our
selves In from all the markets OF the
world; thirty years ago we called the
American merchantmen In from OF the
seas and surrendered the oceans 10 Eng
land aud other nations 10 traverse them
With their ships.
When last Friday morning in fierce
gale when I was of the Banks Of New
Foundland on one OF those great ocean
ships, which seemed almost able 20 DEFY
he fury OF she storm, and yet was tossed
about like q cork upon the waters,
spied of in q fog a few fishing
schoonerS, and l felt the men who
could venture out in such weather In
their little fishing boats were the men
who could vet restore the American
marine upOu the seas and
carry our flag in safety through 10 all /
.he ports OF the world.
In days past We did it, Even be-
lore we becams a nation American ma /
-iuerS travelled every sea and American /
mariners transported the products OF |
lur shores TO other lands. We have /
begun to learn something, too, as TO /
our manufactured products ia the past /
lew years. Take up the list OF Ameri- |
,an exports today Now you f1d not /
1nly wheat aud cotton, tobacco, corn, |
beef and meat products. but you ind a
CONSTANTLY INCREASING ES6RRT
II American manufac res IN -