The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-22
A SECTIONAL BILL.

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ket on small sizes and the industry will
be ruined.
Y a SECTIONAL BILL.
The Wilson bill is sectional.
Tho cotton crop OF the south is worth
$3.50, 100000. Cotton ties are to be ad-
mitted free OF duty, sell at about two
cents a pound and arc sold with the
cotton at seven and eight cents a pound.
The hay crop of the north is worth
100000, 600. Hoop iron is subject to
duty of 30 per cent. When used In
baling hay it is sold with the hay at 1 OF
a cent pound or less.
On grains raised in the north and
west, wheat, corn. rye. etc, there is
duty of 90 per cent, but no duty when
imported from countries which leyy no
duty. But on rice, the exclusive product
OF a few southern states, there is duty
OF Ii cents pound, equal to "a per cent.
The Wilson bill is called "a bill to
reduce taxation, to provide revenue and
for other purposes" 1t is not free
trade Bill for it contains some OF the
clements of projections; it is not pro-
lection bill, for it contains too little
protection to be of any use; it ie not a
revenue bill, for it reduces the revenue:
It EN- bodies all the vices and mono OF
the virtues Of commercial restriction.
It is non-descript. ltstrikes off four
teen millions OF revenue by reducing
duties on articles of luxury or voluntary
use, such aa HaYana and other foreign
cigars, silks, laces, embrolderles, kid
gloves, ostrich feathers, &c.
On the same amount oflmportatlons
as under the present law the revenue
will BIO reduced seventy-four million
dollars year. TO supply the defcien-
cy we must import each year two hum
dred and fifty million dollars worth
more goods; that is, NE will manufac-
turo that amount less in this country.
There is but ono way in which our
manufacturers can meet the conditions
the passage of the bill will impose, and
that is by reducing wages. They. can
not abandon their lines OF BUSINESS
and sink the capital invested they
must run their works and can do SO
only by cutting wages to the level OF
their foreign competitors. For this
reason, If no other existed, would be
opposed to such bill.
Tho Mckinley bill, which it is pro-
posed to repeal by the Wilson bill, went
into effect October 6, 1890 Its learned
author said in Wheeling I'll it Is not
protective in all its PROVISIONS it is by
accident and not from design" Tho
bcnefcent effects OF that bill were con-
cisely expressed by President Harrison
in his message OF December, 1892, when
he said: 80 high a degree OF prosper
ity and SO general q diffusion of the
comforts of life were never before en-
joyed by our people"
WHAT IT DID.
The tariff bill OF 100 created new in
dustries by the hundred and furnished
employment for many thousands at in
creased wages it cheapened to the con-
sumner the cost of protected articles; it
increased our foreign trade in 1872 more
than one hundred and twenty eight
million dollars; it did not close foreign
markets to our products rs had boon
predicted, but our export trade increased
more than one hundred and forty-tivo
million dollars and was the largest in
our history it produced the revenues
necessary to carry on the affairs OF gov
ernment.
The Mckinley bill mover closed mill
or factory; it never shut up mine; it
never stopped q wheel; it never blew
out furnace; it never drove work
man from the shop to bog for work on
the streets at 4 dollar q day to keep his
family in bread.
t'The busy click OF machinery, the
merry ring Of the anvil, the lowing of
peaceful herds and the song Of the har-
vest home,'' were heard through tho
length and breadth of the land; the
we'll dressed children mcrrily played on
their way to school, the happy father
whistled over his work, and the proud
mother lightened her household cares
with bursts of gong. A happy, con.
tented and Industrious people filled tho
whole land.
But the Democratic party in Noyem-
Der, 1892, gained possession of the ex-
ecutive and legislative branches OF the,
government and had it in their power
to enact into law their platform declara-
tions. Then came industrial depression
for fear our protective system would be
destroyed and an era of free trade or
low tariff with all its attendant evils
would be inaugurated. Look ut the re-
suit in few short months. Three mil
lions OF men out of employment, and
depreciation of values exceeding three
thousand million OF dollars. Organized
relief ia every city ia giving food to men
who are not begpRrs but nob!emen,
skilled workmen in their trades, and
eager to work but deprived of the OPP
portunity by the shadow OF the Wilson
bill.
''From forges where no fires burn,
From mills where wheels no longer turn,
From looms o or which no shuttles leap.
From merchants shops which sheritts keep,
From God made country, man pade town.
From Wall street men, from sons OF TOLL
From the bronzed tillers OF the soil,
From north, from south, from cast, from west,
Business is crying with zest-
Don't monkey with the tariff"
MAN wants but little here below,
But wants that little good,