Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-25
DOVENER'S MEETING.
4 THOUSAND PEOPLE HEAR THREE RsPUB-
LICAN S PEE0HES.
Messrs. Dovensr, Hart and Whitaker Addressed
a Crowd in the Opsn Air a, Thirty-Four'h
Srssi-Ths Registers Tariff Cartoon
Strs Up Nr. Fart

The Republicans were to have held a
Meeting last night in KnoKe's Hail. on
South Jacob street, and the decorations
were all put 10 place for the occasion.
Captain Dov5uer arrived few min
utes before o'clock, accompanied oy
Alex, K. Campbell, n. L. Whitaker, d..
C. Richards, c. B. Hart anu IhomaS
O'Brien, Jr, Mr. O'Bclen holding mig q
place OF honor ia the front carriage
The Captain looked csrewOrn and tired,
and wore a heavy scarf around his neck.
IL was decided after the hail was
reached TO move the meeting up 10
Thirty-fourth street, where the speak
ers used a carriage seat for platform
About thousand people gathered IN
the square between Eotf and JACOB
streets, and the meeting was quite a
success, considering the counter attFac-
tions up town, which had drawn many
South Side Republicans.
Capt. Dovener was introduced by DR..
Il. T. Ford. He opened with a calamity
howl and kept il up to the end. Two
years ago, be said, he was talking 10
men VINO we're prosperous and happy
and enjoying all the blessings Of thirty
wears of Republican rule. Then there
came among the people men preaching
a new doctrine, change. They ala
not appeal TO patriotism nor
10 business sense, but merely
for change whereby the peoples pros
perity, they hoped, would be assured
aud there would be no strikes. They
kept their word so far as strikes are
concerned, for there have been no
strikes, simply idieness, and no demand
for labor 10 make strikes possible. Be-
fore that time there had been thirty
one years OF Republican protec-
ton, and prosperity uneQualled,
and the last year the greatest
10 the countrY's whole history. They
told YOU that tariff is tax and that the
consumer pays il and that it makes the
rich richer and the poor poorer, pro-
pose TO show that protection Is not a
tax, but that it is merely duty paid by
the foreign manufacturers for the
privilege of selling In our
markets, There is no such
thing as free trade in the
world-all countries lay duties for the
purpose of raising revenue. In the
free trade countries, so-called, the du-
ties are levied for the sole purpose OF
raising revenue and with no regard for
Industries aud commerce. A protective
country lays it tariff OF duties for the
purpose OF collecting revenue from
those articles which are made In
that country. Ia a platform
adopted at Chicago by the Democratic
party, a plank was inserted declaring
that all protection is unconstitutional,
unlawful and fraud. There was also
a plank calling for the collection of no
duties except for revenue. This means
that there shall be no duties levied ex-
cept upon those articles which shall
produce revenue, and therefore articles
not produced in America. The Captain
then branched off into Biblical and ear
ly American history to bring TO light
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold for
the purpose of comparing Democrats 10
them, particularly Mr.. Wilson.
The free trade policy of Great Brit
ain was then taken up and explained In
msuuer TO suit the speaker and his
purposes, which were 10 show that q
duty on tea and coffee is not good
thing ina country that does not pro-
duce those articles. He went into de-
tails about the revenue required by
Great Britain and the manner OF rails
ldg il by import duties. Sugar was a
theme which seemed TO stir the Cap
tain TO the depths. Hs described the
sugar duty of England and compared 1t
with the duty on sugar in the Wilson
tariff law, and on these premises ar
gued that Mr.. Wilson and his friends In
Congress were tagging at the Lions
tail because they made sugar pay
a portion OF the expenses OF the govern
meut instead OF the people paying an
unpatriotic bounty TO a favored few.
BY q peculiarly agile hocus pocus per-
Torrance he then attempted to prove
what a good thing American feee trade
in sugar is, despite his previous denun-
citation Of the English policy Of free
trade. He declared that the people did
not pay tho sugar bounty; not penny
OF it. 1t was paid by the general gov
eminent to citizens of the United States
and at once became 3 circulating
medium. He apparently forgot en-
tlrely to say where the Government got
| the money. The Democratic Congress:
took the sugar bounty of by direction
and give IL back by indirection, he
said instead of the Government
paving this bounty, every con
sumer OF q pound OF sugar il
this country pays his share o.
the 40 per cent. tax and two cents