Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-22
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this was followed By general improve
ment of business and better times for
laboring men in manufacturing estao-
lishmehts. He followed it on up show
ing that every time the tariff
was reduced it produced good
effects on business and that every
increase in the rate OF tariff duties pro-
duced stagnation in business. And he
said the climax was reached when, In
1890. the Mckinley law was enacted,
for which law the people justly wreaksd
their vengeance on the men who helped
to enact such a law. AS we all
know that law has been followed by
frightful loss TO business, the beggary
OF labor and the reduction Of wages,
while the soil Of the Great Republic has
given out a new and strange sound TO
the ears OF tho people Of these days Of
civilization and progress-a sound never
heard In the days of Democratic
laws and Democratic policies-the
muflled sound OF thousands OF starving
workmen ramping over the country
and shutting through the streets OF the
nations Capital and begging with hol'
low eyes aud sunken cheeks and broken
voices for crust or bread to Keep them
from absolute starvation.
He gave a history OF protection
In England, and showed that
for six hundred yoars Great Britain
lived under a protective tariff, and that
it never prospered during that time as
1t has since the abolition of her pro-
tective system. Although the protect
i've system had its calamity howlers
then as il has now" Mr.. Bell discussed
the wage question of England and
America at great length, and
then coming back TO a
discussion of the tariff question in this
country, he said: THE Wilson bill Is
the first general tariff law passed since
the passage of the Walker tariff in
July, 1S46, that really makes a general
reduction of the tax on imported goods,
or, In fact, moves in the direction OF
freer trade; and at the time OF the
passage Of the Walker tariff We had
the same dire predictions on the floor Of
Congress and in the protection newspa-
pers of the country touching the desc
lation and ruin its passage was
to inflict upon the commercial,
manufacturing and mining indus
tries OF the country that
we have had during the past year re-
garding the present Democratic reform
of the tariff" The speaker
told what the papers of the country
said about the tariff In 1912, and also
gave the utterances of noted men al
that time as to the great damage
the law would do TO the country, but he
showed that IL mad the contrary result
and that it produced such large reve,
nue. that after Is years the rate was re-
duced over FIVE per cent. He gave the
figures showing tAe great benefit that
the Walker tariff had on trade, and the
increase In manufacturing OF goods,
etc.
He said further: II predict that his
tory will repeat itself, and that no party
or national convention will dare In the
future to advocate protection OF the Nc
Kinley brand, or again appeal to the
intelligent people of this country for
their suffrage on an issue like this. The
Mckinley law will not be indorsed
by the next Republican National Conven-
tion, mark that. The speaker went on TO
show what the Republican party had done
for the country in its thirty years OF mis-
rule and the disaster that it had brought
on the country, after which be took up the
Wilson law, Item by item, and discussed
them and showed what beneht the people
could expect and have received from its
passage.
He discussed tie pension law very fully,
and many old soldiers in the
audience got their eyes opened, and
they saw how they had been
blinded by the Republicans.
In closing, he said:
LET us cherish and support the brave
men,--the Clevelands, tue Wilson's, the
Voorhees,, the Mills, the Fithisns, who
have fought and are still fighting our
battles. They will conduct US TO COM
plete and glorious victory.
$50 let it be with US now in this great
battle of the people for a most complete
tariff reform. and against the protected
monopolists of this country. Let US not
despair. Let US not beat retreat; but Let
us beat charge all along the line We
beat that charge in seventy-six; we beat 1t
in 1884; we beat IL in 1892 OIL let US
beat it now, and beat it in 1896 Let US
beat it for Democracy, beat it for country,
beat it for posterity, beat it for man!
A TRIBUTE TO Mr.. WILSON.
"And let the old, familiar and inspiring
battle crv. so often heard in the days gone
by. onward to victory! ring through the
valleys and rever roetate amidst the noun
tsins OF West Virginia. arousing 10 the
supreme Importance and menaciDg dangers
of the hour the faithful friends and de-
voted followers Of that princely gentleman
and finished scholar and statesman, than
whom no other voice in this gallant State
has so often rurg its trumpet
blasts upon the ear Of freemen,
and whose triumphant reelection at this
time would give to the cause of freedom
of trade and death to monopoly, such an
inspiration and momentum as nothing else
could possibly give. Need / say that re-
fer TO the reelection 10 the FIfty-fouth th
Congress of the United States from this
highly favored and now famous Congress
sional District of the Hon. William l..
Wilson. of West Virginia, and OF the Great
Republic.
The speaker was continually interrupt
ed throughout by applause.
Col Aruett followed Mr.. Bell in a
speech of masterful form and beauty. Al
though the hour was quite late the Col.
held his audience with the strength of his
argument, the aptness OF his illustrations
and the beauty and power Of his language.
His reference to the Inequalities Of the
Mckinley law and the correctness Of the
Democratic position on all the cur
rent questions was specially effective. His
appeal for Wilson's reelection was most
earnest and at times pathetic in its force
and effectiveness. The Coloneps speech as
a whole was the strong and effective srgu-
ment of citizen and as such was most tell
ing and the source OF great satisfaction to
all Democrats. IL the Democrats OF this
State can follow up their canvass with
such men as Col. Arnett there can and will
be no question about the result at the COM
ing election.
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