The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-27

huu tue Stranger Ut aOlouEu0Is a0SO
Exodus, chapter u. verse 49, Leviticus,
chapter "a. verse %; Numbers, chapter
0, verses II, 10; chapter Is, verses 10, l6.
Where il the Christianity in the Chi
nese exclusion act7 No Anarchist, no
Nihilist. no Communist nor Socialist
should become a soiourner in this coun-
try from other countries. And all such
uanasuraliLed foreigners now in this
country should be sent back home II
they attempt to promulgate their
doctrines in private or in public.
As soon as 1t was known, after the
election in 1892, that the house, senate
aud President were Democratic, / knew
then. just as well as ! know 1t to-day,
that hard times aud business depression
would come as they have done. With
the promise Of free trade it would have
been madness for the manufacturers TO
continue business and pay the wages
they were paying. The demand was
cheap goods; that meant cheap labor.
Tho provident wage earners who had
deposited their surplus money Ia the
banks, knew that ut least 50 per cent Of
the business Of the country was down
on borrowed capital. and the greater
part OF it the banks had furnished, and
the depression that would follow would
embarass the banks in making collec.
,tions, and force suspension aud posi-
BILE failure; 90 they made rush to with
draw their deposits, which forced sus-
pensions and failures.
The treasury on election day in No
venber, 1892, had a gold reserve Of
Sl37 100000. The Harrison administra-
ton had four months to run. The i'm
ports began TO fall OIL, waiting for O
free trade tariff law, ana those in bond.
ed warehouses were permitted to re-
main in bond. consequently the treas
ury receipts fell of and the gold re-
serve was reduced to about SOL ,000, 900.
When the Cleveland administration
commenced the Harrison administra-
ton had reduced the public debt about
S235, 100000.
After keeping the country in GUS
pense for eighteen months by their in.
competency, the Democrats produced q
tariff law which the President de.
nounced in the severest terms and then
Withdrew 10 sulk in his tent (Buzzard's
Bay and let it become law without
his signature-brave man as he is.
Their incompetency to legislate after
trial OF twenty months is shown in re-
ducing the gold reserve and increasing
the bonded debt more than one hun
dred millions OF dollars. In the last
campaign they expected to succeed as
they had done in the two preceding
ones-by deception, falsehood and mis-.
representations OF the most base and
fragrant character With all OF the
facts staring them in the face they as.
serted they had found bankrupt
treasury. The wage-earners who are
trying to support their families by their
honest toll were not deceived this time.
Tens OF thousands OF the best Demo-
Gratis went to the polls and voted to
protect their wives and children against
the craze OF free trade.
May the good Lord in his mercy bless,
not only the wives and daughters Of
those sensible Democrats, but the
mothers aud the daughters OF the whole
nation, for to them we are in a great
measure indebted for our victory.
At least 100 Of the best Democrats in
this county voted for Dayton. VIM. L.
Wilson spoke hero the day before the
election. l never was more disappoint-
ed in speaker. From your editorials
/ had supposed that he was fine ora
tor, with honest convictions. He made
no display OF oratory. The whole drift
OF his argument was deception, and to
get up bad feeling between labor and
capital; and to array the thriftless
against the provident. He dwelt at
length on the advantages Of free wool;
said our wives and daughters had to
wear dresses made OF shoddy-now they
could wear all wool goods at reduced
price. Our wage earners would have
constant employment, as they would
have plenty OF material 10 work upon.
He dwslt at length upon the income
tax, showing how it would lessen tho
tax upon common people. He boosted
OF the law giving the states power to tax
the currency (greenbacks) OF the gov.
eminent. He argued that the tax on
playing cards, OF two cents deck,
would increase the revenue and lessen
the duty on woolens. You would have
thought that our ladies never had any
thing respectable to wear under the
Mckinley tariff law, but with free wool
they could dress like ladies. He never
said sugar once-the very thing that
affected the people most. He showed
the great gain from the tax on spirits.
A tariff equal to the difference in
wages in this country and Europe
would put the wages in each county on
level, and would yield revenue to run
tho government, which would seem
Just. That would do il the demand was
equal to the supply. With such tariff
as that, thi1 country would be flooded
with foreign goods, which would cause
an enforced idleness, aud the wage
earners would BIO tho greatest sufferers.
In addition TO such q tariff, however,
enact a duty OF 10 per cent and it would
reduce the importations greatly, and the
government would receive as much
revenue as she did from the whole, and
the consumer would not have to pay
any more for the article than he did be-
fore. The government gets this 10 per
cent and the wage Garner would get the
same wages and the additional employ
ment
This community is q unit for Mr..
Elkins, for United States senator.
Very Respectfully,
HARMON SISsET.