West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-11-08
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Correspondence Of the Argus.

MT Nront sinclair. the young Graf-
ton lawyer entertained our people at
this place on Tuesday by Mckinley
stump speech, and we think that IL he
can do no better pleading law than pol
atics, he must surely lose every case.
The first part of his speech were mis-
quotations OF w. l.. Wilson's speech be-
fore the House of Commerce i'm England.
Secondly, he apologized for being In
the church pulpit, but said that Re-
publicanism and the gospel went hand
in hand. We think not The gospel
always favors those who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow, but
Republicans always favor monopolies.
He spoke of Adam and Eve being re-
fused the fruit of the tree of life
Republicans allow trusts aud mon.
opolics md manufactures TO eat there
OF and live and flourish forever, but the
poor shall surely die IL they dare try to
touch IT, lie stated that Wilson and
McGraw were paying bonus which
caused sugar To be selling at its pres
ent price. Such an IDEA: The sugar
monopoly in Louisiana is not able TO do
that kind OF business.
lie stated that Wilson, like Moses,
displcascd his master and would never
see the promised land Congress- This
reminds us of many things that speaks
against "a protective tariff. IL has en-
shaved the laborcr just the same as the
Children OF Israel were and we are now
blowing on the rams horn and the walls
OF the so called protection are bogin-
ming TO fall and IL the conservatives,
like Aaron, do raise the war cry, we
are bringing grapes from the Promised
Liant.
He stated that In 1850 the first tariff
bill was enacted and he forgot To tell
us that 1t was considered AS sacrifice
to meet war expenses, but, he did tell
u that IT, was for revenue tax. just
WIN, he termed free trade tax.
Next he spoke in favor OF reciprocity
for coffee trade, but did not say any
thing about Mckinley putting cents
tlrin per pound on the same
lie spoke of the Democrats mislead.
ing the people by telling them that n
reduction OF tariff would reduce prices
in rHo RATIO, and illustrated by saying
that pants selling at one dollar with
10 per cent tariff would have To sell
for as cents. His object i'm this was
to mislead, but he could not mislead
even the small boys Anyone could
see that the price of the pants minus
the tariff would be about 80 cents
But on the other hand suppose those
pants cost $l0 90 in England and we add
ID cents for transportation, 1875 per
cent for tariff and 30 per cent retail
profit and we have g. 30 and by de-
Quoting the tariff and counting at the
same rate the the same pants would
cost but Sl5i, making difference o!
80 cents have i'm my possession a
woolen suit that cost 81. and "a cotton
suit that cost So The difference i'm the
cost OF manufacturing OF the suits is
only about 81 The difference in price
is SIT which leaves SIC as results of
high protective tariff, and still our
stump speakers said on last evening,
that our wool dealers hal but small
margin.
lie stated that IL was impossible 90
raise the price Of wool and lower the
price OF clothing; but the above fig
ures show that there is room 10 make
both ends meet lie dwelt largely on
the past panic which the small boys
knew was during the administration Of
the Mckinley laws lie also stated
that IL did not take the Mckinley bill
as long to show its effects as IL does the
Wilson bill 90 give the promised inn
provement The Mckinley bill was
like the man who tried TO swim over
the Niagra Falls. lie made rapid adj
vancement, but IL was only toward
destruction.
lie dwelt largely upon the panics Of
1919 and 1898 but never mentioned the
pauic OF 1873.
In one breath he told Ms that Clcve-
lands first reign was a good Republican
reign and in the next be rained down
cpithcts on him for vetoes
In speaking Of Coxles army he failed
20 state that IL started in the Mckinley
district and that it's main object was n
campaign issue concocted by Office
seekers.
lie did not dwell long on the Shcr.
man 81 cent silver, because he knew
that we already saw the effects Of it..
lie stated Gin order TO mislead that
II w. j. Wilson would have told the
people that hc would have Iegislatsd
for ir CO coal ho would have been de-
fcatcd in the election Of 1892 Our
mountain lads an know that tho pla:-
form embraced free raw materials.
lie stated that invalid soldiers were
cut short OF pensions without q chance
To procure evidence. where az the same
time. they were allowed from 90 90 90
days TO give evidence and the ones i'm
this section vino were called on for ad-
ditional evidence were not deprived of
q single dollar. Tic also asked the
question as 90 how Hoke smith could
Tell as TO whether they were rated too
high? lie could tell it simply by see
ing that there was lack of evidence
on record
Ho stated that the price Of sheep vas
reduceB tO 81 Hut hv the vvav o,r