The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-13

Ing the balance between the value OF
what he brings TO town 70 sell and the
value Of what he buys In town and takes
home.
"That is not all. Everybody knows
that everybody was busy. Everybody
knows that every mill was running.
The comforts Of lie aa distributed
among our people were greater than
ever before. But wheat was low and
some OF our farmers became diseon.
tented. Some one told me ot Demo.
cratic orator in Missouri, who appealed
to the farmers whether they had ever
known time before when 1t took four
bushels OF wheat to shoe horse. But
now what do we see2 Wheat has not
appreciated but has gone lower than
ever before in the memory OF any
farmer who hears me. II has been
hard to get enough OF II In the shape ol
-four some times In the home Of the
workingman, but It has been so cheap
that It has in some places gone into the
hog trough.
woRKISGMEs's LAND OF PROMISE.
II said some years ago thatthe Amer
ican woskingnan had the most favored
lot OF any workingmau in the world,
aud that this was evidenced by tho fact
that the gates OF Castle Garden always
swing inward to the workingmen seek.
ing our shore. The workingman knows
| tho land OF promise as well as the swal-
low knows the land OF summer. could
not say that to-day, because the gates OF
Castle Garden have been swinging out
ward. We do not need anybody here
who thinks he knows Of better place,
and / am glad that to such the gates
have swung outward. It is impossible
that there should be profitable employ
mont for labor when the owner of the
mill would just as soon shut down as
not. Now what brought the present
condition about? 1t is important to
know, because the party or the policy
that brought 1t about, that Is RESPONSE
BILE for bringingit about, carries fear
full weight OF responsibility.
"Was anybody foolish enough to sup.
pose that he could change the tariff
policy OF this country from the Mckin-
ley bill to bill framed upon the lines
OF the Chicago platform without disas-
ter? I can see how some sanguine pro-
fessor might insiat that We could get
out OF the rough water after while,
that there was very smooth and calm
sea beyond, but cannot see how even
q halt-wittod man could suppose for
one moment that we could pass from
the protective policy OF the Republican
party to law on the lines OF the Chi.
cago platform without CONFUSION in
business. The choice OF Congress
pledgedto put that platform into legts-
lation introduced an element OF uncer-
tainty that made 1t impossible
for the manufacturer or mer-
chant to go on with his work,
II he gavc the Democratic party
any credit for sincerity. In August
Inst, year ago, Congress assembled and
after dealing with the Sherman bill, or
ganized a committee OF ways and means
OF the house OF representatives and
charged it with the duty Of having a
tariff bill ready for action at the regular
session, and the promise was made that
it would be rushed through and speedily
put into law. Instead Of getting bill
speedily through this condition of un.
certainty and distress was prolonged
through n whole year and August OF '94
came around before our Democratic
friends had passed bill. And then
they passed a bill, which, according to
the Judgment OF Mr. Cleveland, was so
unequal in its provisions, SO unlike
Democratic promises, so full OF party
pertidy and dishonor that he would not
attach his name to 1t.
DEMOCRATS LACKED COMPETENCY.
"The Democratic party owed 1t to this
country, fit would maintain its com.
potency to deal with such questions, to
pass bill speedily, aud, secondly. to
pass a bill that when passed they would
stand by 1t. II the Democratic party
had had consistency in their platform ;
II the country could have known what
they were likely to do, all this uncer.
,ainty would have been diminished, but
tho trouble about 1t all was that there
was no conference OF belief among them
and nobody could tell what they
might do.
"Those gentlemen now tell you that
they want to break down the deiences
that is what Mr.. Wilson told his Eng
lish friends tho other day. that he was
engaged in tearing down fences. Now
fences are for two purposes. l was
raised on farm, and have had some ex-
periencc. They arc to keep things out
or to keep them in, one or the other.
The fence around the corntleld Is to
keep stock out, the fence around tho
pasture field Is to keep stock In. What
does tearing them downimply? That oil
Of tho range stock outside will get into
our pastures, and that our cattle will
share the range with them. I
start out with this proposition, that
thore is not enough grass on the range
for the cattle tina. are out there already.
make tho second proposition, that the
grass inside OF our fences has been bet
Ter and the cattle slicker and better in
bono and richer In condition than those
on the range. II We equalize these
things and lot tho wild horned and hun
cry stock from the range into our fields,
wo won't have as much grass for our
own stock as We had before. They talk
to US about wanting more foreign mar
kets.
DEMOCRATS KILLED RECIPROCITY.
In tho tariff bill OF 1890 We introduced
reciprocity policy securing markets Of
enormous present valuc to tho farmers
and manufacturers Of this country and
OF a possible value that can hardly be
calculated, aud We had these markets
without endangering the wages OF any
American workman. BY putting sugar
or tho FREQ list We saved every farmer
n Eubstantial sum oVery year in the