The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-10

Gus to tho Country and Will Lose
West Virginia and Virginia From
the Democratic Party-He Calls on
Democrats to Cover their Heads in
Shamc-Impractical Theorists Who
Attempt to Legislate on Business
Questions-Who Asked for Free
Coal?
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 9.-Hon. NJ. D.
ingalls,, of Cincinnati, president OF the
Big Four railroad, created a sensation
at the Democratic Jackson Club ban
| quett last night in speaking tocthe toast,
'.The Chicago Platform Of 1892" Speak
ing of the repeal of the Sherman act he
said: ut was brought about by Re
| publican votes, and they got more credit
perhaps than we did for,the repeal. 1t
| seems to me that the administration is
| also open to criticism that it did not by
| conference and consultation arrange q
| compromise bill that would practically
accomplish the same results and which
! could have been passed with Democratic
votes and as q Democratic measure"
Referring to President Cleveland, he
| said: ''Tho theory that the king can
do no wrong will never succeed III this
country Neither does all knowledge.
all wisdom lie with the President and
his advisers. The crlticiems | make
here tonight make as a Democrat, as
| one who voted for Cleveland three sue,
in the midst of evil times-mlils have
stopped, industry is paralyzed, and
everywhere idle men are filling b
streets and asking for work, and there
is none. No such calamity has ever be-
fore befallen this community in its his
| tory. The committee. on ways and
| means has SEM to Congress a tariff Dill
| which in addition to the deficit OF sou
| 100000 will produce $3.50 00 900 moro OF
| loss, leaving the government at me END
| OF the fiscal year short $125, 000,000 I'M
less it can be made up in other ways.
| How do you expect to make up this
1925. 100000? >
VAS EVER SUCH FoLLYl
"Cover your heads in shame, my
fellow Democrats, for your party IN
W these days OF peace propose to,
| 30 back and enact the war taxes OF the
| past; and why?in order that they may
| make a tariff. framed according to the
| theories OF q few men familiar only with
the books and reduce the duties on GER
tain articles which do not demand it
and make certain articles free which
| are not called for. Was ever such.
! Jolly? The gentleman who fathers this
measure is a distinguished member OF
Congress, coming from a little village
in the mountains of West Virginia. He
| is a student OF the doctrine OF Tree
trade n we'll educated as a theorist.
| By some chance he is made chairman OF
| the committee of ways and means, and
| is put astride of the OF this
country and proposes to demonstrate.
| his theories, although in so doing he
may wreck,the country and the party.
Just as sure as you place 1coal-and
iron upon the free list, so sure will Vlr-
| cinia and West Virginia leave the Demo
| cratic column at the election. Tell
me where are o to get the electoral
votes. to take their place? Can you
~placate mugwumps enough in New Eng
land to give you the votes there that
| YOU lose in the south?
COAL AS RAW MATERIAL.
S"What justification is there in free
coal? None, except that the books cay
raw material should be free, and this
committee, with no business experience,
but welded to their theories, have
| classed coal as a raw material, when
every ton at the mouth of the PIT repre-
sents 80 per cent of labor and 10 per
cent of material. It would seem to me
| that if you wished protection for labor
| here was a better chance for 1t thar
anywhere else. Who asks for free coal?
The peoplef No; no one except a few
New England and New York specula-
tors who rushed over into Nova Scotia
the week after election, when they
thought they could establish free trade,
and bought everything that could be
brought in here if the duties were
taken of, from q coal mine to q lime
kiln.
.While this committee OF ours grac-
iously allows the coal of her majesty.
Queen Victoria to come in here and
displace our own and break downa half
million of our laborers, the thrifty
Canuck smiles and still charges us go
cents a ton for all that we sell in his
western dominions. Verify, this COM
mittee of WAYS and means are great and
patriotic gentlemen. In behalf OF the
great body of business men of this
country 1 protest against experiments
| at this time. In behalf of the Demo-
cratic rank and file [ protest against a
measure which, if passed, will turn the
country over to the Republicans. /
wish 1 could reach every Democratic
the land to arouse them to action so
that they would make their objections
| felt with their congressman.
RUsHINGzTo DEFEAT
1T is a time of peril to the party. I
would sound the alarm, To your tents,
OIsrael., Unless we can bring about a
change in the administration, unless
we can stop that so-called Wilson bill
Lin Congress, we shall go down as q
party to helpless defeat on the next
election. and it will be years before the
people will trust us again.s we want
Congress to stopsexperimenting for the
benefit OF a few theorists and scholars"
The address was Yociferously ap-
plauded.
MAN wants but little here below,
But wants that little good.