The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-20
Facts VS.. Buncombc.

Facts VS.. Buncombe.
The Register. replying to tho 1SrELLI-
orScEn's comments on tho pottery stu
alton hero, charges that tho ISrRLLIGES'
GER has made the present trouble at tho
Wheeling pottery "prctcxtto threaten
n reduction Of wages in tho hope Of
stampeding voters over to its party"
In making this assertion tho Register
il guilty OF stating what it knows to be
nm untruth. Tho IxrsLLIGrScEn showed
plainly, and can prove by the RegiSsrs
own news columns, that tho WACO scale
recently accepted by tho pottcrs was
based on tho expected pottery schedule
in tho Democratic tariff bill; that thsre
wa. every reason to believe that tho
rates OF duty would be fixed at 40 and
As per cent, and that tho wages OF tho
potters were arranged OH that basis.
When tho bill passed, however, 1t was
found that tie promised schedule was.
not adopted, but that the reduced rates
Of 80 aud IS per cent remained. Now,
what is the logical conclusion to BIO ar.
rived as9 Whom wago scale il based
OH n certain tariff rate and that rate 10
reduced ten per cont, what 10 naturally
expected to foitow2
Tho ISrELLIGEXcER quoted President
Franzheim as saying tho new tariff bill
delivered n moro serious blow 10 the
pottery interest OF this country than to
almost any other American industry.
lie gave figures anil facts In support Of
his assertion. Docs tho Regis!cr dispute
Mr.. Franzhaim's statements, or does it
expect that iss demeSogle aud stock
campaign appeals based on FREQ trade
theories will override tho cold facts
based on q practical knowledge OF tho
pottery business and its relations to tho
tariff? The wugc workers in tho pot.
series Of tho country arc not 10 DO de.
ceiyed by Democratic campaigE bum
connie. They know what their present
wage scale is based upon, and they
know that Democratic tariff bill has
lowered that basis ten Der cent, as IL
has lowered tho basis OF nearly every
other wage scale in tho country.
Tho Re9iaIer further gays, regarding
another phase OF the question:
\ new ghost ha5 been Coujurei np by tue high
protection witches, II Is ghost from the lHnd
u tho rising SIn-i lEpunGsG ghost Tho work
mon nrt tod thnt IhpNtl Is preparing. slncc the
passage 0t the ucw tariff law. IN pour lnt0 this
country putiGry ware Ut such low prices that II
Will bC InpuASih.G iut the American Inanufac.
turCr 10 compete and hu Will haYn u shut up
shop Jules wages In reduced. The pour Jap
ancsc only gets twenty-five cents day, aild lIil.
lGsS the manufacturer gets more projection
there will have ~ be II reduction Of wages IA
COninotc with the JAPANESE Considering that
the Jap, send Ia this country only few waves
aud piece, Of rnrinS for which they get viry
high prices, Il Is not probable thnt this nuw
EontcG Of Rlnrm will cause panic umOng
American potter,
This reads very much like ono Of The
Registers tin plate editorials OF two or
thrcO ycars ago, whom our contemporary
was constantly asserting that tin plato
never could and never would be made
in America. It is also in tho same limo
with its arguments for FREQ coal, in
which it says our mining intcrestq liavO
nothing to fear from Nova Scotia com.
petition. Tho ReyisLr now sOos tin
plato mills in operation almost within
mailing distance Of It's own Office, and
witnC.se, tho preparation Of tho Whit.
ney syndicate to capture our eastern
coal market undor tho lower duty pro.
vidcd in tho now tariff bill.
In regard to tho danger Of tho Japan.
arc seriously crippling our pottery
trade, tho factsnrc just as much against
the Regia,r's assertion that VIC have
nothing to icar from tho products of %
cents.aday labor, ~ thOy arO against iis
assertion that We caBRot make Tin
plato. Tho Japanese agents who have