The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-22
YESTERDAY was the longest day OF tho
year. Still, thoro are others.



Democracy anl III. Bmslnrss Revival.
The wilson inrlr act has already. In tho short
space OF nlno months since Its passage, demon,
S,ratcd rs superiority rs \ revenue producer
over the Mckinney net; and With the ntiprcce.
dcnted revival OF NIL our home Industries TO.
Ecthcr with tho increase OF tho wRgCS Of tho
workingmCn OF the country under It's brnCilccnt
provisions. tho friends OF tariff reform can have
no better VlndtcAtton OF their action than BY
comparing IN every possible Wow tho cllecis OF
the two aciS upon the welfare OF the COUNTY,
| Roliser.
The above Is q fair sample OF tho uort
ofstuG tho Democratic organs AFRO feed.
Ing their readers just now. Except by
a skilltul juggling OF treasury figures
thoy can not make good the claim that
tho wilson tariff act (Which, by tho
way Mr.. Wilson repudiated and Mr..
Cleveland refused to signl has vindi.
Gated itsoli. As a revenue producer it
lisa failure; rs n revenue rcducor to a
point below tho necessities OF the gov
ernmcnt, tits u gigantic success
In the first year OF tho Mckinley
tariff tho customs receipts were Sol9,.
522,9o5. In 1892, Notwithstanding the
extinction Of tho sugar duties 100000.
000,) the receipts wore sl77. lG2, 594.
In 1898 they wcro to S2O3, 35j. ole. In
the fiscal year lS93.'9+ tho Democrats
wore in and the country wa, threatened
with free trade; consequently tho GUS
toms revenues dropped to Sl3l, sis, $50.
Tho "WilsOn' tariff went into effect in
August, 1894, OF what followed, the
following statemen. based on treasury
figures tells tho story:
Relieved from the strain OF uncertainty the
merchants who had been held In suspense for
nearly a year no; knowing what to do, venturcd
10 rcStok moderately. Ia a feeble squirt caused
by the efforts OF the fall trale the customs re-
cclptS ct9Wled In August up IN 81. OJO, ON, and
In September 10 81, O,OO0 Tho next month
there was again a ioSS OF Si,01),oO0. and IN No
vembcr the receipts were only $1,000 COO. De
cembcr showed \ slight improvement, and Jan.
nAty, l@j, made the best showing for two yca=s
in an increase TO Si7, 10000. For the rest OF the
celps have ranged from sIiOcO.GG 10 $4,000.
The exports fnr 1872 were si.030. rs, Us. In
1893 they fell TO SSI7.6s5, i9L These figures need
no comment In 1891 the exports. although
slightly improved, were yet sH,O0O.O00 less than
The imports for iS2 were valued at Ssy,4o ,i6a;
IN 1898, sd, +Oo.1s; in 1891 s65L.gqi.G2A
The curta!lmgnt OF foreign markets 10 the
American producer BIZ AboiiShiuE the reciprocity
treaties negotiated by the Republican admins.
tFation Is best Illustrated III the Official figures
published By the bureau OF statistics for wheat
In l'2!, lI.?Sl55l bushels Of wheat were ex.
ported; ll',I!l.lC9 In 1893, and only IS. ii5.25O
hl.hnlg in tAll DO Other farrl pnnlafsFg tsarN Hnr..
reSaond'neiy affected.
The national debt IN 1856. ut the close OF the
great civil WE wax SlL,SIl.bS0, gs. This enor.
nous indebtedness had been reduced TO $751;
my and wise taxation Under Democratic
management. and nv the result Of tariff tinker.
Ing tue public debt has Siucc been increased
Si9!jlo,01. with al interest charge Of $1,000
added yearly.
People are ap: TO judge the Demo-
cratic party by tho condition OF the
country while it is entrusted with
power, and they know tina. they were
enjoying unprecedented prosperity pre-
vious 10 the advent OF the present ad-
ministration, while it's advent was fol-
lowed by disister-the worst the coun-
try had experienced for mauy years.
After two years Of prosperity under a
Republican tariff came tho threat OF n
wiping ont OF the last vcs,iSe OF protec.
ton and the consequent loss OF conf.
dence and terrible depression.
The people know something else, and
all the h~ish-soundinc phrases about the
present revival OF business being duo to
the Wilson" tariff will not turn their
minds from it. They know that when
the Republican Congress was elected
last Novcm Der there vas a guarantee
that the Democratic threat (by Mr..
Wilson and others on the floors OF
Consress) that the fight for free trade
had only begun could not DO carried
out When, after long months OF IN
certainty, caused by the most incompe-
tent Congress that ever convened in
Washington, the Democratic body died
an unmourned death, business began TO
revive at once, because capital knew
that legislation for Anne rican interests
would be in future in the hands OF tho
friends OF IN American industrial ava.
TEN that had caused the country to
prosper. Confidence returned; there
was iRith that danger was pa't.
These arc facts which every business
man knows to be true, disguise, the
truth as he may by excuses for the
Democratic Congress which brought
disaster on the country>and which tho
people repudiated by their votes.
The Pittsburgh Post Is throwing cold
water on the efforts OF en:erprisiug citi-
zens who arc ~endeavoring to secure the
national Republican convention for that
city. Evidently the Posts partisanshin
is standing in tho way OF its hearty IN.
dorscmont OF this ono OF tho p!ans to
boom the Greater Pittsburgh"
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