Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-08

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ton. He is being advertised all over
the country with more zeal than truth
as Prosperity's Advance Agent, and
The Logical Candidate.
And. adds the Journal pointedly. IF
Mckinley be the logical candidate Of
his tariff act the logic Of events would
compel the same defeat for him as his
tariff act suffered in 80 and '92 at the
hands Of the people"
Tt is the OBJECT Of the tobacco trade
organ. however. to arouse the cigar
makers and the trade generally to pos
tive action before the assembling Of
the s.. Louis convention looking to the
defeat Of McKmley's nomination The
why and wherefore Of this attitude of
one of the most important industries
of the United States toward the candi-
dacy of the alleged champion of all
American industries we leave the ma
tional organ Of the tobacco trade to
state i'm its own language
We need not repeat to- our readers the
reasons WHY McKinleys candidacy for the
Presidency is the most pernicious ana
vicious for The interests of our cigar IN
dus,ry. Mckinley stands for the lmpoN-
erishmen' of OUT leaf trade both foreign
and domestic. and the utter decentralization
OF Our cigar industry. Up 20 the time NC
Nu.ey lent the cloak of his name 20 the IN
famous s. duty our leaf trade grew both IN
prosperity and extension from year 10 year
and our cigar industry rivaled In progress
ana prosperity every other industry IN inns
country. Bur since that infamous duty
leaf trade has gone 20 the dogs. fguratiNe-
l} speaking, with the cigar industry close
IN us TRAN. The domestic leaf, which thdl
infamous duty was supposed 20 henent az
tae rate or 1900 per cent. has lost almost
ltS entire mercantile value. and the Suma-
lId lear. which it was supposed to hanlsn
from our shores gets iu all the same IN
almost undimiuished quantities enriching
pockets. Cigars sell more cheaply than
ever net0re. ana yet they can only be sold
WAN me most refined stimuiautS or gNs
erterpr SEES and fence advertisements. And
tce Wa- of agarm3kerS have gone down
almost to t1o level Of European pauper
labor. Noncdv Is making any money. ana
everybody is eating up his earnings of a
lifetime under that Infamous duty.
The Wilson BILL which was held up
by rhe agents of monopoly in Jhe Repu0-
Hcan Senate. was permitted to reduce
This enormous Mckinley duty of 81 per
pound on cigar wrappers only so cents.
the tax now standing at s1.5O, or only
a twenty-five per cent reduction of the
Mckinley duty. leaving the duty still
leo per cent. higher than it was before
the Mckinley bin was passed. and, so
far as the tobacco trade is concerned
practically The same as the Mckinley
du,y-although our Republican friends
delight to call tne Wilson bill a free
trade" measure. Of course, McKin-
ley's eleocion would mean not only no
reduction of this burden to the cigar
trade, but in an probability an actual
increase of the duty to the former Ne
Kinley figures. and the Journal declares
,hat Under these oppressive. most dis
treSSing circumstances. il is the duty of
self-Dreservauon for our cigar industry
to circumyent with all their might and
main lro.L-i,,1,,-.- ,,-,,,;,,,-i~, So. -l,o
~ '''O4 Ava "''0
Presidency" And this is the way the
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ufac,urers should defsr ,G rber S169sl S CON
Xss ,S y19. a3 49,. or sWo before the
81. Louis. Then it should be made TO have
Meeting S. louis st -5 S t fS pG JOS p 2,S
rs, .b. ARE bound bound 10 be noticed not only
dreds of representative newspaper men
by The pres b i' sso b The e,e poJ o' ~
the The. SeP p ,, co9vention which is COM
political leaders. in and on, of Congress
And The proceedings Of the Cigar Manu-
.ed Fl 1s9 SAGA rs o b5 ARE 9oHna s1 70 be po
s,@ t vas imp ,. or The eigar industry
ana .,he grievances they have against Nc
ma-eraL They are bound 10 make s5 an ' inv
mouths o fo 1,s as s ney would Iron from the
cI9l Protector. Mckinney is being played
explosive commentary on his special Me- Me-
ser-sfv5s NJ .5s RsDr, 2 snow Hsr me TePge
-, $500 -l'" ltiVS anu
many million dorra-s throlfob +be NfoL-i,,ls,.