The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-10-01

tne cost o. uNing. except. instead OF cut
only sends prices Up another notch a.
soon a. the duty Is removed. This has
been rroven In the case Of shoes They
wanted free hides. They said they'd give
~ cheaper shoes. We gave them free
hldes. The result - the price OF shoes
has gone up 10 TO IS per cent this fall.
Then there Is the free sugar problem. the
free tin problem and the free wool prob
lem Put sugar on the free list. and 10
starts IL that direction next March. and
table viii 40 up. Not only that. but YOU
Will drive sugar mills. valued At Sle5
100000 out OF business and throw their
employees into idieness. Then you are
subject TO the whims and caprices OF the
Importer and the price OF sugar will go
up as he pleaseS 10 dictate II. You
move NOV" ,SompelitiOn. and you wipe 9gt
SELLING SUGAR CHEAPER UNDER
4 PkoTECTlNE TARIFF THAN IT Is
LAND. How does that strike you?
On the Tin Plate Question
When William Mckinley asked for
tariff on un plate IN order to permit
he was laughed at. They said 70 was
impossible 10 build up prosperous tin
plate Industry in America But We got
the tarin and We built up mammoth
Industry. soon We were making all the
tin we needed. and last year we exported
tremendous quantities. Is "a better TO
Keep foreign manufacturers busy or Is
n better 10 keep the wheels turning IN
your own district You've got TO gecioe
between the two.
For every article YOU bring into the
United states on the free list. or under
the tarin for revenue policy. YOU are dts
placing an American enterprise. II Won
bring in 100000. 900 in foreign products
you dtsplacc just that much in America
and take that much away from American
prosperity.
The wool Industry.
come from great wool growing
country. IN Greene Onfn The 10
WOOL grower In the county sold hts prod-
uct Tor p cents last fan. one year later
70 the day. he j. selling II Tor u cents
some people IN your own district wnen
! asked them today what they were cell
ing their wool FOR. said they were getting
uoihtng-they couldn't Ind "A huyer The
larln on wool ~ ~ cents per pound
lheer are. say, eight pounds OF wool IN
" sult or clothes. That means "A tariff
OF - cents. II the take tho tarin IN
VIII get a SIS suit for Sl4Is- ~So'
nuch. Destroy the wool industry. as
YOU old in 80. and nut Yourself At the
mercy OF the foreign importer. and youlI
VIII XIII the wool Industry and the wNoi-
en- industry In America. The same thing
- rne OF mutton and other meats. ..aSe
on the tartn ana YOU place yourselves
AZ the mercy OF the importer who runs
inc price up to amy aEure he plea-,es he
aNSc ne mas uo competition. All this
, 10, the mere SAX" 81 maintaining a
Destroying Competition
Whenever YOU destroy the product on
at home You dsstruv competition. ana
without competition tho foreign inuorter.
has you where no wants Won TITO ONLY
ay To reduc" prices is To- increase u~o-
gu ION. lon amt increase product ION
ana competition by smashing HON, in
clear held ''''' ~
Wheat potatoes corn. straw. and
LINER AGRICULTURAL products viii be af-
fected the same way Hers is vhers h..
biaHen tnconsl-feucy Of the I.uorrafi.
Leaders is exposed most plainly They
90 To the farmer with tho Statement fI.f
ne viii experience Increases In tho r,ri~s
or mis- products Then they 20 Ia mo
working man and tell him the prodt.ct
VII he made cheaper for him. II is "A
1No-iacrd arg lment that works neither
way INCREASE Production and
YOU nave the SOLUTION To THE mon
0,CyST OF LlNlNG' Let me emphasize
"If you want TO take up this c>peri-
mental business OF tamperIug with tie
rt'ltl under this Inconsistent guidance
81 thc Democracy. there are two WAYS
Tor you TO do IT, one consists OF castinp
III VOC Tor The Democratic candidate
smother g. 20 give the Progressive ,an-
1ldatt enough votes 10 defeat Mr. Hearue
Hoe believe IN protection and proSper-
ltN. stand ~ the party OF progress and
SilnE a solid phalaHN TO the support OF
VT. ttfdfue Don. contribute to Demo
cratic success by throwing your vote
away on the lost cause at the Progress
slNt party. Another tremendous out
u9rHt greeted hlm as no concluded. The
addreS was one OF the greatest ever
heard iu Wheeling. and coming as II diJ
rom man whom the people OF a Demo
,rttic district hud expressed unlimited
ldlth iu by eleCting him " hen Wilson
carried the state OF ohio Iv "A deci.iI.
vote. q man who views questions from
we sIfndpoiut of e scholar after devot-
ing MS life 60 college work and iron, Z.
man who was the presiding officer of
NC ONO constitutional convention. al
winch 81 Of the most progressive meas
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