Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-07-14

laying the people by puA6ering tax on
the accessories Of life--on tea, coffee,
salt. sugar, shoes. coats, shirts, and hats
TO make good the amount lost by the
lands. 1t taxes every thing which the
people consume. and exempts from tax
everything that the manufacturer uses.
The farmer is sacrificed to the manufac-
'urer. Foreign materials are imported
duty free, (hides, for example, three mil
lions OF dollars worth per annum,) and
on these foreign materials domestic
manufactures are established. The peo-
pie are taxed one. two, three, four, five
hundred per cent. to protect these manu-
facturers IN working up fcresga materials,
which they get free Of duty and this is
called protecting domestic industry 1t
IS plundering the American people 1t is
transferring property by law! 1t is lesis-
latlng fortunes to class 1t is voting
money out of the pockets of seventeen
millions of people. to put it into the poe
kets OF few thousand manufacturer
to give them incomes Of tens OF thousands.
hundreds of thousands per annum while
the wages of labor. the price Of produce,
and the value of property. are sinking
lower and lower every day. This is
Whigery-Fe deral-Whigery as much
worse than the old Federalism of 1898
was, as the coonskin campaign of 1910
was baser and meaner than the Federal
campaigns of 1898 and 1900.
We wish to call public attention to this
Snh;pct tn fhoc., Il
anvil in the two Houses of Congress.
They will all pass--all four will pass
not IN four separate bills, but mixed up
and rolled up Observation-Disclosures
INTO one huge. heterogeneous mass-and
all drlven through together, under the
omnipotent argument of the gag. They
will all pass that is to say, the worst
parts of every bill will be put into a sin
gle bill, and then crammed down the
threats of members, and showed through
the House. The gag may be looked for
soon. No debate on itenas sUiH be aUo,o-
ed That would be fatal to the plunder-
ers. Theoretical speeches, for and IL
sainst tariff in the general-speeches
which decide nothing, and which show
nothing of the bils--may be tolerated for
a few days longer but the moment the
items are touched, and practical views
taken, and the iniquity of the thing dis
played, that moment the gag wiki be clap
ped OIL, and all discussion siIenced. And
what is the remedy for all this abuse ?
1t is the change Of ruers 1t is the ex-
pulson of the coo9as from the high places
into which they have climed- irving I
them back to their holes and caverns >
and restoring to power the men who legis-
late for the mass-whose policy has for !
ever given prosperity to the country, and
which will do it again, as saon as they
are restored. Federalism has now been |
tried three times, and gets worse every
time. The second ADAMS was worse
than the first /; and the coonskins of TIE |
present day are worse than all i'olitic-
al power alone was the object of the old
Federalis*s: the present Federal Wings
go for the same power, and for plumber
added to it--plunder by means of tariffs. i
banks, menopoies. corporations. and
Legislative transfers of money from tie
many t" the few. 1t is the union be-
tween the politicians, tariflites, and ia,
tioual bank. which makes Whigery of
1910 so much worse than Federalism of
160O.- Globe.