The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-14
Raw Materials.
We are pleased to find the following ar
ticle in the Charlottesville Chronicle.

Raw Materials.
We are pleased to find the following ar
ticle in the Charlottesville Chronicle:
A GREAT DANeER-The evidence is fast &C.
cumulating that the sharp manufacturers of
the North are nursing tariff scheme more
disastrous to the South than free trade or a
protective tariff. The cry among them, even
the Pennsylvania pig-iron men, is that we.
must have a lower tariff, that the country must
be relieved Of the load of taxation, and the
treasury OF its enormous surplus. But how !?
BY a fair reconstruction of the tariff in the in
terest of all the people and every section? By
no means; but raw material, iron-ore. coal, &C.,
&C., must be put on the free list, while the tar
if on the finished article is reclaimed at it's pro-
tective figures, 1t was mainly in view Of such
O. revision as this that we were earnest that
the statesmen of the South should embrace the
opportunity of last winter and assist in con-
trolling and shaping the legislation that must
come soon on this subject. These northern
manufacturers see that the people a0i@ have re-
vision, and theytrim their sails accordingly. !,
Better almost for the South THAT we should
have no revision at all than to leave the tariff
place all raw material on the free list.
We had supposed the Chronicle to be
rather averse to tariff levied to protect
any article, whether of raw material or of
finished goods. We have little doubt that
Mr.. Blaine is in favor of putting raw ma
terials on the free list. In his letter of ac-
ceptance he says:
the Republican party can be trusted to accom-
piish it in such form as will most effectively
aid the industries of the nation"
What form Of reduction will most effec-
lively aid the industries Of the Nation
Ask Mr.. Hewitt and he will tell you that
what is needed by the northern manufac-
tuners is to take the tariff off raw materials.
He contends that that is the best way to
aid the manufacturers. Whilst Mr.. Blaine s
nuOtp6 ohOUQ MT hoUQ hQnn
tended to carry that meaning, the fact
that he lives in section in which that
doctrine is popular is reason enough for
suspectfng him of holding just such heret-
ical doctrine.-Dispdtch
The Dispatch is either ignorant, or it
deliberately attempts to deceive its read
ers. There is but one party inJthe Union
that proposes to place raw materials on
the free list. To that party both the Dis
patch and Chronicle profess to belong. 1t
is the party which in it's declaration of
principles but a month ago denounced the
Republican party.for protecting raw ma
terials in these words:
1T 1.-THE Republican partly processes the
protection of American manufacturers.
It has subjected them to an increasing
flood of manufactured goods and hopeless
competition with manufacturing nations,
not one Of scbich ta:ces a'aso materials. =
1t is the same party that proposed and
advocated the adoption of the Morrison
bill, which placed salt, bituminous coal
and shale, lumber in the rough. and other
raw materials ON the free list. The Dis
patch is to-day supporting the members of
Congress from Virginia whovoted for that
measure, and it will oppose bitterly those
who voted against it. OF the candidates
| for Congress who have been renominated
! by the Democrats, Tucker and Barbour
voted to put raw materials on the free
list, as did also every Democratic member
of Congress from Virginia, except Geo.
D. WISE
The Dispatch is specially jubilant over
the nomination of Hon. J. Ran. Tucker,
who on the 5th of April last, attended a
banquet given by the Free Trade Club of
New York, and was one of the most prom
inent speakers. The press did not report
his speech, so we are unable to know ex-
actly what he did say, but judging from
his well known record, and the sentiments
which prevailed in the meeting and with
which he was in perfect accord, it is quite
safe to assume that he made no protest
when Joe Blackburn in the same meeting
declared himself in favor of free iron,
free sugar, and free salt, and announced
himself IAN avowed and absolute free
trader" This sentiment was applauded
to the echo.
We challenge the Dispatch to produce
one sentence uttered by Blaine which will
| justify it in saying that he is in flavor OF
putting raw material on the free list.''