Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-07-18
paragraphs and Parallels.

Poor man, look out for your
blanket
Farmer, look out for your trace
chain.
The farmer and the mechanic
never had so many friends as now.
See how the tears roll down the
cheeks of the great humanitarians
called free traders
Note how they sweat blood for
the poor labOrer, mechanic and
farmer
Observe them as they stand upon
the hastings of the courthouse
begging a free blanket for the
"poor mechanic" and free trace
chain for the "poOr farmer"
"Poor farmer" and "pOOr me-
chanic," did it ever occur to you
that these "cheap Johns" are
"poorer" than any of us?
While appearing to plead for us,
they are simply begging for them
selves.
The poor mans blanket is not
taxed by tariff. The farmers trace
chain is not taxed, neither is it i'm
ported.
The silks, the satins, the dia-
mondS, the cloths,-all the good
clothes of the gOOdy people, who
are so Jealous of the blanket and
trace chain, are imported, and they
pay the tariff tax.
How hard all this tears on the
blanket and trace chain, let us try
to discover.
From 1850 to 1860 We had free
trade. Since 1862 the country has
had protective tariff.
Ali our pants, vests and under
wear; all the calico and cotton OF
our wives and children ; all the
necessaries of life, of the average
family, cost less now than they did
then.
Examine your bills and see for
yourselves. Then the competition
was among the buyers-nOw it is
among the traders. Then it was /:
Who can pay most? Now it is :
Who can sell cheapest?
Slavery is the same whether the
slave be black or white.
Let the working man relieve the
nabob from tariff taxation, and he
assumes it upon himself. For
government must be supported.
Who is it that opposes the taxa
ton that comes of tariff? Not the
mill.bug of the Slashes Oh no. 1t
is the extremely kind fellow who is
looking only after our blankets and
pantaloOns, seemingly Oblivious OF
the fact that his blankets and has
pantaloOns, has imported, and not
our domestic, goods pay the tariff
taxes.
That which taxes abroad and
protects at home is tariff.
That which taxes at home and
protects those who want only fine,
imported goods is called "revenue
reform
Farmer, do you not get your
goods cheaper than you did in the
free trade period, the golden era,
as mountebanks call it, from 1850
to 1860? Look at your store bills!
Do you not get more for the
products of labor? Look at your
returns them
Is wheat cheap just now? Think
for a moment that you, by your
votes, put it in the power of specu-
latOrs to corner the sweat of fifty
millions of people, and live as
easily oil store pOrcbes now as they
did OH store boxes and curb stones
during the war.
Farmer, mechanic, labOrer, ana
lie the arguments against prOtec-
ton. 1t is at last only the hus-
bandman against the nOn-prOdu-
Ger.
How often have we been told
that it does not pay to raise our
own hogs and chickens and make
our butter s-tbat it is cheaper to
buy than to raise and produce?
How many families have sue
cumbed TO circumstances resulting
from this kind of argument
So we find, when fall comes, that
it is better to have our hogs in
pen, fattened and ready for kill.
ing.
So we find, in early spring, that