Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-17
Which Should il be-Tarifi o
Internal Revenue
Untten BIZ II. II r. in 1888.

inures to the benefit OF the mann
facturer. 1t is not necessary to oar
purpose to controvert this; II we
should do so, we would but answer
ourselves. The Bourbon uses TINS
argument, if argument it can be
called, merely to arouse prejudice .
against capital. This is the lowest
order of demagoguery and too far
beneath decent contemplate trea-
ted of here. Our purpose is TO dem
onstrate that the cause of our SLOW
growth has been our avOwed enmlty
to manufactures, i'm that il Icpels
investments and manufactures tend
to the development of every other
material interest. 70 prove TINS
we shall employ more figures now
than hereafter.
1t seems almost incredible that
a county such as Shenandoah
should have increased her popula-
ton but lbs from 1850 to $780,
This is about the average natural
increase of twenty five families for
that number Of years. If we VIII
allow that but l3 strangers came
into this county each year for those
ten wears we see that as many OF
our own people left the county as
were born, excepting Only the per
centage of deaths. Comparison
with the ten years just past shows
that our increase Of population
from 1870 to 1850, is quite 50 per
cent. or nearly 5000 souls. Here
! is 81 per cent. added to the home
demand for the production OF the
farmes, the shops and the stores.
From this thought alone we might
enlarge into columns. The census
of 1860 showed that S3,jbO,OO
was the entire capital invested in
all manufactures including the
smallest shops of the smiths, the
shocmakerS, the tailOrs, the coopers,
the tin and copper smiths-all the
trades and the mills from the
West Virginia line, below Win
chester through the "Great valley
TO the Tennessee line. In 1850
there was one-third Of this sum IN
vested in Shenandoah alone, and
the mill property Of the 81 100, 600
of such property then reported in
these fifteen counties Gin the South
wesD there has been more foreign
capital invested since 1879 than all
that stands accredited TO the
"Great Valley" in 1860. The in
crease in population of the State
from 20 to 80 is over 300,0O0-an
average Of 5000 TO the county
Were we to 90 into the amount
these 100000 people produce and
add to our taxable values; to the
quantity they consume and add tc
our home demand; to the increase
in property values which growing
population occasions, newspaper
space would be exhausted. 1t is t.
the books on political economy The
reader must 90 for that assistance
which will aid in thinking to the
logical end of such suggestions
The causes of these improvements
f In our situation is what we want t
present. Why is it that at ever,
new birth n grown man left thl'
State ? Why is it that this is NJ
, longer the fact ? Railroad progress
, and rapid transit opened up TIN
whole country and young mel
travelled from home. In Missouri
; Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and, nor
I recently, the newer States, the,
. saw smoke.stacks, machine shop
) and large factories Of every de
scription. They had seen the shop
: at home abandoned; they had seer
}. the labor standing idle waiting 70
T. "A brief harvest season Of employ
ment they had seen every manu-
4 featured article of the farm and tn
q household, bought Of agents VIII
: sold on d commission of % pc
Apt. They saw where all thes
IS came from. On ever
Unfit, progress and pros
y = : !
demand, mechaI