Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-06-04


the opponents of protection again
triumphed, and again our manu-
facturers went to the wall. Then
again in 1857 came bankruptcy OF
manufacturers, of trade, and of the
federal treasury. When the re-
publicans took charge of this gov
ernment in 1861 they found that "a
tariff for revenue only had bank
rupted the treasury and debauched
the National credit. Under the
Morill tariff of 1861 the country
has been wonderfully prosperous
despite the democratic rebellion,
and the perniciOus results of an
inflated currency which brought
about the panic of 1873. We should
remember this fact also, and that is
that during period of % years, a
great financial revulsion also befeIl
Europe.
Let the searcher of history also
note this truth that after each dis
aster which followed the free-trade
periods there was no recovery oi
either public credit or public pros.
perity until a change of law and
system from free trade to protec.
ton, and then prosperity did re
turn; while under protection the
moments of depression are followed
by revival because no scales OF
steelyards ever responded more
surely to the law of gravitation
than do various manufactures and
the market to the kindred laws OF
supply and demand.
Let the Evening News but use
its eyes as freely as it does the false
Golden club ammunition which
comes to it in almost inexhaustible
quantities, and it will find lie
stamped on nearly all its state
ments. Let it look over its own
prosperous and beautiful city of
the straits, with its hundreds OF
manufacturing institutions giving
employment to thousands of work
ing men at remunerative wages,
built up principally under a system
which its British masters demand
shall be destroyed. Is this an evi.
dence of suffering under "a long
continued system of robbery and
plunder of the peopleF Let the
News look abroad at the churches,
school houses, dwellings in town and
country, savings in bank, the pub
lie treasury, mills, factories, farms,
barns, storehouses, railroads, mines,
herds and flocks, clothing and con-
dition of the people, popular con-
tentment, and above all love of
country, and tell us whether lie
ought not be written across the
item which We have quoted above.
If the charge be true that a pro-
tective tariff necessarily robs the
many for the benefit of the few,
why is it that hundreds of tbous-
ands of the inhabitants of foreign
countries are annually seeking our
shoresi Why are hordes of free
trade Englishmen to be found
among these arrivals = Why should
these people leave a country Op-
pressed by a system of robbery and
At Shields, in the north
of England, it is said 1000 seamen
are out of work, 100 steamers are
lying idle on the Tyne side, and
10000 ship laborers in that region
cannot find anything to do. A
SIMILAR state of things prevails on
the Clyde; and all this i'll free
trade England. Is it any wonder
that England wants a part of the
burdens of paupers placed upon
The backs of the laboring classes of
Why don't the News
AXE a step across the ocean and
its picture of hard times
1y a truthful description of the
Tretchedness and poverty to be
found in the mother country under
he broad and benefcent system
Of free trader Such a step would
lot be in accordance with the pro-
yramme mapped out by its British
masters, and it is perhaps cruelty
o dumb animals to ask it to CON-
Dlete the picture. If everything is
going to the demnition bow vows
lnder protection, as the News
would have us believe, tell us why
nore than 100000 Englishmen
anne to this country in 1882, or
$4,000 foreigners sought out
America for a permanent home
Why do these immigrants, after
up under the terrible
urdens of taxation imposed by the
protective SYSTEM al
rays write for their friends to
ONE and share the same kind of
ardships? Do they do it to get
evenge on loved ones, or because
the greater blessings, the sup
r;oy oopoforfS of Efa which thav