Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16
Tic Fright OF Tabor.

the serious alarm Of intelligent Ia
borers at the prospect of renewed
agitation of the tariff. How can it
be otherwise? Experience has been
"a severe teacher to the lab0rlng
masses rs to the effect pom them
selves and their families Of disturb
ance. or threatened dist arbance, of
an established schedule of prices
for their labor based upon remuner.
atiye returns to their employers.
The labor organizations are
sounding the alarm. According to
their public declarations over three
hundred thousand of workmen are
out of employment. For once cap
ital and labor are united in locating
the causes OF business depression
bearing harmfully upon the inter
ests of both. Capital is timid and
labor suffers when threatened tariff
agitation gives capital no hope OF
secure investment, and thereby de-
prives capital of the opportunity to
employ the labor that it would IN
healthier times be anxious to EN-
ploy. The tarig is the great issue
Of the future, and it ought to be
the paramount Issue with a people,
who. ike the readers Of the HER
AID. have been the victims Of too
much of mere sentimentalism IN
notifies, when it concerns their
home comforts. The HERALD is a
pronounced advocate of the doc
trine of protection to all Virginlan
industries aud to every form of Vir-
oinian labor. That was our plat
form in the recent political cam
pa Cd. and in asserting It, We were
fsrm more anxious TO get assurance
in the result Of the election OF an
affirmative protcctionist policy than
10 help wilma mere party victory for
a political organization.
The HERALD gladly accepts de-
feat and disappointment Of its own
preferences as to persons and par
ties. if it shall be sure that in ac-
cepting such defeat and disappoint-
ment. it's recent record shall be
proitably remembered by its read
ers. as protesting against voting
: in the air. or in reiteratiOn Of dead
political dogmas, when votes in Vir-
cinia could bc given in behalf OF
the interests Of her people on the
side Of protection. Both factions
of the so.called democratic party
claim Nr. Cleveland the freetrade
wing yiciug with the prOtectionlSt
WING In ifs claims to authority with
the throne. Taking no middle
nrourd. we assumed IN the late can
vass. ,hst Virginia's interests being
inscnarabh associated for the pres
emf M least. VIII those Of the adj
vocates OF protection, we support
cd Blaine who made his canvass
rDon that issue. Mr.. Cleveland is
said 10 bc a free trader; if so, he
cannot possibly he OF any help IN
the DEVELOPMENT Of Virginian inter
ests where agriculture and manu-
flctures are the engrossing inter
csts of the people. For the present
we accept nothing rs to the procla-
nations Of pretended friends OF the
Prcsidcntelcct. He may be or not
be such q free-trader as Mr.. Frank
Hurd says he. is. At present moth
ing is SO positive as to Mr.. Cleve-
land as that the Labor Unions are
alarmed at the declarations of gen
Nemen assumed to be near the
PreSjdenteJect and probably intiu-
ential IN shaping the policy of the
incoming administration. Unques-
tionably the appropriation of Mr.
Cleveland by the free.trade wing of
the democracy, and the unseemly
war upon ex-Speaker Randall by
the free trade leaders have gone far
to unsettle the confidence of all in
vested capital. Free-trade cannot
be popularized in this country un
al it shall be assumed as a pOstu-
/ late that American labor needs nc
protection against the encroach
mcnls of the pauper labor system
by which England secures the dom
| ination Of wealth and the subservi-
encc oi labor.
The Central Labor Union begs ia
membership everywhere to AID II
every way opposition to the free
trade heresies that are daily blight
ing American industries. Amer
can products are constantly sup
planted by imported fabrics. Owe
/ 100000, 900 on the iron and steel
coHon and wooden schedules, is moi
an exaggerated statement of the
amounlsof mpOrtatious every year
every dollar worth OF which coulC
be furnished b, American manu-
facturers. Despite the claim tina
The democratic party, aud its neon
Ing administration are to be free
trade. there is ample ground to be
lioye that enlightened public SentI
ment Will check ultra iree-trad'
propagandism, even if it shall raj
to secure adequate protection t.
American industries and labor.
DEATH of Schuyler COlfaX'
FxNice.President Schuyler Col
fax dropped dead at the Oman" de
pot, in Mankato, MINI. He arTl
we'd ON tbc Milwaukee and st. Pau