Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-30

salt wells and springs OF the aoulu-
west lend the state their SAVIOR;
sheep and wool have grown to be
most important interests even su
mac has become a source 0isnpport
10 thousands and of wealth to many,
railroads have wonderfully lncreaS'
ed in number and extent, and are
still pushing thor way to yet nn-
developed fields towns and cities
have arisen almost as if by magic (;
and everywhere the stir and hum
of progress are seen and heard.
And it is all chiefly due to the
protective tariff. Nay, it is all di-
rectly due to protection; for with
ont that, all the other concurrlng
factors would have availed little.
The people know this they feel it
and appreciate it. Even the Bour-
bon at home, no matter how he
may talk here in Washington, finds
it prudent to support or disguise
his old free trade and slavc.labor
doctrines. Even the Lexington
Gd-cttc, the Democratic organ at
fuckers own residence, is cmphat-
ic for protection and while Daniel
in the House OF Representatives,
was lately denounclng what he
STYLED "the robbery of protection"
his own constituents at Lynchburg,
Salem, and throughout his district,
were not only assembl NJ public
meetings to protest against the
Morrison Hewitt "reform,' but 10
ask for higher protective duties on
iron ore, &c. There is no more
manifest fact than that the Virgin
ia people should be solid for pro
lection, and there is no more mani
fest truth than that they are so.
They require no further argument
to convince them. They have expert
enced the evils Of multiplication,
and they have enjoyed The bless
ings Of protection. They are fixed.
How, then, does it happen that
Virginia casts her vote for the DEM
ocratic party and Its Morrison tariff
reform Why was it she sent a
Bourbon delegation Of six to Con
gress, of whom five voted for Nor
rison's horizontal abomination in
1881 ! How is it that she has re-
turned four out of these five to the
present Congress ? How is it that
of the three new Bourbous she has
seated in the House here,all Onclud-
ing Daniel are understood to be free
traders. in the sense Of anti-prOicc-
tionists? 1t isa curious condition
of things which has results so con
Trajectory but we have so fire.
quently explained the mystery IN
volved that we shall here content
ourselves by reminding our read.
ers of the Danvile "incident' and
its Bourbon complement, the leglS-
lative act known IN Virginia as
"the Ball0t-Killer and BallOt-BoX,
Suffer Bill Yet even such Incl.
dents and such bills will he as chaii
i'm a whirlwind when Nirginlans be-
come fully aroused (as they are now
! likely to be) to the dangers they
incur by quietly submitting to the
audaciOus and periidious usurpa-
ton which sits upon them. Many
good and patient men III the state
have borne and forborne with the
Bourbons in hope that they would
at least extenuate and palllate the
ofienses, through which they grasp
ed power, by wise and faithful
exercise of it. Some have piously
waited on time, chance, and Provl-
dencc. Others have trusted to
other states and people to keep the
federal course Alright. Allof these
however. can now see that their
sure safety from fatal mischief in
the tariff, IA well as in other great
concerns. can only be achieved bv
the resolute will of the people ~
every state-in Virginia as well as
elsewhere. This will must be as
serted and represented at all costs
and hazards, OF Virginia will be a
principal victim Of the consplring
wickedness and folly that are now
| bnsily and eagerly seeking to prove
their conversion to English IDEAS
and their devotion to British IN.
terests by a betrayal Of the only
American policy which can defend
us from becoming mere tributary
of England in all industrial, hnan-
cial. and commercial things.
What boots it that, on the out
cry from Virginia, Mr.. Morrison
eraciously removes from his free
list Goals and iron ores 2 The fate
of these is only deferred, If the
Democracy and its reform prevail.
The principle which dooms them Is
there in this bill, as it was in that
of 1854, from which Virginia ana
all of us were saved, not by her
BourbOns for they voted for that
bilB, but by Republicans and a
handful of independent Democrats,
whom our ncighDor, the Post,
black listed as assistant Repuoll-
cans ~ Besides, sheep, wool, SAT-,
timber, lumber, &c, in which Nir-
ginia is hardly less interested than
/ in Goals and ores, are left naked to
all their foreign foes by Morrlson'
And this is but the beginning OF the
end, which is free trade. II the
thin edge of the wedge be now al
mitted. or ever, we shall soon be
treated to the rest of it, though IL
rive our vltals. BE sure Of that.
Meanwhile the internal revenue
taxes are retained on Virginia to-
bacco, fruit, brandy, &c., for the
avowed reason that thereby the re-
duction of protection on other pro
ducts of Virginia may be possible
merely from a revenue point OF
view but the underlying principle
upon which the reduction Is falsely
defended, iflogically carried ont,
will increase the federal tax on to-
bacco, while it will admit foreign
tobacco free. 1t IS certain that no
intelligent man in Virginia now
looks to the Democratic party to
abolish the internal revenue syS-
TEN, or to even reduce the tax on
tobacco. No man III Virginia can
have any rational hope for any new
or higher protection for any Fir-
gina interest. Verify, the only
comfort still remaining to Virginia
in all these related matters is that
there is still q Senate which is both
protectionist and Republican, or
| that. at any rate, "A few lndeDrnd.