Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-09-10

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counted and came out right to cent.
You were promised that the Internal
Revenue system should be abolished; has
1t been dOne-are you not still drinKlng
ten cents worth of whiskey an q ninety
cents worth of tax ?. You were PROMISED
that changes in the government shoulo
not be made but for cause, has IL oeen
kept. I don't complain OF turning inc
officers out. believe the Offices belong 10
the men who work for them, but when we
Republicans get in we are not going 10
promise you one thing and do another; we
are going to turn you out because you are
Democrats. You were promised that
the surplus in the Treasury should De re-
duced; the Democrats found 100000
surplus there and now have $4,000, 900
there-which isn't much like big reduc-
ton of the surplus. You we're promised
reduction of the taxes; yet Morrison the
Democrat introduced bill to raise the
taxation out of the people to pay every
pension that is hereafter voted; and out OF
the 1872 votes for it, all were Democrats.
THE HARD TIMES AND THE TARIFF.
You know that you are having harder
times than you ever had before. 1t is
true of this country that you cannot de-
press one interest without depressing all.
The banks of New Y ork hold $188 ,OOO, GOO
of surplus in excess of any surplus they
ever held before. IL was wanted down
South; why didn't it come 1? 1t did not
come because of the Chicago platfor m OF
the Democratic party. Those who owned
that capital saw in that platform tnas
, duty was to be taken off of wool and raw
material and they called halt. They
next saw that John G. Carlisle, who is
really free-trader. was elected by the
Democrats, Speaker of the House, and his
first act Vas to appoint Morrison, the au-
thor of The Chicago platform to be chair
man of the important Committee Of Ways
and Means. When the capitalists saw all
this, they said it means ruin. 1t does
mean ruin. Take the case Of iron ore for
| instance. There is scents duty On the ton
and yet despite that duty there was import
ed from Spain and Cuba 100000 tons of
ore last year. In the cost of iron. labor is
largely represented and $1.25 is paid 80
mine ton Of it. Suppose this 100000
tons of ore had been mined in your couu-
ty Of Rockbridge, instead of Europe, it
would have put just 81 100000 in money
among your people. Well. if that much
money was lost by foreign ore coming in
with rs cents duty, how much of it
would come in do you suppose il there was
no duty at all? 1t is mined in Spain at
from eight to twenty cents ton and
shipped in ballast. Is there any working
man in Rockbridge that wants to mine
iron ore at that price instead of $1.25 6
present duty, there was landed in che port
of Baltimore, which city has a railroad
running into Rockbridge, 230 900 tons o.
foreign iron ore. With the duty taker
off iron ore, mining it in Rockbridge il
dead. Do you want such state OF things
If you don't; keep the Democrats out o
power.
Mr.. Morrison introduced bill in Con
gress admitting raw material free. Tht
manufacturers of the country went tt
Washington by scores and protested
against it, and the iron ore clause was
Withdrawals; but not so with wool, for the
farmers had not sent to Washington and
their interests had no friends to take theil
part and it was left in. Such bill. If il
became law would rob the farmers O
$40, 600 900 year. For those things tn
Democratic party was responsible. Gu
!; of the 1853 votes cast for considering thu
Morrison bill, AS were Democrats. while
of the ITO cast against it 1856 we're Repub
} licans. Sam Randall and the Protection
! Democrats stood out against it. Ever.
, Democratic representative from Virgins
voted for it, and every Republican from
Virginia voted against it. I ask Capt
; Bumgardner to say whether on that bill
he would stand with the Virginia Demo
Gratis who voted for it, or with Brady an(
Libbey, the Republicans, who vote
! against 1t? want to know whether b
is twenty nine thirtieth Democrat or
four-ffths Republican.
THE BLAIR BILL.
Mr.. Yost then paid his respects to th
Blair bill, noting the fact that it ha
twice passed Republican Senate an
, been defeated in one Democratic Hous
| with II majority, and another Democrat
House with 43 majority. He said tina
| Speaker Carlisle had foreseen the presenc
: of the bill in the House, and constituted th
Committee on Education adversely to il
| Willis, Kentucky Democrat, then got
3 referred to the Labor Committees ms
!: jority of the Democrats voting against it
reference, and majority of Republican
t voting for it. The bill finally came frol
. the Labor Committee amended. TIL
amendment was in the shape Of what
7 known as the Crane bill which apportior
ed the educational money on populatio
8 instead of illiteracy. which would give Vii
| ginia only $4,000 instead of SIS, 900, 0Ot
This amendment was supported by job
t w. Daniel, author of the Virginia Demo
} cratic platform, who thus stabbed popula
D education to the heart. (Applause.) Cap
(; Capt. Bumgardner, have heard, says b
$ stands on this bill on the National an
D Virginia platforms. 1 have heard tina
: two years ago at Sherando he defenGe
D Mr.. fuckers position in opposing tn
= Blair bill and want him to answer wheth
+ er he did or not?
b Capt. Bumgardner-I'll answer 20
t presently.
d Mr.. Yost-If you were there in favor c
S the Blair bill. you stood in the position {
trying to aid in the election of a man I
= congress who openly said he opposed il
i (applause) Another question want 20
r to answer. If you should get to congress