Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-09-28

duty shall be so LEVIED as to afford security to
our diversified industries, and protection. to
the rights and wages of the laborer, to the
end that active and intelligent labor as we'll
as capital, may have Its just reward and the
laboring man his full share in the national
prosperity"
In all it's platforms, the Man that Keeps
the Mill appears under the names of Labor,
American Labor and The Laborer. Mr..
l Carnegie and his coDfederates having
these aliases to masquerade under. His
| triumph was complete in 1884 when the
I Republicans discarded even the pretence
| levying tariff taxes for revenue, and boldly
proclaimed that they should be levied for
protection. In 1888 it gave bond to the
Man that Keeps the Mill that the agree
ment with him should stand forever, and
that before they would reduce the tariff
tax they would take the tax off of whis-
! key. In all these years and III each of their
National platforms the Democrats were
promising the people that they would re-
wise and reduce the tariff Gax, levying
tariff tax only for reven ue for the govern
ment and would adjust it for the protec-
| ton of American labor and products.
And to their honor be it said. the moment
they got into power they kept their word.
| So it will be seen the Man that Keeps
the Mill triumphed over the Republican
party. 1t abandoned its promises to lower
taxation; it abandoned its promise to re-
wise and equaliz9 the tariff; it abandoned
| its promise to collect taxes for revenue
| only, and wound up by throwing itself
. into the arms of the Money Power, which
| had become a Power through the Tariff
tax levied on the pretence of protecting
American labor. But this abandonment
of all its former principles; this turning
| its back on the people of the country. was
| not done without some resistance from
its leading men. We copy some of their
protests. They sound as if those who utter
ed them were leaders of the Democracy:
''Those articles which enter into our manu-
factures and are not produced at home, it
seems to me, should be entered FREE. Those
articles Of manu. tacture aotich zoe produce con-
stituent part Of, but do not produce the ao7toe.
that part aohch noe do not produce should be en-
tered free also. aoiU instance fine aoools dyes,
| 6e."-Pavsident Grants Message, 1874.
| Cali duty put upon such articles raw ma
terials goes directly to the cost of the articles
when manufactured here, and must be paid
by the consumers. These duties not only
/ come from the consumers at home but act as
protection to foreign manufacturers. -P7es-
+, ident Grants Message 1875.
| GA substantial reduction of tariff duties is
| demanded. not by mere indiscriminate pop
pular clamor but by the best conservative
| opinion of the country including that which
| has in former times been most strenuous for
the preservation of our national industrial
| defences I recommend an enlarge
ment of the free list "--President Artsur's
Message, 1882.
lit is O mistake of the friends of sound
tariff to insist upon the extreme rates imposed
| during the war; Ex-senator Morrill,, author Of
the Morrill, tariff, 1870.
"When gentleman stands upon this floor
and tells me that this high, this extraordinari-
ly high tariff is for the protection of the
laboring man, tell him that do not under
stand how he can possibly substantiate such
theory. '-John A. Logan, Aprtl 18, 1870.
1.-THE existing duties upon raw materials
which are to be used in manufacture should
be removed.-Anquaz Report, 1884, Mr.
| Cleveland has marked out course which can
safely be followed "-Dec., 18S7.-Hughs Ne
Cuzloch, Lincoln's and Art7aua's Secretary of
tho Treasury.
''Such excessive protection not only ceases
to diversity production, but forces labor into
protected employments. The tariff
ought to be carefully revised with view to
correct any inequalities or incongruities that
have grown out of the change Of values since
the passage of the act of 1SS3."-Jaauaay,
| 1888.-Jotn Sherman.
'sFor nearly two years the wholesale price
of American salt in Toronto, Canada, was a
dollar lower per barrel than the same salt was
selling for on the New York side of the lake.
X Certainly, gentlemen will not want a
duty continued that enables that thing to be
done. "-May IS, 1872-James A. Garfield.
''The country expects large reduction the
country knows that it can be made, the coun-
try has been promised this reduction, and the
dominant party here is responsible to the
country for this reduction, and will be held
responsible if it is not made. "-Oziuer p. Nor
ton Of Indiana
IT will say with regard to the duty on wool
and woolens, that regard it not as an inten-
tional fraud, but as operating as though it
were fraud upon the great body of the peo-
pie of the U. S."-Ma2cA "a, 1S70-iSemato,
Allison Of Io0a.
''The duty must be levied on the raw mate
rial or on the manufactured article. If you
leoy 1T on the raoo material, you discriminate
against american a6or."-Senator Daaoes OF
Mass
''Taxes upon spirits and tobacco, being upon
things not needful, should be retained rather
than those upon the common necessaries of
life. "-Annatal Report, 1850. J. Folger,
Secretary of the Treasury.
1.-The free list might be enlarged without af-
fecting injuriously single American inter-
est."-18S2-W ns Mckinley Of Ohio.
"Salt, I believe this article should go upon
the free list; that the monopoly which has OBJ
tanned heretofore for the Onondaga Salt
Works n * ought to cease. "-Senato1
Hale Of Maine.
'During the entire war, when we were seek
ing everything on the earth, out of which tax
alton could be wrung, it never entered into
the conception of Congress to tax breadstuffs
never. Neither breadstuffs nor
lumber ever became the subject of one penny
of taxation.-1S68. Undoubtedly the Unequal
tiles n the wages of English and American
operatives are more than equazixed by the
greater efficiency of the latter and their longer