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

ton. Line waters OF High Idrlu ndy Lave
fattened Boston, Chicago, New York and
Philadelphia, where the millionaires and
Trusts flourish, but they haven't fattened
her; indeed she is getting thinner and
thinner every day. Under the beneicent
influence of the Low Tariff waters she
hourished for the ten years previous to
1860. Here is list of the manufactures
that were carried on within her limits In
that ten years:
Wooden factory, Tobacco factory,
Saoe factory, Churn factory,
Tannery, Paper MILL
Leather currying, Pulling mill,
Horse collars, Rope-walk,
Hat factory, Plow factory,
Saddle-tre factory, Wheat-fan factory,
Last factory, Rife factory,
Stove foundry, Chair and Spinning
Threshing Machine Wheel factory,
factory, Pottery,
Brewery.
Where are they now? They ought not
only to be here, but there out to be more
besides. That is the doctrine of the High
Tariff men-that not only is labor pro-
tected, but manufactures built up. Now
where are they? That is a grave question
for those working men of Staunton who
are asked to vote for continuance OF the
present High Tariff. They live here;
they are as much interested in the pros
peGity of this town as any men in it.; they
should inquire into the matter. 1t lis no
use asking the valley Virginiam, or we
would recommend them to our neighbor
for information. If they went there with
any complaint about industries having
died out in Staunton, they would be told
they were Stree traders" and were trying
to make the United States ''the dumping
ground for the products Of foreign
factories,'' and trying to bring ruin and
destruction throughout the industrial
districts of this country" To that paper,
the industrial districts" are Boston I,
Philadelphia, Chicago, and the others
that have gotten fat on the waters of
High Tariff; it doesn't 50 much as look
at poor, thin, hectic Staunton, whose i'll
dustries have wasted away under its nose.
1t is the mission of the party that paper
supports, to see that a High Tariff forces
the American consumers to the s'manu-
featuring centres' where such fat eviden-
ces of Tariff benefit as Mr.. Carnegie live.
But when the Virginian had called you
"free trader" that wouldn't answer
your question about the twenty-one indus
tries that have disappeared from Stanton.
To be called free trader'' might have
demoraiized you little, but when you had
recovered you could not help thinking that
it Is much more important to you to take
care of yourself, than to have Mr.. Carnegie
taken care of. You know very we'll how
much every industry, no matter how
small, in town helps every other indus
try, how valuable they are in that re-
spect, and how much better it would be if
we could get them. You have, if you are
a middle-aged Staunton workingman, been
waiting for about twenty years for indus
tries to come to this tOWn-either for the
old ones that fed, to come back, or for new
ones to take their places. You have waited
in vain. 1t has cost you something to
wait. You have been pretty we'll taxed as
consumer while you waited. 1t is no use
telling Qoa that nobody pays the Tariff
tax. The long list of millionaire m anu
facturers in the country. the surplus of
money in the National Treasury, convince
every man of common intelligence that
more money has gone to some men than
their share, and more money gone to the
government than it needed. That is a
question that there are not two sides to.
The way these men got their millions and
the Government got its, was through the
Tariff, and you fad your share of it,
whether that share was large or small,
has gone to one of those two piles. 1t was
gotten out of you on the plea that it built
up home manufactures. You look around
you and see that those OF your town haYe
been killed out. Isn't that situation
worth probing to the bottom
Wouldn't it be the part of common
sense then to try what change will do
Isn't that What you would do in your own
private business affairs if they we're going
Ill? Suppose you try the Mills Bill this
time Ii ever manufactures could be
started here it would be done under that
bill. 1t gives free raw material for the
putting up ofthe plant, untaxed raw ma
material for stock, and gives protec-
ton for what is made in the plant after
wards. That is all, and everything, Ma
tionaI legislation can do to revive indus
tries. If you are Republican you must
have seen by this time that the High
tax policy of that party hasn't benefited
your home. You have given it fair
trial. Twenty-six years is as long as any