Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-09-21

on the price and he has to pay it. Just
in Canada, the eustomhouse put on 50 90
tariff tax and the American who uses 1t
has to pay s. more for the lumber. The
consumer always pays the addition to the
original cost, whether it comes through a
freight. tariff, or any other way. Any
obstruction that comes between the alien
market and the home market is "prc-
lection" to the latter.
And up to the point of Protection, the
American consumer has always been will
ing to "pay the difference" With the ex-
ception of those Theoretical free traders
whose heads are IN the clouds, every Am
erican has been willing to protect Amerl-
can labor and products, where it is for
the good of the laborer, and the products
protected. 1t is when it gets beyond or
aside from that point that they object. 1t
is when we produce but half enough hides,
that ttey don't propose to make the owners
of that half rich at the expense of the rest
of the people, and they make hides free. It
Is when we produce but half enough wool,
that for the same reason we make wool
free. It is because the country don't choose
to make the owners of few cocooneries
rich, that it made raw silk free. 1t is
when there is no tin-plate produced in
this country that they make tin-plate
free. What has been the effect of these
common sense acts. With free hides, there
are more shoes made in the United States
than in any country in the worldwide
cities in New England are the hives of
busy workmen in that trade. With free
raw silk, factories for making silk have
sprung up, and to-day American-made
silk is worn all over the country. With
free wool, the wooden factories will follow
in these tracks Of prosperity. In the
language Of Hon. VIM. D. Kelley of Penn
sylvania. the most distinguished Republi-
can protectionist of this day, uttered July
2Sth, 1856: "Let the raw material (wool)
drive out English blankets" And in the
language of Senator Dawes of Massachu-
sets, another distinguished Republican
protectionist: 1.-THE duty must be levied
on the raw material or On the manufac-
tured article. If you levy 1t on the TaW
! material you discriminate AGAINST American
labor" And that is the advanced thought
not only of American Protectionists, but
of the world. II is only the Bourbon mind
everywhere in the world, that believes at
this day that country-a manu-
featuring country-Which does not pro-
duce enough of the raw material. should
tax the raw material it imports.
THE FARMERS AND FREE RA "
MATERIAL.
A Republican farmer writing to our
contemporary the ValZeu Virginian in oppo.
sition to the Mills Bill, and especially its
free raw material provisions, says:
"Wool, grand product of the farm is plac.
ed on the free list. Ii has been proven that we
can grow every grade of wool that is used to
any extent in this country. Give us high
tariff and thus keep out the cheap wool of
South America and other Countries
Well, we have high tariff now 1t
was fixed by the Republican party which
claims to be the author, and we fear
will prove the fnisher, of Protection. 1t
is 80 per cent. With that tariff 100000
600 pounds of foreign wool were imported
into this country last Year-just one-half
of the whole amount used in this country!
So it appears high tariff doesn't keep
"cheap WOOL" or any other kind. out OF
this country. Now let US see what it doea
for farmer who grows wool Mr.. J. II.
Callison, through the VlNDICAToR the
other day, put question which has not
yet been answered by the Valley Viagigaian
why is it that I and my neighbors in
Augusta used to sell our fine wool before
the war up in Massachusetts and New
York at 55 to IS cents pound and now
lave to sell it at % to % cents?" 1t is a
fact that from 1850 to 1860, the October
price of fine wool averaged 81 cents, and
from 1877 to 1886, the October price aver
aged only SO cents. A high duty was put on
wool in 1867, and just twenty months after
it went into operation, the Republican
Secretary Of the Treasury in his message to
the Republican Congress, December 18th,
1869, said the effect had been-l. "Wool
to the agriculturist at a lower price in gold
than has almost ever before been expe-
rienced;" 2. a decrease of Is per cent. in
the number of sheep; 3. great depression
and many failures in the wooden manufac-
lures, and 4, an increase in the importa-
tions of foreign fabrics of wool. His re-
port in full is printed on page 6,969
of the Congressional Record and forms an
unanswerable evidence that prosperity to
the wool growers comes alone with low
tariff or free Importation. The Mills bill
lets in raw wool free, gives the manufacturer
raw material without tax; puts him on a
footing with the European manufacturer
and he will manufacture all the woollen
cloth now imported to this country; gives
a larger field for American workingmen;
and makes better demand and higher
price for American wool and establishes the
farm products.
"Why should we be asked to admit timber
free ?"
Because the import duty is sham and
sWlndle in its present form. at present,
lumber is admitted free for certain inter.
ests. A II the railroad ties. sawed or hewed
by the ''pauper labor' of Canada for the
great railroad corporations, to which Con.
gress gave away millions of acres of the
public lands, are admitted free; all the
ship timber and planking for the ship
builders of New England. is admitted
free; all the woods for the making OF
articles of luxury-cedar. rosewood, satin
wood, &C., are admitted free under this
Republican High Tariff. But when it