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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12
The glib way in which the High Tariff

The glib way in which the High Tariff
papers throw off general statements, is
we'll calculated to deceive those people
who have not the time to 60 to the proper
source and ascertain that they are uncon-
frmed. Take this from the Baltimore
american:
The war came, and with it a protective tor
if. Manufactures sprang up like blades of
grass after copious rain. The United States
ceased to be huge plantation owned by for
elgners and overseered and work d by Ameri-
cans for the owners exclusive benefit.
Now 60 to the Compendium of the Tenth
Census, QSS0). and you will find the fol-
lowing: Value of products Of manufac-
turing Industries in 1850, 1,019 million dol
lars; in 1860. 1856 million; in 1870 (reduced
to gold bas!s), 1886 million; in $780,
$500 million. Tue decennial rate of in
crease between 1850 and 1860 is thus seen
to be IS per cent; between 1850 and 1870,
80 per cent; between 1870 and 1880, SO
per cent. From this it would appear
that the blades of grass sprang up nearly
twice as thickly under the Low Tariff as
they did under ten years of the High Tar
if the people are now burdened with, and
under which we have the new picture of the
'huge plantation" worked by Americans
to pay off the mortgages which have aris-
en- under the High Tariff tax system.
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THE HOME MARKET.

1t would mean home market for every
product of the farm and new prosperity to
all classes. Valley Viryiaaian.
This argument by cur contemporary, it
must be remembered, is in support Of the
attempt of Mr.. Yost to fix tax of $l2,-
OO0, 900 on the people of this country, on
the chance of, at some day or other, dig
ging tin and manufacturing tin-plate, of
which we do not now produce single
pound nor manufacture single sheet.
The argument is that undef the pro-
posed higher tax home market might
be furnished for farm products. Let Us
see which furnishes the bsst home market
for farm products, high or low tariff.
In giving the prices we commence after the
year 1855, because then and before that, the
Crimean War Was raging and the price of
wheat was exceptionally higher. ranging
between ST. rs and $1.96. To be fair we
commence at 1866, and ask our farmers to
see what the home market price paid for
their products was then, and what it is
under a High War-Tariff for the same
number of years. We give the lowest
rate prevailing each year under the tariff.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12
$ TIE GOSPEL OF PROTECTION j
NOT A HIGH TARIFF.

One of the excuses given by that exceed
ingly dull Indiana statesman, Gen. BENZ.
Harrison, In the Senate in 1882, for not
entering into the tariff discussion, was
that, II do not know enough about it's
details to discuss it prcf.abIy.' His an
cestral ignorance of both its history and
details does not seem in the SIX years
which have since elapsed, to have
left him. In a speech the other day
he asked: ''Can the old Wings, who so
reverently received from the lips of Clay
the gospel Of protection, much longer sup
port revenue policy that they know to
be inimical to our national interest,"" In
Epes Sargent's Life OF Clay" pages 2l5-
PIC, edited by Horace Greeley, may be
found Henry Clay's views of tariff, con-
tanned in a letter addressed to S. f. 6ron-
son of Georgia, dated Sept. IS, 1843. He
said:
sTbe sum and substance of what conceive
to be the true policy of the United States in
, respect to tariff may be briefly stated In
conformity with the principle announced in
the Compromise Act, think that whatever
revenue is necessary to an economical and
honest administration of the general Govern
ment ought to be derived from duties imposed
on foreign imports. And I believe that, in
establishing a tariff of those duties such a
discrimination ought to be made as will incl
dentally afford reasonable protection to our
national interests. think there is no danger
of high tariff being ever established; that of
1928 was eminently deserving that denomina-
ton. 1 was not in Congress when it passed
nd mot unto h11f xrtEh ifo hietc
and with the circumstances which gave it
birth | am well acquainted. They were highly
discreditable to American legislation; and [
hope fer its honor, will never be repeated -.
My opinion that there is no danger here
after of high tariff is founded on the crafty
ing fact that our manufactures have now taken
a deep root. In their infancy they needed
greater measure of protection; but as they
grow and advance, they acquire strength and
stability, and, consequently, will require less
protection. Even now some branches of them
are able to maintain, in distant markets sue
cessful competition with rival foreign manu-
factures"
Even then-fjrty- five years ago-Henry
Clay thought the ''intant ind ustIles" we're
beginning to maintain successful compe-
tition with rival foreign manufactures. :"
Since then, the plumber of manufacturing
establishments has Increased 100 per cent.;
the capital invested, over 500 per cent;
the number OF persons employed 400 per
cent, and the value Of the prod acts 500
per cent. And yet at this day and with
this showing, Henry Clay is quoted as au-
thority for the present High Tariff Tax
dictated by the manufacturers to the Re-
publican party, and by it sought to be die
tated to the American people.
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Oh, YOU ARE A FREE
TRADER. ="

The Hon. VIM. l.. Scott. member of
Congress from Pennsylvania, stated On
the floor of the House month ago, and
it has not been contradicted, that he had
conversation with Mr.. Carnegie whose
income from the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works of which be is President, is ST.
500, 600 per annum. In that conversation
be said to Mr.. Carnegie that where a sys-
TEN of bad and vicious laws enabled a
man to accumulate 81 500 900 IN one year
out of any industry Of the country as his
share alone of the profits of his company,
he might we'll afford to be liberal with his
gains to popularize policy that makes it
possible for him to make in one year so
large sum of money. The reply of Mr..
Carnegie was the usual one It was: "Oh,
you are free trader"
And that is about the staple "argu-
ment'' of all Mr.. Carnegie's compatriots-
"Oh, you are free trader !"
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''The Republicans are strong in their can
didate. Harrison is not waver of the bloody
shirt. His ancestry and traditions are against
it."
This was the opinion of the Hon. John
S. Wise uttered two months ago. Like
many other opinions of that genial. but
cratic young gentleman-it was founded
on nothing. 1t is hard to say just how far
mans ancestry and traditions' are
protection against malignity and stupidity,
but certainly Gen. Harrison's have not
been q safeguard to him in that respect.
He has turned out to be exactly what Mr..
Wise thought he was not. A few days age,
in replying to a delegation of ex-Union
prisoners, he uttered the following SLAM
derous sentence:
''But the treatment of captured Union SOL
diers surpassed in fendish cruelty the worst
deeds of the savages. 1t is the black spot
without any lining of silver or any touch of
human nature"
man who goes back twenIy-four years
to fiud bloody shirt to wave in a poll
teal election, for his own benefit as can
didate, and waves it as a sectional appeal,
is not fit to be Chief Magistrate of the
whole Nation.
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HOW CONTRA CT LABOR CAME
TO THIS COUNTRY.

For twenty years the platform utter
ances of the Republican party about
American labor, and American working
men and their protection, have been the
thinnest Of shams. We wonder if American
labor knows how Contract Labor was
first brought to this country, and how the
law legalizing its importation was kept
on the statute books for twenty-on years,
and until the year 1855. In 1864 the
Republican congress passed the following
which was signed by the President and
became law:
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That II
contracts that shall be made by emigrants to
the United States in foreign countries, in
conformity to regulations that may be estab-
lished by the said commissioner, whereby
emigrants shall pledge the wages of their labor
for term not exceeding twelve months, to
repay the expenses of their emigration, shall
be held to be valid in law, and may be en-
forced in the courts of the United States or
of the several States and Territories and
such advances, if SO stipulated in the con-
tract, and the contract be recorded in the
recorders Office in the county where the en-
igrant shall SETTLE shall operate as q lien upo1
any land thereafter acquired By the eznigr0at
whether under the homestead law when the
title is contaminated, or on property other
wise acquired until liquidated by the emf
grant; but nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize any contract contraven-
ing the Constitution of the United States, or
creating in any way the relation of slavery or
servitude. u. S. Stats. at Large, vol Is,
, 1S63-'65.)
1t has been pleaded in extenuation of
this new form of slave importation, at 1t
was an exgeDcy Of the war. The war
ended in 1865, but for twenty years the
Republican party kept that law on the
, statute books until Democratic House of
Representatives. in February, 1885, passed
law repeating it, saving that no con-
tract labor should be introduced into the
United States, and providing for the
punishment of those who brought it.
How many Republican workingmen
know and have thought of that NANTES
tation of the interest Of their party in the
Am erican labor it is ostensiblY so anxious
to protect?
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THE MADNESS or REPJD
HATRED FOR THE SOUTH.

Gen. W. 7. Sherman was but recently
Commander, under the President, of the
Army of the United States. He is tho
brother Of Senator John Sherman, and
shares, and, if possible, intenslGes, the
hatred that eminent Republican holds to
the South. Gen. Sherman has contributed
an article to the October number of the
North american Kerie,c. Iu it he holds
this shocking and brutal language towards
the Southern people:
"The Northern people will not long permit
the negro vote to be suppressed, and yet be
counted in the political game against them.
Ask the abrogation of Article XIV of the
Amendments to the Constitution, or allow the
| negro to vote and count his vote. Otherwise,
so sure as there is q God in Heaven you will
have another war, more cruel than the last,
when the torch and dagger will take the place
of muskets of we'll ordered battalions The
| negro is gaining in experience and intell-
gence every day, and he has read Byron
hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, who
would be free. themselves must strike the
blow p Should the negro strike that blow
there will be millions to assist them Were I
to-day citizen of Louisiana, as [ was in 1861
l would far prefer Old Shady Ga freedman)
as voter, to any of the Bohemians, who reach
Castle Garden by thousands every day of the
year."
This article, published in the most prom
inent magazine, of Republican proclvities,
in the land, without rebuke, disclaimer, or
explanation, shows what sectional hate
can make a prominent soldier of the civil
war, now pensloned by the National gov
eminent, publish about the Southern sec.
ton of his country. Harrison, one mouth
accuses the southern people of ''fiendish
cruelty, and ,she next month. here comes a
proposition from the most prominent sur
vivlng Federal general of the civil war, to
incite race insurrection among them, to
the deadly peril of their wives and chill
dren, and to the certain destruction of the
race that attempted it. And the sectional,
Soutb-hating party, of which these men
are the flower, asks southern men to vote
with it, that it may capture and get con-
troll of the National government!
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s'Every one knows and will admit, if he is
honest that the duty is not paid by the con-
sumner. Valley Viryanians.
How is this2 The Hon. Jacob Yost,
one of the most honest public men We
know of, told the people of Staunton at
the Skating Rink that the man who put
up an American Mill had to sell has goods
at higher price than English goods to
make up the difference in price between
English labor and American. And that
soas the purpose of the tariff duty-to enable
the American manufacturer to get more.
You don't suppose he sells the goods to
the English consumer, do you? Then, if
not, the duty is paid by the American
consumer. And what is more the Ameri-
can consumer is beginning to find it cut.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12
The LAST MONTH OF THE
CAMPAIGN.

The campaign has reached its last
month. The day of election, Tuesday,
November 9Th, is only twenty-five days
away from us. There are no October
States, the results IN which may distract
or stampede the popular mind from the
conclusion it has reached. La The only
two practical and certain tests of the last
thirty ddys-a vote at the polls-the
Democracy which won in 1884, has held
it own. The official figures just issued from
the State-house in Maine, MIR. Blaine's
State, show the vote for Governor to be;
Republican 10, 404, gain over 1884 of
7.1s5; and Democratic 81. $40, a gain over
1884 of 1900. And this in lumber
State. where Mr.. Blaine in person made a
canvass against the Democracy. and the
Mills Bill with its free lumber clause, and
where, according to him, ''the question of
protection was tie only one discussed" La
Connecticut, State which the Democrats
carried in 1884 by 1,274, they more than
held their own in the town elections on
October ID. The fact that in doing SO.
they carried Ridgefeld, the place Of res
idence of Gov. Lounsbury, and Stamford
where the Hon. Samuel Fessenden of the
National Republican Committee has been
the political leader for years. has had be-
numbing effect on the Republicans. In
Virginia, that unusually cautious politi-
cal leader, John S. Barbour, estimates
that the Democratic majority will be
10000. In Indiana, which gave Cleveland
$500 majority in 1884. Senator VOORHEES,
prophecies acertain Democratic victory by
$4,000, and the news from New Jersey
and New York is in the same direction.
These encouraging reports from the gen.
eral field should stir the Democrats of the
10th district, and especially of Augusta,
to new activity and effort. AS far as
political calculations can go, the next
President of the United States will tie
Grover Cleveland. How should we appear
in that day if We had to be known to his
administration through Republican rep
resentative in congress
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Now, from that presentation of facts
and figures which are about matters right
here at home, and can easily be verified;
and which are not from the statistics
of professional theorists on either side of
the question. will our farmer friend say
whether it is better to acait under the
heavy taxation of this tariff, or try one
that in the past showed such results as
given above. That word swat" has cost
the farmers of the United States millions
of dollars in taxes.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12
WHY THE FARMER SHOULD r e.
SIST 4 HIGH TARIFF TAX.

- - -
We are glad to see that "a Farmer, -
who is also Republican, is again consid-
ering the Tariff question in the Valley
Vtrginian. He has not. however, over
iff for Protection and Low Tariff for Free
Trade. He says that he Was once disposed
to favor Tariff for Revenue only, but
after he began to ''read, reflect and study
the difference between free trade and pro-
tection," he adopted the latter. He and
the VINDICA1oR are not likely to differ
about that-between free trade and pro-
lection we too would favor the latter.
Free Trade, Of necessity, entails direct
taxation, a system that would almost de-
ty and scant populations. But the issue
now being discussed il this country, is not
Stree trade" or protection. Nobody wants
free trade-the issue is between high and
low taxation through the Tariff. There
has always been protection in the United
States. 1t has been the policy of this
Union, even-though it sounds paradox
cal-befOre it was Union. Niuety-n nine
years ago, on the 4th of July, Congress
passed a Tariff bill for "the encourage
ment and protection of manufactures,
and North Carolina did not enter the
Union until November of that year. The
policy OF the government, under no matter
what political party. has always bssn pro-
tective. 1t is the amount and distribution
OF the protection that has been the bone of
contention between the parties, as it is to-
day, not the principle of protection. But
ga Farmer" is wholly mistaken about the
following assertions
''Those eras in which the Revenue doctrine
prevailed were marked by panics and gen eral
depression. 1t was SO in 1887, in 1916, and
prior to 1861. So we have been led to believe
that if the doctrine again should prevail that
depression will surely follow"
The tariff of 1888 under which the coun-
try was working in 1887. when that panic
occurred, was pretty stiff one. 1t fol.
lowed what was called the ''compromise
tariff" and was 81 81 per cent. The tariff
of 1915 Was SO So per cent. So no depres-
sion in 1917 was due to any low tariff.
"A Farmer" who is Republican, will
find most excellent answer to his CHROME.
GUS statements about the depression of
1860 (which was a low tariff year-l9 81
per cent? from very high Republican
authority-James A. Garfield. In the
House of Representatives, March b.
1873. Mr. Garfield replied to some remarks
Of Hon. W. D. Kelley of Pennsylvania,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12

DISTRICTS.
list. T. R. B. WRIGHT, of Essex.
3D.. D. GARDNER TYLER, of Charles City.
Sd. TAZEWELL ELLETT, OF Richmond.
9TH VIM r. MCKINNEY, of Petersburg,
5th. HERBERT G. PETERS. of Henry.
sth W. W. BERRY. of Bedford.
9TH MlCAJAH WOODS, of Albemarle.
sth e. e. MEREDITH, of Prince William.
Sth JAMES W MARSHALL, of Craig.
1eth. B B. POORE. of Appomattox.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12

Now a farmer can see whether the prices
prevailing in a home market are better
under a high tariff than under a lower
one,
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POLITICAL NOTES.

Hon. Geo. g. Round, of Prince William,
says Mahoneism is the antipodes of Re-
publicanism. He adds that he has not vet
made up his mind to vote for Harriso n;
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12

THE EXPLANATION WORSE

1HAN THE OFFENCE.
The counties of Amherst, Cumberland,
Buckingham. Appomattox and Fluvanna
compose part of the 10th Congressional
District. They all cultivate tobacco; from
the man who owns the land, to the man
who handles the hoes that hills it, the to-
bacco grower is deeply interested in
doing it untaxed. For years the tobacco
growers have been earnestly fighting to
secure the repeal of the tax on it. A
month ago a bill passed the House of
Representatives containing this clause:
'sSec. 25. That on and after the LIST day of
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For Congress Tenth District.
81. ST. GEO. TUCK Err,
OF AUGUSTA.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE,
RICHARD E. BEIRNE, of Hanover.
JOHN 7. HARRIS, OF Rockingham.
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| fore the war he could not get the returns I'M
+, der 10 days or two weeks. Now he brings his
! wool to- Staunton in the morning and goes
home with the money is his pocket"
| But that does not answer Mr.. Collisions
| question The Staunton Wooden Mill
was doubtless buying wool then, and paw
ing good prices for it too, just az Witt u
Hollis mills is now buying wheat and pay
| ing good prices too, bat much of the An-
gusta wheat is sold in Baltimore. New
| York and Richmond for all that. The
! fact that MIR. Callson didn't sell in Staun-
| ton is no argument. We don't know the
| route Mr. q. shipped his wool, but we
know we'll that if wool was IS to So cents
, in Boston to-day, every wool grower in
| Augusta would be more than glad to ship
| there instead of taking % to % cents in
| Stanton. And "a Farmer" would be
| among the shippers. n o farmer as intel
ligent as he is, would take So for hun
dred pounds of wool to-day. when by wait
ing ten days for the returns, Q could get
$5S.
"a Farmer" closes his communication
by saying
Continue the system, the present tariff
and if necessary enlarge upon it, and the time
is coming when iron furnaces, rolling mills,
and other factories will be built in our own
country. Then the farmer can sell his wheat,
corn, oats, hay, potatoes, beans, cabbage,
and all garden products direct to the con-
sumer."
1.-THE time is coming?" Alas, it is no
nearer than it was twenty-six years agol
1t has been here under Low Tariff, and
was driven away by High Tariff. At the
risk of being tiresome let US again repeat
list of t,Denty-one NANNY actnres that were
in Staunton in the Low Tariff days be-
tween 1850 and 1860 and not one of which
are here under High Tariff to-day:
Wooden factory. Tobacco factory
Shoe factory, Churn factory,
Tannery Papef MILL
Horse collars, Rope-Wdlk,
sadd!e-srcs factory, Wheat.fan factory.
Last factory. Rifle factory.
Stove foundry. Chairand Spinning Wheel
ThreShing Machine factory,
factory, Pottery.
Brewery.
u6 GlU6 Is CUuiUR al DIS, IL Is uo
nearer than when this generation begun.
1t has been here and has been driven off
by High Tariff. We invite "a Farmer"
who wants home market, and all other
Augusta farmers. to read this:
SEPTEMBER PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS IN
sTAUNToN FOR THREE YEARS
UNDER LOW TARIFF.
1858. 1859. 1860.
Wheat. $1.70 SLIGO
Corn.... SO 70 rs
Oats ......... 25 80 40
Butter ................. ~ 10 10
SEPTEMBER PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS IN
sTAUNToN FOR THREE YEARS
UNDER HIGH TARIFF.
1886. 1887. 1885,
Wheat ................. n 76 SO
Corn ..................... 46 50 60
Oats. .................... so IS 26
Butter. II Is 16
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THE FARMER TO WAIT.

The reply of every Repu blican paper
and orator to the charge that the present
,, High Tariff overtaxes the farmer, is the
promise that 1t will bring good home
| market to the farmer. When, they can
not specify, but for that the farmer is to
Waitl
Everybody gets their money spot cash
| in this transaction but the farmer-he is
to wait!
The workman in the protected industry
gets his protection from foreign eompe-
tition right away; is getting it noe0 they
claim. but as for the farmer he must wait!
The Big Manufacturer is getting in his
profits every day in cash. But the farmer
must wait!
The politician who makes this oft-re-
peated promise Of the Home Market, goes,
if he is elected. to congress- and draws his
pay every week in cash. He leaves the
farmer at home to wait!
How long will the farmer consent to
, wait. He has been waiting; waiting for
twenty-3iX years--eyer since the war Tar
I if was put n.and he is still waiting. How
many more generations has he to wait for
the Home Market?
He gets one thing without waiting
day he gets his taxation. That comes
right down On him every time be buys
piece of high protected goods his clothes,
his harness, his plow, and his tin pail.
His tariff taxes are all safe-be can see
them now, $120, 600 eco of them, shining
through the Treasury bars at Washington
where they are piled up.
His tariff taxes are all safe-he can see
them in the millionaires' palaces, and
pleasure yachts and fast teams all over the
country.
But for everything but his taxes he
is told he must wait How long will the
farmers of the land be put off with these
idle promises which their pockets tell
them are not performed, and which their
observation must tell them will never be
realiZsdp