Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-16
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. IS, 1888.
UNCEaSING WAR UPON IT.

INCREASING WAR UPON IT.
The appetite with which the Republican
leaders will set down to the division and
enjoyment of the spoils that come with a
Presidential victory, will be tempered by
the fact that they have been dearly paid
for up to date; that another heavy invest
ment on the same account will have to be
made two years from now, and the whole
thing will have to be fought over again
on the same issue four years from now.
Many more such assessments on the great
manufacturers as has just been collected,
will put them to seriously debating
whether even the profits arising out OF
High Tariff leave a balance to the credit
side. Their resources will be put to
searching test, for the Democratic party
will wage unceasing war On High Tarlif
taxation, and it is not atall likely that
the coming congress will pass any Tariff
bill which will put an end to that war.
The Senate Tariff bill was mere artifce;
it was not prepared with view to adop
ton, aud now that the election is over
will be heard from no more, at least in its
present shape. Another artificial bill
will now be prepared in the new House CT
Representatives, but its trainers will not
dare to touch the manufacturing interests.
With the people in one balance and
Wanamaker and Carnegie in the other.
the former must go up. Ii there was any
fact more apparent than another IN the
late campaign, it was that it was run
almost wholly On the money supplied by
the Highly protected interests, and the
Republican leaders in congress would
think twice before they passed any bill
not In the interest of men who could and
would contribute as higt as $500 900, by
two Of them, for the protection of their
business profits. So we may conclude
there will be nothing done which shall
relieve the people of their High taxation,
until the Democratic party gets into
power, and it is on this line that it will
continue it's fight for the people.
1t will not lack a leader. No cause of
an overburdened people ever lacked
leader. Il will not lack friends; it vii
have Thousands Of friends it did not have
in the struggle of this fall. 1t has gained
friends every week since tbs issue was
made last June by the Democratic party
Its friends have been made among the
workingmen. In twenty manufacturing
towns of Massachusetts where CLEVELAND
got II Cos votes in 1884, he got S4.721 this
year. In Lowell, Gen. Buffers owl
town, where Cleveland got $40 votes il
1884. lie this year got 5 .235. In Lawrence.
the great mill town in that State. where
Cleveland in 1884 got 2. 1862 and lost the
town, ne this year got GAL and carried
it. Let Eo man delude himself into the
belief that this fight OF the workingmeD
and the farmer against high and useless
taxation is not growing one, and does
not advance every year; it is the coming
flood il this country that will sweep away
all who withstand it. The next Presiden
tial campaign will be gone into on exactly
the same issue OF to-day, with four years
Of experience added to that Of long Suf-
fering people. There will be four year s
more Of the delusiye 'high wages" for
American wcIkmen, fcur years more oil
the imaginary "home market" for tht
American farmer, and there will be the
sams purity cries of 1888 repeated over
and over again. But III this four years
the American people will have thought
more about the inner workings OF tie
High Tariff system than they have known
in the campaign just ended, and against
their shower Of ballots the showers Of
money Of tie great manufacturers will be
impotent. They will know by that tint
what there is in High Tariff for them
and what for the manufacturer. They
will know by that time that the -four
years of "boma market" is similar to all
other four years they have passed siEcs
TIE war tariff was Instituted, and obey
will find the wheat surplus gong to
Europe as usual. The American MIND
has baen put on the alert in the five
months of camp .ignirg that has jast
ended and Tie tariff tax is about to enter
upon course Of cross examination which
will develop the whole truth about 1t.