Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-05

and that amouut-Dot the 500 ,O00-the
people of this country have to pay wher
they buy them. Now where Mr.. Foster
manufacturers come in for their big slice is
this The manufacturer away up in New
Hampshire hears these goods may come
He knows that they will be $l75,0OO III
price before they can get through the Gus
tom house. He puts up the price of has
goods to the one hundred and seventy hive
too, and sells them at that. He don't In
crease the pay of his labor however, that
amt in the programme. The Tariff Is
for him. He has paid his laboreFs fol
making 500 900 worth Of goods and there
the laborer's interest stopped. The SIS ,OOO
additional is for him the people who buy
the goods have to pay it and it goes into
his pocket. And this is kept up when nc
English ships are coming, no English
goods imported, and the Tariff instead OF
being used for keeping English goods oul
is used to keep tue New Hampshire
anufacturers up. And that is what high
tariff duty is and how it works. The tar
ALL tthA 10 AONlCu Oa LuAnf SOOuo VI WHlCL
none are ever imported and no effort is
made to import, FROM England or anywhere
else, but all the same the. manufacturer
keeps his figures up to the Tariff duty and
makes the people Of America pay him the
margin. on the pretence of the protection
of something that nobody in the world is
Offering to compete with.
Suppose
THE BOARD OF UPERvIsoRS OF AUGU STA
COUNTY
was to go on year after year
levying more tax than the county
needed. and piling 1T up in jim
long would that last before the people
turned them out. For 25 years you have
had just that sort of Federal taxation and
now they refuse to reduce it. They don't
Mills Bill reduces it. On the contrary
they call even that little, ''free trade.' And
yet in 1882 their own Republican Tariff
Commission reported in favor of reducing
it Is per cent. (cheers.) Did anybody hear
the cry of free trade" then? How about
the s'poor Laboring man" then? WHO
ever heard
HARRY TUCKER LIFT HIS VOICE
for the Blair Blli?" Who ever
heard Jake Yost lift his voice for the
poor laboring man when they reported to
cut down ''Protection" % per cent?
(great cheering) He says the Democratic
committee closed the doors On the Labor
representatives in 1883 and came out with
the Mills Bill which reduces protection 7
per cent. How was it In 1882 when the
Republican Tariff Commission opened
the door to the Labor representatives and
came out with a bill reducing ''protec-
ton" Is per cent. (great cheering He
says he don't want cheap clothing. No;
he gets S. 900, but the thousands Of lien
in this State that don't get S. 900 do want
cheap clothing and they are going to have
it. Mr.. Tucker here read the Mills Bill
clause showing that the sheet iron and
steel Mr.. Yost said would be admitted
free under it,, and which would destroy
these industries, was protected three
quarters Of cent pound! He says
iron will be ruined! 1t has risen in
price since the Mills Bill was re-
ported, for that bill protects it. Il
protects coal too. He says we send mil
lions abroad to England every year now
for iron OF 70 pJt 10 tEat
The Republicans made the Tariff we are
working under to-day, (applause.) Tariff
don't protect the labor of any America Il
worker nor fix his wages. Go up On e
border. The mill owner tells Jack be has
been paying him So 90 day for his work
but he can get it across from Canada
at S1.25 and be will have to work
for that or go. Poor Jack has ia
surrender. Next day Jack asks him
to sell him piece of cloth at the
same price as IN Canada. He refuses
Jack says, well, I'll buy it over there
"Ah," laughs the mill man, 'You can t..
TIE law protects my price and you have
to pay duty on it' Free labor and Pro-
tected manufactures That is the Repub-
lican High Tariff of to-day! He challenged
Mr.. Yost 70 name a single article of ma
nufacture In the Mills Bill, the duty on
which did not exceed
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WAGES IN
ENGLAND AND WAGES IN AMERICA.
Take dollars worth of wooden goods
the labor in it is % cents; the protection
is SO cents. Take dollars worth of cotton
goods; the wages is 20 cents, the protec
ton is so cents. What do you want with
more, except for the manufactures? And
that is where the Democratic Bill steps in,
right there. It draws the line at labor
and protects that. Let the big Manufec.
turer look out for himself. The Mills Bill
reduces the tax on sug ar from 50 to 81
cents in the dollar, and to-day saw letter
from lady in England saying that she
buys brown sugar there at cents and
white sugar at cents The Republican
party refuses to correct the irregularities
of the Tariff. Under it, broadcloth only
pays so per cent. duty, and the wooden
goods of the Worklngman pays IT'S pei
cent. 1t is that sort OF thing the Demo
Gratis propose to correct, but tie Republi
cans say you shan'5 touch it.
Mr.. Tucker here paid a high compli-
ment to Cleveland, which was received
with great applause. He complimented
his veto;ng the Dependent Pension Bill
which offered every man who had been in
the Union army ,$l2 month, if he could
prove he wasn't able to make living.
The cost would have been over $40 900, 900
to the people.
THE BLAIR BILL.
With reference to the Blair Bill, Mr..
Tucker said he occupied exactly the
position towards it that Gen. Benz Har
rison whom Mr. Y0st was Summarizing did