Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-08-31

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became the subject Of one penny of
taxation. y y Now, as to the
article of lumber, 1 agnin remind the
House that there never has been n
lax upon this article. / shy that
wherever the Western frontiersman
undertakes to make for himself q
home, to till the soil, to carry OH the
business of life, he needs lumber for
his cabin, he needs lumber for his
fence, he needs lumber for his wagon
or his cart, he needs lumber for his
plough, he needs lumber for almost
every purpose ill his daily life.
PRESIDENT GRANT, Annual Message.
December, 1875: "Many duties now
collected, and which give but an in.
significant return for the cost of col
lection, might be RENTED, and to
tie direct advantage of consumers at
home. / would mention those arti-
cles which enter into manufactures
of all sorts. All duty paid upon such
articles goes directly to the cost of
the article when manufactured here,
and must be paid for by the con-
sumers. The duties not only come
from tho consumers at home, but as
protection to foreign manufacture
ers of the same completed articles in
our own and distant markets.
JAMES A. GARFIELD, July Is, 1868:
Unless the tariff men take heed, un.
less they consent to Il rational and
consideratc adjustment Of tie tariff
such as only can be made by the full
light that careful statistical study
of the subject will bring, 1 fear from
them more, more than from any other
source, n reaction which will bring
us by aud by into free trade and all
it's consequences of evil to the manu-.
featuring interests of the country.
l desire to say that, in my Judg-
ment, it is not the best mode of de
Tending n tariff TO denounce every
man who does not pronounce the
shibboleth after our fashion as an
enemy of the tariff.
SENATOR JomN SHERMAN, January.
1883: The tariff ought to be care
fully revised with view to correct
any inequalities OF incongruities that
has grown out of the change of
values since the passage of the act
of 1888; every imported article which
docs not compete with our domestic
industry and is essential to the com
fort and wants of our people should
be placed on the free list; every raw
material OF industry which does not
compete with our own productions
should 5e specially selected ior the
free list.
SENATOR BENJAMIN HAnRIsoN. No.
vomber 2S, 1882: The creation of the
Tariff Commission was a confession
That the tariff needs revision. If the
report comes in it should be prompt.
ly acted upon. My opinion is that
no time should 5e lost after Congress
assemblies in bringing forward these
measures.
HuaH McCuLIoUon, ex Secretary of
the Treasury, December, 1887: In
the main l agree with those views. 1
am very glad to see Mr.. Cleveland
insist with such emphasis upon put
ting the issue squarely before tho
people. His action, under the cir.
cumstances, marks him MS man
whose ability has been greatly under
estimated. There is no question over
which the general government has
jurisdiction that is of such vital i'm.
portance as the financial policy which
we are to pursue. Mr. Cleveland has
marked out a course which can safely
be followed.
SENATOR MoRRn.L,o of Vermont, 1870:
1t is mistake of the friends of II
sound tariff to insist upon The ex-
IRENE rates imposed during the war.
SENATOR JOSEPH II. HAwLEY, of
Connecticut, 1882: 1 will vote in any
direction to bring about a resolute
attempt tie give us q revision of the
tariff.
SENATOR WARNER MILLER, of New
York, 1882: The sooner we have that
(tariff) revision the better it will be
for all industries.
CHESTER A. AnTHuR's Letter of Ac-
ceptancc, 1880: Such changes should
be made in the Draeant tor;A .,,,to,>