Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12

the tariff of S46 seemed tor the time to be SO
entirely indicated and approved, that resis-
lance to it ceased, not only among the people
but among the protective economists, and
even among the manufacturers to large ex-
tent. So general was this acquiescence that
in 1856 a protective tariff was not suggested
or even limited by any of the three parties
which presented Presidential candidates"
Wouldn't "a Farmer" whether Repub-
lican or Democrat, welcome such days as
those once more
That is the history given by two of the
most distinguished Republican statesmen
of the country, of the fourteen years of
low tariff and when the tariff was lowered
gradually, year by year, from 50 IS per
cent. down to 1857 per cent. So our Re
publican farmer friend will find that his
memory or his reading of 1.-THE eras in
which the Revenue doctrine prevailed is
altogether at fauls, and SO finding it, we
trust he will inform the readers of bis
communications of the fact. And to make
his reparation for an unintentional injus-
tice fuller, he might inform them that
under war tariff of 1910 per cent, a
most disastrous financial depression and
panic took place in 1878, and yet another
in 1877, and that they cannot by any inge-
nuity be attributed to the Revenue doc
trine."
Replying to the VINDICA TOR s enquiry,
if twenty six years under high tariff taxa
ton was not long enough for The farmers
to wait for the long hoped for home mark
ct, this correspondent says:
''Twenty-six years of protection not
enough? No. Whilst the population in
creased, says Dodge from 1919 to 1884, Pc
Rod of thirty-fve years, 141 per cent the pro-
| duction of wheat was 40 per cent?
| Ard that 1s most signifc mt answer !!
| With such an increase Of wheat over con-
sumers, where can the American wheat
grower possibly look for better times if he
refuses to try low tariff as means of
, establishing home industries and home
market? We have shown as a matter of
history how low tariff increases manu-
features. We have published a list of
twenty one manufactures that existed in
| Staunton-frcm 1850 to 1s60-during the
| good times of low tariff so we'll described
I By Garfield and Blaine. We have published
a list Of the free building materials for
patting up plant given in the Mills Bill.
and the protection for what that plant
| produces. given in the same bill. To what
| other quarter can the farmer turn for help
to bring larger home market for
his produce. Every year his wheat ex.
ceeds the home market demand under the
present tariff. The immigrants come in,
go West, and grow still more wheat. Ev-
ely new immigrant has bis surplus to aed
to the general surplus sent out to Europe
to compete with the ryoJ labor Of India
The greater the surplus the greater the
glat of the European market; the greater
the glut the lower the price. Where will
the American wheat grower turn for re-
lief ? He has waited twenty-six years for
| the High Tariff to relieve him by making
a home market for his surplus. 1t hasn't
done it yet. Instead of spreading home
market all over the country, il has done as
in the case of Staunton manufactures.
wiped it out. What hope is there in wait
| ing?
"a Farmer" thinks it not the fair thing
to protect the man that makes the plow
40 per cent, and put the farmers lumber,
out of which the pillow handles are made,
on the free list. Why. the lumber for the
plow handle is nolo on the free list of the
present tariff; SO is the lumber for your
wagon bodies and for anything else you can
saw out of logs, round. manufactured
| timber not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for ia this act.'' TIE chief addition
| that the Mills Bill admits is the sawed
| boards for the poor mans house, which
the present tariff taxes 200 a thousand
| feet, and which it admits free. But if
home made plows'' "sre not enhanced
| in price because of the tariff" as GA
Farmer" says, why does he complain that
the pIow iron is protected and the farm
ers' lumber in the pillow handles, not. If
''the price of them is regulated by home
competition" why is not this the case
Will buo ldluiOiE' IuuU6II Our r aTnGr
evidently had not heard Hon. Jacob
,, Yost's description Of the American build
log his mill. paying double what is paid
in England for his bricks. glass and lum-
Der; then double for the wages of bis men,
and then haUinQ to charge more for the
goods than the English goods ara sold for,
SO as to cover the difference. Mr.. 7 ost
holds that the price is enhanced here. be-
cause the labor, timber, &c., cost more
than they do there, and the present tariff
protects this enhancement from cheaper for
eiga competition. "A Farmer" saws:
'Under the head of "The Farmers and Free
Raw Material" the VINDIoAToR again quotes
from our article, and repeats question pro-
pounded by Mr.. Callison: 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 and IS cents a pound,
and COW have to sell it at % to IS cents ?"
What weg the Staunton wooden factory doing
then? What class of goods was it turning
out, that it had no use for the Augusta county
fine wool? The price is % to % cents in
Stanton now and Mr.. Callison does not have
to haul it to Winchester or ship it by the old
Central railroad to Richmond and then BY
water to New York or Boston. Let Mr.. CALI
son give the net returns and it will be found
that there will not be so much difference. Be-