The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-08-09
sense prevails, cor fdence and adjustment
are effected and friendly relations restored

sense prevails, cor fdence and adjustment
are effected and friendly relations restored
and preserved.
The fact that labor is able TO s'rlkA is .
the best evidence in the world that ii Is IN
demand. and the further fact Thai there is
employment for it is the strongest teSll-
mei to the wisdom OF the laws which /
have brought into existence the lndns'ilfs
in which it is employed. THREE would be
no occasion fof .ab3r TO oTgahZs we've
there not hing Tor it to do and the tact
that it is organized is assurance that Ii /
will not be imposed UPON or be roebed OF
it's rights. Collects VIII occur wherever /
organize! forces exist whether from one /
cause or another, and what Yer the eco
monte laws under which they operate.
The Protective laws assure labor renin |
nerative employment; build up the indus |
trial fabric of IA country: create a hone
market: adj nc the wtalh Of the \ ..licn |
and establish its industrial Independence. |
If in consummating these results, there
should be occasional contentious and |
strifes they may be as much chargeable TO
the peryersity of human nature as to any
defect in the policy or the laws. The
pregnant fact remains-that labor is more
regularly employed and receives better re-
turns-has more comfortable homes ana
affluent surroundings than ever before III
the history OF the country The Nation
has advanced in wealth and power and IN
tuence, without d parallel. industries
have been stimulated; ingenuity ID mech
anism invited to new fields OF epdeavoli
tribute has been laid upon the forces OF
nature, to suhServe the uses OF man, ana
all the agencies of air and earth brought
into activity to advance civi llzatlon AID
contribute to the grandeur and glory OF
the Republic, and the progress OF man
kind. Such are some of the fruitions of
the Protective Policy, ana SUCH some OF
the achievements which are to the credit
of the Republican Party,
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| The Vindicator seems to be worrying it
self oyer some figures reporting the price OF
wheat from 1857 to 1881. 1t appears to be
so much infatuated with them that it re-
produces them every week. The object is
to prove that wheat brought more under
revenue only policy, than under The pro-
tective policy and this Is used as an argu-
ment to show that the Vi7ad5cator has been
on the wrong side Of the tariff question for
wears past and until the revelation of the
Mills bill. In the early years we had very
little if any'surplus for export. The av-
erage product per acre in Virginia was
about or bushels. The mode Of gath
ering the crop was primitive and expen-
sive. We had no competition to speak of,
as the great wheat fields of the West and
Southwest and the Pacific slope had not
been opened. Transportation was lin
tied. Compared with now the difficulties
and embarrassments Of the farm were
very great. We now raise On an average
Is or l6 bushels to the acre. 1t is takeI
off by machinery at oue-third the cost Ii
, labor and time. Id other words 50 cents
, per bushel is as good price under presen
. conditions as 81 % was under the old re-
gilne. with the cost of harvesting consid
8 cred The farmer really makes more OF
his wheat and corn and oats than be dl'
/, then, and always has q purchaser right a
his door. when in the olden time he wag
: oped his produce to market 100 to 1850 mile
!. distance, taking himself, four horses an'
). Il help six or eight days to make the trip
. Ne then did not have 10 compete III TIL
= markets of the world with India and Rus
e STA. Our supply WAS local as was the de
; mand. The corn of the West was used a
under the stimulus 81 nfff Gle aYd MGan n SOL SOL
/ icy of protection, this condition 0
things began to change after 1856
q The West has been checkered wit
# railroads. Factories and furnaces all
workshops of every description hay
; sprung up, furnishing home market fc
+ the products of the farm, and now Their
is not a bushel of grain that cannot get
! purchaser at re NJ uDerative cash prices
Farms are highly improved, more costl
| and modern machinery is used; yehi6
les for family comforts are purchased
school houses and churches are convenient
the markets are brought to your door, an,
the change so marvellous within genera
ton that one looks back over brief tern
of years with establishment at the stride
that have been made. Why, within oul
remembrance, and under Democratic ad
ministration and policy, flour was sold a
; So 90 to $3.50. 1t was used as currency
as builder told US the other day that bt
contracted to put up brick house in thu
county on the condition that every dollar
of the cost had to be pad i'll flour al
S3 25 per barrel, or G5 cents bushel, anC
rye at 60 cents per bushel. That was the
condition of things here, with no facto
ries or furnaces or mines in operation.
The Vaadicdtor, however, takes its fig
ures from Berk S county, Pa, where in
the earlier years named factories and fur.
neces were beginning to open under the
protection and encouragement given by
the tariff laws of the years it quotes Sc
the point sought to be made by the Yin
dicdtOr is disposed of by the facts 1t states.
We do not know whether the figures given
as 10 Berks county are correct, but If they
are they only prove that where the effects
of protection are seen in factories and
furnaces, there the farmer is benefited
for at the same time wheat is quoted
as bringing $l.55 to 81 so i'll that mar
ket. IN Virginia and where there were
no factories, and where mental labor pre-
| tad 1o, ~, I IL.
no cash market for it at that. There are
hundreds of farmers in the county who
will laugh at the attempt of our neighbor