Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-12
ALEX ANDRIA.
EVENING. SEPTEMBER -.

WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPIEMbEh l..
TIE MAN whose opposition to the Mills
hill is founded upon the belief that that Dill
enables the milers to regulate the price OF
Grain is not more deceived than the one
who believes that tariff affects the price OF
labor There is not one single TACT 10 prove
that it does, but there are many 10 prove
.bet il does not. Wages are higher IN Tree
trade England than in the protected coun-
tiles of Europe; the tariff is the same IN al
narts of this country, but there is great
difference in the rate of wages 10 dinereh'
sec,ions of il; and while the lowest wages
hare ara those paid to employees In the most
urotected industries, the highest are those
in the industries that are least protected
and the protection of which is not claimed
even by the trainers Of tariff bilis. 1hen'
Ton if the price OF lsbos in tho only TWO pro-
footed industries, mining aud manufacturing,
affects that in ell other Industries: why
shoul6n't that in the larger but unprotected
industry. farming, have like effect? Inc
momentum of large, is greater than that OF
small bodies. and if the wages OF hall MIL
linn of mine and factory employees affect
tbose of ali the other laborers in the coun'
trv. why don't those of the millions OF farm
hands do the same? The belief that the
wages OF carpenter or brick'ayer in AL
exandria are affected by those OF coal
miner in Pennsylvania, or aiactory mana In
Massachusetts, goes far toward sustaining
the views of old Governor Bankley, who
thanked God there was neither free school
70, newspaper 10 the Colony OF Virginia
TIE PUBLICATION of Mr Harrison's let
Ter of acceptance this morning shows that
its author waited for that Of his rival. 1t Is
nv no means as plain and explicit in many
noinls as Mr.. CleVcauG's, aud to wise anu
unpr, iudced voters certainly can not nc as
satisfactory. Mr.. Harrison affects to be-
iieye that protective tariff is constitution
NJ, though Mr.. Randall, the most effective
Drotectionst 10 the country, says 1t Is not
he asserts that the tariff on imported goods
Is not paid by the consumer-though every
we'll informed man knows 1t is-and that the
nrioe of goods Is not enhanced to the amount
ofthe tariff, though if it were not there
would be no reason for protective tariff,
Oh the subject of internal revenue, he says
he would maintain The tax on oleomaTga-
rine, but he endorses the Chicago platform,
which declares for free whisky rather than
the tax on the uecessaries of life be touched.
Hs advocates 1.-The exclusion Of alien races
whose assimilation with our people is Meth
or possible nor desirable but would turn
whole States in the South over to the ten
der mercies of ignorant and vicious negroes,
and says Southern election frauds are not
only unpasriotic but will be unsafe to those
who practice them, though the election
frauds in South Carolina, Florida and Lou
isiana. by which Hayes was made Presi
dent. are still fresh in his memory. Or the
two letters, it is hard to understand why
that of Mr.. Cleveland's should not be prefer
red by a msjority of The intelligent and dis
interested people of the country.