Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-20

danger to the iron interest. with which to
perform its promise of laying both the
VIMDICAToR and Mr.. Tucker on q cool
ing board, it may as we'll use its cooling
board for firewood now.
Yes the practical people of Virginia
haze set their faces against free trade"
and so has the Democratic party OF Vir-
ginia and of the Union. And they have also
set their faces against High Tariff taxes.
Monopolies and gigantic Trusts. which
are eating up the very life of the people.
They are determined that all three shall
come to an end, and by this determina-
ton they intend to stand or fall. They
don't intend to slacken their grip for any
empty cry of free trade" The Vsrginiaas
knows that the Mills bill is not free
trade measure. The Democratic party in
tends to go on with the people in this thing
and break down the High Tariff tax, with
out taking step backward on the road.
Delayed by the Republican Senate it may
be, but defeated never. The Republican
party that made this Senate has been false
to all its promises of relief. Every effort to
give lower taxes has been met with the
cry of free trade, free trade" If we
propose that farmer should not be taxed
81 per cent On his coat, we are met with
the cry of free trade;" that he shall not
be made to pay IS per cent. on his water
bucket, the same cry of free trade"; that he
shan't pay IS per cent. more for his trace
chafns-"free trade;" that the knife and
fork he eats with shan't cost him IS per
cent. more than it is worth-''free trade"
that everything he uses on his farm
shant cost him AZ per cent. more, the old
parrot cry is repeated over and over of
free trade" Every attempt that is made
to reduce the taxation on any article, even
by The smallest sum, is met the same way.
And here is our contemporary meeting the
fifty cents, with the same cry of ''free
trade.''
1t has been determined by the Republi-
can party that there shall be no reduction
of the tariff tao. It will give free whiskey
first. Free Whiskey How many men
and women in community use whiskey
compared with the number of those who
do not? How many men and women in
the country who never taste Whiskey, pay
the enforced High Tariff on everything
they wear2 And they must keep on paying
the high tariff tax while they see those who
like drink, guzzle free WhlskeY. Was there
ever such a coupling together of economic
measures to be put before sober nation
the sober people to pay high taxes that the
whiskey drinkers may have free whisBey!
And any remonstrance of the tax payers
is met with the cry Of ''free trade!"
The people OF this country intend to
have low taxes, and the Democratic party
intends to give it to them. For twenty
four years it has promised if it ever got
into power it would give it to them. It
is in power, the first term of its power,
the first opportunity it has had to make
its promise good. and it is going to do it.
No cry of Free Trade" is going to
frighten it off. No talk about "folly' OF
"delusion" is going to deter 1t. There is
no "folly or ''delusion in the high taxes
the people are paying. They see the hard
earned money taken from their pockets
glittering through the bars of the Nation
al Treasury Hundred Millions of
Dollars! There was no 'idelusion" when
they felt their hard earned money 10 their
pockets before handing it over to be locked
up in the vaults at Washington. They
k1aoa0 av7at High Tariff td1ation has done for
them. and now they are going to try low
tariff. And when they ask for low tariff
they don't want any political party to offer
instead Of it free whiskey; to insult their
intelligence by telling them they are labor
ing under ''delusion''; or to try and drown
the sound of their complaints by scream
ing Free Trade"