Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-09-21


seventy cents in the government
drawer? Suppose you walked off to
another store, an apothecary store, and
ask ed for dollars worth of Paris whiting,
and he was to take from you dollar. and
then another dollar and thirty cents for
the government? Or hardware store
and they gave you a dollars worth of
knives and forks for a dollar and a half
Suppose you stepped into Staunton tin
store and bought dozen fruit cans, and
the man was to ring the little bell and say,
six cents more, please, for the govern
ment." How would you like that ? But
how would you like it, if he was to say,
"Oh, no, excuse me; since Mr.. Yost's
amendment it is tagelue cents for the gov
eminent ?-tWelve cents more, please" 1t
would be no use saying, "I'll 60 round and
find cheaper store where there isn't SO
much tax"-they all have to pay it-that is
something that cannot be lodged.
How long, we say, do you suppose the
people of Augusta county would stand it,
if this tax was put straight at them with
a Bell-Punch? A year? A month? A
day? An hour longer than it took them to
get to the ballot box and vote against the
men who had gotten up the high tax and
against the man who advocated it? And yet
that is just the operation of Tariff tax when
You draw the Indirect curtain that hides
the machinery land listen to the bell-punch
striking the tax money out of your pocket,
Lets see how you would take the excusesl
1t is needed by the government oh, nc.
you say, it cannot be needed by the gov
eminent, the government has over $780,
O00,0 900 surplus in its Treasury now that it
don't know what to do with. Then it's
needed to keep up the wages of American
labor 7! ''Oh no." you say, ''you can't think
Pm silly enough to believe that on this
piece of wooden dress goods that is worth SIS
in England. and for which you charge me
So Is, there is $4,15 worth of American
labor. That won't do.' well them"
says the badgered clerk, who has no better
opinion of a high tariff than you have
for the home market makes nothing by it
tits for the man that keeps the wooden
mill, I reckon land hires American labor
and he adds in an aside-"when he can't
get any cheaper"
And that is about the size of it. It is
for the Man that Keeps the Mill. 1t is for
such man as Mr.. Carnegie who keeps
the mill and whose Individual share of the
profts-$1, 100000 year-you are paying
every day of your life, only you don't hear
the Bell-punch ring. AS near as we eau
come at it this is about fair illustration
Tariff tax. The struggle of the Ameri-
can people is to loaUer that tax. They
don't want the Man that Keeps the Mill
to get so much of 1t. They don't want
the government to get so much of it.
They want the farmer, and the mechanic,
and the laborer to have at least chance
30 keep their money in their pockets, or
at least some of it. In this struggle they
have called on both the political parties
for assistance. They are not fools; they
know that there must be Tariff tax as
long as there is a government. ALI they
ask is that it shall be adjusted to the
necessities of that government, and not
to the luxuries of the Man that Keeps the
Mill. The Republican party when it had
the government, promised to do this. In
every national platform from 1868 up to
1884 it promised to look over the books
and see what was wrong; where the tax
was unnecessary and where necessary. and
find it and fix it up. Manyof their lead
ing men favored it. President Grant, Pres
1dent Garfield, President Arthur, all rec
commended it. John A. Logan, James G.
Blaine, John Sherman, Secretary Nc
Cullogh, Secretary Folger, VIM. D. KEEL
ley, W. B. Allison, all favored it, at one
time or another. Sixyears ago Republl-
can House of Representatives appointed
25 PER CENT. REDUCTION OF THE TAR
IFF TAXATION! But the Man that Keeps
the Mill was too strong for them all, and
last year they adopted platform saying
that rather than not keep up tariff taxes
to suit this man, they would give free
Whiskey. Seeing that it was useless to
expect help from the Republican party,
the American people have turned to the
Democratic party, and that party has
given them a bill reducing taxes. That
party are not fools; they knew better tina IN
to frame bill to crush Industries that had
been growing under High Tariff for
tWpntU-QIv tbQu np1u q
REDUCTION OF PER CENT. and put the
necessaries of life on the free list.
Next November the American people
are to vote between a party that avon It
help them and party that aoiU help them.
Mr.. Harrison who says the Republican
party is right in refusing help to the peo-
pie Is one candidate. Mr.. Cleveland who
says the Democratic party is right in trying
to help the people is the other. If Mr.
Harrison is elected, the people will hear the
Bell-punch ring louder and oftener than
ever; if Mr.. Cleveland is elected the peo-
pie will hear less Of it. 1t is a great chance
for the people.
Alongside Of these two candidates are
two more, nearer bone. One is the Hon.
Jacob Yost, whose only interference in the
tariff discussion this summer, besides vo-
ting steadily with his party to retain the
present High Tariff tax, was two motions
to have the people pay get more taxes
increase of the tax on tin and the reten-
ton Of the tax on clay pipes, both of
which the Democrats made free in the
Mills Bill. The other is Fl. st. Geo. Tucker,
who advocates the Mills Bill which redu-
ces the taxation of the American people
Seventy Millions of Dollars annually. If
Yost is elected, the Bell.punch will deafen
the people. If Tucker is elected, the peo-
pie will hear less of it. 1t is great chance