Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-05
gagged on protected Industries. hold that

plause), any more than you have to tax the
man that runs the machine for the benefit
of the man at the pillow. (greaJ applause }
Y gu had as we'll tell me that man can
get rich by picking his own pockets as to
tell ME that a nation cln get rich by tax
ing some of its citiz3ns for the benefit of
others, (great applause.) This taxation
is not for the benefit of the workman an.
The most desperate condition of the work.
1ngmen, the most strikes and lockouts
that have occurred have taken place In the
protected industries, (cries Of That's so y
Of the 1852 strikes in the country, 304
were in Pennsylvania, a highly protected
State. Your carpenters, painters, railroad
employees ard domestic labor are unpro-
tected, and are getting better wages than
in similar employments in France, Fog
land and Germany. England is called a
"free trade" country, and vet wages are
higher there than in protection Germany
and protection France. Wages go by local.
ity. A labofer in Chicago gets more for
the same labor than one of Mr.. Carnegies's
workmen does at Bradford, Pa. Mr.. Car
negie saves his money to ride Mr.. Blaine
around Scotland with, applause Since
1Sl6-since her corn laws were repealed
wages have increased In England from so
to 80 per cent. In this country from 1850
to 1860, under a low tariff, wages increas-
ed more than ever before.
AN AMERICAN INDUSTRY THAT WANTS
HELP-THE FARMER.
Then the Republicans tell you they will
give you home market. For a hundred
years they have been telling you of this
home market. Year by year the amount
of wheat you raise has increased, and yet
no home market for it.
MY farmer friend this matter of foreign
trade means much to you. In 1888, for
the fiscal year ending June 80, you sent
500. OO0, 900 worth of your products abroad
and sold them because you had a better
market for them there than you had as
home. You had no market, or not as
good a market, for them at home. 1t re-
quired 100000 American laboring men
to raise that $500 coo, 900 worth of pre-
ducts. This seven hundred millions worth
are not paid for in money, but in goods
exchanged. The Republicans tell you that
exchange must stop; that the 1900 900 men
who made this product must go out Of
employment or 60 into manufacturing
some protected industry, for in Republi-
can estimation they are not America
labor il not working in protected indus
tries.
These 100000 laborjng men of America
make 500, 600 900 OF products and send
them abroad. When their pay commences
to come back in the shape of goods, the Re-
publican tariff stops every dollars worth of
it at the custom house and taxes it AZ cents.
his labor in the open market of the world
in competition with the lowest paid class
of labor in the world, and the returns
from that result are taxed by the Govern
ment Al per cent, and the farmer taxed
on everything he uses. 1t seems to me
chat the American labor of the American
farm is something I ought to try and
help (applause)
The most alarming feature of the Re-
publican policy to the farmers of this
country, is that they say if high tariff
can't keep out imported goods they will
make the tariff prohibitory. That would
put an end to the market abroad for the
products of the farm. and throw the
farmer into glutted market at home.
If, with his foreign market to sell in, the
70 hoe Iou
for his wheat, what sort of price could be
expected if that market was cut off, and
he had only glutted market at home to
look to?
l can't ses how any farmer or farmers,
whether Republican OR Democrat, can
some one elses Lene6t. ask you to go to
the polls and cast your votes against 1t.
at the close of Mr.. Carlisle's speech,
Harry Tucker commenced. Having heard
he and Mr.. Yost. Saturday night, l did
not remain to take notes. But after it
closed, some Democrats came up to the
hotel where was lounging away the time,
in high state of delight at the way Harry
had used the anti-Mahone utter ances of
Mr.. Yost's paper against him. especially
the assertion that no self-respe citing Repub-
lican could ever consent to recognize Ma
hone as the head of the party again. The
fact that the convention which nominated
Mr.. Yost. met here and nominated him on
platform recognizing Malone as the
head of the party, puts him in one of those
hnlao hot in oxr,I1r ri
paigner. From the wild cheers 1 heard
from the court yard, I take it that the
crowd enjoyed the application of it, That
part of Mr.. fuckers efforts however,
which. think. will bear the largest fruit
in the way of votes, is the thorough study
he has given the Mills Bill; the clearness
with which he shows its application as a
remedy to the evils. both to farmers and
mechanics, of the present high tariff; and
his quickness in meeting the points raised
by Mr.. Y ost, who is an opponent wise
adversary would be far from despising.
And here word of warning to future
canvassers. II any Republican or Demo-
cratic speaker thinks that because be was
successful in former canvasses lie will be in
this, he is likely to be trlpped up. The
man must klaoto som e.hing who attempts
to instruct the people this campaign. and
the old ranting. ear-splitting, skinning,
joke-telling party orator of REIMBURSEMENT
days or later, will find himself out of place
if he has learned nothing since then.
H. G. T.
A Great Actress, Tonight.
1t is very co mon thing to speak of
an actress as great, and yet there are very