Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-06
in RESPONSE ,rspared the Mills bin. which

in response prepared the Mills Bill, which
is not in accord with the suggestions but
is in accord with the Democracy of the
entire country, and we shall support that
And if Tucker, Anderson, Berry, Cole
man, Fitzpatrick. or any other good Dem
ocrat who may be nominated in August
from this district. stands on that bill too,
then the VINDICATOR will cheerfully sup
port him and so will the people of the
Tenth District. The world is moving, and
the time has gone by when politicians who
have no connection with mining, IRON
making, farming, numbering. or any other
practical industry can frame economic
theories and demand that miners, farmers,
manufacturers. and the rest shall accept
them as best for their business, because
they are enunciated by their own party.
The time has gone by when the Republic
can system of protection having become a
monopolistic blight, practical interests
can be rallied to it because it comes from a
Protection party-the day is no longer
here when War Tariff can masquerade
as Protection of Home Industry. 1--WE
don't want the Republican High Tariff
it binders more than it helps our bust
ness" says Mr.. Lowe of Low Moor. You
don't know what you want,you ungrateful
iron-monger," says the Virgimidn;; "or you
wouldn't go and desert me while l am
crying Protection and Ruin and General
Desola ton to Industrial interests ?''
'But you'll ruin the Industrial Interests, "
urges Mr.. Lowe. what of that if we
elect Harrison-what are Industrial In
terests to Free Ballot and Fair Count
and a Republican President ?'' replies our
contemporary.
1t is enough to say that the Chinese ques-
ton is not a liye issue. The policy of the
Government in relation to Chinese emigra-
ton is settled, both parties concurring in ex-
listing legislation. Not even on the Pacific
slope is the matter mooted. SO secure do they
feel there that the present treaty stlpulations
will never be modified to change the policy OF
the government Valley Vayiaaian.
Our contemporary is, we fear, taking an
illusory comfort to its heart if it thinks
the Chinese record of Gen. Harrison is OF
"mooted' on the Pacific coast. Senator
Ingalls, before his nomination said his re.
cord would be awkward" on the Chinese
question. Senator Dolph, of Oregon
feebly pleads for the General that she has
probably changed his views" and M. H
De Young, editor of the leading RepublI-
can paper in San Francisco said before his
nomination:
"If Harrison were nominated it would be
utterly impossible to elect him. Harrison
could not possibly carry the Pacific Coast,
nor would he be able to carry any of the
larger States where the labor element FREEDOM.
mated, because he lad voted against the Chi.
nese bill and the treaty and every phase of it.
and he had committed still greater crime in
voting to naturalize Cinnamon and give them
the right of suffrage"
The record of the Republican leaders in
the Senate. including Gen. Malone, in
1882 is not yet forgotten by the Pacific
coast. nor by. the workingmen of the
Union, who, recalling it will alsorecall the
fact that the Democratic Senators voted
solidly everything against Chinese immigra'
tion in any shape-the best guarantee that
the present treaty st1pulations negotiated
by Democratic administrator will be
safest in the hands of Democratic ad-
ministraticn. The Chinese rec rd of Gen
Harrison is not only "live ISSUE" On he
Pacific coast, but also with the Chinese
themselves. The Chinese Weekly Necs
of New York city, edited by Wong Chin
Foo, has not forgotten past fayors, and
comes to his rescue in this weeks issue in
this fashion:
''The Chinese Weekly Neps believes in
principle always. 1t dares to advocate it.
Therefore, it is heart and soul for Ben Harri-
son. He believes, as does the Weekly Neaos,
that this is a country not only intended for
the white and black sons of Ham, Shem and
Japhet, but also for the yellow sons Of Adam
as we'll Otherwise this would not be the
America we know Of"
We leave our hopeful Republican cotem.
porary to imagine how vigorously that
paragraph will be "mooted" on the Pacific
coast.