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

were here under low tariff, which are rot
here under high tariff. And there is but
one here under high tariff-a bark eX-
tract factory which was not here under
a low tariff. How does that strike
farmer as to which system most men are
employed under. and which system gives
the best home market? Actual sight and
experience which are better even than
History, prove that High Tariff has
swept off the infant industries which were
giving home markets all over the country.
Where have these industries gone Why
are they not here to-day If High Tariff
builds up factories through the land :?
We have nearly twice as large popula-
tion here as during the ten years mention
ed; our farmers want the home market
Just as much as they wanted it then; why
doesn't High Tariff give it to us?
The Farmer wants more manufacture
ing establishments to correct this state of
things and to make home market for
farm products. He is right, and we will
show him how to get them. Twenty-six
years is long enough to throw away money
on high tax to bring about home mark
ct it doesn't bring about, when you can
start right in with a low tariff and have
manufacturing establishments. The first
thing to bring them about is to make it
cheap and easy-giye the workingman
with little capital a chance to start.
Here is what he could do under the Mills
Bill. First, he wants his building, small
or large. Does he want it of brick; the
Mills Bill makes brick free. Does he want
it of wood; the Mills Bill makes lumber
free. Does he want it of stone; the Mills
Bill makes stone free. Does he want a
tin roof it; the Mills B Ill makes tin plate
free. Does he want to single it; the Mills
bill makes shingles free. Does he want to
lath and plaster it; the Mills Bill makes
laths free. There is his building up, and
not one cent of government tax on any
of these things he has used in putting 1t
up. Now what trade does he want to
follow?
Does he want to make plows? The
Mills Bill gives him 40 per cent. protec.
ton against foreign manufacturers.
Does he want to make hats? The Mills
Bill gives him free wool, and gives him
| 80 per cent. protection against foreign
manufacturers.
Does he want to make furniture? The
Mills Bill gives him free woods; and 80 e.
cent. protection against foreign manufac-
turers.
Does he want to make wooden cloth?
The Mills Bill gives him free wool, and
40 per cent protection against foreign
manufacturers.
Does he want to make carriages The
Mills bill gives him free lumber and 30
per cent. protection.
Does he want to run an iron foundry
and machine shop? The Mills bill gives
him 40 per cent. protection.
Does he want to have paper mill? The
Mills bill gives him from IL to 25 per cent.
protection.
Does he want to have brush factory?
The Mills bill gives him free bristles and
20 per cent protection on the brushes be
makes out of them.
Does he want to have rope-walB? The
Mills bill gives him free hemp and free
MANILA, and Is per cent. protection
against foreign manufacturers.
Does he want to make carpets? The
Mills bill gives him free wool and 40 per
| cent. protection against foreign manu-
facturers.
Does he want pottery? The Mills
bill gives him free clay, and so per cent.
protection against foreign made pottery.
| Does he want to have candy factory?
The Mills bill takes 20 per cent. tax off of
the sugar and gives him cents pound
protection.
Does he want to make tin-ware2 The
Mills bill gives him free tin plate and 40
per cent. protection on the tin-ware he
makes.
Does he want to make cloth? The Mills
bill gives him free wool and 40 per cent.
protection on what he makes.
And so on all down the list. There
never was bill more specially calculated
to start up new Industries and create
busy shops and thriving home markets.
1t takes government tax off the things
required to start in manufacture; takes
the government tax off many raw materi-
ais the man has to buy, and then gives him
good protection on all he manufactures.
Could any bill do better? Can political
economy devise any more effective plan for
starting new, and reviving old industries
than by making the plant cheap and CIV
ing protection to the output. Every
workman at every trade recognises that to
be the way.
We trust our farmer friend will contin-
ue to use the columns of the Valley Vir-
gilman in discussing the Tariff. There is
nothing like discussion to bring out the
full iniquities of the present High Tariff
Tax. Especially do we hope that he will
put at our stubborn contemporary again
that admirable parable-with which he
opened his last-of the husbandman who
went forth to SOW seed, but found when
he came to sell his crop that he had to sell
in competition with the pauper Amalekites
of India, while the Pharisee Manufactur-
ers of his own country, walked around
with broad phylacteries on which was writ
ten Protection to American Labor ~
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