Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-12

all special taxes upon manufacturers of and
dealers in sail articles and all taxes upon
wholesale and retail dealers in leaf tobacco,
be and are hereby repealed"
Every Republican member from Vir-
voted ag1inst that bill. His excuse is that
it contained other reductions that he did
not favor. What were those other reduc-
tions in that bill? They were reduction
of $12 600 900 on sugar, a reduction of 81
100000 on molasses, reduction of Al per
cent. on the farmers tariff taxes, and it
admitted lumber, wool and tin plate abso-
lutely free. These are the reductions Mr.
Yost voted against, How will the tobac-
co farmers of Fluvanna. Appomattox,
Buckingham. Cumberland and Amherst,
receive Mr.. Yost' 3 explanation, and how
will 1t please the wheat growers of the
other counties of the 10Th district
1t 1.-THE pres mt tariff means America for
Americans in the Lroadest and most practical
sense, and the upbuilding of our country by
the united efforts and labor of our own people,
common object. We have our own wool, our
own timber, our own iron and steel ores, out
of which to make tin-plate, our own hemp,
our own vegetables, our own salt, why not SO
legislate as to use them, instead of inviting
such products to come in free of duty, to
destroy the value of what we have ?-Vazzey
Virqinj0n-
We Can understand the anxiety with
which our neighbor could pen such par
agraph as that and the furtiye apprehen-
sion that somebody or other had the sta
tlstics in his pocket to offset it, and show
how frail and short-Iived it necessarily is
as an argument.
The first constituent element for the
"upbuilding of our country" mentioned,
is America for Americans" as far as
labor is concerted. 1t is advocating the
election to the Presidency of Benz. HarIi-
son, who, on the 9Th of March, 1882, in
the U. s. Senate, voted to admit Chinese
mechanics. He repeated that vote several
times. 1t is also advocating the success
of party which in 1868 passed a law adj
hitting foreign contract labor from
abroad, and which was so much in love
with America for Americana that it
kept the law on the statute books for
twenty years. until it was repealed by the
Democratic House Of Representatives.
The next IS ''our own salt" On the 5th
of April, 1880, Hon. Levi P. Morton,
whom it is advocating for Vice President,
then member Of the House Of Represen-
tatives, introduced bill to admit salt
free.
The next is lumber. The favorite of our
neighbor for the Presidential nomination,
and the gentleman who IS at present hold
ing up the Republican party by the tail Mr..
James e. Blaine. had this to say in the
House of Representatives. in 1868, in favor
of free lumber:
Nov, as to the subject of lumber, I again
remind the House that there has never been
tax on this article The gentleman from
Ohio may talk of this question as he pleases;
but say that wherever the Western frontiers
man undertakes to make for himself home;
to till the soil, to carry on the business of
life. he needs lumber for his cabin, he needs |
lumber for his fence, he needs lumber for his
wagon or cart, he needs lumber for his pillow,
he needs lumber for almost every purpose in
his daily life."
AS for iron and steel, our neighbor knows
as we'll as we do, that they are just as eff
teutaUety protected against foreign competition
in the Mills bill las they are in the present
High Tariff bill. though we we are glad
to say the margin for MIR. Carnegie 8 pri- !
vate pockets is not SO large.
It is rarely that the Democratic party
has anything to thank our esteemed CO.
temporary, the Valley Virginian for, and
therefore we promptly reproduce this
frank acknowledgment in its recent issue,
Of the practical and financial benefit Cleve-
lands administration has been to the
South:
The total investments in manufactures of
the States above named the Southern States
were in 1880, 1921, 1922, 1913, and on June 80,
1888, they had reached $685., O1s, 656, an in
crease in eight years and half of 1916 per
cent. The greater part Of this increase has
been made a0it7ain the past thirty months.
President Cleveland's administration .
commenced on the 4th of March, 1855, and |
is forty-two months old. And in thirty of
that f0rty-tWo months more wealth had
been added to the South than in the
eight years cited That is speaking
we'll for g Democratic Admins
tration and should incite the people of the
South to renewed efforts to continue that
administration in power another four
years. No man who has kept Informed Of |
the great boom of prosperity at the South,
can fail to feel and see the difference be-
tween National administration and a
sectional one. Every man at the South can
appreciate the new feeling that has come
to the Southern section of the country
with a Democratic ADMINISTRATIONS feel
ing of equality, new and deeper interest
in the American Union, new and deeper
pride in the glory of our country and pride
of American citizenship. Our people |
know well the difference between Presi- |
dent who governs the country as Repub-
lican, and one who governs it as an Amer
lean, and they want no more sectional |
Presidents, no more war-memory Presi- |
dents. They never want to see the evil !
days return when the representatives of
this country abroad are there as sentinels |
to warn off capital and immigration from
a turbulent bloody shotgun vote
suppressipg' South No more American
representatives abroad who shall speak of !,
one section of their country as conquered
country, and say what 1--WE" will do
with it in certain cases. With Cleve-
land came the first American, N ational, |