Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-01-27

The Staunton VINDIcAToR shows that dur
ing the last year 1886, 29s, 900 were invested
in manufactures in the fourteen Southern
States. while in 1886 only $129, 226, 600 were
So invested. The V1NDIoAToR then asserts
that these figures, showing the increased in
yestment in manufactures, are "fatal to Re
publican hopes of success" If these figures
argue anything, and we think they do, they
argue that the present protective tariff is fast
building up the South, and that it would be
worse than madness to give up protection
'Ha,fson5atry Spirit Of tile Valley, (Rep.)
To the discredit Of the Republican par
ty be it said. a protective tariff under its
administration totally failed to build up
the South. If the "bullding up of the
South is due to the present protective
tariff, VIII at became of the influence of
that tariff over the South for from 1867 to
1884 Why didn't protective tariff make
the South boom and prosper IN these sew
enteen years as it has done since? The
same tariff was in effect then that is IN
effect now-with the exception of slight
SuaDSC. ltiC piCpOAdOO lOtiolon WO Ill
call it, in 1888 called the Morrill, tariff =
the same people were in the South,
the same iron, coal and lumber were
there-whv didn't the protective tariff
build it up? Why was it that until 1884 3
no gigantic investments were made in
the South under the protective tariff that
could build it up 50 fast?
Wen tell our contemporary. No tariff
that can be invented by the ingenuity of
man can overcome the blight cast upon
the South by the Republican party; now
continued to be cast on it by that party.
and which will be an issue made by that
party IN its Presidential campaign this year.
No high tariff, no low tariff, no revenue
| reform, no free trade. no economic meas
sure of any kind, however beneficial in it
| self, can help the South when it is admi-
| nistered under the domination of the Re
publican party. No measure in the power
of the National Congress can aid the
| South while the National Administration
| is hostile to it. and advertising it to the
| world as dlsloyal section, a section only
| awaiting another opportunity to oppose
| che national government, section in
| which those who pu, their capital must
| take the chances of Violence. OF emeutes
, among races, of fraud at the ballot. b *.
and finally of another rebellion. The
| South was SO advertised and it lay
dead, stagnant, lifeless, as far as capital
from abroad was concerned until the hos
tile Republican party and Administration
were dethroned.
1t is useless to talk tariff-high, low, re-
form, or any otter kind to the people of
the South with reference to the coming
Presidential election. They know that no
tariff that can be invented is to them
equal to the millions of dollars of capital
now being invt ste among them every year.
They know that these millions are to them
bird-in- the hand worth more than all
1.-the bushes of the world. Those millions
came to them only with Democratic ad-
ministration. and they want another such
and more millions. The millions that the
North got came through the Republican
party-its war profits, its pensions, its ma
tienal ship building, its great contracts,
its granted railroad laEds-all went to the
North. But the millions that have come
to the South and which came from none
of those things, are millions put into
development of wealth, trade, manufac-
lures, and the South intends to stand by
the party whose success brought them that
wealth and whose continuance in power is
adding to it at the rate of over Hundred
Millions year.
Fast building up the South !" Why
free trade or the cholera wouldn't do the
South one-tenth as much harm as another
four years CT Republican rule at Washing
ton.