Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21

The charge OF the index Appear
and the reputation of same, in ar
ticle given below will be read with
interest by large class OF our
readers. The answer of the Ledg
er is so complete, that our farmers
Will readily see, what false doc
trines their Republican friends
have sought to inslil in their minds.
Our contemporary In mastery
way diSposes Of the flimsy prete1t
hy which the Republicans seek to
convince the potato growers that
protection is necessary to secure
them fair return for their crops.
No reduction in the tariff being
contemplated. if we are advised
correctly under the provision OF
the Mills bill OH articles cited be
low. imported in this conntry,it &C.
ours tons that asimple Statement0 or
that fact was only necessary to ex-
pose the faIlacy of the charge made
by the lndex.Appeal, except to show
as the Ledger has so clearly done,
that even if,the premises taken by
the Index-Appeal were correct,
then in that event the truckers il
Virginia would not be injured
The charge of the Index-Appeal is
only another effort to mislead the
peop'e and to induce them to be-
lieve tina; the tariff reforms adyoca-
ted by the Democratic party means
triumph of free trade, a thing
hardly thought Of by the most viz
ionary dreamer i'll its ranks.
The great trucking interests in
Eastern virginia-the immense
and profitable business now exist
ing there in vegetables, frnits, oys.
tiers, fish, game, &c.-will cease to
be, or will survive without profits.
if the policy Of Mills bill triumph.
The free competition of the Ber-
midas, the Bahamas. the West
Indies. &C., would soon play havoc
III all, the things emu.
merated. Petersburg Index.Ap-
peal.
Oar Petersburg contemporary is
certainly mistaken in the above
The trucking interest of this sec
tion does not ask legislation OF
protective clIaraci er. as it has moth
ing TO fear from competition with
the Bermrdas, the Bahamas, or
the West Indies. Indeed, the ex
perience Of our truck farmers with
the tariff is that it fakes money out
oftheir pocket, for there is a duty
on all the imported seed which they
use. To show that our neighbor is
mistaken we have merely torecte
facts which are well known to our
truckers. The Bermuda markets
send forward their supplies OF
vegetables and fruits many weeks
before the crops Of Eastern Virginia
have matured, and while the pro-
ducts of those islands may posi-
bly, compete with Florida truck in
the Northern markets, they form
no obstacle whatever to trucking
operations in this vicinity. The
protection which orr truckers en-.
joy is not that furnished by tariff
laws, bnt by advantage Of location.
The competition which they really
feel is that which has been bnilt
up by the fast freight lines which
run between Savannah, Charleston,
Wilmington and Newberne and
the Northern markets, for by e1-
tending the seasons in those neigh
borhoods portion Of the cream
jsremoved from the business. So
far as they are concerned, they do
not ask governmental protection
for anything that they produce
The portion Of the country which
receives benefit from the tariff on !.
vegetables is considerably north Of
this latitude, and the fact that
Denmark and Germany furnish our
market with potion of its winter
supply of cabbage, and that Scot
land, Ireland and parts of Canada
furnish lli>b potatoes to this sec .
ton, shows WHO is benefited by I
tile tariff tax on those articles as
well as who has to pay for such pro.
tection.-Norfolk Ledger.