Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-19
THE WAY THEY TAKE THEIR
GROW

When the Republican party started out
to make their campaign on the Chicago
platform and the present High Tariff with
a promise of free whskeY rather than the,
reduction Of Tariff taxation, they showed
neither an appreciation of the feeling now
anlmatlng the American people, nor the
slightest understanding of the formidable
revolution they were opposing. Their
reliance ON the forlorn chance of deceiv-
ing the people by bowling free trade"
at the Mills Bill, was soon shown to be a
broken reed. The VINDICATok then
pointed out to them their folly and
prophesied to them the outcome of their
blind efforts. 1t told them that since the
days of the French Revolution no demand
of an angry and overtaxed people had been
silenced by an empty cry. nor their atten-
ton diverted from what they wanted, to
false issue. By the time the Mills Bill
reached the Republican Senate the angry
roar of the tax.burdened American people
had gotten too loud for that body to affect
not to hear it. So it determined to get up a
(bogus) Tariff bill. and ostensibly aban-
don the foolish stand taken in the Chicago
platform. We foretold how the party
! would attempt to change front in the
presence of the enemy:
[From the VINDICAToR August II tn
This will be astounding news to the never
say-die High Tariff Taxation Republican
journals. including our nelghbor of the Vjr-
ginian and they will at once commence adj
justing their napkins to take dish of crow.
Their tunes will be changed. They will now
adopt the line that any change in this Tariff
ought to be entrusted to the Republican
party, the authors of it. just as the Republi-
cans of Virginia claimed that the enforcement
of the Riddleberger Bill ought to be left to
them, and then all went back on the measures
!, to enforce it, and enlisted with Royal and
the creditors. They will run their argument
! on the new bill something after this style
ten per cent. reduction by the Republican bill
is to protect the great American industries
and fill the land with busy workshops and
crowded home markets, while reduction of
British free trade. and "bungling" that will
result in the destruction of American labor,
and the starvation of the laborer. 1t is with
such sauce they will seek to make their crow
palatable.
Nothing could have been more correctly
foretold. The Republicans and their
press have taken that exact tack. Here
is our neighbours way out of it
[From the Valley Virginlan of October 18th
1t 1.-THE Senate Tariff Bill presents strik-
ing contrast to the Mills bill. The two are
predicated upon different ideas, and conse-
quently must radically differ in the policy in
volved in arranging the schedules. The Mills
bill is based upon the idea of eventual free
trade. The Senate bill is based on the idea
of protecting American labor and produc-
ton, and only admitting such articles free as
we cannot produce ourselves. On these lines
the two measures are framed, and upon them
they are submitted to the judgment of the
people"
Our contemporary thus points out one of
the virtues of the bill!
The Republican tariff bill means cheaper
sugar and cheaper rice for the table, and
would prove practical benefit to the people,"
This is the first course of boiled crow
which our esteemed Republican cotempo-
rary has fortified its stomach to eat. The
Hon. Jacob Yost also, will now appear on
the various hustings of the Tenth district
with leg or wing Of that bird in his
hand. The dish is eaten by the direct
command of the Master of Ceremonies OF
the Republican U. s. Senate. The echo
of applause which was elected by the i'm
FASHIONED exclamation OF Mr.. Y est, II
don't want things cheap, had hardly died
out of the Skating Rink roof, before lie
appears as an advocate of cheaper rice and
i cheaper sugar. Up to last week he has
been advocating the Chicago platform
which solemnly pledged him and the rest
of the party to ''such revision of the
tariff laws as will tend to check the im-
ports Of such articles as are produced By
our people; the production Of our oWn labor.n
And this week bis paper is boasting that
we are to have cheaper sugar and cheap
the Republican party has any theory, any
economic views, any, obligations regarding
the tariff about which it entertains a
sincere and serious purpose except one--to
protect and increase the profits of the great
Manufacturers of the land. The rights of
the tillers of the soil seem to have COM
petely disappeared from the view of the
Republican party. In making their new
tariff bill they increased rather than di-
minished the protection given to manu-
facturers, land looking around for subject
on which to reduce the protection they
would not reduce on manufacturers, they
saw the tillers of the soil engaged in rails
ing rice and sugar and promptly sacrificed
them. They are not ''our people, as spec
flied in the Chicago platform, nor is their
labor our own labor" The only truly
American laborer to the eye of the Re-
publican party Is the man who works for
Mr.. Carnegie. The man who holds the
plow or handles the shovel and the hoe, is
not an American laborer to be protected,
but nondescript co be taxed for the ben
eft OF Mr.. Carnegie and his compatriots.
Ii ever there was time in the politics of
the United States when the Farm want
| cd friend to stand by 1t, that time is
now. The pillow line now seems to be the
distinguishing badge for taxation, and the
tax gatherer's beaten track is from the
pillow furrow to the iron safe of the man
who keeps the mill.
II the whole Republican programme on
the Tariff question this campaign wasn't
H.,
inquire of Mr.. Yost and the Valley Vir-
Qinaon how they can reconcile their sup
port of the Chicago platform with their