Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-26

there were two tanneries. Now there is none,
There were six blacksmith shops. Now there
is but but one regular one. There were two
wagonmaker shops. Now there are none.
There were four or five shoemaker shops.
None now. Where are they all gone? Why
are not these things existing and fourishing
as they ought to do if protection is what its
friends claim it to be? Why? Why? Sound
it abroad, and the wild winds will watt back
the sound of your voice, 'Why?'"
And in Stanton and Augusta the High
Tariff tax has left US in the same fix.
Who ever sees yard of Staunton woven
wooden cloth nowp Who ever sees sill
verware made ID Stanton. or a spoon
bearing the Staunton makers name? Who
ever sees stove cast in Staunton5 Or a
saddle tree, or a last. Or wheat fan that
is Stanton made? Our neighbor puts in
this plea
'If we have not larger and more important
industrial plants, it can not be charged to the
influence of "high tariff" Other sections
of the country have prospered in most un-
precedented manner, under protective tar
iff"
All, but that hasn't been your argument
This Tariff spreads over the whole coun-
try; it was the fact and existence Of this
tariff that you held spread the home in
dustrles and the home market everywhere.
The people of Augusta and Rockbridge
don't call Philadelphia manufactures
"home INDUSTRIES or Philadelphia their
"honae market" These are things the
Stanton workingmen who want ''home
industries" and the Augusta farmers who
want home market, would like tn have
explained. 1t is this information our
neighbor must give the mechanics and
other workingmen of Stanton if it has it.
1t has made statements about the effect
Of the present war tariff which are not
supported by the past history Of Staun-
ton Industries compared with the present.
We have given our mechanics and other
source we could fnd-a gentleman whose
memory is of rare excellence. and who was
skilled mechanic in the days of which
we write. If our workmen intend to cast
their votes for their own prosperity, the
chance to bring these and other industries
back by a reduction of the tariff is an i'm
portant one. 1t is idle to ridicule small
industries. They are TIE life of a town;
it is from the small Industries that great
ones grow. The greatest industries OF
this land have grown from the day IS labor
of one man, with nothing but his work
mans tools as capital, and a little shed to
work in. The great Talbot Machine
Works at Richmond, the Rahm En-
the same city, had their beginning in one
man, and poor man at that, but perse-
vering, Industrious workman. The great
machine works in the United States were
patched in the blacksmith shop of a single
workman. There is not a workman in
Stanton to-day who does not daily wish
there were more industries however small,
and who would not be thankful if those of
other days were only here again.
A minutes reflection ought to carry the con-
viction to every intelligent man that there is
no probability of the Democratic party being
successful in November next The simple fact
that the paramount issue is between America
and Europe-between the United States and
England, as much so as when CORVALLIS sui
rendered to Washington, and jackson taug
Packenham a lesson from behind cotton
breast-works-t wage-earners and industries
of our own country and the wage-earners and
industries of foreign Countries ought to deter
mine tie matter. The idea of opening our
markets to the products of foreign pauper
labor, and pressing our own people down to
the level of the impoverished labor of Europe.
is thing that the American people will not
do. The leaders of the Democratic party are
not the people, and they cannot control the
people. Each laborer has a vote that when
east and honestly counted is as powerful as
the votes OF. the bosses and managers, and
when it affects the meat and bread of4he man
who owns it, it will be very apt TO be deposited
to do the most good to the man who puts it in
the ballot box Valley Virginian.
The people will accept this illustration
and think over it. 1t is the same issue
that was between the United States and
England. l. is for freedom. 1t is for the
emancipation of the people of this country
from tbraidom to the concentrated wealth
of the millionaire protected manufacture
ers, accumulated under Tariff law as op-
pressive and as unjust as was ever the
English la US that brought on the Boston
harbor tea destruction.
1t Is revolution, a rebe lion Of the
wolkinguen of the land agai nst system
that throws open the ports to the pauper
labor of Europe to compete with American
labor, and yet taxes the American work
iDgman to enr ich the very millionaire
manufacturer who brings in this pauper
labor and cuts down his own wages. Fac b
American lab0rer has a vote as bower fui
as the vote of the Millionaire Manufec-
turer who perpetrates this wrong, and he
will deposit it where it will do the most
good for himself. He will deposit it against
the supporters Of Tariff law that throws
upon our ports to the pauper laborer to
compete with him, and yet won't throw
open our ports to the wool that clothes his
back, the lumber that builds his house,
aad the tin that puts roof over his head
1t ought to be called the Pauper
Laborer and American Millionaire Manu-
facturer Tariff, for those are the only two
classes it represents. 1t is making the
workingman of this country open. and pay
for keeping open, a home of refuge and
a school for the pauper labor of Europe to
come to, and live and learn trades at his
expense. And in order to do t,this High
Tariff taxes the American workman's coat,
his kuife and fork, his children's school
hnnks his Hifa,a dress to tha very highest