The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-09-20
To Repeal the Tobacco Tax.

| Committee of the Senate have not re-
ported a tariff BILL They seem to forget
that the House Committee of WAYS and
Means were incubating the Mills Bill for
eight mouths. and that no opportunity was
| given the representatives of the various
Industries of The country to make known
their waDts The Sugar Trust was con
suited because the President OF il is a
Democrat and a liberal contributor 10
Democratic needs. Mr. Vest had tainted
tne Republicans with their delay in per
fecting The Senate tariff bill. On Thursday
last Mi. Sherman took up his challenge
and declared that the Committee on FL
nance would report a ''Republcan tariff !
bill designed to protect and foster American !
industries and against the free.trade Mills |
talltf which was intended to and did weak |
Ell many Of The industries Of the country" ,
He further stated that The bill to be re. !.
ported by the finance committee would be /
IL carei I'll revision of The tariff laws. it /
would give to the men engaged i'll the arts |
| the use of alcohol untaXed and would I
sweep away the tobacco tax, giving that
great agricultural project fair and free !
play in this country, but the commalte !
would take lis time about it. II the House
of Representatives wished TO proluug the
session until the tariff bill was reported ii |
would have to wait until the comml.tee
was ready to report.
! Mr.. Sherman protested that when the
democrats had taken months in the pre-
paration and passage of tariff bill it did
lot rest with them TO charge the repubii-
Cans with delay. He asserted that the
republicans would not be hurried in pre-
parlng IA bill; that they intend to take ali
the time they deem necessary for the fran
Ing OF a bill; they did not care how much |
time it might require, 1t might as well
be understood that this was the RepubIi |
Can tiat.
This means that the Irregularities of I
the tariff are TIC be carefully revised-le-
vised by the friends of American indus
tries and American labor, and that The
tobacco lax is to be entirely repealed, So
far as the Republicans are concerned. -
This will not suit the President, for he in
two formal and deliberate papers, has de |
clart d for The retention Of The whole inter
nal revenue tax, and III favor of reducing
The surplus by a mode that would destroy |
the Industries of the country, and operate
to the benefit OF foreign interests.
! How any ole, even Mr.. III. st. Geo |
Tucker, Can support the President for re-
election, and advocate a reduction OF the /
they have any regard for consistency Mt |
\ ost introduced q bill having for its Oh
jet the same purpose Mr.. Sherman has
announced will be formulated in the Sc.
ate tariff bill, and yet Mr.. Tucker says Mir.
Yost is opposed to lowering the tax OIL TO
bacco, because he vot ted against that legis
lative fraud and catch-penny deception, |
the ills bill. which is wholesale assault |
upon the labor and the manufactures OF
the United States.
The Peoples Demand for the Blair
BID.
Among the many letters recently re-
ceived by Hon. j. loss. commencing his
speech On the Blair Educational Bill. was
the following which gives some interest
ing statistics not heretofore published, IL |
| shows how near to the homes and the lives
of the mass of the people this great meas
ure comes and how they appreciate the
benefits its enactment would confer The
letter is us follows:
II a0e the children to- oy acc hepe saued the
| nation to-qnorroao
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION IN
| SCHOOLS AND oILEGEs OF THE NATIONAL
WoMAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION,
| MRS. MARY Ii HUNT, 81 PIT.
HYDE PARK, BosroN. MASS, Sept. l. 1883.
Hon. Jacob Yost. House Of Representatives., Fash.
i7lgton, d. q:
Dear SRI have just read with intense inter-
est, from the Record, your speech of ugust 81
on tn Blair Educational Bill in she Congress |
of the u. s., AMI congratulate yon and the
country your foroeiu putting of the whole
situation.
l am sure you will be glad to know that in |
your opening sentences referring to the petit |
tons'' sent in to Congress. You have not over
estimated the volume Of requests that have |
been pouring in to the Forty ninth and Fftietb |
congresses for the passage Of this measure. AS |
| National Superintendent of the Educational |
Department of he W G, I. u, have been in |
position to know exactly with regari to the |
petitions that have gone through this depart
ment to Congress.
1t was an under, rather than estimate |
to say, as did in my letter lasf year, which |
Mr.. Cook kindly read before the Boston Monday /
Lectureship, that 100000 people collectively |
rettioned the last session of the Forty ninth |
Cong e>s tor the passage of that measure, and
more than loo GOD citizens, most of them voters.
over then autograph signatures.
AS you have been personally familiar with |
much that has been done through this Depart |
meni for this cause i'll this Congress- Will only |
give you the figures that thereby you may |
know, and be able TO show how heartily the |
American people, whole, support this |
measure.
15a,o09 liens, from all parts of the country.
mostly voters, over their autograph signatures,
have petiloned this Congress for the passage |
OF the Rar Dili, with again more than 2000tG0 |
people collectively, through churches and So
cieties Thus. You see. these petitioners num-
Der hundreds OF thousands over their own sig
natures, and mi lions when numbered colec-
lively.
The result of this work of petition throughout
the country, in favor of the measure is simply |
| incalcuabe.
AS members of our orgoni Zaton in all parts |
of the land, have gone from house to house. ex-
| planning the situation, and gathering the names
| of sgners to the petition. the people them
| selves have not only been made familiar with |
the needs and the proposed remedy, but have |
| come to eaiZe to some extent the National
peril from this volume of illiteracy.
The sophstry with which its enemies have |
| tried to befog the people has also been to a |
great extent thus .et with the truth.
| VIII your speech be published in pamphlet |
| form If so. it Will be a most valuable docu-
| ment for us to send out to workers, stimu- |
Iatng them to Keep up the agitation until the !
| bill is finally passed.
May 1 enquire if in your opinion there is a
| ghost of a chance of the bill being considered |
! this session?
Again congratulatng You upon your able |
speech. Very truly, MARY H. HUNT.
| Why should they grumhle when the tariff tax |
only makes them pay 81 70 for dollar worth |
| of worst ed goods; 81. for dollars worth of
| axles; 81. 80 tor dollars worth of knives and |
| forks 81. 10 for dollars worth of oil cloth |
SLID for "a dollars worth of needless 81 50 for a
| dollars worth of screws; 81 81 for a dollars |
| or hat f,ra dol mo f