Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-11-01

nation twill attract to our State, tiIlers
of the soil both native and foreign born.''
Why should the Commissioner hope for
this? Vermont was the home of the
hardest and most thrifty race of farmers
that ever walked behind a plow in the
United States Why Should he hope that
if they failed to stand the drain Of High
Protective Tax, any other 'native OF for
eign born" settlers can stand it ? His hopes
are vain. Man S efforts cannot counterfeit
the drain of a vicious system of Federal
taxation, either in the old States of the
East OF the new States Of the West. Many
of the men who were listening to Mr.. Bur-
rows, Republican member Of Congress from
Michigan last month, had also listened at
Harrisonburg, in the Presidential campaign
last Fall, to the Hon. Edward P. Allen, an
other Republican Congressman from Mich1
igan, from the Ypsilanti district. Mr.. Allen,
in joint-discussion with w. G. p. Breckin-
ridge of Kentucky, on that occasion, Was
forced to admit that the farms Of Michi-
gan had on them Seventy-Five Millions
of Dollars of mortgages The agricultural
interest of that State, though compare
lively new State, is on the Vermont road
involved in debt, then mortgage, then aban-
donment and emigration to other States.
What can you expect in the end but that +?
What can you hope for the man who has to
sell his surplus Wheat in Europe for what
they will give him, and buy his raiment,
farm tools, and the very machinery with
which he raises that wheat at what the pro-
tected manufacturers choose to charge
get worse for the American farmer. Does
Mr.. Burrows know that six years ago
India, the cheap competitor Of the Ameri-
can farmer, did not export one bushel of
wheat, and that last year she exported Five
Millions of tons of it Does he see in this.
any prospect for betterment Of the eondi-
ton Of the American farmer? Is not the
present High Tariff a cruel wrong under
which that farmer is compelled to sell his
surplus wheat in Europe at India prices.
and take his pay in goods that are taxed at
the custom house until theprice makes him
sweat to pay. What justice is there in pro
hibiting farmer from buying cheap where
he has to sell cheap? The ''home market
of Vermont is what is given the American
farmer for his support Of protection, and he
has the questionable solace of knowing that
after having vainly tried to support not
only his own family, but also everybody
else's including the manufacturer S, he can
mortgage his farm as they do in MI Bur
rows State, and finally abandon it as they
do in Vermont. 1t must be an encouraging
sight to the farmer, as, seeking for new
home, he turns his face from the old home
stead from the top of which floats mort
gage, to pass through the busy ''home
market" which his taxes have built up, and
where among the iu-paid Workmen stands
the rotund and prosperous Highly Protected
Manufacturer, to bid him goodbye and
wish him God-speed On his journey!
If there is any one reason greater than
another which should induce the Virginia
farmer to vote against Malone, it is the
fact that he and those who support him
favor a system of Federal Tariff taxation.
by which all the rest of the country rides
on the back of the farmer.