Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-30
Rev. DR.. j. w. Lafferty on the Rob-
berry of a High Tariff Tax.


From the Richmond Christian Advocate
Not hundred years ago the great naval
nations paid yearly tribute to the corsairs
| of the Mediterranean. This Government
soon saw the disgrace of submitting to this
! levy by the sea robbers. 1t sent fleet and
| logged into honesty these Algerine pirates.
| The buccaneers are at our doors.
| The citizens of this country, especially
of the Southern section, are the victims OF
| as severe eXtortion by organized and power
full bands as ever stripped industry OF its
| just rewards OF property of it's rightful
ownership. If the Canadians should make
an annual expedition across the ST. Law
renee and a predatory raid to every Ameri-
can home, returning to the Dominion with
thirty millions of dollars forced from our
unfortunate people, what an uproar from
Bar Harbor, in Maine, to the Rio Grande !!
What muster of men for pursuit and re-
priSal!
A few fine gentlemen, who clarity sugar,
last year united in a piratical scheme
called 'sTruSt," and took from the purses
of the people thirty millions Of dollars.
They made large profits before they enlis-
ted in this bandit enterprise. The purloin..
ing of this thirty million was over and
above large and legitimate gains as ref,
ners. 1t IS grand larceny. The poor and
rich are tieeced alike. Every man IS rob
bed
In a savage OF semi-civiliZed age these
spoils could not be carried off without a
battle. Abraham overlook and put to the
sword just such gang. :,
In this free and enlightened country, -
where the eagle screams, this conspiracy
of scoundrels is mildly designated a
Trust andi '.the best government the
world ever saw invites, assists and APP
plauds the villainy. In the vilest commu-
nities-Spanish, Greek and Turkish towns
the police pilot foot pads to the houses
picked out for pillage and divide the booty.
Our Government directly lends its aid to
the Sugar Trust, and turns the screw that
"squeezes' Gin the polite and euphemistic
phrase the citizens it ought to protect, til
the avarice of these marauders is glutted.
Thirty millions each year!
And what does the man at the plOW-
handle get? Eighty cents bushel for his
wheat, after drudging year.
Turkey is set down as the worst govern
ment in Europe, becauge it confiscates by
taxes the harvest of the miserable serfs
called farmers The United States plumb
ers this class, and then leaves them hand
cuffed for the "TrustS' to empty what is
left in the thin and ravished wallet.
We have mentioned only the Sugar Trust.
The name of these devOurerS is legion.
They are as various and voracOuS as the
pests of the Prophet Joel: ''That which
the palmer worm hath left, hath the locust
eaten; that which the locust hath left, hath
the canker worm eaten; and that which the
canker worm hath left, hath the caterpil-
lar eaten"
The South has no trusts nor pensioners.
1t is drained without a rill returning to re-
fresh the parched land The leecheS suck
this section, but the veins are fed by no
rich food.
The war brought about a revolution in
America We live no longer under the
Republic of Washington, Jefferson and
Jackson. An oligarchy rules the land.
Less than six thousand men control the
puts half of his tax into the National
Treasury and the other half into the peck
cts of the favored few" Athens had her
thirty tyrants; America bends the neck to
the yoke of her thousand despots.