Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-24


cutlery. We have made an advance in our
prices, which viii be quoted you by Mr.. lay
lor on his next trip, orhy as Oh application.
Yours truly, AMERICAN SHEAR Co.
The Democrats have cont ended and
taught the people OF the country this lesson
in season and 0ut-that the tariff is tax;
that the heaviest part of that tax is laid on
the people by the American protected man
ufacturer; that the protected American
manufacturer in payment for this taxation
of the people in his interest. furnishes the
money to the Republican party at elections.
and that to continue these contributions
the Republican party is always willing to
levy this tax on the people, oreven increase
it at the demand of those manufacturers
as has been done in the case of the Mckln-
ley bill.
The Virginiase says that some OF the AZ
ticles the merchants have received the
prices of ''are on the free list" AS 1T does
not specify them-seeming to think that
denunciation of the importers and their
Democratic tools'' will answer without de-
scending into details-we cannot judge OF
it's accuracy. But we presume that our
contemporary is aware that if an article was
on the free list that would not prove that
the government had not laid tax on it.
On the contrary, the measure known as the
Administrative Bill, which Was passed by
this Congress in advance of the Mckinley
bill, put duty on all packages, coverings
and foreign charges which We're heretofore
on the free list. Of this Administrative
bill. a most ingenious invention of the tariff
tax mongers, Senator Allison, high Repub-
lican authority, expressed the opinion in
debate that it was equivalent to an addi-
ton of from to per cent. to the dutiable
list.
The best way for the Republican press,
in the awkward corner into which having
to sustain the high taxation of the McKin-
ley tariff tax puts them, is to follow the eX-
ample Of the leaders Of their party. They
soon dropped the denunciation of the "im-
porters and their Democratic tools" as au-
thors of fraudulent statements of increased
prices, finding it untenable, and fell back
on bold advocacy Of high taxation and as
bold denunciation of cheapness in any form.
Mr.. Cabot Lodge told a Massachusetts au-
dience the other night that "The cry for
cheapness is un-American; there is such a
thing as too much cheapness. Mr.. Nc
Kinley in his speech at Kalamazoo a few
days ago after exciting the laughter OF his
thoughtless hearers by this preface:
"Cheap. never liked the word. Cheap
and nasty go together" alluded contemp-
tuously to 1.-THE cheap times between 1850
and 1907 Of which Mr.. Blaine and MI.
Garfield thought so highly land came to this
remarkable conclusion "This whole sys-
TEN OF cheap things is badge of poverty,
for cheap merchandise means cheap men,
and cheap men mean cheap country, and
that is not the kind our fathers builded
applause and cheers.) Furthermore it is
not the kind their sons mean to maintain.
(Applause)." Bold John Wanamaker, the
Postmaster General Of President Harrison S
Cabinet, and proprietor of the great store
in Philadelphia, made no bones Of telling
bis customers that the prices would go up
on the passage of the Mckinley bill, and in
hundreds of advertisements urged them
to come and buy at the lower prices be-
fore the bill went into effect. With such
illustrious Republican eXemplars before it,
it is a waste OF time for our Republican
cctemporary to lie trying to quiet the unea
sy people with the contention that the adj
vance in prices is a trick 10y either ''the i'm
porters'' OIL ''their Democratic tools.'' 1t
had better fall in line with Mckinley and
denounce ''cheap merchandise" as a badge
Of poverty and not the kind the Republi-
can party means to maintain.