Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-10
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 10. 1890.
WHO IS TO SUFFER- FOR THE
McKINLEY BILL


When MI. Blaine said of the Mckinley
bill that SIT doesn't open market for
another bushel of American wheat OF an
other barrel of American pork he ought
also to have added that it not only did
not do that, but 1t closed those the wheat
and pork already had The following cable
kilograms of last Saturday are significant !:
LONDON, Oct. A Vienna dispatch says
that Germany and Austria have come to a
substantial agreement to discriminate against
the imports from the United States, and that
italy as the third member of the triple alli-
ance will probably join i'll the movement
LONDON, Oct. 4.-COlOnel Vincent, the noted
advance agent Of Protection for British indus
tries, has been interviewed in relation to the
McKinley,bilI. He says, in substance, that
Great Britain cannot longer afford to throw
her markets open to countries which place an
embargo on English productions, and that he
will urge the question of fair trade with
renewed energy in the coming session OF
Parliament.
Now who is going to suffer for this dis
examination against imports from the
United States?
What are those imports?
They are wheat, corn, beef and pork
And who raises them in the United
States
The farmers of the United States!
1t is the farmers of the United States
who are to pay the penalty of the Republi-
can Tariff bill, by having European ports
to which their products are shipped, closed
against them by a prohibitory tariff For
two can play at this prohibitory game. If
the United States announces to the civilized
world prohibitory tariff, the civilized
world will reply in the same way. 1t is
already fixing the terms in which it will
make that reply.
Now who pays the penalty of this Who
falls between the European upper stone and
the United States Republican neither stone
and is ground to pieces? Not the manufac-
turer! The very ground-door premise of
manufacturer cannot compete, even in this
country, with European manufactures,
though they are brought across an ocean
two thousand miles. So of course it can t
be the imports - to Europe by American
manufacturers that are to be Disseminated
against. No! it is what Europe buys from
America-bread and meat-the products
of American farms that are to be dds
eliminated" against and shut out. 1t is
the American farmer who is to be ground
between the upper and the neither mill
tone. And while he is being ground to
pio0o' w. Republican press wilt sing into
his ear the glorle0 e the sshome market
AT last the American faIn-ar has tbe Re.
publican idea of an iron-bounu, h,.cc
hoped "home MARKET before him. For.
eign countries are closed to him. His
bushel of wheat and barrel of pork must
find market-if any is to be found at all
in his own taX-girdled country. The pro
tected manufacturer having him coopei
up securely, gives what prices he likes fol
his products, and in the surely coming
time of production, will giveh that
last and final nothing. Closed fac
tories, emptied of workmen, waiting to sci
off the over-pro lrctiol lefore stat ting u
again will ring the bell for ''home market
lockout against the farmers wheat and
pork. No work in the factory, no wages
in the workman's pockets; no wages in
pocket, no money to buy the farmers pro
duets.
But there is one industry that will keep
up! The Farmers taxes! They will KEEP
mp steadily, and there is one thing more
that will never fail-a crop that can be de-
pended on in the worst of seasons-as Col.
I'll. j. Williams said at the Fair last week.
addressing the Alliance men. That crop is
the crop of mortgages.
Verify the Mckinley bill has opened up a
desolate vista to the eyes of the tillers of
the SOIL