The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-02
What It Means,

The London Std91da7d says: 1.-The
than it looks. 1t may diminish our
trade with America. but will aid us i'm
mensely to spread it in other quarters
A number of English merchants and
with dread to the time when America
would enter the markets of the world to
compete with us ON the free trade basis.
Their alarm will now disappear. To
orr own colonies, to the new fields in
Africa and to all countries DESTROYS of
developing their foreign trade, the con
tinuance of the high tariff in America
will be an excellent bit of good for
tune"
That is precisely what the American
people want. They want to see Africa,
India, Egypt and Japan, and all the
effete countries of the Orient penetrated
by railways and equipped with the sur
roundings of civilization. And when,
in future generations. this country is
fully developed under the protective
policy, we will look after the interest of
America throughout the world. Chart
ty begins at home, however. We have
enough to do to develop and utilize our
own marvellous resources and if the
policy that is best adopted to this work
benefits the benighted regions of
the earth, so much the better. 1t will
only open up a field for our products, as
we advance in industries, in the arts of
mechanics, and reduce the production
of the shops and the factories and the
furnaces to the lowest possible cost con-
sistent with the liberal maintenance of
the labor employed in them. De-
Tocqueville's prediction will some day
become true--that only two forms of
government are destined to exist in the
civilized world-one Despotic, represent
ed by Russia, and the other Republican,
represented by the United States. When
England and Spain and Germany and
Austria and Italy have thrown off
restrictive governments and assumed
more liberal and popular forms, larger
the United States reap benefits there
from. The Mckinley bill and the policy
it inculcates, has a larger significance
and broader meaning than merely
revenue consideration. 1t looks to the
| future and to the advancement of
peoples and governments into more lib
eral views and more democratic princi-
piles, as well as wiser legislation affect
ing the interests of commerce and the
relations of labor. 1t is, really. liberty
the toiler to have fair returns for his
labor, that he may educate his children
and surround the home hearth with
rational comforts-the liberty of gov
| ernments to advance the interest of their
great substratum, and elevate manhood
above the level of the slave. Already
Italy is feeling the benefits of the pro-
tective system in the development of
the natural resources of the country,
the establishment of industries and the
promotion Of the welfare of thu people.
And as these things grow in magnitude,
as the people surround themselves with
comforts, and have time TO improve
their minds by reading and study, these
political conditions will improyesand their
forms of government undergo modified
tions to comport with the enlightenment
! of the masses And so it will be all
over the civilized world las the interests OF
labor are appreciated and advanc-
ed. The trainers of the Mckinley
bill built wiser than they knew. 1t is
to be a factor in the great march OF
eiviitzation-in the elevation of the
masses. and consequently the breaking
of the letters which have bound to
poverty and want the toiling masses,
who delve and dig and fashion into
forms the hidden wealth of the world.