The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-23
Some palpable Truths.

and industrial pursuits in Virginia,
where his wife was born-a neice of
Hon. ]. Marshall Hanger, of this place.
Our contemporary gives volume OF
argument in behalf Of the Republican
policy of protection in the following
paragraph, taken from the interview
with Mr.. Link:
"Wen you up North especially in the East,
the people have grown rich doing the manufac-
turing for your people of the South, and we be-
leved that the time had come, and you people
OF tie South showed 10y your spirit, that it had
come, Tor the South to have its manufactures
located right among its own people. II man
wants to make an axe helve he don't take the
Saplin5 up out of the woods and carry it two or
three hundred miles to get man to dress it for
a neiye; he just cuts and dresses it right in the
| woods where lie finds it. That's what the
Southern people are going to do hereafter-they
are going to dress their own helve right i'll their
own woods where they cut the sapling, and we
are here with our money and our labor to join
in that business with Them There is a big rea-
son for what is going on in your State? The
time and the conditions have come when the
manufacturers have got to get nearer to the
raw material, and to the new consumers who
|
round reason and these lot spectators are flies
on its surface that have been Matched out by
The prosperity. 1t will not be long before the
boomer will give way to the man with the over
ais on who brings permanent wealth with him
wherever he goes. The Southern country Is the
com ng country of the world'
Here is testimony that ''free raw ma
terials,' as demanded by the Democratic
party and sustained by the Vindicator,
would be death to Virginia. If the
wood and ores and iron and steel and
wool of foreign countries were admitted
free of duty, we would not find such
men as Mr.. Link coming to the interior
of Virginia to find location for the
estab lishment of industries. They
would go to the seacoast. whore the
ores and woods and woods would be
delivered free, and with which we could
not compete unless the labor essential
for their production was reduced to the
low level of European labor. 1t is be-
cause of duty on such articles that
they are esteemed valuable in Virginia
and iG is for this reason that manufac
turers are looking to Virginia and the
South to establish their plants.
AS an intelligent merchant and one Of
the best business men in the county, and
at the same time one of the most inf1u
entail Democrats in the Valley, said q
few days ago. in response to an inquiry
from another Democrat, What he
thought about the repeal of the Nc
Kinley bill 1.-The repeal of the
tariff law would ruin Virginia. Il
would arrest all the blooms in the
State and lay us fat of our backs.
That was truthful and pregnant state
ment. Every enterprise that is nov
going on-every ::'boom" that is agitat
ing the community, every mine thai
is being opened, every industry that ii
going up. is the direct result of the
; protective policy,
And yet with this plain and indispu
f table fact blazed, as it were, upon ou
, foreheads, the Vindicator publishes il
: the same issue with the interview from
: which we have above given an extract
f a whole column Of short letters from
, North, to merchants here, announcing
l the increase of prices on various arti
, cles, because of the tariff rate of tn,
: Mckinley bill. These importers arr
simply robbing their patrons an(
charge the Mckinley bill withtheir nefar
+ ious action. 1t is not necessary to go int
n a detailed statement to show that thes,
i statements are in many instances, abso
lutely false, for some of the articles ar
of American production and will no
cost cent more to manufacture undo
O ting Mckinley bill than under the pre-
q vious tariff laws. AS to foreign goods
q large quantities were imported ant
/, placed in bonds in anticipation of tn
passage of the Mckinley bill, and a
soon as it was passed they raised tn
prices, although the goods did not cos
y them a cent more. 1t was simply
tbjeving device to impose upon tn
people, apd they are making our mer
8 chants their TOOLS in doing SO.
And what is the practical use of pub
= fishing such stuff? It cannot chang
: the law. That is fixed, and the polio.
it embodies is fixed, as long as the Sen
: ate is Republican. and that will be TO
q ten years at least to come. 1t is merel.
a "bting fiIe," and deceiving and mis-
! leading the people who do not take tn
q pains or have not the available fact
n before thel4 to become informed. 1t
4 tbopghtless and reckless misrepresenta
), ton Of one of the wisest and best law
ever enacted by Congress, and a law b,
4 which Virginia and the South are to b
q more benefited than any portion Of tn
8 Union.
Vhe views of Mr.. Link, a practica
v man OF affairs, and largely engaged il
J. industrial enterprises, and the views
q the importers. who age the subsidise
agents of English free traders, ARE d
rectly opposed to each other. If mann
= features are a good thing for Virgini
a and the american people, the Englisl
free trade and Importers tariff is no
o good for them. There are very few in
s teIljgent men in the State. wbethe
/ Democrats or Republicans, who do no
s understand the matter, and who in thei
e hearts do not believe that the McKinle
e bill and the policy If sgaintains
l. just the very thing Virginia a,ia tn
t South want. We have the raw materia
! and we have the labor, but we canno
e avail of our natural advantages, if tn
t policy of this government should CON
b port with the ideas of the importers an
t. their English patrons. unless the wage
e of las,ar here are reduced to the starytn
IL rates of Europe. Protection is the lit
n of the South, a4a he is no friend {
t Virginia or the South who, according
e our iniad. you'd strive to dsilde tn
d people with the belief that America
o laws designed to Ntret and foste
t American interests - Aul+fa1 TO an
Y class of our citizens.
/ The Allegheny Mining and Develop
ment Company.
: The engineer, Mr.. ID. st. &. Fraser,
busy at work preparing the ground @
the above named company for plot ting