Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-05-07
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL HEARD FROM.

Colonel Douglass then read letter from
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, which was
we'll received. The letter was in substance
as follows 81 wish to congratulate the
democracy Of Hagerstown upon having
organizod a club to advance the interests OF
tariff reform. We are just getting the
people thoroughly educated upon the sub.
ject in Ohio, and are sanguine that it will
become democratic State. The cities
have ali shown large gains for the democ-
racy upon this issue, and we have now
reached the point where the farmers and
the inhabitants of the rural districts are
waking up to the fact that the crnditios,
inequalities and absurdities OF the tariff
schedule are interfering with their pros
perity and welfare. We shall make a
vigorous fight upon the issue during the
approaching congressional campaign, and
shall send fifteen democrats to the Fifty
second Congress in spite of the efforts of
your late antagonist, Mr.. McComss, to
interfere with our congressional apportion-
ment.
NIB. WILSON ON TRUSTS AND THE TARIFF.
Mr.. Wilson made very strong and forci-
bic speech. 1t was scholarly discussion
of the fundamental principles of tariff re-
form, and he was frequently interrupted by
applause. He showed the effects of pro-
tective sysSems in other countries, dwell
upon the resources and advantages of this
country, and said that if in any country
sound, economic system ought TO bring
prosperity to the mass of the people it is in
the United States, and yet under the pro-
tectiye tariff, which has been in force for
tho past twenty five years, this country has
not been prosperous. He said: 81 appeal
to the farmers. Has it brought prosperity
to you? The burden OF taxation is not the
only wrong brought about by the tariff -
1t cuts eff foreign markets for our produce.
We must have commerce for cur sqpsra-
bundance, Or We will have these new
tangled and evil institutions, trusts, whose
object is to diminish the supply of products
and thus get higher prices for their goods,
while the government puts 8 wall around
the country and prohibits foreign goods
from coming in to compete with them
While the farmer cries out under the bur-
den Of taxation on one hand We have
others amassirg great wealth in a few
years. Free institutions cannot exist
where you have one class struggling with
poverty and another growing Immensely
rich. When the government goes into
com binations with great moneyed corpora
tlODS IL IL DUunu 10 ueiSd6 LILO uDJtCtS anu
purposes for which our fathers established
it. Let me write the history of the resist
ance of unjust taxes and l will write the
history of free Institutions"
THE ELOQUENT MR.. BRECKENRIDGE.
Mr.. Breckenridge was thu last speaker
every man," he said. "must bear his own
burdens. There does not exist in any GOV
ernment the power to exact from one man
money to pay the debts or taxes of another.
The present tariff system, discriminating
between industries in favor of some, brings
about the corruption of our legislative
bodies. That We have grown rich as a
country is no argument in favor of the con-
tinuance of the present tariff. Our country,
with its advantages, could not help but
grow rich, but we have grown rich I'M
equally and our Industries are all uncertain.
If we paid 10 money directly what we pay
indirectly by reason of the tariff there
would be revolution in this country in
forty days" The speaker devoted much
time to the discussion of the wooden inter-
est, and gave number of illustrations to
show how the PEOPLE are injured by the eff
facts nf the r,raGent evStarN