Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-13
The Baldwin District Fair.

The Board of Directors of the Baldwin
District Fair Association have not been in
attentive to the necessary work and prepare
ton for the usual yearly exhibit. So far as
preparation could be accomplished in ad.
vance, they have kept pace with the op.
portunities, and as the time approaches all
things will be in readiness for an expo.
sition as full of interest as it will be posi-
BILE to attach to the occasion. In the inter.
est of livestock, if not in others, our re.
sources and opportunities, as we have made
them available in the past and will CON
tinue to do in the future, place this large
central Association in the front rank. Il
difficulties or obstacles should seemingly
appear to lesson the usual interest, they
should be banished from thought, and all
should move forward in persistent effort
for the cause. The Fair is an illustration
and an annual recurring testimonial of our
genuine, solid progress. Moving on the
lines of other material development and
prosperity shouldnot for moment weaken
our strength for this favorite and profitable
interest. That success should rather ami.
mate us to appreciate more highly
the solid advantages we possess in
soil production, in the rearing Of
livestock, and in all the minor depart
ments of field and garden and orchard
culture. The industries of the furnace,
the rolling-mill, the anvil, the loom, the
workshop, and the factories of all kinds
tions are the associates of progressive agri-
culture without which our mutual AID
stable prosperity will not achieve the re-
suits which our resources stand ready in
fullness to achieve.
staunton, ever ready and generous, will
be in the van again with liberal special
premiums, in trades display, and in con-
tributions of every kind to give interest to
the occasion.
In the meeting of the Directory last
week, Mr.. Jno. W. TODD, late President for
four years of the Association, proposed
that on the third day of the exhibit, which
is always the day when the crowd is largest,
that Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, and
Representative Mckinley, of Ohio, repre-
senting the two sides on that question OF
political economy, shall discuss the tariff
for the information of the people.
This proposition is not introducing parti-
san feeling into our social or industrial
progress. The tariff question, above ali
Others, is the absorbing one that comes
home to the most vital interests of the
farmer and the laboring man. The tariff
is not really and should not be esteemed a
party question. 1t is above all party move
ments, because, through its workings, the
trade Of this country with foreign countries
is regulated, and it affects, materially ant
directly, the industrial and commercia
affairs Of our people. We repeat, thu
question is not partisan, but one of economy
coming home to every man no matter wha
may be his views and the influences ell
gendered by partisan feelings which should
not control in the general administration o.
government. This view is now enlargipg
on long lines in all the agricultural as well
as manufacturing States, and the able dis.
cussion of this Question by the two men
holding opposite views who are above all
others the acknowledged leaders on the
national arena would be of surprising
interest to the people.
Our able and popular Representative
Hon. Henry st. Geo. Tucker, will, on be-
half of the Fair Association, present the
Invitation to the distinguished gentlemen,
and, if possible, will induce them to accept
the invitation cordially rendered them.