Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-31

lHGlC dlc very lew liltClii5SIb lnCi III ohO
State, whether Democrats OF Republicans,
who do not understand the matter, and who
in their hearts do not believe that the Mckin-
ley bill and the policy it maintains is just the
very thing Virginia and the South Want
Valley TWgiaian.
The above sentence occurs in an article
commenting on an industry now being
brought from the West to Augusta coun-
ty. Now let us give this enterprise local
application under 1.-THE Mckinley bill and
the policy it maintains and see how many
intelligent men will think that the bill and
policy arethe things they want.
Suppose the proprietors of this industry
had declared that before they established
works in Augusta county. the people of the
county should he taxed by the Board of
Supervisors SIS a head in order that they
might establish them. The people would
have Indignantly voted the proposition
down. And yet that is the operation of
the Mckinley bill and the policy it main
tains.
Suppose, Notwithstanding the injustice of
the proposition, the proprietors had COM
bined with other manufacturers on the
proposition if you contribute money with
us to this election and we carry it the
Supervisors shall tax the people for your
benefit too. Outrageous proposition isn't
it And yet that is just the way the four
hundred thousand dollar election fund
raised by John Wannamaker, and the others
exacted from the manufacturers, were got
ten to elect this Mckinley bill Congress.
Suppose after this moneyed contribution,
they elected the Board Of Supervisors who
should pass a law that the peopleo Of Angus
TIA should not buy anything except from
these manufacturers, and nothing that was
made outside Of the county, unless they
paid tax when it was brought over the
county line. That is. if you bought hat
in Albemarle and paid a dollar for it, when
you got to the Augusta county line bring
the Augusta county Treasury that if you
bought tin bucket there for 25 cents, you
must pay another cents to the Augusta
treasury if you got suit of clothes in
Albemarle for SIS, you must pay another
So at the county line to go into the county
Treasury, &c., sc. That is the Mckinley
bill and the policy it maintains.
Suppose that the county Treasury aftel
paying for all the county government, was
so full of money from these taxes that
nobody knew what to do with it, and it
kept on coming in and there was no way to
legally spend it. That has been the policy of
the predecessors OF the Mckinley bill and
the policy it maintains.
Suppose the Supervisors should then take
many thousands of the peoples money out
of the Treasury and pay it without any re-
turn whatever to ten OF twelve men to
grow sugar in a corner Of Pastures district.
That is the Mckinley bill and the policy it
maintains.
Suppose the manufacturers in the county
got their combination stronger year after
year, and the Supervisors instead of low
ering the tax Oh things you bought in AL
bemarle, put it up higher yet. Suppose
they put the tax On the So suit up So so
that man had just as well pay S2l for
SIS suit to the manufacturer in Augusta
as to go to Albemarle and buy it for SIS
and have to pay Sc at the county line for
bringing it in. And then suppose you
found out that the same suit they charged
you $21 for in Augusta they would ship to
Albemarle and sell for $14 And just that
is the Mckinley bill and the policy it
maintains, and what is done every day un-
der that policy.
Suppose these Supervisors with all this
surplus money in the Treasury, wrung
out of the people by tax, which there
was no use for. instead Of lowering the
taxes raised them and voted the money
to pay soldiers pensions who had never
seen battle; and squandered it so that all
of a sudden it was found that there was no
money and the county next year couldn't
pay it's debt. And yet that will be the
result according to the opinion of eminent
Republicans.
Suppose those Supervisors passed law
so as to take the elections out of the hands
of the county judges and clerks and have
it arranged SO they could have majority
of the Board always in favor of keeping the
people from buying eheaply outside the
county and making them buy dearly in the
county, so that no change could be made
And that is the policy which gave birth to
the Lodge Force Bill.
Suppose the farmer tried to sell his wheat
in Albemarle, and the Albemarle men told
him, we can't buy your wheat, We'll have
have to buy from Rockingham that trades
with us. Suppose you started some man
ufactures thus, and tried to sell the things
you manufactured in Highland, and the
men told you we amt able to buy anything
from you, you don't buy anything from
us, we trade with Albemarle who trades
with us. And yet that is just the fix the
policy maintained by the Mckinley bill
puts the people of the United States in.
Suppose the working of this plan in
walling in Augusta county, resulted in a
few people being worth millions of dollars
and the mass of the people, the working
people. living from hand to mouth. And
yet that has been the result of the high
protective tariff in the United States. and
will be yet more so under the Mckinley
bill and the policy it maintains.
Now this is but little lesson out of
the First Reader on the Mckinley bill and
the policy it maintains. What sort Of a
policy is it for free country, with free
people, whose every energy, progressive
purpose, and pressure towards development
ought to be free!
And what is the practical use of publishing
such stiff? 1t cannot change tha 1NcKinlav1