Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-08

incomes of the rich. One tenth of the in
come of the government is from the tax on
the wooden goods that cover Our backs. 1t
try from England $40 worth Of wooden
goods bought there. 1t costs $12 to get $40
worth of cotton warp into this country
from abroad, and $1S if it is of certain
kind.
England, in the thirty years which
elapsed after the war with Napoleon, had
five different Parliamentary commissions
to inquire into and see why 1t was that the
Protective system didn't bring prosperity.
After each report she would continue pro-
lection pretty much as after each Tariff
Commission report here the Republican
party still continues high tariff. At last, =
England seeing things growing no better
for the people under Protection abandoned
it in 1916, threw her ports open and entered
on course Of unexampled prosperity. We
have had that system in this country for
twenty-nine years and we are having the
same experience England had-the rich get
richer and the poor poorer. Protection
never made a dollar, it cannot make dol
lar. 1t only takes the dollar out of one
man S pocket and puts it into the pocket of
another man without requital (great ap-
plause). The wealth Of this country is
being put into the pockets of few men.
Thomas Sherman estimates that the wealth
of this great country is in the hands OF
Csc, 900 men out Of a population OF
g., OOO,O Protection taxes man and
and then shuts him off from markets. The
people want less taxes and more markets
(applause). The Mckinley bill gives the
less markets and more taxes (applause).
The farmers Of this country have to bear
the great burden of being shut off from the
markets abroad. They raise more than the
country can use and the Protective tariff
shuts them off from selling it abroad. OF
course we cannot sell abroad unless we
trade abroad and take what they make in
exchange. No people are going into any
one-sided trade of buying all and paying
cash. and selling nothing in return. Look
at the surplus the farmers of this country
have for sale if they had markets for it:
Rye.".... ................... II 10000 bushels
Wheat. .......................7 100000
Corn .......................... 100000
oats lou ,OOO, OOO
Hogs. ........................... 7OOO0 OOO
The farmers want more mouths to con-
sumo what they raise. Where are they to
get them? They will not get them through
the Mckinley bill, of which MI. Blaine
says that, ''In no line OF section of the
bill does it open market for another
bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork
The mouths are open in Europe and anxious
to he fed if in return for our products we
would take their steel, iron and tin. Our
farmers are here ready on the American
| shore with their wheat, corn and pork, and
the European has his iron, steel and tin
ready to ship, but Mckinley waves them
back and the American farmer goes back
home with his produce. (Great applause.)
He refuses to let the farmer trade for the
tin that makes his utensils at home and
raises the tax on it from 8 to ST cents so as
to make it certain that the farmer shan't
do it..
Protection has created industries in pla-
ces where nature had made no provision
that they should be. 1t has started iron
furnaces where there is neither coal nor
iron ore, and iron manufactures where
there is no pig iron within hundreds OF
miles. Take away protection and these
industries will come tumbling down into
| ap1 of no Il
velopment Of the resources of Virginia.
| Great applause.)
Mr.. Wilson concluded his speech by a
description of the mode in which Protection
made privileged classes in this country and
how dangerous it was to the workingmen
Of the. country in closing the avenues of
advancement for their children. 1t was a
magnificent effort and when the speech end
ed the audience rose and with great cheer
ing and waving Of hats, gave ''three cheers
for Billy Wilson," This speech was the
theme Of conversation all through the af
ternoon by the delegates, many of whom
said that it alone ten times repaid all the
trouble they had had in getting to the con-
vention.
The convention adjourned after Mr..
Wilson closed his speech.
INCIDENTS.
For the first time, I saw to-day colored
band at Democratic convention. 1t is
very fine cOrnet band from Lynchburg called
Fitch's Cornet Band, and is very supe-
rior one.
When ''old RAM came up to the village
after the convention he said to Harry with
a quizzical look, ''It was close shave my
boy, they came very near nominating ms.n
AS matter of fact the audience had treat
ed the father with fully the enthusiasm and
applause that they gave the son.
Mr.. J. H. Powell Of Staunton had the
honor of sending the first telegram to Mrs.
Tucker announcing the result in the con-
vention.
The political headquarters were at the
Central Hotel, an old-time tavern, with
shady porch that was blessing with
thermometer at $50.
MI. Jacob Bumgardner of the Buena
Vista Advocate, who takes to Rockbridge
politics as actively as he did to Augusta
politics, was a delegate from that county
and made most excellent one.
The personal popularity of Harry Tucker
among the Amherst people seemed to be as
great as it is with the Augusta people.