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

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Alexander Hamiiton's theory that com
bine certain interests with the government
and those interests will stand by the gov
eminent. The Republican party has adopt
ed that theory. 1t has combined the inter
ests of the protected manufacturers with
its government Of the country. They gel
from them election money TO carry the cleo
lions, and inreturn give them absolute con-
troll of the markets of the country by a high
protective tariff. To accomplish this it
was necessary to have all three, the Senate,
the House and the President.
In 1888 the money of the manufacturers
elected the President. So. that was all
safe.
Next, the House had to be made secure.
The Republican majority as it appeared
was only three, and with such narrow
margin they could not carry out their pur-
pose. Democrats enough must be turned
out to give a good majority. Reed was Sc
lected as the Speaker who would have bold
ness enough in his rulings to render this
possible, and so enough Democrats were
turned out to give a Republican majority
of 25.
But there was yet the Senate with a very
slim Republican majority. That was cured
by admitting new States, ''rotten boroughs -
like Nevada, a State that was made so years
ago and hasn't got more than 10000 popu-
lation, hardly more than Augusta county,
Six new States were admitted in twelve
months, each bringing two Republican
Senators. So there was now reliable ma
jority in the Senate.
Then and only then was the Mckinley
tariff bill passed paying the protected man.
ufacturers what the Republican party owed
them, by enormous taxation of the people,
But how to make this state of things Sc
cure? The people might rise and change
it. The answer to this was the passage of
the Force Bill by the House, which is to en-
able them to count out the Democratic Con-
gressmen in the South and give any Repub-
lican majority in the House that was
wanted.
But the vote in the North had also to be
managed and that was done on the same
principle Of paying for it. A pension bill
was passed to buy the old soldiers vote. In
1875, when Mr.. Tucker went to Congress
first, the pensions amounted to SIC, O0O, 600
a year, now they are $3.50, OOO, 900. Of this
amount the South pays $5S,OO0,OOO to be
taken up North and dumped among its
pensioners.
They had already pensioned the bondhol-
ders. In 1871, Congress passed an act
making principal and interest of the U. S.
bonds bought up North at SO tc 40 cents
in the dollar in greenbacks) payable in gold.
So that bondholders who held paper for
which they had paid 5000, OOO, OOOhad it made
by a single act of Congress, worth $2,OOO,-
900, 900.
THE TAXATION BY TARIFF BILLS.
MI. Tucker gave some striking illustra-
lions of the tariff tax, showing that the
tariff tax is paid by the consumer. Take
the line between the United States and
he can go across the line and sell his wheat
and for the $50 he gets for it can buy
clothes that would cost him 800 in the
United States. He buys the clothes, but
when he gets to the line the customs officer
catches him and makes him pay $50 duty
on the clothes, SO the consumer has to pay
the tax after all-the clothes cost him 500.
And that is just what is being done with
the exports of the American farmer to Eu-
rope. He sells his wheat there but his
government, if he bnys low priced blankets
OF clothes there, makes them high priced
when they come through the custom house
here. [ went to store in Lexington, said
MI. Tucker, since the Mckinley bill passed
and found that the prices of carpets had
gone up from 10 to Is per cent.
NO FREE SUGAR.
The Mckinley plan for free" sugar is
the most novel yet. 1t admits raw sugar
free which nobody uses, and puts a tax on
refined sugar for the benefit the refners
The sugar refners, not the people, get free
sugar and then fix their own price after
they have refined it. The Mckinley bill
pays the Louisiana farmer cents pound
to raise raw sugar and pays the farmer that
raises wheat, nothing.
They put on wooden goods that cost 80
cents. a tax of 120 per cent, and then say
that the tariff helps the workingmen.
THE FARMERS INTEREST.
If all the farmers will combine and vote
against these bad measures, then they ought
to help the party that is fighting against
these measures. That is the speediest and
most certain way to destroy them. Help
the party that is trying to give to the far
mer the right to sell where he can get most
and buy where he has to pay the least.
Home market! God help the farmer if his
only market is the home market. The
United States raises 800, 000,0 900 bushels of
surplus wheat that there is nobody here to
eat. Where does your home market come
in there? Y GU want the market of THE
world to sell that wheat in; you are obliged
to have it. The farmer S interest lies in
the Democratic party that is struggling to
open the markets Of the world to him.
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