Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-17

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gress lately adjourned, is the 4 s
Bill, commonly known as, the No
Kinley Bill.n That measure lis a
crushing indictment of the Republi.
can party for deception, brazen by
pocrisy, broken faith WITH the PEG
pie, aud efforts to extorA from the
poor the means to make \he rich
richer, aud BY the purchase Oh votes,
moro firmly fasten upon the COUNTRY
the calling yoke of Republicahsm.
The design OF The bill ia 30 plain lhat
he who runs may read. by incrsas.
ing the tariff charge OF taxes laid by
the government upon nearly eyely
article introduced into this country
from abroad, it viii allow homo mani
ufacturers to charge such prices as
they, by combining themselves, may
see fit to charge. 1t is death blow
to competition from foreign manu-
factu'ers and the vitalizatlon of
trusts. Instead of reducing the tar
iff charges or taxes laid uuder tile
previous low, aud which had long
been'regardod as burdensome, Che
purity in power has incEeased them.
How does this comport,with previous
Republican professions. $. H.. y
The Mckinley bill: just passed
only aggravates all Che ersJwhiIe pre-
lenses and receptions OF the Repub.
lioan party. AS stated, it increases
the tariff taxes on nearly all kinds of
manufactured articles. If it were for
the. benefit Of the mechanics their
wages would be increased in sim;-
lar proportion. But what intelli
gent mechanic does not know by
experience that while an increase
of tariff taxes will enable the Re.
publican party managers to efry
moro fat" out OF the benefited en-.
ployers, to be used in perpetrating
election frauds, and. mechanics
wages will not be increased one
dollar: What intelligent mechanic
does not recognize that the McKin-
ley bill brushes away all former
fiimsy protestations o: Republican
interest in the welfare Of the con-
sinner, and stands exposed as
political scheme to bind the man
ufacturors through the worship of
mammon to the party in power,
aud through these in turn squeeze
out OF those who live by the sweat
Of their brows money to purchase
votes.
Indeed was it aptly said during
the last presidential canvass that
the Republican leaders had mort
gagged the taxing power of The
United States to the manufacture
ers for the lat that was fried out
of them. In order to reimburse
themselves these manufacturers
will fry the means out of the lean
ness Of the people. Tho moro the
Republican leaders squeeze the
manufacturers for the purpose of
the people, the more
the manufacturers will squeeze
their labor and the consumers
generally. AT this election, voters
of Virginia, you must determine
whether you approve or condemn
such methods. Surely You will de.
nounce in no uncertain tcyues sucf
despicable bartey e6r your prosper
lily, such -S.n Infamous sale OF til,
Flower of taxation. Surely you viii
denounce this Equalization of trusts
this encouragement Of combina
tions. .
If you have been deluded into
the idea that this oppressive tariff
bill was not passed for party pur
poses and with the end in view o.
prostituting the ballot, you have
only to take glance at the ad
miristration and that idea will be
diss!pa:ed. AT the head of the
Republican party, and in full sym
pathy with it's most ncfarious acts
is a President who surrounds him
self with a Tanner, who SO dis
graced the management of the per
sion office that the nation demand
ed his reihovaE o Raum who suc