Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-08-27
Speech of Representative Crisp, Of Ga., in
Winchester.

At the convention in Winchester, at
which Hon. Chas. T. O'Ferrall was unani-
mously nominated for reelection to Con-
gress in the 7th District, Representatives
Lewis, of Miss, and Crisp, of Ga, were
present. After the speech of O'Ferrall &C.
knowledging his obligations to the conven-
tion for his nomination by acclamation,
good speeches were made successfully by
Messrs. Lewis and Crisp. We publish be-
low the greater portion of Mr.. Crisp's
speech as reported in the Rockingham Reg
lister, which is so good that we hope none
will fail to read it,
He said he wanted to impress the people
especially of this farming community with
the Importance of the success of the demo.
cratic party. He would do so without pref
udice or passion. He would not discuss
democracy or republicanism on sentiment,
and it would not be necessary to go back
very far to join the issue. Political faith
should be founded in reason, and you peo-
pie should look to the constitution of your
country and to your own interests. a man
may support his party even when to some
convinced that such policy has funda-
mental principle of right to rest on, but he
should never support it against his own in
terest when it was at the same time violat-
ing principles of justice and right.
PLAIN PROPOSITION.
Every dollar that a man makes belongs
to him and no power may take it from him,
but for the economical support of the gov
ernment-that it may discharge its legiti-
mate functions. But it is not function of
government to take hand in business. 1t
is no concern of the government if one in
dustry hourishes and another languishes.
1t is democratic idea that mans in
come should be taxed, but it was not right
to tax him on the basis of his necessities.
Loud applause.l The present system taxes
every man on what he buys, and this bears
with greater rigor on the poor than on the
rich. Let tariff tax be levied sufficient to
support the government, and distribute
:indiciously, if you please, che incidental pro-
lection that is always inseparable from a
tariff system, but it is not right to rob one
class of citizens to build up lucrative bust
ness for another. The present system pro-
tects the seller at the expense of the buy
er; but did it never occur to you that there
are many more buyers than there are sell
lers? [Applause.l 1t is to build up s'home
industries" they say, and to pay skilled
labor So to 81 per day. The most impor-
tant "hone industry" can think of right
here is the farming industry Lapplause] and
it is time now to do something for that, and
that is the home industry that low tariff
protects. Loud applause.]
FALLACY.
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make pair of shoes. Of course shoes were
higher then than they are now, because that
mans living and the support of his family
had to come out of the price of that one
| pair of shoes. The genius of American in-
vention has come in, and now one man at
tending a machine may turn out hundreds
of pairs of shoes in the time it used to take
a man to make one pair in the old way. Ol
course, then, shoes are cheaper. There is
less labor to be paid for out of each pair. II
was so in every other department.. and this
is the cause of the lower prices, and not the
protective tariff.
| THE s'HGME" MARKET,
They had much to say Of the home mar
ket, Well, the home market for your whea
is in Liverpool, where your thousands and
millions of surplus grain meets the whea
Tdlb6u III huSbld duu 6lS0 Wu6It ny pdupGl
labor, and that fixes the price of you
wheat.
Let me tell you that commerce is largely
made up of trade-excbange of commodi
ties, and when you undertake to wall ou
ths products Of otber countries, you spdsl 1,
your own agricultural products. ZAP
plause.] The farmers of Kansas are look
ing for home market for their corn, bu
they don't find one, and they are burning
the grain for fuel. That is the home mar
ket the farmer is getting. 1t is no argumen
to say that things are cheap. They ar
cheap in spite of tariff, on account of th'
multiplicity of labor-saving and time-savint
inventions.
THE SOUTH.
The Southern States, it is estimated, pay
about one-third of all the revenues for thl
support of the government. Is it becaus
the South has One.third of the wealth. a