Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-03

was present on some occasions when they
made their spsecaes and when they said
"Why, the Der, s.stic party is trifine
with you abo,.s lh7 tcbacco.tax Did NO
Mr.. Cleveland il hs massage show his dis
inclination so repeatitg Just let the Re-
publicans be elected snd eject their State
candidates and the tobacco-tax will be
gone."
Howaver, MIR. Fresidtnt, here is the Re.
publican House, here the Republican
Senate, ard here is the solacco-tax-reduc
ed, it is true. but still preserved when you
do not need she revenue, snd WHEN you
proclaim yoa have brought Il ciil 10 re-
duce it.
SHAM PROTECTION OF OATS, RYE, ANp
WHEAT.
l was referring to tie family group Of
taxed articles in which rice appear, para
graph PA. 1 find oats, on ahich it's pro
posed to put tariff protestise duty OF Is
cents bushel. The tax On oats nowis 10
cents per bushel. We import into tta
United States but %, 324 bushels, at y.r-
alton of $40, 900, paying duty Of $2,sS,-
A.
Why have you increased the duty oa
oats? 1t is because and only becauss it ia
imagined by the authors of this bill thst
they can feed q few tariff oats to ignorent
voters, and make American oats producers
believe that they are protecting them when
we do not import enough to amount to a
drop in the bucket.
The next item is oatmeal, which is now
taxed 1 cent per pound. The House pro.
posed to increase the tax on oatmeal to II
cents per pound, and the Senate has reduc-
ed it in it's proposition to cent pound.
In that think the Senate is right, but DO
not see why in az attempt to equalze it
should increase it on oats and leave it on
oatmeal as it is.
Paragraph PAT is rye. Rye is now taxed
10 cents per bushel. 1t is claimed to be
protective tax for the benefit of rye pro-
ducers. The quantity of rye which we i'm
ported in 1889 was sixteen bushels st val
uation Of $24. The tax was 81 60.
Mr.. President, does the Republican party
imagine that it can WOO the coy maiden of
agriculture "Comin' through the rye" with
ihe enormous protection of SLIGO on the
whole rye crop of the United States?
The next proposition, Mr.. President, is
rye flour. 1t is now taxed half a cent
pound: and this magnificent protective duty
)f onehalf cent is carefully preserved
Dur importatio1s ofrye -four amount to the
enormous sum of 500 pounds, and the tax
amounts to $50.
The next proposition is wheat. Ii is
;axed now 90 per cent. 1t is proposed, in
,rder to give the specious disguise of pro.
;ection and float that flag over the farmers
lead marked sSee how we are protecting
7onV' to increase the tax on imported wheat
10 twenty five cents a bushel. We import
ID last year. Mr.. President, 1900 bushels
If wheat. It's value was $4,000 and some
I'D, and we derived the magnificent duty
If $389.35. Meantime we were exporting
10, 900, 900 bushels.
Now, Mr.. President, this fact appears
Hear in this little glimpse at the agrieultu.
al schedule. We are exporting wheat by
be million bushels. This so called protec.
i've tax does not protect wheat TO the value
If one mill to sll the farmers in any one
'3unty of the United States. But a great
'utcry 10 made, from the mere structure of
he bill, under the delusive promise to pro.
ect wheat, when in the same class of pro-
Iucts you are taking off the protection of
hose articles of agricultural produce that
re really protected. In other words, Mr..
resident, for tiie American farmer in this
ill there is protection wherever it will not
'rotect, and there ia no protection where it
will.
NO PROTECTION ON HIDES.
go little further, Mr.. President, to
ghere hides are put upon the free list.
Why are hides put upon the free list in this
o called protection billp The price of beef
las declined in the market. The statistici-
n of the Agricultural Department inform
d the country that there has been an over
PRODUCTION Of our meat products. No long,
II hourishing in the raising of cattle, and
leeding protection when it will do him any
rood, why is it that you have selected from
he great industry of cattle-raising the ar
ice which is to be shot at with your fatal
haft of free trade?
The Senator from Vermont (Mr. Ed
nundal said few days ago that for the
ime he was free trader. If anybody on
his side of the chamber had called him
rec trader it would have brought on his
read the maledictions of the Senator from
Vermont and all of his companions. BuG
n this bill, Mr.. President, the Republican
party is for free trade in nearly everything
hat will injure the farmer of the United
States.
We are importing hides from South
America, and that is the field which is
pointed DIT to us as the great field for fu-
,uIe reciprocity with the United States.
Why is it, Mr. President, that when we
lave a proposition ofreoiprocity with South
America We should, in advance of it, pre-.
serve upon the free list and for free trade
hat article in which South America is onr
'ival? There is reason for it. The hide
s product of agriculture. It is wanted
rec by certain manufacturers. Yes, hfr.
resident, there are somo manufacturers in
his country who see that neither they nor
lie farmer are protected by the devious
levices of Republican legislation, and as
hey have asked for free trade the Republi
an party is down upon its knees before
hem with an armtul of free trade to help
hem with at tie expense OF the agriculture
f the United States. u
UR FARMERS IN COMPETITION WITH THE
PAUPER LABOR OF OTHER LANDS.
One other inquiry, Mr.. President, before
cease my humble plea in behalf of the
american agricultural workingmen. They
ONE in competition with the pauper labor |
f other lands, but they are never dignifled |
ere, either by being olassed amongst our
or by attention being paid to |
he fact that they are coming in competi-
ion with the pauper labor of other coun |
ries. If the cry which Repuhlioanism |
makes SO often, that it is ready, willing, |
md glad to interpose The arm of protec- |
i've tex between the pauper labor of other
ands and the free labor of America, were
lot ''sound and fury, signifying nothing"
Why, let me ask you preachers of the creed,
Tby will yoa not put protective tag on
cotton to place it between the toiling mil.
ior.s Of your southern oountrymen and the
yots of India who are their chief compet-
tors in cotton production?
ALL AGRICULTURIsTs UNPROTECTED.
l will tell you why, Mr.. President, and
be farmers Of this country north, south,