Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-09-19
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. 10. 1890


ton, indeed, of the farmers are steadily
accommodating profits. either in the form oi
more land owned and paid for OF IN money
invested Only minority fail to accumulate
wealth, either through their own incapacity
or from all other causes. ct 1t Is thls CLASS
of men who are asked to organize against the
national policy of protection. Ihls IS the
class of persons who demand that railroads
shall be forced to charge less Tor their ser
vices. although much more than half the rail
roads in the country are at present unprofit-
able.-Nep YORK. Tribune, August 18th.
The above remarkable diatribe from the
leading journal Of the Republican party OF
the country, is only important from the fact
that it gives just about the estimate OF the
farming community and its interests, that
has appeared to run through the whole tariff
debate in Congress by Republican congress
men. To one who has read their speeches
in the Congressional Record it has been
hard to get rid of the conviction that there
is no other class Of people in the American
Union who have any interests worth look
ing after and protecting, save the American
manufacturer. The agriculturist, the man
who owns and tills the land, seems to have
been almost without friend outside OF the
Democratic speakers. The main question
involved in the Mckinley bill discussions
seems to have been not what is fair profit
for the manufacturer, but what does the
manufacturer want and how much tariff
taxation can the people at large bear in
order to give him what he demands. The
question of Protection, a tariff tax OF only
sufficient size to save him from the compe-
tition from abroad, has long since sunk out
of sight and a Simon pure Protectionist in
this year of 1890 is as much out Of place as is
a free trader He must now be willing, not
only to protect the manufacturer but to
give him all he wants in the shape of profit,
OIL he is denounced as fiercely as his oppon-
ent, the free trader. Not only that-not
Only protect the man who is in business,
but he must be willing to tax the people to
set man up in business. Then, and only
then, can he be Mckinley bill protec-
zionist.
1t is this blind submission to the protect
ed industries of the country, coupled with
party gratitude for the gigantic contribu-
lions they have made to the elections, that
has gradually led the Republican leaders
and their chief organ into the delusion that
if a farmer is not prosperous in this day it
is his own fault, arising out of ''his own
incapacity." They cannot understand why
when those who ride in the coach are 50 fat
and hilarious, the wearied team that draws
it should not be in the same happy condi-
ton, unless their town incapacity" fur
nishes the explanation. And having so
solved the question, they take the additional
burden of the Mckinley tariff tax aboard,
lash up the struggling team, and declare
that bright future is before the country
The only "incapacity" that we ever saw
an agriculturist show, is when a farmer
votes for continuance of the tariff tax.
Of such one it may truly be said that
having eyes he does notse and having ears
he hears not.
The Hon. Bob. P. Kennedy of the Belle
fontaine, Ohio, district, has revised" his
speech about the Hon. Matt S. Quay U. S.
Senator from Pennsylvania and Chairman
of the National Republican Committee,
and it appears in the Congressional Record
somewhat modified. On the floor of the
House of Representatives he said
1.-THE Judas Iscariot of 1000 years ago is to
find a counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of
to-day. The Judas who took the 80 pieces of
silver and went and hanged himself has left
an example for the Matt Quays that is well
worthy OF their imitation.
He has delayed too long to justify the be-
lief in his innocence, and he stands con-
victed criminal before the bar of public
opinion"
In the first sentence, he has in the Record
omitted Quay's name and substitu-
ted can example well worthy of imitation. :"
In the second sentence he has omitted the
word s'criminal' and makes it read. "IIe
stands convicted before the bar of public
OPINION The following sentence that
occurred in his delivered speech, 1.-THE
Republican party cannot afford to follow
the lead of a branded criminal, - is stricken
out altogether.
The Republican party will probably have
to look around for another chairman of its
National Committee in 1892.
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