Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-10-02


backs. which were far below gold in value.
Then the rich men bought bonds with their
greenbacks, and then they got John Sher-
man to haze p law passed making their
bonds payable in gold. That is the class
| legislation that turned greenback fortunes
into solid gold.
| THE PUBLIC LANDS.
The question of the public lands has
grown to be a serious one. The Republican
party has given away $4,000, 600 more
acres Of public land than had been given
away in the whole history of the country
They gave it to everybody-aliens, steam
ship companies, railroads, and thus have
built up colossal fortunes. 1t has made
it possible for gigantic trusts to exist. The
/ people want an equal distribution of the
taxes. There is MI. Vanderbilt who has a
fortune of $50 1000, 600 in U. S. bonds, and
an old woman's pig in Augusta county pays
the government more taxes than Wander
bil5 does. lie can well afford to think and
say, ''The public be danned.''
The man who seeks to divide the Demo-
cratic party when it is making a fight
against these things had better wish he had
never been born. tremendous cheering. J
TIE HIGH TARIFFS WORK.
There are some conundrums that the
Republican party ought to be made to an
swer. 1t says protection cheapens the
price to the people of the protected goods
manufactured, and then it says that the
farmers have protection for their products
How is that? Is protection going to cheap
Ell the farmers products? 1t talks about
building American ships. What does it
want with American ships with a tariff
wall around the country to keep off com
merce. 1t continues to promise a home
market. That promise has been standing
for thirty years and the home markethasn It
come yet. How are you going to have a
home market which can consume all the
farmer S products and keep up the price
when every year immigration is coming in
and opening up new lands and making still
more crops? (Applause.) 1t tells us that
it gives the farmers millions of protection
and when we look to see what it is you find
it is protection on tea, coffee, sugar,
molasses, cocoa-nuts and that sort of thing.
! (Great laughter.)
What is the matter with the farmer is the
loss of the foreign trade by our enormous
tariff. England was the best customer the
American farmer had. She spent over
$500, 00O, 600 fol- our products. When we
cut her off by our tariff, she went to MAX
ing railroads in India and improving the
country for the culture of wheat. And
now millions of tons Of wheat go from In
dia to England and the American farmer
has to compete with it.
And they tell you that the Mckinley
bill ''protects' the farmer. 1t protects
wheat Why We sell wheat we don It buy it.
1t protects rye The whole custom reve-
nue. from rye for last year was one dollar
and sixty centsl 1t protects wool! And
the price of wool has gone down under its
protection. That is what the farmer gets
out of the Mckinley bill.
NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM.
The National Banking system is dying
out of ITSELF, When the bonds are all
called in and paid off there will be no basis
for National banks. Their end is near I'M
der the system itself. The farmers say the
place of their notes shall be supplied by
notes issued by the government. Sherman
offered bill for the issue of 500, 900, 900 OF
notes without any bullion back Of them.
Won Of nf in6o
you let them initiate. There will be nc
trouble about giving the people bank notes
after the National Banking system comes
to an end.
DEMO CRAZY IN VIRGINIA.
1 was last here six years ago. At that
meeting the honored Alexander Fl. H.
Stuart presided. Lee was the candidate
for Governor, and he proved to be as good
a Governor as Virginia ever had (great
applause) and his mantle has fallen on Phil
/ w. Mckinney who is well worthy to weaI
it. After that, our people forgot themselves
and noble old Grover got run down. Ther
they said the Democratic party was dead
The Democratic party dead! Well [ give
the same advice about the Democratic par
ty that Josh Billings gave when he sale
if you go to the funeral of a mule always
stand at its head, its heels may be alive
(Great laughter.) The Democratic party
dead! [ am proud of it's history and OF it,
scars. There is no law it ever placed OF
the Virginia statute books that the farmer
could complain Of. There is no good law
on her statute books that the Democratic
party didn't put there. You men in Vir
gina should never divide. (Cheers.) Look
at your State now. Ten Democrats in the
House and two in the Senate. | may not
have done you very much good in the Sen
ate. But the Force Bill only lacked one
vote of being passed, and if you had not
sent Democrat like me to the Senate you
would have been a DISTINGUISHED people to-
day. tremendous cheering which lasted
several minutes.)
AGAINST CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
We're Democrats. / don't name Washing
ton. Iput him away up there in the place
of the father of his country. Jefferson
never made a speech but he was the philos-
opher, priest and prophet of his country
He never drew a sword but warriors lai6
their tributes at his feet. He had the Ian
guage Of all mankind for he wrote the
words, Equal rights to all; special priv
leges to none.0 If Jefferson was the Phil
osopher, Andrew jackson was the iron
handed executive. He could WIN the bat
ties for the people and then WELD the power
of the people. A from Rich
mond went to him oneday to demonstrate
with him. He found him smoking his corn
cob pipe in the White House. The old
hero listened to him but did not weaken.
| To all he said he raDlied 81 trust the neo-