Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-07-27

produce all we need and consume all we prod
uce. To do this we.would have to become
commanders and eat three times as much a!
we do now.
In 1889, Just one year after, Blaine presided
over the Pan-American Congress, whose pur
pose was to break down the wall built up by
: the tariff which prevented an exchange OF
commodities Then came the Mckinley Bill
which Blaine saw would ruin the Republican
: party if passed as first reported, and insisted
that 20 save it. it would be necessary to amend
it by adopting a reciprocity feature. This was
done and they now give us what they call re-
ciprocity, but which is not. Reciprocity Is
untaxed exchange of commodities and that Is
free trade. They offer reciprocity where there
can be no reciprocity. They offer it with
countries whose products are similar to our
own and who like us, have them to export
as they raise 4 surplus-such as wheat meat
and wool, as with the Argentine Republic.
What we need is reciprocity with the world
with nations who raise surp lus of what we
need and who need what we raise and have
to sell or exchange.
| They say the articles you consume have
| been reduced in price. This is true of many
articles, but it has been in spite of and not by
reason of the tariff 1t has been caused by
| the development of improved labor-saving
machinery, by which, in many cases, one
man can do as much in day as forty could
do some time ago, and the consumer should
have the benefit of this saving in the cost of
the article he has to buy, In protection there
is but one purpose and that is to increase the
price by shutting off competition. Would
Carnegie want a tariff tax of SIS on ton of
steel if it would reduce the price? Protection
has its results Whilst thousands of Car
negie's employees are locked out, and a fierce
struggle is going on at his works in Pennsyl
vania, he is riding 'Tally-ho' in Scotland
singing
If a body meet a body coming through the
rye;
If a body rob body need body cry
The people have become to know their
wrongs, and are determined to right them at
the polls. Seeing this the Republicans have
resolved to deprive them of the means of
righting their wrongs, by the enactment of a
Federal election law known as the Force BILL
and at the late Republican Convention that
was adopted as the keynote in this canvass
Should they succeed in that object, you may
bid; farewell, long farewell to free govern
ment." The purpose is to control against the
will and votes of the people, and it would en-
able them to remain in powerful the wronged
and oppressed people would rise in bloody
revolution. 1t is more important than the
tariff, and it would perpetuate the robbery of
the tariff, and there is but one party in ex-
istence that can prevent it, and that is the
Democratic party. The Democrats have been
advocating for years the chief governmental
reforms which the Farmers Alliance wish, !
and he would ask them not to be discouraged, |
but to put their hopes in the Democratic |
party. Give them the control of the executive
and both branches of Congress, which they |
have not had since the war, and see if they |
will not right the wrongs of the farmer. Let |
the Alliance men rally with the Democrats to |
the Jealous support of the able and dis
tinguished author OF the Magma Charter of |
American Commercial Freedom - GROVER I
CLEVELAND.
could fail to do so. He was one of those who
feared the discussions in New York would i'm
perial the loss of that State to the Democracy;
but he is now convinced from recent per-
sonal observation that the Empire State
stands solid for the Democracy.
In 1876, Mr.. Hayes was given reception by
the Loyal League of America in Phila-
delphia. Everything was on grand and i'm
posing scale, and the gas jets were so arranged
as to give in letters of light the motto
Virtue, Liberty and Independence" By
some defect, the letters were suddenly ex-
tingushed, when one street gamin said to
another" Look, Jim, Virtue and Liberty are
gone, and there's but d-n little left of 'Inde
pendence." And so it will be if the Republi-
cans succeed in their purpose of the Federal
election law in suppressing the free will of
The people at the polls.
In his reference to Hon. II. st. G. Tucker,
loved by his constituents, he was no less 50,
but, if possible, more so, by his colleagues in
the House of Representatives.
The sheech of Mr.. Tarsney was frequently
greeted with rapturous applause, and all who
heard it were delighted with it.
Capt. John N. Opie offered the following
resolution which was unanimously and
heartily adopted
Resolped, That we, the Democrats of
Augusta county, in convention assembled, do
hereby extend our thanks to the Hon. John
G. Tarsney for his able and interesting ad-
dress to us to-day, and we do cordially invite
him to return to us.
The meeting then adjourned-all feeling
that they had enjoyed a rich intellectual
feast.