Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
REASONS WHY.

Opinions of some of the purest iur
lists in our country. brought out by
the present matters at issue, have
been left for publication until today.
Wayne MacYcagh, ex member Of II
Republican cabinet. gives Il letter at
length from which we quote:
"While am more than ever re-.
solved to hold duty to country far
above any ties OF pnrty, 7 find myself
at present i'll general accotd with the
Democratic party and willing to
trust it's course in the future. Tho
insight, the courage and the patriot.
Ism of the masses of the party, ex
hibit"d ill compelling the nomination
of Mr.. Cleveland when lie WIS with.
out single ofli,'eholder to support
lis candidacy, seem to me 10 demand
that should meet them in the same
spirit and act with them rs long ms
they maintain that high standai d of
policy and of administration, 1t is
the moro easy to do so because the
Republican purity. securing it's return
to power four Years ago by promis
ang to preserve matters rs they were,
st once embarked upon what re
gard rs Il reckless and revolutionnry
policy, even overturning all the safe
guards of Legislation in the House of
Representatives i'll their haste to Lass
the forco bill and The Mckinley bill,
both, to my mind, unnecessary and
unwise measures"
In speaking of the Mckinley Lii
Judge AucVeagh says: NO 90 ID,
that the bill which | cannot but lhink
was nm uncalled for disturbance Of
the then existing thrift, greatly bene-
Tilted few interests. but certainly it
greatly oppressed many others or
tine protected industries themselves.
inhny were then, rs now, III far more
urgent need of free raw materials
than of higher projections: but with
Jaw materials OH the free list tho bill
gould not have passed, for these hnv-
Ig such materials for snle controlled
"houGh votes to defeat it, and they
were very likely to do so if their
bounties were discol tinu,d. The
manufacturers needing free raw I'M
ftarials were therefore obliged to join
an the Objectionable process of in.
'creasing prices By restricting pro.
'duction, thus adding to tho number
'of trusts, by which the PRICE of the
Reeessares of life is placed mt the
mercy OF companies of capitalists. 1t
rs not surprising that labor, believ.
mig itself to be oppressed, soon aro @
lin revolt, and civil war has actually
'ra9ed this summer in four different
rsections of the country. And, of
'courae, the farmers, paying more for
what they b. y and getting less for
what they sell, grew p, orer every
day;rtnd excellent farms in some a
The most fertile sections of this HIGH
ny protected State will hardly bring
tthe cost'of the buildings upon them
'But tho economic evils, howevc,
isreat, of The Mckinley bill, and The
unreasonable system OF protection il
represents, are OF far less importance
Ito my mind than the moral evils
(which follow i'll their wake. In d.
Gliding for what purpose the mnsse
'of the people may properly be taxed
at must not be forgotten that take;
have wonderful capacity for filter
aug through all intervening obstacle.
I'LL they reach the bowed back of tot
and resting there; and therefore th,
giving OF bounties under any form G
taxation, is mainly the giving ava,
OF the wages of labor. The sad trutI
that the curse OF tie poor is thei
poverty is illustrated in nothing NOR,
clearly than in the undue share the,
suffer OF the burden of taxation.
but apart from this eonsldera
tion' ought not taxes only to be in,
,poseaas required for public purposes
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or may they also be imposed for TIL,
peconiary advantage of such person
or classes as are able to control con
sressional action in their favor. |
seems to me like travesty on taxa
ton to require as the Mckinley bill
does, the farmer who grows corn i,