Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-21
HIGH THRIFT OPPRESSION.

mean the EOrce D1lI.-State.
HIGH THRIFT OPPRESSION.
Colonel Alex Mcclure, of the
Philadelphia Times. made n great
speech some two weeks ago On the
Mckinley tariff robbery and fraud, in
which he most effectually exposed NIL
of it's numerous and outrageous
abuses upon tho people and the va
rious industries of the country. If
the speech was printed and circuat.
cd all over the country, we believe it
would convert almost every honest
reader into the conviction of inme.
diate tariff reform. We must find
room this morning for one extract
from it, in Which he wisely insists
that if the great Chinese wall of tux
alton which monopoly has placed
around our vast country, was taken
down, that American manufacturers
could beat the world. He enforces
this truth by illustrations taken from
near where he WAS speaking. He
says:
"What do our leading industrie
say? What have they done? In cot
ton fabrics. with FREQ raw materials,
we export S12,000,000 IL year and I'M
dersell England in India. [Applause
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
with heavy taxes OH their materials
and their labor heavily taxed on the
necessaries of life, export one loco
motive to foreign countries every
other day of the year [Shouts of ar-
plnuse American farm implements
are sold i'll every progressive country
abroad, although taxed OH their
steel, lumber and everything they
use, and l may mention in confidence
for Governor Mckinley alone [lurgh
teri that they sell them much cheap
OF to foreign farmers than to Ameri
lean farmers. [Checrs and applause !
Hamilton Disston sells lis saws anil
tools i'll almost every country of the
world, although taxed on all his raw
materials, and they are sold cheaper
there than here. Laughter His 10
per cent. protection simply enables
prices TO be maintained here, but he
finds profit in selling selling his pro.
ducts cheaper abroad The Hoe
printing press is in every cnlighten.
cd civilization of the earth. 1t is tax
ed on its material and on it's labor,
but like Disston's tools, the Baldwin
Locomotive, the Americap plough,
etc. it is the best i'll tho world, and
American skill, although oppressed
by taxes, can make them better and
nndersell all competitors in the mar
kets of the world [Applausc.
Look at onr shoe an leather in.
dustry. With free raw materials We
supply the entire American market
with the best and cheapest shoes over
sold, all the product of American In
Dor, and we sell abroad $4,000. 900
per annum. [Applanse. These q, @
stubborn facts, showing what Ameri.
can ingenuity and energy are doing,
and now let us hear from our Tux
crushed large rolucers whom Nc
kinley claims to L tee, Major
Bent, the manager of the Steelton
Works, near Harrisburg, and one of
the largest steel producers in the
country, appealed to Mckinley in
1880 to uEshackle his industry by
giving it free raw mat erials,. but was
unheeded. In q public interview,
given in the Record of this city, lie
sid: Give me free ore and I wi !
sell pig iron in Liverpool aud send
steel rails to England Cheers and
applause. What American indus
tries most need is free opportuniti.
and not Legislative protection" ZAP
plause.
What Colonel Mcclure says in
reference to these special industries
may be MS truthfully said CT all the
OF hers in our country. Take off OPP
pressive taxation, and not only can
American industries successfully com
pete with the world, but the people
tho farmers, planters and working
men OF the conntry-can be furnish
ed with anything they need cheaper
than Mt present under the grinding
operations of the Mckinley fraud
Lynchburg. News.
III SHOULD BE IN EVERY
HOISE