The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-12-21
Views Of a Prominent Virginia Bu-
siness Man and Democrat.
MAJOR DooLEY CAREFULLY DIS
CUsSES GREAT QUESTIONS.

MAJOR DOOLEY CAREFULLY DIS
CUsSES GREAT QUESTIONS.
Proposed Modes Of Taxation Unjust to the
South-Mr. c1eveland's Monetary
Views Criticised.
Richmond (va.) Dispatch.
Major James Fl. Dooley, who is proba-
bly, as well posted on financial matters as
any one in Richmond, is not at all salts
fed with the proposed tariff bill, and
complains that Mr.. Cleveland in his mes
sage to Congress should have clearly in
dictated some financial policy for the
Government A Dispatch reporter had
quite lengthy interview with him yes
terday in regard to the present condi-
tion of affairs nationally. Speaking of
the message OF Mr.. Cleveland, Mr. Dooley
said:
''As you are well aware, have been a
warm supporter of Mr. Cleveland in his
days of adversely and in the hours of his
triumph. No one has more strenuously
advocated his policy concerning the
Sherman law repeal, and / approve in
general of his message and of the policy
which it outlines, but in my Judgment
the Wilson bill, which he indorses and
recommends to Congress, is sectional
and unwise measure, which should either
be greatly modified or entirely defeated.
The avowed intention and scope Of that
bill is to deprive the South of the scanty
amount of protection which the tariff
now accords to it's industries in coal and
land industries, which are amply protect
ed under the proposed law. For nearly
one hundred years New England has
been laying tribute upon the South
through the machinery of the tariff. She
has grown fat and rich at our expense.
A few years ago duty of IS cents per
| ton was imposed on iron ore. Since then
| the South has rapidly developed its
great resources in iron and coal. This
development SO reduced the price of iron
| that all the New England furnaces had
| to blow out, and they have been COM
PEELED to purchase the greater part of
| their iron and very large portion of
| their bituminous coal from the South.
This is a reasonable and fair condl-
| ton of trade New England is highly
| protected in her manufactures, and sells
most of her manufactured goods to the
| South. The South, under the very mod
crate protection of rs cents per ton, is
enabled to sell her coal and iron to New
| England.
/ THE soUTH's NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
| "The South, continued Major Dooley,
by reason of its natural advantages,
its great deposits of iron and their prox-
Unity to the coal-beds, can make iron
cheaper than ony other portion of the
United States Hence, New England,
having but scanty ore beds and no coal,
has found it more profitable to buy our
cheaper iron than to make it. On the
other hand the skill and technical train
! ing of her artisans enables her under the
high protection which she enjoys to sell
us most of the manufactured goods
which we buy.
"Now, New England says 1--WE do
not like this condition of things; we
want to have continued protection for
our manufactures, so that we may con-
tinue to sell our goods to the South, but
we want to buy our coal and iron ore
from the British Dominions, and not
from the South. Take off this duty 81
rs cents ton on coal and iron ore; we
can then buy our coal and ore from
Great Britain cheaper than we can from
the South; or the South, if it wants tc
sell to us, must reduce the price by Il
cents per ton. Thus we will be enabled
to add the Is cents per ton which we
now pay on coal and iron, to the profit
on the manufactured goods which we
sell to the South, and the South will
either have to stop selling us coal anC
iron, or it will have to deduct rs cents
per ton from the profit which it has beer
realizing
"This is the avowed object of those
who advocate the Wilson bill. There Ii
no concealment about it. They openl,
proclaim that coal and iron and WOO
shall be deprived of protection in ordel
that the manufacturers who use thos'
materials may get the benefit and this
the result of that tariff reform which ha
been so long and ardently advocated b.
our Southern Democratic leaders. w
are now told authoritatively by Mr.
Cleveland and the Committee on Way
and Means that tariff for revenue, whicl
the Democratic platform requires, mean
protection and increased profits on New
England's manufactured goods whicl
we have to buy; but no protection TO
those products of the South, such as su
gar, iron ore and coal, which we have t
sell and New England has to buy.
THE DISCRIMINATION.
SIN other words, the South is to
deprived of market for it's products i
order that the markets for the product
of New England may be enlarged an
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