Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-05-09
Paternalism and Protection.

tionism will not be cast out without
rending their unfortunate Victims
But it is the appointed task of the
democratic party to cast them out
We have come, as a nation, to the
parting of the ways. Protection has
run its long and baleful course and the
hour has struck for a return, by firm,
yet cautious steps, to the old paths of
prosperity. based upon natural laws
and wholesome conditions of trade
The meddling of the government in
private business has gone to perilous
lengths. The hand of the tax-gatherer
has been thrust deep into the pockets
of all the people to make only COM
parative few of them prosperous. This
system of taking money from the earn
ings of everybody to swell tie profits
of favored class has been justified on
the ground that the tribute takers
employees in the form of high wages
How well they have divided it the
angry and turbulent manifestations of
their wage earners in many States, and
the enormous drafts on private charity
in all the protected centres, bear elo-
quent and convincing witness.
Protection is self-condemned. Out
of the mouths of its myriads of unem-
ployed people the hollowness and dis
honesty of the whole system is proved.
The democratic duty, clear from the
outset, is doubly clear to-day. That
duty is to pass the tariff bill and set
the wheels of reform in motion toward
a new and brighter epoch of industry
| emancipated from letters that cramp
/ and confine it, and capital relieved
from the congestion of governmental
interference, which has dangerously
concentrated it in artificial channels.
The passage of the new tariff law
only true American policy of moderate
sand evenly-distributed taxation. To
all interests that policy will eventually
give equal burdens and equal oppor-
tunities. 1t will invite all classes to
enter the open field, with no special
favors to any, and recover the old
American faculty for not only holding
our own markets, but for profitably
carrying the productions of this coun-
| try in ships bearing our own flag over
all the seas and into all the ports of
the world"
| METHODISTS AT MEMPHIS.-Theg gen
eral conference of the M. E. Church
South convened at Memphis Thursday
with 343 delegates present. These rep,
resent conferences in all southern and
western States and Territories, and
Mexico, Japan and China. The pre-
siding officer was Bishop J. G. Keenan,,
the senior bishop.
After the conference was duly organ.
lied, the address of the bishops was
read by Bishop CRANBERRY. This ad-
dress is lengthy document and fore
bodies interesting discussion on several
lines. One of the subjects will be the
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churches. 1t is evident that the union
will not be cemented at once. A com
mittee has been appointed to arrange
for celebration in 1895 of the COM
pletion of the first quarter of century
of the church's existence.
| SAM JONES TO BE TRIED.--In the
General Conference of the M. E.
Church South, now in session in Mem
phis, Tenn, the trial of the Rev. Sam
P. Jones, the noted evangelist, who
was suspended by the Georgia Con-
ference because he refused to perform
regular passionate duties, will come up
this week. The Rev. Mr.. Jones is there
to defend himself. He is particularly
severe on the bishops, and lively times
are anticipated when the case is called.
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SAWED IN THE HEAD.-A despatch
from Martinsburg, W. Va, says that
John Small aged twenty-one years,
met with horrible accident Friday
afternoon which will probably result
in his death. He was shoveling saw
dust from the pit of William Criswell's
saw-mill, and raising his head too high
was caught by the saw and his head
was mangled so badly that his brain
oozed from the wound.
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George w. Abel, late managing pro-
prietor of the San, was buried Friday
morning from the Cathedral in Balti-
more, where at 10 o'clock a requiem
mass was celebrated. The active pail
bearers were selected from eight gentle
men who have been longest in the
service of the San. A great crowd of
very prominent citizens at the Cattle
dral attested their esteem for Mr..
Abel. Rev. Patrick McHale was the
celebrant of the mass and Cardinal
Gibbons pronounced the benediction.
The interment at Bonnie Brae Gene
terry was private.
In Mcdowell county, w. Va, Tyler
Hartman shot and killed Evan Free
man and wounded his brother, VIM. L.
Freeman.
A SPECIMEN ARGUMENT-Itisu urged
by the protectionists that the very ex-
istence of the silk mills in New jersey
is dependent upon the continuance of
the protective tariff. If this be true,
the silk mills of New Jersey ought not
to exist any longer. Why should the
Federal government tax all the people
to create new industry. By similar
means the culture of tea might be
fostered in the United States, and if
Congress should put a prohibitory
tariff on tropical fruits the culture of
bananas and pineapples in hot houses
might be made a profitable industry in
Misunderstanding AdUance.
Governors Proclamation.
| HE COMMONWEALTH OF VA,
| EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RICHMOND, May 5, 1894.
Whereas the tenth day of May, eigh-
teen hundred and r,inetv- fOur has hean