Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-09-28


Sixties caused so much trouble. am q
low tariff man. believe in tariff
Tor revenue only, [ believe in ne
building up of the favored classes al
the expense of the people (applause) and
do not say this tariff bill Unsatisfactory tt
me. But there is this about it; ffteel
years ago the Democrats passed the Morri
son bill. This new bill is lower than that
Six years ago the Democrats passed the
Mills bill; this new bill is lower than that
The Democracy have not only passed 8
tariff bill, but have seen the other two and
gone them better in the line of reduction
SOME DETAILS.
When the Democrats went in last year
riot, fire and bloodshed at Carnegie's had
marked the NJ cI<inley bill. There have beer
some since, but they are ceasing. The
Democratic administration has:
Abolished 600 offices, costing the people
100000 annually-the Reid Congress i'll
creased the offices by LOO, at an annua
cost of $2.O0O,oo0.
eminent so that next year the budget viii
be 100000 less than the Republican
budget-that is five millions more than the
State debt which kept Virginia in hot wa
ter for twenty years.
1t has abolished the cents pound paid
the American producers of sugar under the
Mckinley bill. The Republicans said the
Mckinley hill gave the people free" SUI
gar, and '.free" breakfast table, and yet
that bill cost hepeople S2S, 000,0 GOO On sugar
in three years. The two cents pound form
er tariff tax which they abolished was being
paid for with your money and in other taxes.
The Mckinley bill put a half cent pound
protection on refined sugar. The House
bill put of cent, and the Senate bill put
] of cent. If this was ''surrender to
the Sugar Trust" it was a surrender on
the best terms any Congress ever made.
In many respects the Wilson bill was
better than the Senate bill and in many
other respects the Senate bill, was better
than the Wilson bill The Wilson bill fail
ed by thirty million dollars to provide for
the support of the government. The Sen
ate bill taxed sugar and the government
will have sufficient income; the sugar tax
was necessity to meet the condition In
which the Republicans left the Treasury.
Under the Democratic bill wool is free.
Under the Mckinley bill which gave it
protection, the price fell from So to GO per
cent. We don't produce half the wool we
use and if we are going to make our own
clothes in this country. We must have for
eign wool to mix with that we use. Both
Gen. Grant and John Sherman favored
free wool, and the Republicans would have
adopted it long ago, except that the Demo-
Gratis had gotten ahead of them Oh it. They
find now that free wool has adyanc ed two
cents pound.
TARIFF REF ORM BENEFITS.
The farmer ought to especially rejoice
in the passage Of reform tariff bill. Under
the high protective tariff legislation the
farming lands have been declining. Ii a
man has to sell in the cheapest market and
buy in the dearest, he is being filched- in
both pockets. The American farmer sells
in Great Britain his wheat, cotton and
meat, and there he has to compete with the
products Of the cheap labor OF India and
the Argentine Republic. Great Britain is
also the cheapest market fer him to buy in.
But if he buys there he is met on the shores
of his own country with tariff of so, 10
,,I,i .I tTaJ oil l,a
cheapness. If he sells $1,000 worth Of pro-
ducts in Great Britain and buys that much
worth of what he needs in that country, he
finds that by the time he has paid the tariff
to get his goods into this country his $1,000
has dwindled down to about $1,000. He has
competed in the cheapest market and he is
forced to buy in America, the highest market
in the world. Thus he is bled, and bled,
and bled The Democrats have not gotten
the fence down as low as it will he, but
they have taken off five OF six of the high
est rails igreat applause.) Not only has
the American farmer had to bear this, but
he had to sit still and see agricultural i'm
plements-tLe tools of his Trademark in
America, exported to foreign lands, and
sold there cheaper than he can buy them at
home. American made agricultural i'm
plements-manufactu under protection
are sold in South America and even in
England cheaper than the American farm
Ell can buy them in his own country.
The American farmer has at least one
thing to be grateful to the Democratic
party fort has made agricultural imple
ments, the tools of his trade, free.
OBJECT LESSONS.
Mr.. Daniel went on to show the reduced
cost of goods under the new tariff from
samples which he held in hi hand-car-
pets 25, so, IS cents lower. Cloth for
clothing reduced from CSC to 46c: over
coating from $3.50 to SIG, and SO ON with
ladies dress goods. He said that last week
he was at a meeting where the Democratic
peddler's pack lie had with him with sam
pies of goods, their former cost and their
reduced cost under the new tariff. Besides
supplies of cloth reduced i'll price, he show
ed Csc scissors for Is cents; so cent knives
for % cents: ST. red flannel shirt for so
cents;a 500 gnn for $l3; and 10 cent mouth
harp for cents, and the candidate wound
up by playing ''Dixie'' on the new tariff
mouth harp, (great laughter and applause).
Well may We think prosperity will come
under the new tariff.
THE PROGRESS OF PROSPERITY.
Prosperity and adversely to men and ma
tions, are not of sudden growth In a
storm adversely may come suddenly. A
man may suddenly find a gold mine. But
these ale accidents, for both prosperityand
adversely are matters of growth The ad-
versity Of 1882 was the bursting Of causes
that had been growing fol- thirty years.
You cannot expect any man OF party to