Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-09-07
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. J. 1894
WHAT THE VOTE THIS FALL
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MEANS.
We may as well recognize the fact now
chat we are to be without few people in
the coming fight of the masses for lower
taxation; their yotes-few in number-lt
is possible we may have, but further than
that we may not calculate on them. What
we, may calculate OIL is the same support
the cause had in 1S92-another uprising Of
the people in favor of lower taxation. Let
no Democrat teInporize OF compromise
about this. If he does he simply drops out
of the line of progress. You may retard.
but you cannot stop progress which was
inaugurated with such majority as this
was in 1892. Trimming politicians may
attempt to befog it, but the people know
what they are after. They have pockets
AMI backs to be affected by taxation as well
as those who own the protected interests.
Like practical men they propose to take
what is offered them now and press on to-
wards what is in the future for them.
4 very large majority Of the Democrats
of Virginia have received less in the new
tariff bill than they hoped for and than
they had reason to expect, but it is lust
that much gained over the high taxation
of the Mckinley bill and for that they will
make the fight this fall. The vote cast i'll
November may be nominally divided into
Democrats, Populists, Republicans and
I'rohibitionlsts, but there will not be apoor
man who casts a ballot who has not in his
heart the hope that by it, in some way, he
will get lower taxation. All else is little
compared with that issue. Party affilia-
tion. party officers, party supremacy, all
sink in the popular mind before the hope
that what the common people OF this coun-
try earn may be permitted to remain i'll
their pockets and not he devoted by gov
eminent to the support and use OF Other
people. The Democratic party promises
the people this much as far as it has been
able to accomplish it in their behalf. 1t
does not pretend that it has not been ham,
pered and hamStrGng in its efforts to give
the people all it tried to give them. 1t
does not pretend to say that the present
bill is the end to which it labored. But it
frankly says that it is all it has been able
to get for them now. Tariff reform is not
the work of few months, it is not even
the work of a year-it is the work of time.
In Great Britain the generation which i'll
augurated lower tariff taxation, lived,
died and was buried before it was accom-
IL, oil; In
full fruition of the work. In America,
with d different government: without a
House of Lords and an sristocracy to con
tend with, the time will be shorter. In
years the dominent party, would not take
up the task of tightening the burdens Of the
people, but adopted a principle that only
added to them, the Democratic party has
taken it up. 1t will continue the work to
the end. 1t has courageously put forward
as it's platform that no man in the Union
shall be taxed that another man may pros
per. 1t has applied this principle of JUS
tice all the way from the greatest indus
tries to the smallest.
The first outcome OF the application OF
this principle has not been all the people
asked. but it has been much. Let us take
some Of the savings by it to our home life
Take WOODEN cloth for instance and take
SO as the amount invested in its first
value. When so worth OF WOODEN CLOTH
came to the consumer under the Mckinles
bill it cost him $3.50; under the present
bill it costs him Ss1i. Ten dollars WORTH
Of blankets under the Mckinley bill cosi
the consumer f20.30: under the present bill
it costs him $3.50. Ten dollars worth OF
flannel underwear cost tile consumer undei
the Mckinley bill $s;20.3G; under the present
bill it costs him $13. Ten dollars worth OF
dry goods for q woman cost her under the
Mckinley bill 5000; under the present
bill it costs her $l4. If woman bought
$40 worth OF common table china it cost
her when she paid for it in this country
under the Mckinley bill $40; under the
Wilson bill it costs $3.50. Take this $40
worth of goods and run it through the list
and we find the following reductions in the
present bill: On WOODEN shawls $11 so, Oh
Alpaca Sc 40, on carpets $4.l0, on wire
nails S2.lo, and on wooden yarns $24. so.
Think Of this, $40 WOODEN yarns that can
be made by the Mckinley tariff to cost the
consumer $3.50.
This sort Of taxation is for what What
possible benefit could a man get in having
this much money taken out Of his pocket Oh
plain $40 worth of goods ? The only
benefit promised, the only benefit even
pretended is that if we consent to pay this,
some other man will be able to make money
out of the job If there ever was a wild
theory of communism preached to All il
dustrious, thrifty people, under the pre-
tence Of practical benefit, it is this one of
Protection. That it could not last Wien
ever the attention of the people WAS called
to it. has been denonstra. ed in the upiis-
ING Of the people in 1899 and 1892; that its
end is near at hand will be shown in The
campaign of 1894.
AN EARLY PRACTICAL EVIDENCE
OF Low TARIFF,
Mr.. G. W. Koiner of Augusta, one of
the Secretaries Of the National Democratic
Congressional campaign committee, was in
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