The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-11
THE PRESS.
The Country's Approval.

Any tariff bill introduced ny Dem
ocrats would meet with Republican
opposition, and this, though Il mod.
crate bill in tho estimation of Demo
cratic reforlnera, will meet with the
united Republican opposition. All
the Democratic party has to do is &c
stand firm, stick by Mr. Cleveland
and pass the BILL The country viii
Sustain and approve such action
Nnshrille American.
TIE business pari qf Gqyernor
O'Ferrall's message sounds we'll and
his words, coming as they do, from
the abundance of heart that loves
old Virginia with devotion that al
most amounts to idolatry, no one can
doubt their siucerity.-DappiHf
Register.
There IL every reason for believing
that 1894 is growing to be bright
year. The winter, only half oyer
may witness still further evidences Of
the mistaken policy that brought the
country 80 near peril; but on every
side indications appear that assure a
coming period of energy, progress
and prosperity.-Danrauc Register.
NJ. Martins Reception.
1t is of course very gratifying 10
the people of Virginia to learn that
his friends and neighbors in Abe.
mario have tendared our new senator
Mr. Martin, a reception in which
their kind feelings for him were SO
Distinctly manifested. But as the
affair has been considerably adyer-
tised it would have been still more
gratifying to them if there had been
a larger infusion Of the "loreign ele-
ment.' y The visiting statesmen"
seem to have been almost entirely
confined to our distinguished Dem
ocratic chairman Hon. j. Taylor
Ellyyisiop and jig greatly valued aide
de-camp, Hon: 3: S. kagrlhe ?gg Thomp-
son.-Rietmond Times. -
Low Tariff Prosperity,
Between 1850 and 1860, under a
low tariff, 2l.600 miles of railroad
were built, an increase of 23O per
per cent. since 1850. From 1860 to
1870 the Increase in railroad con-
str4otiiQn. was but little over 70 per
cent, although tlh!ss government in
that period granted millione Of eerss
of public lands and made enormous
loans to railroad companies to help
thcm huild their lines. One more
contrast between high tariff and low
tariff prosperity may be given. From
1850 to 1860 the number Of families
increased from 3,20S.24O to 5,21O,-
1874. The npn,5ss Of separate dwell
ling or homes in 1860 was 4,as9.g92,
SO that in that year, after d long low
~. -
tariff period, there were only 241, 242
families in all the land without sepa-
rate homes. Then came the high
tariffs, and in 1870 there wera 9a6,=
810 families without separate homes,
an increase CT homeless families Of
1913 per cent. in ten years; end in
1880, after ten years more Of high
tariffs, there were 996,1O8 families
without homes to call their own, a
further increase of homeless families
of nearly 100 per cent.-Portland
Argus.
A Discriminating Tariff.
Free trade and a tariff for reyenue
only ARE 10th impracticable. The
government needs annually hundreds
Of millions of dollars ofreyenue which
cannot be obtained except under the.
oparation ola tariff. Adiscrimiinat-
ing tariff ID what tile country needs,
OF what used to be styled aa jndicious
tariff. Free trade demands that.
coal and iron-ole shall not be pro-.
teetei. A tariff for rorenue only.
demands that the highest duty ahallI
belaid upon them which they can
bear and yet yield the largest rave.
nuo. discriminating tariff de-
lnands rastoms-dnties That shall be
The best for the government, for the.