Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-08-01

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And the birds sang sweet
''She has come once more -
And the roses kissed her -
At the door.
The day when Linnie came home, came home,
The sun benmed bright that day;
The bees made sweeter the honeycomb,
And the lilies leaned in her way.
And the south wind sang:
''She has come once more!'
And the sunshine kissed her
At the door!
The day when Linnie came home, came home,
The high and splendid skies
That smiling bent where her footsteps went
We're nearly as blue as her eyes!
And the birds sang sweet:
''She has come once more"
And my glad heart met her
at the door.
FRANK L. STANTON.
From New York Herald, July 24th.
How Far at Length Will the Senate Abuse
the Patience Of the People!
In Yesterdays tariff debate the de-
fender of the plot to defeat tariff-re.
design by an audacious demagogic as
sault upon the President for denounc.
ing the scheme. When Cicero exposed
the plot of Catiline to the Roman Sen
ate the conspirator, squirming under
the fire of the eloquent Consul, rose to
reply with down cast mien and hum
bled accents, imploring the Fathers
not to heed the malignant charges of
an upstart foreigner against the best
blood of Rome, but he was instantly
compelled to flee before storm of in
dignation. Unfortunately yesterdays
scene in the United States Senate
lacked the presence of a Cicero to test
the mettle of the compromises" and
to complete the historic parallel.
Senator Germans contention that
the Smith Gorman-Brice "protective"
tariff is not undemocratic will deceive
nobody; and this is all there is in his
speech and the speeches of his allies.
1t was deliberately shown IN the
columns of this paper on Friday last,
by the official statistics of the United
States Treasury, by the census returns,
by commercial records, and by careful
computations of the ablest American
experts, that the German bill will force
the people of the United States every
year to pay at least 1850, 900, 900 as
bounty and tribute to 'prOtected'
trusts and manufacturers of certain
sections of this country. and that not
one penny of this stupendous sum will
ever go into the American Treasury
No "protection" journal has dared to
question these figures. 1t is notorious
that the cost of living in America un
der every protective" tariff has been
nearly twice as great as it is in free
trade countries. While the national
Treasury goes a-begging or borrowing,
the plutocratic trusts and nanufac
turers have harvested annually under
the Mckinley law at least two billion
dollars of gold. The people, it is true,
have never been educated sufficiently
on the tariff question to understand
fully their terrible slavery of 'protec
ton" But nobody understands this
better than Senators German and
Smith and their allies. If we allow as
the average cost of living for an Amer
lean the extremely moderate sum OF
only 800 year, it is as clear as q sun
beam that tariff which raises che
prices of commodities 20 per cent will
necessarily compel our seventy millions
of people to pay an extra sum of four
teen hundred millions Of dollars gear
to fdoOred manufacturers and trusts
Senator Mills has estimated that un
der the existing Mckinley law Ameri-
cans are forced to pay as ''plunder" to
the wool manufacturers alone between
two and three hundred millions II
year" 1t is true the bill originated
by the Senate in defiance of the cOnsti
tuition is not so exacting. But the
duties it imposes (ranging from Is to
so per cent? will still suffice to enforce
a draught on the people of at least
$3.50, 600 year for their woollens
alone, and a fabulous sum, not less
than a billion and a quarter dollars, as
an annual bounty to the "protected'
barons, lords and masters of the Amer
lean people.
The people have long enough been
crushed under this slavery = more
brutal, ruinous and widespread than
even the old African slavery in the
Southland they are fast wakiny up to
discover what it is that has Frustrated
their commerce, paralyZed their bust.
ness, crippled their farmers and plant
ers and provoked innumerable and
bloody labor-strikes, bringing the
country to the very verge of civil war.
The abolition of this degrading and
disastrous despotism cannot be post
poned even if the people desire post
ponement. Present distresses and
necessities are already forcing them to
throw off the deadly yoke. The official
Treasury statistics, just published, re
veal a most deplorable state of our.
foreign trade. Saturdays and yester-
days kilograms tell of an unprecedent-
ed fall in the price of wheat, which is
the chief dependence oftwenty million
of our farmers. The harvests of this
mr. h hr1f 81,
Our ocean-marine has been decimated
and cut down to the waters edge by
the merciless axe of protection
How, let Senator German tell us, is
the country to recover from its present
profound prostration if his more than
billion dollar tariff is now to be impos-
ed upon it? The present and prospec-
tive untold sufferings of the unemploy-
ed masses, the distress of the whole ma
ton, the pitia BILE condition o. all our
Industries, cry to Heaven for real and
ample relief from the intolerable bur
dens of protection"
But, passing strange as it is, hedged
in by the mOney-powers, which have
for thirty years been draining the ma.
ton of its life blood and are still draw
ing thousands of millions of dollars
from it every year by means of the
monstrous Mckinley act, the apologists
in the Senate for its kindred bill, |
which passed that body on July 3. are
openly defying. not the President only,
but the whole country. But they will
find very soon that this is perilous |
piece of bravado. Protection" is |
doomed by the people, and all the
''compromisers" and their secret allies |
in and out of the Senate cannot save
it.