Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-07-01


11:O5 Saturday with verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. When
the verdict was announced the prison
er burst into tears, trembled ana
clutched convulsiyely at the iron rail-
ing of the deck Mr.. Brooke, one OF
his counsel, asked to have the jury
polled and each man answered Guilty
in the first degree.' Counsel for the
defence asked that day be set to
hear argument for a motion for a new
trial. Judge Yerkes fixed Thursday,
tomorrow. The verdict was apparent
ly surprise to every person In the
court room, as it was thought sec
ond degree verdict, which was asked
for by the defense, would cover the
crime.
The Advantages Of Low Tariff
The New York Herald says it is eX-
ceedingly important that extraordinary
efforts should now be made to develop
the export trade in our domestic fac
tory products. Recent events have
demonstrated that in not a few classes
of goods our manufacturers are able to
compete with the foreigner in the neu-
trail markets of the world. Whatever is
done to extend this trade creates a new
demand for American labor and direct
ly enhances it's value and it's earnings.
Nothing in the past has done more to
deprive wage earners of remunerative
and steady employment than the
strangulation of our export trade by
high tariff restrictions and prohibitory
duies laid upon imports. Even half
century ago our 'infant INDUSTRIES (as
they were then called) were immensely
stimulated and developed by the lower
ing of tariff rates and by free raw ma
terials accorded by the famous Walker
''free trade tariff of 1S46.'
Under that low tariff, our home
manufacturers, as all authorities agree.
were not "swamped:" but as the his
torian Schouler says, ION the contrary
they grew and prospered. for that best
of all bounties as afforded them, raw
materials unburdened by taxation, and
the widest possible market with the
universe" And it gave long quietus
to tariff agitation, while it furnished
the Treasury large surplus of revenue
for many years. Even so high pro
tectionist authority as Mr.. Blaine, in
/ III Nv Of Gov,nracc I, r,ofor
ring to the tariff question in 1862, says;
1.-The principles embodied in the tariff of
1916 seemed for the time to be so entirely vim
dlcated and approved that resistance to it
ceased, not only among the people, but among
the protective economists, and even among
| the manufacturers to large extent. So gen
| eral was this acquiescence that in 1856 pro
tective tariff was not suggested or even limited
by any one of the three political parties which
presented Presidential candidates
The marked and unparalleled in
crease in our exports OF manufactures
which the monthly returns of the gov
ernment's statistics now show to be in
progress under the Wilson law is an in
vincible proof that our industries will
not be swamped by that tariff, but will
eventually (other things being equal
do very much better than they ever
did under any republican tariff. The
country will very soon see-if it does
not already see-that republican tariff
tinkering is not needed to advance the
welfare of the manufacturers, but is
really menace to their Industries.
The SCARED but starry flag of tariff
reform, surviving the storm of its many
long battles. will float proudly in the
coming campaign. 1t will announce
that by the victory it achieved in 1885,
the intolerable burdens of taxation foi
the benefit of protected" monopolies
have been greatly reduced, our ports
have been opened wider than ever be,
fore to admit foreign products indis-
pensable for the development of ou1
domestic industries and the comfort OF
the people, and free wool and cheaper
and better clothing secured to the
shiverlng millions of America. But no
device that can be inscribed on its shin
ing folds will elicit more applause from
the nation than that which signifies
that it has carried way beyond the
seas by which the products of Ameri-
can mechanics and workingmen have
Ialready gained new and profitable con-
quests in the most distant markets of
the world.
These facts answer as with a broad
side of artillery all the fimsy objections
of partisan repu blicans to the Wilson
law and if The standard bearers who
carried the banner of tariff reform in
its first conflicts now rally and unite
in an aggressive Jacksonian campaign
for sound currency and sound money
they will find the people with them in
the fight.
| CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, June 26.-
Mrs Maria Vandegrift, relic of the late
David Vandegrift, and one of the old
est residents of Albemarle county, died
last night at the residence of her son
3in-law, Mr.. John D Durrett, near Kes-
wick. Mrs. Vandegrift, who was eigh-
ty nine years of age, was the oldest
member of the Charlottesville Baptist
church, having been communicate
since 1888. She was sister of the late
John W. Chewing and stepmother of
Mr.. r. G. and Miss Fannie Vandegrift,
OF Charlottesville Mrs. John d. Dur
rett, of Keswick G. W. Vandegrift, of
Anderson, w. Va, and Garrett Wander
grift, of Harrisonbnrg, Va.
A white man by the name of Coils
tine who lives in the Benz about two
miles from Covington was lodged in
jail Wednesday evening for seriously
cutting his step son, Il young man by
the name of Rogers with knife.
1t seems that the way the affair oc
Cured was that Colstine was whip
ping his wife, Rogers's mother, when
the young man interfered, receiving
two serious and dangerous wounds,
one on the left side of the face extend
ing from the ear to the mouth and the
other bad wound on the breast about
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