Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-24
THEY were FOOLED ONCE
AMERICAN WORKING PEOPLE WILL
NOT VOTE FOR MORE TAXES.

Taught by the Depiorable Results Of
MckinIcyism, They WIN Not Care
10 Repeat the Rainous Expert
inent of Trust-BreedIng, Panic
Producing High TarIf.
In an editorial prediction of the
speedy restoration of the Mckinley
tariff, the New York Press says: ''rhe
Woodworking people have had les.
son. What they want now, and want
quick, is more taxes the sort OF
taxes which the Democratic Congress
hfted-taxes on imports.
The working people of the United
States have not always been alive to
their best interests, and have too often
allowed themselves to be deluded into
voting for a policy of high taxation
which enriched trusts at their ex-
pense. For thirty years the country
tried tariff system by which enor.
nous taxes were imposed on every
thing the classes consume, thus prac,
ticaily cutting down their wages to the
extent of the duties. Years of pain.
ful experience under the workings Of
high-tarif monopolies finally taught
the workers wisdom, and in 1890 and
1892 they decided by great majority
that protection was a fraud and rob
berry.
But the awakening had como too
late to save the people from the con-
sequences of their own folly. The re.
suits of over taxation were felt in the
last two years OF McKinleyism, when
panic, ruin and bankruptcy desolated
the land. Closed mills and factories,
IDLE men, reduced wages and wide.
spread business stagnation testified to
the injurious effects OF the trade re-
striction policy.
= Although the Democrats were given
command of a robbed and scuttled
craft they set manfully TO work to re.
pair the damage caused by the long
period OF Republican misrule. The
Democratic. Congress repealed the Me.
kinley law and adopted tariff which
made largo reductions in the taxes on
articles of necessity, and gave free raw
materials TO important industries. Al
ouco business revived; manufacturing
establishments long closed down
started up again; at least million
workers had their wages increased
from five TO twenty per cent, and in
place OF the Mckinley panic the coun-
try IS now enjoying q period of low
tariff prosperity.
These are the facts in regard to the
depscrdble condition of the country
under protection, and the great i'm
Proyement which has followed the en-
actmens of moderate tariff law. Yet
the Press has the importienco to as
sumo to speak for the American work
ing people, and TO say that they won't
moro taXes-taxcs on imports. Do
they? Do they want taxes put back
on wool, from which they were taken
By tho Wilson tariff? Do they want
heavier taxes an clothing and blank
cts, III order TO compensate wooden
manufacturers for the increased cost
of their raw material? Do they want
more taxes on food and on lumber,
glass, nails and other materials for
houses? Do they want n repetition of
their experience when the Mckinley
law was adopted, and higher taxes re
suited in higher prices all around? II
they DO not want to return to the pol
icy OF high taxation TREY have tho
power 60 do so. But it cannot be pos
sible that they Will ever again bC
fooled iuto voting fo- more taxes and
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