Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-28

N'ii'S' VI thS .NcW i>uBisiiiu L rec fttuc
league. held on May 8. was MIR. Frank
lin Pierce, OF New York. He handled
his subject without gloves He said in
part as follows:
Not only arc the farmers beginning
to appreciate the truth that protection
robs them and their families, but our
manufacturers. as tho products of their
looms exceed the demand of'thc home
market, nre understanding thnt pro
tcctive tariff. especially upon their raw
material, is against their interests.
The present population of the world
is about 1,400,ooo,0o0, and only 400
100000 use machinery at all. The rest
do their work by>rude tools guided by
the hands, and we. the Yankee nation,
who have revolntionizcd the world by
our inventions, who use machinery to n
greater extent than any other people,
we refuse to allow the raw material
which these 1.00O,0O0.0oO of non-ma-
chine using people create, to enter our
ports in exchange for machine made
products, except upon the payment of
excessive duties. while the more intclli-
gent of our manufacturers are clamor-
ing for free raw material and saying:
Give us free raw material. and VIC will
conquer the markets of the world
Instead Of seeking the markets OF
the world, employing millions of men
now lying idle, making the margin OF
profits less but the output several times
greater than at present. getting there
by steady market and continued scrv-
ice for our lahoring classes, our trusts
and combinations are hiring their COM
petitors to- close their factories and
throw tens of thousands of laboring
men out of employment.
1--WE have only to get freedom of
trade and we can capture tho markets
OF the world in many lines. What the
Englishman is to the German the
American is to the Englishman, and
just as the German is crying out against
competition with the machine made
goods and high priced labor of Eng
land, just so would England cry out
against competition with the machine
made goods and The high-priced labor
of America. were duties upon all raw
materials removed.
1--WE Americans walk faster, talk
faster, work faster. do everything fast
er than any other people on the face
of the earth. a people of the greatest
natural vigor. and The greatest enter
prise in the world. we have pnmpcrcd
our life and emascUlatcd our strength
and largely impaired The virility of our
national life by protective tariff.
Manlincss asserts its mastery in the
s;:nnc way in manufacturing as it docs
in every walk OF life. The men in pro-
fcssions who ask no favors. bnt get out
upon the dusty arena and fight for
lead, arc the mon who gain strength by
every effort. Give us ten years of free
trade. and We would capture from
England one-fourth OF her vast trade.
Give lis 20 years Of free trade, and we
will lead the world rs exporters.
THE protective system has de-
bauchcd public men and corrupted pub
lie life. Give any body of mon. however
pure, the power to take $l00,On0.OO0
from the pockets of the millions and
transfer it TO the pockets of few men
through an act of legislation and You
have created corrupting power which
will destroy the virtue and the patriot
ism of that body of men.
We ohdlI iiSNcl tct llti Ol lnc evils
which | have described until every. dol
lar raised by taxation is paid into the
national treasury; until VIC stop entire
ly this practice of allowing the right of
government to tax property to be used
for the purpose of allowing the mnnu-
facturcr to prohibit importations. form
trusts and rob our people of hundreds
of millions of dollars each year.
1.-THE remedy is in direct taxation.
Every man has right to know exactly
what he pays toward the expenses of
government, and direct taxation is the
only means of stopping the lavish OK
penditure of public money.
For period of ten years between
1901 and 1900 inclusive, with a tariff
of sH per cent. upon foreign imports.
and at the very time when we were go
ing to the great expense of esta blishing
our government, the cost of govern
ment was only S1s6s per capita for the
ten years. From 1851 to 1860 inclusive.
under tariff for revenue only, the cost
of government was only $21 SIS per cap
ita for the ten years From 1871 to 1850
inclusive the actual running expenses
of government had risen to S136.4l per
capita, more than six times the amount
required under tariff for revenue
only. and during the last ten years the
cost of government has been steadily
increasing.
AS nation we can stand this lavish
expenditure of the peoples money. but
we can never stand the luxuries. the
iniquities. the lack of patriotism which
great wealth. quickly acquired. is sure
to bring.
1--WE can be robbed by protective
tariff and still live. but when the rob-
Der takes the money and buys special
legislation and turns 1t over to cam
paign committees to buy votes with.
the very life of free government is as
sailed. Nations do not go down to death
IN the momentous sweep of battle.
They rather die from the poison which
the lobbyist and the vote buyer infusc
into the body polite.
"The mad riot of protection will soon
be over The evidences of the rcvolu-