Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-07-29
PROTECTION
RUN MAD

IL was brilliant leader OF the
Kentucky Democracy who dec laied
some years ago tnat the Republican
party had taxed every article used
by the American people except "ail,
sunshine and water and the only
reason these had not been taxed was
that no one in Europe WAS engaged
in their manufacture
The Payne Idrich- Slcmp tariff
bill passed by the Glst Congress goes
almost as far, and i'm its great desire
To shut Off adverse criticism, and al
low the "staudpatters' To 20 up and
do Nn the country telling the people
that ii is good bill that all prom
ises have been kept aud that the safe
~ OF the country rests i'm their con-
tlnued control of the government,
the Bristol Evening News, the only
Republican daily paper in the Ninth
district undertakes TO read 10 the
Democrats, the "Insurgents' and
the people generally who are dispos-
ed Ia think, talk and act for them
sevles, u brand new code of ethics
concerning the conduct OF the pres
ent campaign.
IL Is the most mOnstTOuS editorial
deliverance that has yet come under
our observation and we confess we
never expected TO see one so narrow
and extremely PARTISAN from the pen
of a Virginia editor.
The 'standpatters' having erected
"A chinese wal! OF protection around
those " no control the situation with
reference To the neceSSarics uf life.
now Tie News proposes 80 cNtend
this wall about the ">taLdraiters"
81 t.at their sins may not he expos
eel, nor their iniquities laid bare TO
tie public.
Here is ihe wonderful utcrunce TO
Which We refer:
The criticisms which the demo-
cratic press i, constantly making OF
President TAFT and republican con-
grc>s loI not revising the lnriT i'm a
downward direction would have
been appropriate had the people
chosen Mr.. Bryan and democratic
congress on their tariff for revenue
only platform and hat they enacted
"A law similar TO the Payne law.
But being made on the action of n
republican, administration and con-
9ress which was selected on plat
form pledged to protection they arc
entirely out OF place.
Now if this isn't moustrous cam
paign argument, and most invit-
ing bid" for the support Of the
rank and file" of all parties, we
confess that we are wholly Ignorant
of the ways of politics, and OF pres
ent political conditions in this coun-
try.
The News practically takes the
position that in the absence OF a
platform pledge not to do so, the Re
publican party may with impunIty
send the country To the damnation
bow-wOws, and that citizens who
did not vote the Republican ticket
ut the preceding election have no
right 10 join their fellow citizens in
protest, or in holding the party to
account Tor its misdeeds and NAL
administration OF their affairs.
We ask The News when did il
come about in this cherished 'Iand
of the free that any party has
grown so great that ii can afford
to say in effect TO the people: 1--WE
did this; you must endure it,"
If the Republican nominee for
Congress in the Ninth District will
adopt this wonderful editorial as the
basis upon which 10 conduct his
campaign, Democratic success will
be douhly assured, for no people.
anywhere, born rs free as ouIs, will
ever stand for' such "A defiant and
arrogant attitude on the part of those
who seek public preferment in their
midst. But the editorials of The
News is full OF Inconsistencies. and
on several points it is at variance
with views expressed by "standpat-
teIs' to say nothing of those of the
militant "Insurgents" in its own
ranks. The News admits that there
has been no revision downward,
while Payne and Aldrich and others
declare that duties were lowered on
many important articles. We agree
with The News on this point. and
our purpose here is simply to show
that the editors views are out of ac-
cord with those of the trainers of the
bill.
we shall point out one more Ie-
markable feature OF this most re-
deliverance. The News
challenges the right OF
all who did not vote the Republican
ticket to criticise the party for
ramming" this Ubiquitous measure
down the throats" of the peopIe.
by this challenge, The News adj