Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-11

tirely in the protected markets In the most highly
protected industries such cotton and WOOL steel and
lron the wages of the laborers the lowest paid in
any of our industries. We denouncc the Republican
pretense on that subject and assert that American
not by the tariff This truly porrays the evils flowing
from the collection of tariff taxes upon protective basis
publican President to be filed with the gaze upon
the manufacturers and fail to the great army of
middle class and the who constitute the great
bulk oil the peope-thcse people being the ultimate
consumers upon whom payment of the tariff tax finally
rests We have approximately nincty-iive million
millonares few hundred thousand independently
wealthy, but ms compared to them We have II great
many million whose wages fall below one thousand
dollars per annum, the average being less than eight
hundred dollars many falling below five hundred dol
lars. IL is upon this great host of oling humanity
that this burden of taxation falls Could this great
body of the poor be marshalled, what procession il
would make! From factories farms, and other fields
of human cndcavor; from New England and the middle
states from the mines OF Pennsylvania and the South
and West; to the Rockies and beyond; from the
cotton fields of the South and the farms OF the Mssis-
sppi Valley; from the tenements of our large cities:
from every nook and corner they would come millions
OF souls. Six million Of them women many of them
with babies in their arms; thousands upon thousands
OF children under twelve years of age-pac, narrowly
chestcd old in face tens of thousands of young girls
their eyes upon the future; twelve million fathers,
wives and children clnging to them would be in line
that takes the earth treasures into its strong and will
ing hands and from them make the country wealth
the host without whose labor this land would turn into
Wilderness and then starvc or become the beasts
=, " If this great host could pass in review before
Congress, Their hitherto unhcedcd petitions would he
granted and would again have the temerity to
vote for protective tariff upon the neccssares Of life
Is wonderful that the people aroused they never
have been before, and grimly determined to vote
out of power the party that is responsible for all this
distress and wantthe party that is responsible for the
great inequality in the distbutn of wealth earned by
the sweat of the brow Of Millions but enjoyed by the
chosen few, protected in their special privileges
1.-THE Republican party promised relief in the plat
form upon which President Taft nominated four
years ago. but has utterly failed to keep this PROMISE
The President twice vetoed bills lowering the tariff
passed by both houses and sent to him for approval
There is hope OF relief from the Republican party
and the voice of the people will be step down and out
March 9TH.
"What does the Democracy say upon the subject
of revising the tariff and reducing the duties: We
favor the immediate downward revision of the existing
HIGH and in many probibtivc tariff duties insist
ing that material reductions be speedily made on the
necossaries of life Articles entering into competition
with controlled products and articles of American
manufacture which sold abroad more chcaply than
at home should be put upon the free list We recognize
that system of tariff taxation is intimately connected
with the business of the country and favor the Ill
innate attainment of the principles advocate by
legislation that will not injure destroy legitimate
industry.
Discussing the trusts General Ayers said:
1.-THE language of this plank is clear and explicit
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