Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1889 — OBJECT LESSON [ARTICLE]

OBJECT LESSON

On the Beauties of the Protective Tariff. Anderson, lnd., March 23.—The farmers of this (Madison) county have res lved to boycott Trust binding twine during the comiig harvest. The Farmer’s Club took the initiatory steps last evening b ' resolving against Trust twine and issuing a call for a mass meeting of farmers to take further action What arrant nonsense this is, says the Terre Haute Gazette. To put twine on the free list was the way to smash the twine trust That the immortal Mills bill did. But these same farmers opposed thal last fall Jnd by defeating the party which championed that measure gave the twine trust just the ehanee it wanted to get in a position where the farmers oould not help themselves. To try to boyeott the twine trust is childish. To boycott it the farmers must discard the use of twine. That means that expensive twine binding reapers must be left to stand idle and that would injure the farmers more than it would hurt the twine trust. It would be like burning a barn to get rid of rats, or biting off one’s nose to spite his £ ce.

put twins on the free list and you have more than scorched ths snake; you have killed it. Then if these American twine makers don’t sell yon twine as cheap as you can get it anywhere yen can buy from the foreigners and the American twine trust can walk the floor and howl —and come down in petition with the world in selling twine just as ycu have to do in selling wheat. But last fall when this question was up the western farmer was putting down the rebellion, fighting the brigadiers, rallying around ke old starry flag, keeping Ameri-

ca for Americans, carrying torches and generally ripping things up the He now discovers that his own pooket-book vas the thing he was ripping.ub the back and that he was making merry at the funeral of his own prosperity. Kansas. Minnesota, lowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, and Oregon wheat growers are catching it now, and catching it hard.— It is a dear lesson, but it is hoped they have learned it. It is to I e hoped they will now plant themselves fairly and squarely on the platform of free trade and insist on wiping out entirely the laws which make them protect a favored few out of their pockets.

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Elder H. E. Ginzelman, of Bremen, Marshall county, lnd., will preach at the {Christian church, Sunday morning and evening, April 28th. All are invited to attend. ♦ Enquire at the drug stores for he horse doctor. Gash paid for Poultry, Eggs, Hides, Wool, Fur, Veal Calves, Rags, Old Iron, Game in Season, on Front street, near'.y opposite the brick livery stable,

J. R. SMITH.