Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — Page 8

VoOKHEES’SP jeECH

(From Ist Page.) THE FARMER.

Wherein He Bears a Wholly Unjust Portion of the Burden. But let us at this point consider a little more closely the different classes of people who are affected by a protective tariff, and the false and delusive arguments made to them by its supporters. The farmer is the most important factor in the civilization of the world, and any policy of government which ninders his prosperity is necessarily false and vicious. His toil feeds the human race, and no burden should oe laid upon him to tramel his energies or obstruct his success. The wisest thoughts and best efforts of statesmanship have been to secure to the agriculturalist the most remunerative markets ( in which to sell his products, and the cheapest markets in which to buy the necessaries and comforts of life Restrictions on trade have never in anj period of the world’s history been advantageous to him, although he has often been compelled to submit to them, sometimes, it is trie, in the interest of government revenue, but far more frequently for the support of royal families, titled nobilities, and moneyed and privileged aristocracies. Every dollar taken by the tariff from the American farmer over and above what is due for government expense is simply the same kind of extorted tribute which enslaved labor has paid to paste, to crowned heads, and to their pampered retinues during all the ages of the past. This fact is becomin ; transparent, and will very so >n be accepted on all sides. 4?he one great aim of the plutocracy is to hide and obscure it py a carefully prepared system of falsehood, without a parallel for its skill, fecundity, an 1 brazen persistence.

To convince rhe farmer that he is protected and in anyway I bj t ;; dgh protective tariff is a ta*k it would seem to baffle the boldest juggler, and imposters, but in some instances it 1-ns been done. I recall one at this time. During he <a hi paign of last year, in one of our beautiful Indiana towns, and in a very fertile belt of country, I witnessed a repu bl ice; i procession. It had in it many industrial exhibits claiming to show the power and the glory of a tariff laid for protection. ’ As I scanned the long line of moving venicles I caught sight of one that riveted my gaze and gave me much food for reflection on the power to mislead and deceive which was abroad in the land. It was a wagon driven by a farmer and loaded with productions of his fields. There were specimens of his corn, wheat, rye, hay and oats, of his potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes, of his cabbages, beans, onions, pieplants and tomatoes, of his apples, peaches, pears, grapesand cultivated blackberries, and on each side of th? wagon in big staring letters I read the words. “These are the fruits of protection.” My first tho’t was that such a man would certainly become the victim ot a bunco steerer or a confidence swindler before he got out of town, butm a moment I reflected that he had been listening to the eloquent advocates of the monopolists, and had been persuaded that tariff protection had done more for him than the sun, the dews, the rains and a rich and bountiful soil, with all his labor thrown in. The stupendous extent of this unfortunate man’s delusion can only be estimated when you turn away from a political parade and look at him while at work on his farm, You there behold the poor blind dupe breaking up his grounds, preparing them for crops, ana then planting and drilling in his com, his wheat, his oats, and his rye with plows, harrows, planters and drills on which he has paid

out of his own pocket from 75 to 100 per cent., nearly double their real value, as a tariff tax laid for the protection and enrichment of the manufacturer us such implements in this country. You behold this enslaved and deluded victim of the money power cutting his small grain and his hay with a reaper ; and a mower for which he has paid twice what they would cost him but for a protective tariff. He uses a double -priced hoe in his cabbage patch, and a double-pric-ed pitchfork at his hay mow and wheat stack in order to avoid foreign competition and thus get rich. He then puts a set of harness on his horses taxed from the bridle bits to the breech bands, and on every buckle, link, and chain, hitches them to a wagon taxed 85 per cent., at least, oil every bolt, spike and tire that holds it together, and then with a suit of clothe s on his back taxed at about the same rate, and with his wife by his side, also covered with raiment at two-fold protected prices, he starts to town shouting for Harrison, and the sideboards of his wagon proclaiming the vaunted lie that the productions of his farm were the fruits of protection. The fruits of protection! They were plant ed, nurtured and gathered in spite of protection, and at a double expense because of such a curse in the statute books of the government. It is a .notorious and self-evident truth that the tariff, as it now stands, increases the farmer’s expense account from 35 to over 100 per cent, on every implement of husbandry with which he toils from one year’s end to another. The Mills bill attempted to place all fibers, such as hemp, jute flax goods, and manilla used in the manufacture of twine, on the free list That just and moderate bill was defeateaby the monopolists, and now, with a tariff of S2O a ton and 40 per cent, ad valorem on twine, and also on twine trust, creating a close monopoly in its manufacture, thousands of farmers during this summer’s harvest have not been able to pay the in creased price of twine-binders. They 1 ave been forced back to tile machinery of their naked hands, and with bloody fingers and tiiumbs have reflected upon the price of binding twine, enhanced to 18 cents a pound by tariff and by trust.

THE MASCOT CIGAR: ZS FOR SALE EVERYWHERE!! Manufactured and Warranted by AL. Bin i'K, Rensselaer, Ind. MAMMOTH FURNITURE WARE-ROOMS. PariwSris, M rs Mon Sets, KMem Furniture. U Suite Mom. AUlterf Mm. W. —DEALER INFITCH! CF CJF? Pa WILLIAMS-STOCKTON BLOCK, ■ J IIIUD I/O JR HEFT OF MAKEEV ER uOVBE, iiEKBBEIUUI> IKDB

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It is true that party prejudices are stubborn and hard to re move, but surely it is not too much to suppose that between these same sore .fingers and thumbs a republican ticket will not be found next year. The very house in which th fanner lives is a monument to unnecessary, unjust, vicious, wicked and criminal taxation. His barn is the same. There is not an inch of lumber or a single nail or a pane ot glass in either of them which has not cost the farmer an average tax of more than 50 per cent, paid, not to the government, but as a naked subsidy to the manufacturers of lumber, iron and glass. His table,. spread with dishes with his daily food, is an alter reared to taxation, on which he sacrifices three times a day to the unholy god of Mammon, now controlling the councils of the nation and devouring the enforced offer ings of unpaid labor. His bed is not a place of untroubled rest. It is lined and stitched and quilted with dishonest taxes, which he is compelled to pay before he can draw his blanket over his weary frame and sink down to sleep. Noth ing so exasperates the monopolists, the usurers, the taxeaters, the tariff spoilsmen, or so inflames their rage, as the re cital of facts such as these. They are fully conscious that their system of spoliation and plunder is blackened at the bar of public opinion when ever its hideous and oppressive details are brought to view.

, Like beasts of prey, they desire to feast upon their quarry without molestation, and they often persuade themselves that their depredation and banquests on the stolen pro ceeds of labor are not seen. They invoke the veil of mystery for the whole scheme of

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