Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — TUNNING THE TABLES ON MIL LIONAIRES. [ARTICLE]

TUNNING THE TABLES ON MIL LIONAIRES.

The following article embraces extracts from a tariff essay read before a recent session of the Farmers’ Institute at Ottawa, LI. by Mrs. I. H. EllioH, of Princeton, daughter of Owen Lovejoy The assay bore the caption, “Cackle from the Farm ”: 1 believe I could go before that commit.ee myself if it was not quite so far to walk. If I did, Mr. McKinley would probably say: Well, madam, what can I do for you?”

‘Mr. McKinley,’ 1 would say, “I live on an Illinois farm. I notice by the papers that all the othei folks have been here to ask you to so arrange matters as to, secure for them a good round profit in their various busiuesses. The fact is that whiskey and tobacco scheme of yours will not be much help out our way. We don’t use veiy much of it in our cook?ng, and so far as l am cjnoerned I would prefer that you would tax them so high that nobody could possibly reach them instead of putting thrm within the ea y access ol everybody. Our corn is down to 20 cents, cattle and hogs to 3| cents, and »ve are just giving away our hay and potatoes We haven’t made any money for a long time, and I’ve walked all the way to Washington to ask if \ou can’t let up a little on things we are competed to buy?” The chairman of the ways and means committee would probably say:

“My dear madam, you are really mistaken. Don’t you know that a high tariff on everything you eat and wear and use un your farms enables the manufacturer to pay nigh to his . mployes, who with bushels ©f money and enoimous appetites buy everything you can raise, and pay a big price for it? Why bless youi agrieultnral h*art, don’t you know that a war tanff makes a home mar net, and that a home market is the besi market? Why my good woman, this country is booming right along and getting richer aßd richer. I know any number of men who ate making a million doll rs a year, and if the country is prosperous of course the farmer is prosoerous. lam afraid you don’t quite know what you are talking about.” ‘Mr. A oKin :ey,’ I would answer, ‘I have heard you say that before, Mr. Randall says so, Mr. Culiom and JJJJr. Far we’l say so, and I have heard half a dozen farmers of my own town say + he same thing,jand 1 suppose 1 ought to believe it if the price of everything on a farm did not compel me to say that there is not a word of truth in it. But I have a proposition to make to you. I would like to have you do for the farmer just what you have been doing for the other people who come here to see you—that is subsidize us a little. Pay us a bounty of, say, $1.25 on every bushel of corn and oats we raise; $3.25 on wheat, sls a piece on hogs, $75 on cattle. $l5O on horses, and

—well, we don’t want to ask too much —say 75 cents on an ordinary chicken. Of course, 1 hese •re not war prices, but I think our folks would be satisfied with those rates. From the experience we farmers have had I am sure your committee can so arrange it as to slip this little tax out of the pockets of the manufacturers and monopolists without their knowing it. 1 wo’d like to have yon so legislate the tariff as to compel them to buy everything from us, and theD, major, I would like to have you stand around and see us whack up the prices on them! I would ask $3 apiece for my eggs. I would charge your friend, *r Carnegie, 85 cents for an earl. rose potato. Jay Gould could not buy a loaf of bread for less than sls. With my first crop of garden sass I’d buy a dress that would make those Washington women who telegraph a description of their dresses all over the country feel silly. Now, if you will help us in this little

Rme, we farmers will make you esident of the United States. It strides a women with great logical force that if this government goes into the business of legislating so that one business can receive a sure profit, it ought in all fairness do the same for the farmers.”

Another telling point was this: “I cannot let the opportunity go by without saying that it would be a slight tribute io agriculture to place salt and lumber on the free list, side by side with the oil of lavender and the attar o? roses, thereby giving the American farmer a fair chanee with the city dude, and tha; is beyend a woman’s understanding t discover the wisdom of the statesmanship that will lay a tax on the commodities she used in the kitchen and offer her instead free whiskey and free tobacco.”

One other pertinent suggestion to the farmer was the following: “You may raise chickens s larg. a* ostriches; you may grow your sheep and hogs until they are as large as your attle; you may imV rove your cattle and horses until they are as large as elephants; you may raise pumpkins as large as hogsheads, and it will net help you one particle until you hit upon a plan to sell one bushel of corn and one ton of hay for we at you can now get for two, and pay $1 tax where you now pay $6. Speed the day when the Illinois farmer may leern just how much it costs to be afoo.”

The address created a profound sensation among her audience, and it is probable that sue will be called on to repent it several times yet in other parts of the state. Cone’s Boss over-alls, best in the world, can always be found at the Chicago Bargain Store, the only place they are now kept in -Kensselaer;

In a recent interview, at Washington, D. 0., ex-Pension Commissioner Tanner said: “A few nights ago, as I was going from mv hotel to the train at Lancaster, Pa., I heard a great deal of cheering, and inquiring the cause I learned the\ had an eleotion that day and that the Beraocrats hacl carried the city by 300 majority, something th-<t had not happened for years, the majority generally being largely the other way. And as I came through Harrisburg and Gettysburg it wap the same story. How will it go in Indiana this fall 9 Why it will go about 25,000 majority for the Democrats. The old soldiers will not soon forget the campaign lies told them dor-, ing the fall of I*BB. No, 1 will not go to Indiana to talk to the ‘old buys' this fall, although I meant and believed every word 1 told them in 1888 and they can be no more disappointed than I am at the result; but our time will come. I did what I could during the short time I was commissioner, lent they cut me short. I think I can stand it if they can. I shall try to be able to ride in a carriage when some who did their best to kick me down walk out of town.”

On Thursday, March 20th, 1890, at his residence, 3f miles west of Rensselaer, on Bunkum road, A O. Pancoast will offer at public sale 3 brood mares in foal, 2 geldings, 2 yearlings, 2 suckingjcolts, 10 milch cows, 5 yearling heifers, 6 steer calves, 12 fat hogs, 25 ewes, 15 bnshe s timothy seed, farming implements, harness, ete. Under $5, cash, Nine m nths credit on sums of $5 and over, purchaser to give bankable note at 8 per cent, interest from date, if not paid when due. Auctioneer, Simon Phillips. Sale to com mence at 10 o’cloek, a. m.

Handsome lace curtains, 3 yards each, only 60 cents per pair best $1 to $3 per pair. hioago Bargain Sto

1 ldianapolis News (Rep.): General Alger may be an eminent Grand Comma oder, but as a logician on the tariff he scatters He found a team at a Canada horse show, he says, one a mare the other a gelding, the former was held nt $220, the latter at slßo—and was rather the better horse, says the General. “Why the difference?’ 1 inquired. ‘Because,’ replie the owner, ‘the mare can be sold over the line without payment of duty, and the horse can not, and the duty is the difference in the price of the two animals.’ 1 r late this to how th>t the Canadian pays the duty on everything Do brings into the United States, and not th« purchaser.” The general has certainly discovered a new read to wealth If by putting a tariff on a thing you can compel a foreigner to pay a lax into the Government tseasury, and at the same time sell the object for less than he would sell it when he has to pay no tax, why, all we hav< to do is to tax everything and grow rich on the pioc?eds. It doesn’t seem to occur to the Gen eral that a mare may represent a herd of horses, and that gelding represents onlv itself, and that for that reason the mare “is the better horse. ” His theory will also require explanation on the price of mares, if we can reduce that by putting on a tariff, why don’t we? And why do people like Alger watt a tariff? Where is the benefit to them if a duty is paid by the foreigner and the artiele is sold to the American consumer that much cheaper, and thus compel? the home producer to take less for his product? Is that the object of tariff? Are all these millionaires at Washington threatening the Ways and Means Cdtamittee against a reduction of the tariff because that will increase the price of goods? Verily, Mr. Alger has got the cart before the horse.

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