Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — A Problem for the Rain-Maker. [ARTICLE]

A Problem for the Rain-Maker.

If Uncle Jerry Rusk's “heaven-bust-ers” do succeed in making it rain whenever it is needed, what is ever to become of our great and flourishing irrigating industry on the far Western plains? Here are people who evidently need “protection. " They are. American citizens, good and true, have invested American capital and employ American labor at living wages. What if* ti e whole heavens are to be turned loose upon the irrigators with copious showers of pauper rain’ Will it not ruin an American industry, wipe out American capital, and deprive many a faithful American ditch-digger of his employment? This “curse of cheapness” is leading us to sacrifice the interests of the poor hark-working ditch-digger in a most unpatriotic, most ’un American way. And all to save labor for the farmer and make his wheat and corn grow! The protectionists in their public utterances profess to hoi I that the policy of “buying in the cheapest market” is all a free-trade delusion: but the cheap, untaxed sugar, that they are row making

so merry over, Is cheap for the simple reason that it was bought in the cheapest market in the world, in Cuba, Germany, and the Sandwich Islands. “Buying in the cheapest market,” and paying no tariff tax works beautifully -with sugar,‘as every protectionist is now claiming.