Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — The Farmer’s Interest in Protection. [ARTICLE]

The Farmer’s Interest in Protection.

“When I picked up the pen to indhe my Tariff message,” says the Hon. Grover Cleveland, “I had but one man in my mind from the time I wrote the first word Uno I signed my name, and that was ftei* American farmer, but he did’ not * Si understand me.” It will be noticed that in this sentence Mr. Clove-, land attributes to Ihe farmer not only inability to understand the

ex-Pre •si'dvnt’s ponderous phrases and exploded fallacies, for which the farmer may surely be excused, but absolute ignorance of one of the vital questions which affect his pwn When it is remem 7 bered that Mr. Cleveland himself confessed shortly, before his nomination that he “didn’t know a thing about the Tariff,” and that when he did write his wrote it at the dictation of Southern politicians of the Roger Q Mills type, this assertion appears little less than impudent. The advocate of a consistent Projective Tariff, that shall protect alike the interests of all classes, the farmer included, is well content to leave his system to the practical examination of the farmer himself, nor does he think that closet economists or political theorists are better able to judge iff the feasibility of such a system than the very man for whose benefit more than anything else it has been adopted. The fanner needs no diagram nor does he require extended dissertions from the Hon. Grover Cleveland to enable him, for instance, to understand the meaning of figures. —Economist ' v