Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — FARMERS, ATTENTION! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARMERS, ATTENTION!

See How the Democratic Promises of 1892 Have Been Kept In 1894. In October, 1892, that great democratic authority, the Chicago Herald, exhorted its readers to vote for “a change,” and in order to catch the votes of the farmers it used the fob towing bait:

“Vote for Cleveland and 81.25 for wheat”—Chicago Herald, 1892. In less than two years we have seen many “ohanges” that htpe become only too painfully familiar to the people of the Upifed States, It is unnecessary to dwell upon these beyond drawing the attention of the farmer to the manner in which the Chicago

Herald’s promise of $1.25 for wheat has been fulfilled. This we do by quoting from the Chicago Herald of July 6, 1894, a telegram which it published as follows, grammar and all;

Vandalia, HL, July 5. —"Wheat threshing is in full blast in Fayette county. Six hundred bushels of the new crop was brought to market today and sold at 46 cents per busheL The berry is exceptionaHy fine, and weighs over sixty pounds to the bushel measure.—Chicago Herald, 1894,

They Vote With the Free Wool Party and Against the Wool Growers. In the event of a tariff bill becoming law with free wool, it is but right that the sheep farmers of this country should know exactly who is to blame for the ch e ape n ihg or des 1 ruction of this branch of their interests. Some western wool men have accused the eastern manufacturers of desiring free wool. This is an entirely mistaken idea. The records of the senate showed a solid republican vote in favor of putting a_duty on wool, and a solid democratic vote in favor of putting wool on the free list While the populist senators voted, for a duty on wool, they are really to blame for wool being put on the free list, because they tied themselves up with the democratic senators in order to act on the income tax. Had the populists stuck By the republican senators there would have been no free wool, no tariff bill passed, and no income tax.

The policy of the free trade party is to throw our American market—worth $11,604,973,737 in 1890—open to ..the. competition of the farmers and manufacturers of all other nations, while we to secure their markets, all of which put together are worth $4,035,973,737 less than our own home market

Is it not best to retain the good home market that We already possess, also striving to cease buying the $773,674,812 worth of foreign goods that we consume and to produce these goods for ourselves, if we can, rather than to thro w a way what we are sure o f and take chances in securing a portion of the smaller markets of the rest of the world in open competition with the cheap labor of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, of Canada, of Central and South America, and of the savage labor of the Islands of the Sea?

Such is the policy of protection. But the free trade policy is to give our markets to the cheap labor countries and to compete with the cheap labor in their smaller markets. We already consume over four billion dollars’ worth of goods more than they can buy from us. Let us keep our own trade first. Always vote for protection.

The western wool growers should understand clearly that the only party to blame for free wool is the populist party of the house and senate, and the populists represent the wool-growing sections of the country. Perhaps the populists think they will acquit themselves from any blame in their actions by voting against free wool, but if the farmers can see a hole through a fivefoot door they will readily see that the Populists tied themselves up to the democrats, and it would have been utterly and absolutely impossible for the democrats to pass a tariff bill without their vote. Tnat would have left wool with 11 cents per pound duty as it had been heretofore. That the democratic platform went all to splinters we know full well They have acted very viciously toward the wool men, especially when they put a duty of 15 per cent on old rags and shoddy, and placed scoured wool on the free list. Out of ninetynine woolen manufacturers an the statq of Rhode Island there are only three that can be counted as free wool men, and there is not one in Massachusetts. It is not the eastern manufacturer who is to blame for free wool, but the populist senators.

POPULISTS ARE TO BLAME.