Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-07-09
sFrosn the Illinois State REGISTER.
THE MILLER AND HIS WING GUS
TUNERS

TONER'S
Halo Bob, says one Of them, you have
got new toll dish, han't you.
Oh, yes, says !, the old ono got little
shackeling like, und a little wore off at the
top, aid rather too small for the interest OF
my Customers, and thought it was best to
have new one:
YES, BY graeohs, says another Of them,
do you see that, Williams, if il amt about
third bigger than the old one will be
shot sure et.ough, says the other. Why.
Bob, wha, tho mischief does tha, mean;
how is that for the interest Of ysur custo
@mers as you say?
Oh, says |. very plain, don't you Under.
stand it! the higher the toll the lower the
price OF grinding and the more meal you
get.
Shaw now Bohs Gays one Of them, how
can YOU make that out! Now none o
your hhmbugging US with your big Toll dish
in these hard ~ Ter times.
come now Sc, down here and 10, me explain
il 10 you and straightway took out Mr..
Evans speech and read To them and ex-
planned how the high tariff worked, and al
though il appeared to increase the cost OF
the foods To the importer and retailing
merchant, ye, The higi'et he paid for them
tho lower he co'.ld afford To- sci! them 10
his customers, the farmers and laborers
who CONSUMED lhcm and now, SAID !, the
same universal law Of trade and cause and
effect applies with equal force TO tho miller
and his customers. lie does tho grinding
and takes tho toll, you are his customers
and cunsum, tho meal, and the toll being
the price and cost Of grinding, it follows rs
u necessary consequence that the higher
the toll the lower the price Of grinding, ard
although my new ,uli dish appears larger,
vet you get more meal by il; and all this
proved very clear by MIR. Evans speech
and the argument Of my wing ne ghbor who
gave me the document; and tell you friend
Mack, il was knock down argument to
those boys, they looked AT each other like
80 many bowiIdered pigs in a New(ound
land fog, each expect ng the other 10 an
swer my speech, bu, il was no go. II was a
good wing argument aud proven by accre-
dltcd wing documents, and they immediate
ly gave in md admitted, TINT although they
did not exactly understand il nj first, yet
II is now clear aud as self-ev dent as Mr..
Evans argument showing the higher the
tariff whi;h stands in the place OF tho toll,
the cheaper the goods, which stands in the
place OF the meal.
From that time have been using my
new toll dish pretty freely. and manufactu-
ring meal and -four has got TO be a first
rate business, and what is better my wing
customers. although their grsts OF meal
don't last quite MS long rs they used TO, are
we'll satisfied, and now Mack, don't want
you to b, blowing away here that Evans
speech is no, true, and that this whig doc,
,rine abou: the high thrift making goods
lower is all wrong. for il you do my pond
is out. and am ruined, with my new toll
Dish operation
But, says Mr.. Mcconnell. pray Bob,
how do you get along with your democratic
customers, surely you can't humbug them
with your Evans speech and wing argu-
mcnts!
oh shaw, no, says Bob, use the old
toll dish for them and all goes off we'll, bu,
nov dom. you tell any body what told
you.