Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-04-08

more, than to the farmer and arti
san 2 r.
Whoever e may be, no doubt
his eye is upon the ropes that lead
to office, and if SO, he is to be pitied
in the start Hear him, and decide
reader. for yourself. In speaking Of
our sympathy tor the farmer he
asks why has he done that P and
then further asks SIS it because he
thinks he can obtain their sympathy
and their votesY' Poor fellow Has
man no higher motive in life than
seeking votes3 If he has not he is
selfish and mean indeed. The wri-
ter is now almost fifty, has never
sought an office in his life, detests
office seeking, never has been a
candidate, never would consent,
when solicited, to become one, and
still hopes he never will, if again
asked, consent to become such.
Away then Mr.. C. with all your
fears on account of those articles
So far as we are concerned Nevada
need have no fears of Upper San
dusky in that direction. We will
not be in 'G's' way when he offers
to serve the farmers in that di-
rection.
But G. must be a man of brains
and not farmer, for he asks ''what
would the improvements Of this
country be without mental labor?"
mo tariff on brains we believe.) J
And we might ask, where would the
brains be without the products of
the farmer? The stomach must be
often filed to make the brains and
keep them 'level!' This is a good
deal like 'G's' idea Of the farmer
manufacturing beef, pork and wool
from his grain and grasst" We hope
&C. will give the farmer all the ad-
vice in his store-house of knowledge
as to the proper tools and machin-
cry to be used in the manufacturing
Of beef,pork and wool! +! No doubt by
doing SO he will secure their sym
pathy and their votes" g. in a
completed sen ence says, 4 cannot
see the force Of the argument that
because the country has become
settled and now we Use rail roads to
carry wheat from the center of this
State in lumber wagons to get it to
water navigation" Nor can we see
the force in that sentence, unless it
is in water navigation! The force
seems to be left out!
s'The free trade Enen" act wisely
in telling people to ''buy where they
can buy the cheapest and most men
take the advice readily. But when
'G' says that the free trader would
go to England after these goods, or
some other cheap labor country"
then he assumed great deal. The
free trader says no such thing, but
believes they can now, generally, be
,cade as cheap here as anywhere
else. sG.' asks who pays the cost
of exchange : We say the consum-
er. But what does thai argue
All the cost for exchange or
a yard of broad cloth would not
exceed twenty cents, while the pres
ent tariff adds not less than two
dollars, does not the consumer lose
81 80 per yard because of this enor
nous duty or tax?
'G' says 'if he (the farmer) could
buy his cloth or other manufactured
goods in his own country he could
afford to pay a greater amount of
money for them and have money
left for electioneering purpose or to
send his son to West Point!''
'G' must be politician by trade
Who are the farmers electioneering
for9 Why advise them to save
to spendso uselessly ? Amer
ica now makes, land every farmer can
buy cloth in his own country good
enough for any farmer, or any Pres
ident to wear! And was it not for
'Protection,' every farmer and every
mechanic could buy that cloth for
two thirds the price he or they get
it at now.and the government would
lose very little. The manufacturer,
would =snot get rich so
fast.
When 'G assumes that the Gin
terests of the different classes of
this country are SO interviewer that |
you can not benefit any particular |
class of persons in your own coun-
try without producing beneficial re-
suits upon other classes as well as
yourself, he is sadly deficient some
where! AS class the manufactur-
ars Of iron, steal, leather, lumber,
salt, cotton and wooden fabrices &c.
are greatly benefited by enormous
duties now imposed on their pro-
auctions, and can "a say that a |
single individual in Nevada, his |
own town is benefited thereby ? He
can not say so and state facts! Nor
Is there a single farmer, mechanic
Or man of brains in Wyandot Coun-
by benefited by Protection p Every
citizen of Nevada pays at least one
third more for lumber to shelter
him from the storm, for clothing to |
protect his body, for boots and |
shoes to save his soIes, and a thous-
and other things, and what does he
get in return Nothing but more
toll, and without any real benefit to
the government. No, sir, you can't
show wherein a single person in
your town is benifitted in exchange
for all this tax upon their toll, and
energies. To every citizen of Ne
vada the protective feature of any |
tariff is oppressive and beneficial
only to the class protected &C.
advises persons to enter the business
of making iron, if so profitable, and
supply the demand. Is the demand
not now supplied We know of
person wanting ironwho can not get
it with money. More would glut /
the market, and lie dead upon the
hands. In other
words we have iron works enough