The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-05
Where ItHurts.

Where 1t Hurts.
The following brief, but clear and
incisive, statement Of facts is from
the pen of Tom Hubbard, editor oil
the Belefontaine, Ohio, Examiner, a
live democratic journal published in
hotbed of republican stupidity
Mr.. Hubbard hits the nail sanarely
on the head. The farmer is sacrificed
in this legalized swindle called pro-
tective tariff, and no one cares. He,
in the eye of the protectionist, is a
beast of burden, possessed of no
rights the monopolists are called on
to consider. Some more work like
the following will soon tell.
'Do the farmers of Logan county
know that if the democratic measure
of revenue reform were now law,
their wheat would not be less than
$1.50, and perhaps 80 bushel?
"This because under the present
system, that, for twenty years, has
enriched the few at the expense of
the many, the farmer buys under the
so called protection and sells under
free trade.
every interest in the United
States is protected against European
pauper labor except that of agricul-
ture, and yet the agricultural inter
est is not only of more value, a
hundred to one, than all the others
combined, but it is the underlying
foundation of prosperity of all.
"a difference of ten cents in the
bnshel of wheat gives US good times
or hard. times. Let wheat advance
ten cents, and business booms. Let
wheat drop ten cents, and hard times
are upon us.
ssYet the farmer suffers more from
pauper labor, in competition with him,
than any other interest. The farm
laborer in the wheat growing region
of Russia, the richest in the world,
works for. eighteen dollars year and
goat skin coat. The Egyptian
farm laborer is a slave. The wheat
growers of England, France and
Germany work for a bare subsis-
tence.
"Our surplus of wheat, corn, ba-
con, beef, in a word, all farm produces
to sell, goes to Europe for market,
and there, encounters this so much
talked Of pauper labor, ana yet those
who call themselves protectionists
not only refuse the farmer protection
but they enhance the price of all he
has to purchase.
Through this system of protection
he is forced to pay twice the value
Of all he has to buy, from the cradle
he is born into the coffin in which he
is buried. Protection carries up the
price Of iron, from a horseshoe nail
to a reaper in all its shapes, so nee
essary to farm life; it augments the
value of calico and cloth, blankets
in word, all that he or his family
wears; it makes him pay two prices
for the door that shuts'out the cold
and the glass that lets in the light,
the shingles or slate of his roof, the
tin of his kitchen-in word, all
that he buys is rendered enormously
dear under protection, while all he
sells is under free trade, that leaves
him to suffer from the competition of
pauper labor.
"And this is done by fellows who
laugh at the farmer and say that it
is safe thus to rob him because he is
so stupid and ignorant he can not
understand.
rs this so, farmers of Logan coun-
ty? Are you really such asses that
these fellows can ride you, under
whip, booted and spurred, to your
own run?
I'VE tell you, that with revenue
reform your wheat will fetch at least
$1.50 a bushel. Try it-vote the
democratic ticket, and if what we
tell you and all intelligent men, who
have studied the subject, see, does
not come true, why go back to your
republican protection"