The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-02
WHERE 1T HURTS.

The following clear and incisiVe state
of fact is from the pen Of Tom Hubbard,
editor of the BellefOntalne Examiner, a
live Democratic Journal Published in q
Republican locality Mr.. Hubbard hits
the nail squarely on the head. The
farmer is sacrihced in this legalized
swindIe called a prOtectixe tariff. In
the eye Of thsprOtectionist. be is beast
of burden. possessed of no rights mono
lists are to consider. Good work like
the following will tell:
"DO the farmers of Logan county
know that If the Democratic measure Of
revenue reform were now a law, their
wheat would not be less than $3.50, and
perhaps 81 bushel2 g rrr-r.rrrr
This because under the present sys-
tenn, that. for twenty years, has enrich
ed the few at the expense Of the many,
the farmer buys under. the s0-called pro-
lection and sells under free trade.
N'EVery interest in the United States
is. protected against European pauper
labor except that of agriculture, and
yet the agricultural interest is not only
Of more value, hundred to one, than
all the others combined, and 1t Is the
underlying foundation Of the prosperity
of all. H' fN'-2 f'eH nnf -la
"a difference of ten cents in the
bushel 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.
I"Yet, the farmer suffers more from
paupeF labor, In competition with him,
than any other interest. The farm la
borer in the wheat growing region Of
| RussiA, the richest in the world, works
for eighteen dollars year and a goat
skin coat. The Egyptian farm labOrer is
slave. The wheat growers Of Eng land,
France and Germany work for bare
suOsiStence. ..-.
"Our surplus of wheat, corn, bacon.
beef. in word, all farm produces TO
sell, goes to Europe for q market, and,
there, encounters this so much talked OF
paupeT labor, and yet those who call
themselves prOteetiOnists not only re-
fuse the farmer protection, but they en-
hance the price Of ali he has to pOr-
chase. ..e .e.ta T..
Through this system Of protection he
is forced 10 pay twice the value of all he
has to buy, from the cradle he is born
into, to the coffin in which he is buried.
Protection carries up the price of iron,
from a horseshoe nail to reaper in ali
its shapes, 80 necessary to farm life; 1t
augment5 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 let's in the light,
the shingles or slate Of his roof. the tin
Of his kitchen-in a word, ali 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. aa- %
"And this is done by fellows who
laugh at the farmer and say that it is
safe thus to rob him because he is 30
stupid and ignorant he cannot under
stand. ..t.r.H .H.r Il
lis this 80, farmers of Logan county,
Are you really such asses that these fell
lows can ride you, under whip, booted
and spurred, to your own rufn2 . ~"
I'VE tell you, that with revenue re-
form your wheat will fetch at least
$3.50 a bushel. Try it-vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and IL 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. .L rIiI. -7i' ''i