Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-23
That Tay.Rif.

To the Editor of the N. y. Herald:
I give you my thanks for printing my
letter, and maybe you'll take another. We
fellers got to talking about that tay-rif
matter, you know, after Jim Stevenson
showed the Blaine man where the shop
door was and Jack Blossom, he's Jim's
chum, you know, and reads the papers,
and he says, Boys don't let's be fooled by
these Blaine tayriff spouters. I'd like to
know who pays 'em, and who dresses 'em
up 30 nice like parcel of dudes. and who
fattens 'em up 80 sleek and smooth?
The tayriff does it, I guess, says jim.
Saws Jack, I'm blowed if the tayriT fattens
any of us, boys. No, says all of us, it just
don't.
Says Jim, says he, Boys, tell you they're
humbugging us, these Blaine tay-ritf frauds.
They're playing it on us big. I've been a
reading the papers, and here's big boss in
Pittsburg he cuts down wages to ninety
eight cents q day, and take notice he's a
Blaine tay-riff man. And here's lot OF
miners in Ohio that couldn't support
their wives and children on the pay
they got, and they struck, and the
bosses put Italians 10 their places,
and mind you, boys, the bosses that played
that fine Italian game was tariff men and
Blaine men and wherever they close mill
or mine and turn our kind adrifc, with the
winter before 'em, for their wives and little
ones to freeze, mind you, they always sing
out Tay-riff, tay-riH, and all these bosses
that screws down wages is tay-riff men and
Blaine men; and all them that brings in
| Italians to work for nothing and tind them
| III tlo,. al; 81
ing bosses is all Blaine tayrit howlers
Don't let us be fooled. There's the Tribune
that's always bowling Tayriff, tayriff, and
you see what the printers say about that
I suppose they'd get Italians too if they
could read. And there's Jay Gould, he's q
tayrif man and strong Blaine man, and
that dared strike for living wages last year
on Western Union black list, and Jay
Gould be telegraphed it all over the country
| for no Office to give him work to this day
| But jaw Gould, he's for Blaine and for the
| tayritf all the time.
I've read all about Governor Cleveland
SAYS Jim he's an honest man and he au't
afraid neither. He calls spade spade
and thief a thief, and that's the kind Of
man 1 want to see President, SO as to scare
off the thieves. What we workingmen
wants is low taxes, because low takes makes
cheap living and don't leave anything in the
Treasury for the lobby thieves to go for.
Low taxes and honest government, that's
what say, and the tariff III take care of it.
self. It's done so ever since can remem-
Der. Four years ago they scared us about
the tayrif and told US all that wages would
90 up and work would be plenty if we only
voted for the republican tayritf ticket; and
my eyes, times has been getting harder ever
since, and work scarcer. But them tayrifl
takers that's coming around now as they
did the last time, is getting fatter and fattel
all the time. Maybe they makes their liv-
ing out of the tayrif, but we don't anyhow
Let's all vote for Cleveland and Hen.
bricks, and low taxes and honest govern
ment, says Jim, says he, and we all agreed
with him and letlhe tayriT take care of it.
SELF 1t amt going to get itself hurt II
never has 80 far. Yours to command,
JOHN JOHNSON.