The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-26

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The Unprotected Farmer
"Nowsyop just look here, Mr.. B."
said tlse farner'sIwife, one cold night
last week, as her leige lord was turns
ing and tSistng and uhsettling the
coverseeneEalS ~ wish you'd try 10
compose yourself and let me get a few
winkss 81 sleep before morning,
What's 6thesa matter with yeu, any
how Yi,g s,s. 's, ,s, 1s "a \. '1 y - - {. !
"Matterrenough,' \ growled the good
man. Notwithstanding yesterday
steppsd mon Mr.. G. and bought
this infsrnai protection blanket It's
one ofithe cussedest, most sociological
articles lever got hold Of When !
get my Shoulders covered my feet are
left sticking out. When l tuck the
thing under my feet good and warm,
half my body is frozen stiff. The
things entirely too short to cover
both ends at once ThatE what's the
mattef."
Thereupon Mrs. B, lit out o bed, ran
up stairs and brought down an old
tariff-for-revenue-only blanket with
incidental protection (and mighty lit
tie Of that), which fit down we'll all
over the bed like it was made for it.
And 90 it goes. The protection"
heresy is too short to cover the farm
ers and the mechanics both at once,
hence the organs Of monopoly take II
up by sections. One day they deliver
homily for the sake OF mechanics
only. They urge the latter class to
vote for protection, that manufactured
articles from abroad may be kept out
OF the countiy This policy will limit
the supply, proftsawill go up, and the
farmers and other consumers will be
compelled to pay large prices for your
wares; which will insure you high
wages! Z
Next day the farmers begin to kick
whereupon the monopoly editor mus
concoct a theory to pacifs them
"You just hold still, Mr., farmerl Tn,
exclusion Of foreign goods (by a higf
protective tariff will induce thou
sands OF men toinvesttheir capital il
manufactures; over production
willfollow, and you can purchas wl1a
the poor mechanics have made q
half price,"
Protection says to the mechanic
keep out goods made by the paupe
labor-of Europe and YOU can get v
for a 81 blanket
Whats that you say?' exclaim
the farmer who las overheard th
oily voice OF monopoly.
"H-u-s-hl / didn't exactly ined
that2 / mean ter say--ah-eh--lik,
Observation-Disclosures to prohibit tn
importation Of foreign blankets wi
cause SO many woolen manufacture
to spring up that you can buy snc
goods dirt cheap--say for about or
dollarp
Was ever such q swindle impose
on people, Does not every pfotcctio
paper in the country thus swing Ek
a pendulum from one class to Il
otherf There are forty-eight millic
consumers in the limited States sst.:as.eess-
among which farmers are included,
course--and about three millions
mechanics or manufacturers. If i
could all buy
WHERE WE CAN BUy THE CHEAPEST
and sell in any market Of the wor
where we can sci, for the biggest pri
the cruel poverty, the fearful strike,
the cry of "over-pgoductiun''l won
cease. We should sooh be, relieved
those alternate fluctuations-the r
and falI--the over production o
year and underproduction next, vi
alternate paribds of tinaheial CHI
and ievers--and everlasting poYel
in the midst Of our new riels fapi'
developing country-the young gis
Of the West---the fiehcston eatthl
seventy wears ago the infant
tablishments' called for protect
They would need It only three or &
years--it would be necessary % X
them alive during infancy. For 20
so years before the late was. as ~
tics show,
ae94a4s sag