Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-08

NO system eau De more Cillcitlt to rear up moneyc | aristocracy. Its tendency is to make the poor poor and the rich richer. f. :. Y. After we (thc SoIth) are exhausted the contest will be between the capi- tali-ts and operatives: for into these two classes it must ultimately divide society. The issue of the struggle here must he the same aS in Europe. 'ndcr the operation of the system, wages must sink more rapidly than the prices of the ncccssarics of life tell the operatives must be reduced to the lowest point, when the por- ton of the products of their labor left them will be barely sufficient to preserve existence.
 Bear in mind that Calhoun said this 1928, and then read the follow ing evidence taken by the senate committee in 1885: The witness name was Thomas O'Donald and he was an employee in cotton factory in Fall River Mass.
 Cues. Do you get much meat to live on:
 Ans. Very seldom.
 Cues. Has there been any day in the year that you have had to go without any thing to eat Ans. Yes sir. several days.
 Cues. More than one day at q time.
 Ans. No.
 Cues. How about the children and your wife, did they go without anything to eat. too!
 Ans. My wife went out this morning and went to q neighbor' s and got loaf of bread and when she cot home the children were crying for something to eat.
 Cues. Have the children gone without meal at any time during the year:
 Ans. They have gone without bread some days but have sometimes got meal and made porridge O it.
 Cues. What kind of meal:
 Ans. Sometimes Indian meal and sometimes oat meal.
 Q. Meal stirred up in hot water
 Ans. Yes sir.
 The witness goes on and show' that his wife has ony had two dress es in six years. and only had ont underskirt and an old wrapper som' one gave to her. Our L. l.. r. friends say that there k noth ing in the tariff. lou sec how Calhoun stood on the tariff Gl years ago, and the democrats stant there now. Calhoun then sad wha the effect of high tariff would be and q prophet could not have fore told the result with greater accurac, It has covered the agricultural state with mortgages and has reduced th' operatives t9 mere dependents and yet our modern self named Cal houn democrats say they are in favoi of a. protective tariff. Suppose the farmer could get his fannel an' jeans at. from ten to fifteen cent, per yard and all his supplies in pro portion, as he could do except fo l the protective tariff then this coun- try would blossom as the rose ant smiles would take the place of anxious cares. Calhoun stood for the peo 1 pie against ,he tariff lords and he downed them; for ih isi2 the tariff ! only amounted to about 70 per cent and from then until 1860 the wcalti in the manufacturing and agrl cultural states increased at the same rate. But since the war tariff has been laid upon the country tho wealth of the agricultural states has 1 increased at the rate of three per cen, while in the manufacturing states it has increased at twelve per cent. per annum. We give ihesG i facts to show how the tariff affects the agricultural portion of the com munity. The South, being almost entirely an agricultural people hay, borne ti,s burden until they are writh- ing under the pressure. Our |, l.. F. friends will hear ur shout tariff. until we get relief.
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 The St. Louis Republic, i'll speak of the cmplOVcs in the ba0ning fac