Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-01
E3lA- ARP. What he Thinks of the
 Tariff Question.
UNCLE SAM AND PROTeC-
 TON.

Papa, what is all this fuss in
 tle papers about the tariff. What
 Is the tariff, anyhoww
 w ell, my children there is T
 Il ,h old gcNllc0lan wnoal thc.rro-
 pie call Uncle Sam. and he has q
 4- l1la1ta'ipn and lots Of land and
 |" las q very large family of boys.
 most of whom are farmers. But
 7"" aA the name of Cri>pin took il
 "oiIoh to Sh0rlnai,iug, and ano,h.
 tI naued Vulcan took a notion to
 make iron, but they couldn't make
 enough shoes and iron to do the
 tanners, and so some outsiders
 came along and began to undersell
 Crlspin and Vulcan and Uncle Sam
 got mad ahouI Il. Crispin was sell.
 ing his shoes at S2 a pair, but these
 outsiders proposed to sell theirs al sl pair, and the other boys
 wanted to buy them, but Uncle sam said; No. Crispin can't make them at that price and make any m0ney.o so he made the outsiders pay one dollar pair on every pair of shoes they brought to the plan. tation, and he took that dollar and pat Il in his pocket. Then the outsiders hai to ask two dollars for their shoes. Ton see the old man had 10 oversee all the boys and he paid himself for doing it out of this money. Just so he made the outside iron men pay hlm six dollars d ton on every ton of iron they brought, and wouldn't allow them 10 sell 1t any cheaper than Vulcan was selling it.
 Now all thiS money that Uncle Sam got from the outsiders is call ed the tariff, But the farmer boys have never liked it, and want 10 trade with outsiders and get things cheap. Uncle Sam charges these outsiders something on'mOSt everything they bring, and he is getting rich-very rich. ltlsnow n hundred millions a~year more than he has any use for, and so the farmer boys are making q big fuss and want the tariff reduced so that they can get their goods rheapn
 "But, papa, why can't Crispin and Vulcan work as cheap as the 
 My children, there is where all he work comes in. These out ,iders get their labor at fifty cents | day, and it is barely enough to i've on. Their laborers are so many that they will work for al most u0thing rather than starve. They have poor food and poor and live in Shanties, and their little children nearly freeze n the winter and have hard .mc, but Crispin and Vulcan pay heir hands dollar a day, and Un' ,le Sam says that it is right. and he won't allow any poor people to suffer on his plautation.'
 "But, papa, why don't Crl>pn md Vulcan quit their business and 20 to farming 10, and then these outsiders should come in and sell heir shoes and their iron cheap tO the lafnc'S'
 "Because, my children, there ire so many farmers that can hard .y live. Crispin and Vulcan and .hplr workmen now buy corn, and -four and meat from the farmers and that helps good deal; but IT everybody was farming there would be nobody to buy from .hem. and these outsiders would then put their shoes away up to three dollars a pair. for they would have no competitions Competl- ton is good thing and keeps bus mess lively and prosperous all round. Then there is another req son why Crispin and Vulcan don't 1uit All them money is in their business, and if they quit It they lose it. They don't know anything about tarmlng' ana they couldn't get start if they did,"
 The world moves and so does the nation. Mir. ClevcIand's mes sage has shaken her up and some lhine is going to be done. Wehave heeu broodng and fuSsing over