Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-21

II costs the tariff confederaey large
amount 10 keep lobby at Washington
to watch Congress. Their agents sent
to Europe 10 fish up tariff arguments
cost something more. The western
/ tariff bureau. which they maintain to
instruct westerners in the beauty Of the
system is another charge on the tariff
confederate treasury. They take, occa-
sionalIy, q turn at elections. They take
their families to Europe for summer
, vacations, and, il is said, spend on their
trip $1,000, 900 in gold, and come home
loaiied with the pauper goods OF Eu-
rope. We farmers know that their
agents, which they keep near us watch
ing for an opportunity to get mortgages
on our farms, are amply supplied with
money. These items help to reveal
why our protected friends dislike to let
90 their grip. Why, they have formed
confederation, offensive and defen-
siye, to stand by each other to maintain
their long enjoyed advantages. They
begin to have fears that western farm
ers are growing intractable. The edi-
tor of the New York Tribune recently
tried to get togetherin that city farm
ers' congress, to be composed of repre-
sentative farmers favorable to o high
tariff. Though all expenses were to be
paid, the congress failed. But Warner
Miller, the wOod-pulp man, and a few
associates, were improvised into COM
mittee to issue an address to the farm
ers of America and get up the form of
petition to be signed by farmers and
sent to Congress. These papers were
got into the patent insides of the coun-
trv press and were sent to leading
farmers. They stated that farmers are
suffering but don't know what hurt
them. Mr.. Miller's committee revealed
the secret-they need more tariff! Po-
tatoes and barley are only protected 10
cents bushel, when they should be 70
cents. Cabbages are on the free list,
they should be protected cents head.
The drop on wool from IL cents to lO
cents was great calamity. Tobacco
is excessively taxed, which limits its
use.
1 have not learned that any farmer
was caught with this chaff. But it
brings to mind the old story of the man
who owned donkey, which he found
would live on coarse provender. lie
| could exist OH thistles. The owner
thought he would try shavings. AS
the donkey refused this diet, the own
, er conceived the idea of making the
animal look at his shavings through
green goggles. The protective confed-
crates are trying similar experiment
; with the farmers. Weare little dazed
and puzzled and can not quite under
stand how it is that they demand to be
: protected by At per cent. taritt-can
: stand no abatement-and yet claim
: that high tariff makes their goods
' cheaper. They claim this bounty also
Z on the ground that they consume 9
t part of our farm products. We begir
E to comprehend that we consume all O.
' theirs-that they, as class, are ne
: more necessary to us than we are tt
f them. If we continue to pay then
! bounties so many times the cost of al
4 the lObOr employed, we begin to fea
s we shall not long be able to pay ou
!, own lab0rers. Love is said to be blind
G but self-interest is more so:; Let u
v take an object lesson; see how it is whel
the other OK is to be gored. Wher
i Chicago was to be rebuilt after the grea
e fire the people of this city called upol
: Congress to adjourn protection Tor
It year. They asked for free trade to bu.
l. lumber, glass, iron, and copper ant
8 OJDer WaCeFIdtS. L TOLcCLIOu w Aohi
X industry" and "keep your money a
e home," were not applicable when the
e became custumers-must pay out
O their own pockets, and could not charg
IS the tariff bounty to dealers and con
v sumers below them. The protection
o list in this emergency forgot his Greco
n that q high tariff makes things cheaper
ir Congress granted the request, but tn
It lumber lords were too much for Chica
IS 90, as they are still for the country
:, One more object lesson. Six years ag
,e Senator Farwell, then a member of tn
1t House, brought in bill to allow tn
,e purchase of free ships on the Clyde
e. instead of buying them of John Roacl
d on the Delaware. The privilege was
apply to an ASSOCIATION of gentlemen {
J. Chicago and New York to enable ther
ir to buy steel ships to establish fast lin
e across the ocean. Mr.. Farwell state
J" that he did not yield up his doctrine {
ID protection, but that in this particula
" case it should not rigidly apply, as thes
e. ships could be purchased abroad fc
Is $1OO. 1000 each, while Roach could nc
ut build them for less than $3.50, 900.
1t The pioneers of Dakota, Minnesot;
v and other frontiers annually build
1t Chicago, though not compacted int
" magnificent blocks along paved an
" lighted streets, but composed of fra
q tenements scattered over the wild pra
N ries, meager defense against the
at Arctic storms which so often embrac
= them in an icy death. If Chicago i
m her extremity needed to be release
o. from the exactions of high tariff VIII
at will say that the poor, hard-presset
,e shivering pioneer, struggling with NJ
b. ture to establish home, should not I
e. granted like privileges? A rural .pape
1e has Just declared fierce war on all WI
r. advocate the "damnable heresay of fri
~ trade.n Let this editor be one of thes
C. pioneers with an exhausted purse an
I'd q few blizzards might work change
ne heart. Let family and stock be threa
ened with destruction for want Of SUI
10. plies and better shelter, the though
~ might come to him that ms he sells b
be wheat for pittance to go 1000 milt
he to o market, and is there rated on
ct free trade basis, it would not be wror
to in his Government, which did notnee
the money; to permit him to buy h
C. lumber, coal. clothing and blankets
is the cheapest market, though that ma
It's ket might be over the sea, where h
Sc wheat found its destination. That la
be which should compel him to buy 0nl