The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-10-18

United states by tt0 navigation laws
prevented Boston from exporting any
products except to New York, IL IL
clear that Boston could not long main.
tain manufacturers, and that IL just
what England has done to the COM
merce of Ireland, Is l understand it.
also have seen q political document
in which the statement 10 made:
PROSPEROUS manufacturers make pros
porous farmers" | think l have SUI
hciently disposed Of that trash. Pros
porous manufactures, II they did not
tax all other classes OF people to swell
their own profits. would aid In making
prosperous farmers. senator Plumb,
Of kansss, short time ago said:
Il beg Of them (Protectionlsts) to
consider that the people are watching
these proceedings and that they want
no higher taxes, but lower taxes. and
that In giving protection to Amerlcao
industry they want to give . decent
chance TO class Of people, who by
reas0L Of their calling, cannot be pro-
tected ut al, but who have got to take
their chances In the markets Of the
world. for their products. hard pro-
ducts TO raise, expensive products to
get to market and In the production Of
which there Il the smallest margin OF
profit"
was talking to farmer Of Massa-
chusetts to-day about this thing. He
said be had - good farm rs there
was in the old Bay state and yet he taid
he could hardly make both ends meet.
and he complained to me that one Of
the reasons why he could not do 20,
was because everything else that sur
rounded him, sOds 90 much protected
that Il simply took the difference be-
ttccen proM and loss In his calling and
left him q very elm chance indeed from
year to year."
Bill Nye. you know, has long been .
country gentleman. / now read from
late speech by him:
well, tarmin' ID like runnin' . pa.
per In regards to some things. Every
Teller In the world will take and turn
in and tell you how to do 1t, even IL he
don't know blame thing about It.
There amt . man il the United States
to-day that don't secretly think he
could run airy one If his other business
busted on him, whether he knows the
difference between new mich COW
and horse hay-rake or not. We had
one of these embroidered night-shirt
farmers come from town better'n three
years ago. Been toilet-soap man and
done we'll, and 40 he came out and
bought farm that had nothing to it
but y fancy house and barn, and lot
Of medder in the front yard, and q
southern aspect. The farm was no
good. You couldn't raise q disturb
ance on 1t. Well. what does he do?
Goes and gets a passle OF slim-tailed
yeller cows from New Jersey, and
aims to handle cream and diversified
farming. Last year the cues sent q
load Of cream oyer and tried to sell 1t
at the new creamatory while the fun
eral and h0llercOst was going on. /
may be sort of chump myself, but
| read my paper and don't get left like
that"
"what are the prospects for farmers
in your state?"
.Well, they are pore. Never was so
pore, In fact, sence I've been there.
Folks wonder why boys leaves the
farm. My boys left SO as to get protect
ed. they said, and so they went into q
clothing store one of EN-, and one went
into hardware store. and one is talkin'
protection In the legislature this WIN
ter. They said that farmin' was get
tin to be like fishin' and huntin', well
enough for . man that has means and
leisure, but they couldn't make q liv-
In at it, they said. Another boy Is in
q drug store, and the man that hires
him says that he IL q royal feller."
"Kind of q castor royal feller,"
said with shrek of laughter.
He waited until l had laughed all l
wanted to, and then he said:
1--WE always hoilered for high tariff
in order to hyst the public debt, but
now that we've got the national debt
coopered, l wish they'd take q little
hack at mine. I've put In fifty years
farmlns. / never drank ticker In any
form. I've worked from ten to eigh-
teen hours day; been economical in
cl0ze and never went to show more'n
q dozen times In my life; raised .
family and learned upwards OF two
hundred calves to drink out of attn
pail without blowing all their vittles
up my sleeve. My wife worked along
side o. me sewin' new seats on the
boys pants. skimmin' milk, and even
helpin' me load hay.
For forty years we toiled along to.
gether and hardly got time to look in
w V0SA VSuOA A0VOO Va O0lON w
stop and get acquainted with each
other. Then her health allied.
ketched cold In the spring house,
probably akimmin' milk and washin'
pans and scaldin' pals and spankin'
butter. Anyhow, she took In q long
breath one day while the doctor ard
me was watchin' her. and she says to
me. Henry says she, I've got =
chance to rest, and she put one
tired. WORKOUT hand on top of the 9TH
er tired, WORKOUT hand. and knew
she'd gone where they don't work all
day and do chores all night
Il took time to kias her then. I'd
been too busy for q good while previ-
Gus to that. and then l called In the
boys. After the funeral It was too
much for me to stay around and eat
the kind of cOokin' we had to put up
with, and nobody spoke up around the
house as we used to. The boys quit |
whistlin' around the barn aud talked
kind Of low by themselves about going
to town and gettin' = job.
"They're all gone now, and the snow
Is four feet deep on mothers grave up
there il the old berryin' ground
Then both of us looked out Of the
car window unite n long time without