The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14
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 Last year over 80 per cent of the to- tai exports from tie United States were farm products. They were all sold at absolute free trade prices, while on all the farm supplies, provisions and clothing used by the farmer in producing them, tas of from 2o to l75pe cent. leverage 45 per cent.) was paid into an overilowing treasury.
 Mir. Harrison's organs quote from a speech in the Senate in 1886, in which he declared that ''our bailey shauld be small farms worked by the men who own them" In spite of this emphatic condemnation of the policy of class government, MT. Harrison has accept cd n omination on platform advo- eating an increase of taxes to the point of a prohibitive embargo. He declared in 1886 what our policy ought to be-Hsmall farms worked by the men who own them.n In 1888, the bribe of presidential nomination has led him to repudiate this policy, and to appear before the people as the representative of the Depews, Thurs tons, and Haymonds-of the Robber Trusts of the East, and the Robber Rings of the West.
 If the trust agents and syndicate at- torneys who assembled at Chicago and called themselves Republican con vention, could carry out their plans for free whiskey and higher taxes on the necessaries of life, the ruin of the great agricultural West would be com1 plete. What escaped war taxes would be taken by embargo. What the can ker worm left, the locust would des- troy.
 Already the condition of the agri- cultural West is grievous. Its vitality is sappeu by the villainous sys- tenn of class robbery, which drains it of it's resources to fatten q favored class in favored locallty-a class which does not constitute one-tenth of one per cent of the total population-a class composed of men whose vast for tunes already excite the astonishment of the world; who rival the spend thrifts of the Roman Empire in dis play and extravaganza; who spend half the year in Europe, scattering with lavish hands what this govern ment has enabled them to rob from the American people during the other half; wllo drive -four in hand,' over vast tr.icts of land from which the cotter, the crofter, and the shepherd have been expelled, bearing in their arms their household goods and their slualid children'-to make room--thiuk of it ito make room for deer parks for American millionaires deer parks for Americans enriched by robbery at home that they may become oppressors abroad.
 There is no limit to the insolence, the cupidity, the arrogance, the cruelty of this mammon aristocracy of ours, but we cannot fellow the Carnegie coach from which Mir. Blaine looks dowri upon the American ducal deer park that was once the home of the sturdy peasantry-a peasantry evlcted from the ancestral holdings of thousand years to gratify the pride and vanity of an American money-kinG. We have to do with evictIons at home which made these evictions abroad possible, The ruin of our own farmer cries out against the Carnegies, the Blaines, the Thurstons, Depews. Harrisons and Haymonds, and the figures which tell it's progress and eloquent in denuncia- tion of the robber policy of the Chica- go platform. Read this table, com piled for one of the leading banks of Chicago, published in the National Re- view and republished in the Congress sional Record of May 8, 1888;