St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-16
Bill Nye Gives an Interesting
Talk on. the Tariff
Question.
How to Make the Country
Prosperous With Jay
Gould's Help.
A Strong Point Against Men
From China Who De-
liver Lectures.
Political Economy as Viewed
by an IdiOtic Friend of
Agriculture.

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Agriculture.
~n-R a. HILE so many
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t0A&t0lb HI ENAN other men who
i sTTyIgs TNg know as little as |
AA WlJEE-1h> do about it are
SHAETV}Xfe freely discussing
( SL4lHE4/VITEfN. the tariff it seems
Ia 1ME(WM almost cOwardly
" JW1H WIZ II lin me to hang
w {lH MHN back. l have re-
W W solved, therefore,
mi W to give utterance
y ,4ESJ% to few terse and
gN& ringing sentences,
~ not calculated to
1nfame the country, of course, for l
have always tried to be temperate, eS-
pecially in my language, and.sought to
avoid using my wonderful gifts as a
word painter and rhetorical thunderbOlt
jerker in a way that would excite the
loWer-case nature of man to war or
tend to depreSS the stock market. Go
to any Wall street man of prominence
to-day and he will tell you, unless he
should happen to be prejudiced because
L may have pinched him in some deal
or other, that have never tuned my
Tyre for the purpose of melting the ma
ton to civil war or sought to unSettle
values or to wreck great financial enter
priSeS, writes Bill Nye in the New York
World. But l say that at time when
the less man knows about the tariff
the more freely he enters into a discus
sion of it think it would be wrong for
me longer to restrain myself. Go where
you Will In this country to-day and you
70 oh nrsf
the tax on raw material who haven't
had a mouthful of raw material or any
other kind in the house for weeks, ex-
cept as their wives earned it and
brought it home to them. This country
is full of men who have thought so hard
for the common veal that the seats of
their trousers shine like the dome of
the Massachusetts, state house.
And now there arises in the distance
a large and growing surplus which indi-
Gates that as soon as the two parties
get nearly balanced and sit up nights to
watch each other at Washington there
is good deal more money coming into
the treasury than is needed to run the
Friends OF the present methods say it is
easier to handle surplus than to han
die a deficiency, for you can return a
surplus to the people. That is true.
I ou can take it from the pockets of
those who unjustly paid it and then re-
turn it to those who have no claim upon
it, meantime paying good salaries to
those who collect and to those who dis
burse it. allowing a good-sized percent
age for what may be DETECTED towards
Canada.
Mr.. Blaine desires to reduce the sur
plus by reducing the tax on tobacco,
thus making tobacco juice as free as
water and winning the esteem of several
voters who would trade what patriotism
they have for an electiOn-day cigar with
A SPINAL COLUMN To IT ANY TINE.
AS man Who has used a low grade
of highest cigars for some years, and
as man who has been in the habit of
supporting Mr.. Blaine year after year
until L had almost become slave to the
habit, l desire to state that the STYLE of
craftsmanship which strives to win my
young and trusting heart with the
promise of seven good cigars for quar-
ter is not the kind that first established
this republic on a paying basis.
Everybody recognizes the utter i'm
possibility of knocking out financial
stringency by means of melodious reso-
lutions, or OF paralyzing poverty with a
dark-red preamble. You cannot gather
fresh train figs on board the Thistle or
pacify old man Gastric with the empty
promise of cheaper chewing tobacco.
Several gentlemen have invented
methods for the prevention of rich men,
schemes by which property could he
equaliZed and divided per capita instead
of per capital. The result of this could
be easily figured out in advance. To-
day Jay Gould would be wealthy and
Henry George hungry, we will say. To
morrow Jay Gould and Henry George
would have s65 apiece. Tuesday Henry
+ George would have $50 and a case of
collie. Jay Gould would have $50 and be
at the heat of Jamaica ginger trust.
Wednesday Mr.. Gould would have Sl30
and an order on Henry Georges agent
for the proceeds of his next lecture on
anti-poyerty.
If infant industries here are to be fos-
tered and protected, by the way, why is
not the American lecturer protected
from competition with foreign lecturers?
Whether you regard an American lee
ture as manufactured article or raw
material it is generally essentially
American, and ought it not to be pro-
tected? Lecturers build up a town.
They make business for railroads, hotels,
opera houses, newspapers, laundrymen.
tailors, ETC., etc., and if successful they
go abroad, and their lectures become an
export, bringing money into this coun-
try. just as soon as our lecturers here
produce more lectures than are absO-
lutely required for home consumption
we can send them abroad, but as it is
now our struggling lecturers here are
forced to compete with foreign lecturers
like Wong Chin Foo, who can live much
cheaper than. our natiye-bOrn lecturers.
who nave been used to dried-apple pie
three times day.
How is it with the American farmer?
He has been driven up further and
further into corner by the legislation
of the past twenty-five years, and vet,
because he is not eternally starving to
death. he is pointed to with pride. The
American farmer contributed more
to the war than most anybody else, both
i'll blood and money,
AND REALLY GOT LESS RETURN.
He got the priceless boon of liberty, it
is true, the liberty to pay big war prices
for everything he wanted, and TO sell
his crops for less and less year after
year, competing with foreigners abroad
and foreigners who came here to COM
pete with him, liberty to pay big prices
for machinery, help, clothing and every
thing else he bought, and then ride into
town on December day, accompanied
by the cold and still remains of an assas-
sinated hog. only TO be told that the
threatened foreign war had flattened
out, and that pork had gone down to
cents! 1t is depressing to ride sixteen
miles in the society of hog that has
died by ones own hand, and every time
you look around to see that same frozen
smile, with chip in it, while his chest
is thrown open in an ingenious way by
a hickory stick, in order to show that
his leaf lard is all that has been repre-
Sented. 1t is not cheerful to ride all the
forenoon with no one near YOU but this
cold and pulseleSS clay, with