Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-08
The Benelcent Results to Agriculture
of High Tariff Pound in Crop
Of Matured Mortgages.

W. IDGS Stl!ti tiiiu ldi llilil a.
gittin' to be like fishin'and lluutip
well enough for a man that ha:
means and leisure, but they couldn'
make alivin'a5 it; they said. An
ssother boy is ina drug store, ant
sthe man hires him 50 yss he ii
royal sfaller.' IS g
.sKind Of a castor royal fcller,n
said, witba Shrek of laughter.
He waited until had laughed
all I wauted to and then he said
"I've always hollored for bigi
tariffln order to hyst the public
debt, but now that we've got tlle
nationalGcbt cuopered Iwisli they'd
take ii little hack at mine. Tve put
in fifty Years farlnin'. l never
drunk licEer in any form. pve
worked from ten to eighteen hours d
day, been economical in cloze and
never went to show more'n Il
dozen times i'll : my life, raised Il
family and learned upward Of two
hundred calves to drink out Of Il
tlnpail without blowing all their
vitllcs up my sleeve. My wife
worked alongside O. me sewin' new
seats oil the boys pants, skimmin'
milk and even helpn' me load hay.
For il'.rty years we tolc,l along
together and hardly got Time to
look-into each others face or dared
TO stop and get acquainted with
each other. Then her health failed.
Ketclled cold III tie spring-houSe,
plob'bly skmniu milk and wash;n'
panSand scallin'paiIs aud spankin'
butter. ANY how, she took IN a
long breath one day while the
doctor aud me was watchin' her.
and she says to me, 'Henry. says
she, 'Pve got Il chance to rest and
she put Que tired, wore out hand on
top of the other tired, wore out
hand,and knew she'd gone where
they don't work all day and do
chores all night.
II took time to kiss her them
I'd been too busy for u good while
previous to that. and then i called
in the boys. After the funeral it
was foo much for them to stay
around and eat the kind Of cookin'
we had to out I'D with and nobody
spoke up around tho house as we
used to. The boys quit whistlin'
around the barn aud talked kind of
low by themselves about goin' to
town and getting a JOB.
They're all gone now and the
SNOW is four feet deep on mothers
grave up there i'll the berrying
gloupd."
THEN both of us looked out of the
Car window quite a long while
without saying anything.
~ don't blame the boys for going
into something else longs other
things pays better; but l say-and
| say what I know-that tue man
who holds the prosperity of this
country in bis hands, the man that
actually makes money for other
people to spend, the man that Gals
three good, simple, square meals a
day and goes to bed at 9 o'clock,
so that future generations with
good blood and cool brains can go
from his farm TO lie Srnatc and
Congress AMI the White House
he is he man that gets left at last
to run his farm, with nobody TO
help him but a hired man and II
high protective tariff. The farms
i'll our State are mortgaged for ov
er seven hundred million dollars.
Ten Of our Western tates-1 see
by tue papers-has got about three
billion and a half mortgages on
their farms, and that don't count
the cbattel mortgages filed with
the town clerks on farm machinery.
stock, Wagons and even crops, by
gosh! that amt two inches high
under the SNOW. That's what the
prospect is for farmers now
Tile Government is rich, but the
men that made it, the men
that fought perarie fires and Pc
rarie wolves and Ingins and pota-
TO bugs and blizzards, and has
paid the war deUt and pensions
and everything else and hollored
for the union and the Republican
party and high tariff and anything
else that they was told to, is left
high and dry this cold winter with
mortgage of seven billions and Il
half on the farms they have earned
and saved a thousand times over"
eyes; but look at the glory of
sending from the farm the future
President, the future Senator and
the future member of Congress-"
"That looks we'll on paper, but
what does it really amount to?
Soon as a farmer boy gets in a
place like that he forgets the soil
that produced him and holds his
head as high as holly.hock. He
bellers for protection to everybody
but the farmer, and while he sails
round in a highly tightly room
with fire in it night and-day, his
father OH the farm has to llindle
his own fire in the morning with
elm slivvers, and he has TO veal
his sons lawn tennis suit next to
Him or lleeze to death, and he has
TO milk in I'LL old gray shawl that
has held that member Of Congress
when he was a baby, by CORY! and