Nevada County picayune., 1888-08-22
The Tariff

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 swer would read, "Safely locked in 1 the treasury vaults of the nation, and in the coffers of the millionaire s of the East" and if another ques- i ton "How came it there' were pro- l founded, and truthful answer re- turned, that answer would read, 1t was put there by tariff which can i have no other affect than to hoard up the money for which the govern l ment has no use, and to make the ! farmers of the notion who are poor still poorer, and the capitalists wh are rich richer" This policy has now been pursued for more than twenty years, and the recipients of l its benefits are not yet satisfied, but are anxiously striving to perpetuate it for an indefinite length of time because their greed is unsuitable 1; they have preyed upon the people and grown corpulent upon their ill gotton gains until they want the whole earth.
 Their God is Mammon, and if they ever pray. the burden of their prayer is, "Lord suffer not the scale to fall from tho eyes of our victims for yet little while; suffer us to blind them by Haunting the bloody shirt before their eyes, and whispering sweet, though false and illusivc, words in their years, until we shall have got ten enough of their hard earnings to procure mortgages upon ali their homes, and then will we make them our slaves throughout all their generations.
 Kind reader this picture is not over-drawn. Already the Eastern capitalist has millions upon his hand of which he can make no Use at home and numbers of them are seeking iu- vestments in the South. Their plan is to let you have small percentage of the value of improvement real es- tate upon long time and big interest, payable annually or semi-annually, all secured by mortgaged upon those lands. In the meantime. if these money lords can keep the prohiblto- " tariff in force for the five or ten years for which these loans are negotiated, money will become scare CT and scarcer, and as consequence all kind of property will appreciate to pay their notes at maturity, and will have to renew the mortgages from time to time until it will require the whole farm to pay the indebted ness, and then will the capitalist be- come the owner of the farm, and the former owner but tenant at best. There is one and but one way of averting these dangers, and that is by reducing the tariff so that 1t vii ne longer prohibit foreign manufac- lures from importing goods into our country. and so that it will no more than provide the money for defray-
 ing the legitimate expenses of govern ment and this is what the democrat ic party proposes to accomplish, pro- poses to accomplish, provided 1t IS placed in charge of both the legisla' tive and executive branches of tn,
 government. It is nearly in posses
 sion now. A small republican ma
 ioritv in senate is all that is i'll the
 way. If the democracy goes into 1 power 1t goes in under solemn
 promise to give us the desired relic "a promise which our leaders, il
 they would, cannot afford to break
 Now, then since our relief is SC
 nearly within our grasp, let us mak'
 this one more Herculcan effort
 we succeed we are saved, and if w
 fail we can but become captiyes t'
 our enemies. Little River News.