The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-05

Things cheap. U ncle sam Gharges THESE
lontsiders something onsmost everything
they bring and he is getting rich-very
Erich. It issnow. q hundred millions 9
year more than he has any use for. aud
so the farmer boys are making big fuss
and want the tariff rsiuced 80 that they
can get their:goods cheap =
But, papa, why can't 0rispin and
Vulcan work as cheap as the outsiders p
J children, there is where all the
trouble comes .in.s These outsiders get
their labor at fifty cents . day, and it is
barely enough to- live %. Their r1aborers
are 50 many that they will work fol
almost nothing rather than staryfR
They have poor food and poor clothing
and live Id shanties, and their little Chi;
drenE nearly freea in the winter and haze
q hard time, but Crispin3 and Vulcan pHy
their hands a dollar d day, and Unde
Sam says that is right, and .he swqRt
allow any poOr people ltos suffer on g, bis b
plantation"
But, paps, why don't grispin ttnaa
Vulcan quit their business and 81 70
farming too,s and then these outsiaers
could ezin and sselE their shoe4 aud
theiriron cheap. ITO the farmers.
Because ny children, there ate SO
many farmers nov They can hardly live.
Crispin and Vulcan and all their lyork-
men now bly corn, and flour, and meat
from the farmers, and that helps 4 good
deal; but &c everybody was farming
there wousd So, nobody to buy from them,
and these ousidera would soon ptttheir
shoes away Up to three dollars . pair, for
they would have no competition. Com-
pstitiopis goodsthing, and keeps busi-
ness lively and prosperous all round.
Then Aere is another reason Why Crispin
and Nllcan don't gait, ALL their money
is in their business, and if they: quit it
theylbss it. They don't know anything
aboH farming, and they couldn't get 9
START fthey. did. z
TIE world moves and 50 does the
nstipn. Mr.. Cleyeland's message has
shaken her mp and omething'is going to
be2done. We have been broodiDg and
fusing over this tariff question long
tine but It is coming to 8 focus. Mr..
Cleveland is the people'sS president and
tt5s ) people demand 8 arednction. Wo be
| d the man 81 the party that says may
Ten million surplus q month ia an out.
rage. One hundred and twenty millions
IL year drawn from the people and locked
Enp in the treasury. Uncle Sam is mean
to his children, mean as dog. Who
ever heard .ofa father getting rich off Of
his children after thai. fashion. Ipaid
dollar and a,half for Carl's hat and two
dollars for his long pants and I'm mad
about it. Icould have bought them il
England or Germany for half fthe money,
I'm writing on 9 letter pad nov that cost
me twenty-five cents, and if it wasn't fol
the tariff I could have boushtsit fol
fifteen. Plague take the tariff. I want
it taken off Of clothing right away. I've
sold my sheep and want ttaken off Of
wool. Joe Brown has quit buying my
corn and oats and hay for his mines, and
now I want it taken off of plg-iron. ]
am opposed to protecting Joe Brown
unless he projects me. When llrenplants
are planted at Cartersville, maybe 1 viii
be for protection, but I've got no infant
industry now. We have quit the infant
business at my house. tAakes these
infant industries powerful long time te
get grown. wonder if they will evel
quit sucking the bottle, or get big enough
| to stand alone. When a man goes to one
Of these manufacturing cities, everybody
is struting around as big as watch, and
the banks are foil of money, and land ii
worth two thousand dollars froit foot
but just let Congress talk about \ Educine
the tariff, and they scrooch up AMI pull 9
small bottle from under their Gat tails
aud 20 to sucking and whine OFT: "1'm
an infant-a poor little infant-Aint You
gwine to protect me? Are yougwine Ia
take away my pap and leave me an n
orfun?"
But now, in all sincerity, bis tariff
business has got three or four Sdes to it,
and it don't become any of " common
folks to be concerted about. For half 9
century it has perplexed be wisest
statesmen Of the nation. We admire
Mr.. Cleveland's pluck and b unselish
patriotism, but Mr.. Clevelan knows no
more about the tariff than Esandali or
Carlisle or Watterson or Pt Walsh OF
the Constitution, or host of thel think.
ing men. They have all stdied it and
| pondered over it for years, cd conscien-
tiously differ about it. hlhoun and
Clay and Webster differed, nd SO when
Il hear q small politicianblowing his
buele horn and swearing hfl be dogond
fit amt thus and so I'm dgusted. One
i time conceited young PITCHER called
i ON Mr. Calhoun, who wss sry sick, and