Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-22
10 THE FARMERS.
How tbe Class that Eiectod HarFison
suffer by Protection

How the Glass that Rtectnn harft'"''
suffer by Protection
Editor tlas,tt.:. Will you allow . Green
hacker space In your paper, Tor lns
second efler.eleetion edition, addressed
10 the class that elected the monopoly
ticket, 1.-THE farmers, and think can
prove 10 them that they are the most op-
pressed class by "Protection.' Fnsy
have always been foot bali, FOR the
class that fattened en- ptolection.
Until 1850 the "protectionists" ersued 70
the farmer, that, high tarin oenshied
him, by giving him cheap goode, and also
cheap labor, us high tariff shut ont
foreign goods and brought in foreign
labor. and enabled both farmers and
manufacturersto produceso much cheaper
Now they have reversed their tar.I
machine to please labor and made the
farmers believe that they can produce
cheaper by being heavily taxed. fheir
old tariff machine, is like the old darkys
coon trap, 1t '.ootches the coon GONNA
and goin'," 1t 10 queer, to
see protectionis,s fighting profession
and insisting that il wotka both ways. u
keeps them alive and works their des'ruo-
tion. Lsst year wa imported ever S7O0,-
OO0, 900 worth Of goods and American
farmers hal TO raise farm products topay
oyor $500 GOO GOO OF that amount and
send ii into the open markets OF the world
for sale, Mo s'Protectionn there for him.
And nine out Of ten OF them will tell you
they did not make one cont day while
producing that hmouut. We're they then
allowed 10 buy in the same markets they
had sold in2 Nat much, All they
wanted 10 buy had to be "cheapened by
protection Salt, nails, lumber, farm
ing implements, shoddY clothing for
bis family, oven his wite's baokcomb,
taxed 45 per cent, and her wire hustle
go per cent. Suop keepers who
cannot see beyond their own counters,
ore rejoicing In the good times that are
to come and farmers whose hOmesteads
are being eaten from nnd4r them by mort
cages, are thanking Their idol for the
sprotectionn Of lheir markets from all
that they want to buy. The truth is that
Grover Cleveland walked his party from
long slumhcr, in which Democratic prin-
ciples had been forgotten. He inspired
the great mass with courage and hope.
But be could not inapire the leaders with
knoWleege, and with the buundless re.
sources Of mendseity at the command Of
"prntee,ioniglsn II was always easy to
match special facts with alleged facts
that for the general audience seemed az
coed The victory Ia not wop, it Is only
the struggle prolonged.
Twill giFe some statiEtios to show how
"a ,t.ft -, a. al
few under our blessed protection In
Bay county, Michigan, there are 35i
fWms, Of these $50 are m7rtgaged for
S2s9 500 at u per cent interest,"; annual
interest acoruing over 500 500, or 81. Al
per acre on improved land mortRsEed.
knmber OF mortgages foreclosed last
year, is; Tedelupbons none. The tariff
10 covering your farms with mortgages.
In 1850 wealth was distributed as fol
lows; In the nine manufacturing states
pr capita, 9539 Tho agricultural states
had S567 In 1880, after go wears Of
"prutection,n the nine manufacturing
states had 1888 par capita, and the
agricultural states had 1878 In 1887,
the notwithstanding states 81 679 per
capita the agricultural states Si75 per
capita, The 10 granger states Of the
northwest are now morlgaged for $s,-
400, 600, 600. The tariff ia sucking the
life. blood out Of farmers and tLey haya
now gwen, by their votes, another lease
Of sucking to the ''pto'eetionn leach.
Why will mot yous sons stay on farms ?
They are crowding into manufacturing
centres. to come into competition With
estt otnft 3r sta SION apes, In crte,
y laSe the bones q projection" Tue
unno,niaE sa awr ~ protection
party" have stolen one Presidency, and
now bought the election of another Pres
iaent. Tho wealth producefs arc now d
sleeping lion, aud the proteoticnists'
would do well not to grouse the slumber
ing giant. BY their actions thsy are only
aiding the reformsrs and fastening t,t
day of their own downfall.
JAMES B. WRLoH,
WilMtSaroS, November 18th, 1883.