The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-30

millions of them in the United States in 1886
and the number down in year three
ana half millions. That was because
the politician got TO killing the
sheep The other sorts of game ne
had been disturbing had failed and he
took to sheep-k killing. Individual herders OF
against the wild sheep of unsettled Australia or
New Zealand, sold their last clip, gave away
their rams, and went out of the business As q
sheep Killer the politician is the glory Of his
times. Yet what remains of that sheep interest
makes 2So. 900. 600 pounds of wool which is val
ned at sos 1000 and it makes up into 1867, 000,-
O00 worth OF goods. Since 1875 the increase of
our sheep has been 81 per cent Those are fig
ures which NOW down the cons titutional orator.
to the wool growers and then create nearly two
hundred and seventy millions OF goods out of
the wool, and still have clothing cheaper than il
ever in this country, is the conuudrum our
friend is sitting down before But he tells the
people they will have cheaper clothing if they
destroy this 100000, 900. A suit of clothes can
would think that the public had better let the
wool interest proceed to its destination than to
drive out OF existence so much annual produc-
tion.
Wherever one looks he sees conditions which
Cypress only the timid and impecunious soul
that kind of soul which never had trade nor craft
and. therefore, thinks that accumulation must be
in the light of a crime because he has got of
it. We took, at the New York custom house, in
the first twenty days of January, $29 100000 in
imported goods Why did many of these
goods come in over the top of the TARIFF Because
tariffs do not derange the general trade of civili-
cation. He who wants work of art will have
II in spite of tariff; he who wants claret wine
from France will buy it at any price; he who
wants coffee three times day for all his children.
no matter what the state OF his finances is will
manage to get that. But laboring men should be-
ware of politicians who hold out to them visions
of increase No politician ever did any thing
for poor man but set him in the front of bat
tie as conscript and have him shot. The num-
Der Of poor men whose bones now mixed
with the clay soil of the of the
TO human agency can compute: they were not
considered worth counting when they We're put
in. The politician was the conscript officer
general rule. A good many thousands of those
laborers will never drink any more coffee at any
price. General Grant attempted to get hold of
a large island in the West Indies which was Of
fered to him for nothing, for the American peo-
pc to raise coffee upon it and at the same time
have naval station there. All the free-trade
class, with Carl Schurz in the front, fought the
proposition and therefore the Americans do not
raise coffee which they would undoubtedly do.
If they had the place. with greater perfection
than any peope who have engaged in that bust
ness, for it is noticeable that wherever our race
starts at the cultivation of new fruit, like wine,
or of oranges. or of sugar, they bring to bear
upon it mechanical power and organization
which yield the highest results