The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
NOT PROSPERING.
Farmers in Free Trade England Havins
Hard Times,
From the Milwaukee, Wisconsin

| from the Milwaukee WISCONSIN.
\ great effort is to be made in the
| present presidential campaign to win
over the FARMERS to the support OF
| Cleveland and free trade. Generally
| the rural districts are strongly Repub-
lican, and they are relied upon to coun-
teract the unwholesome political infiu-
ences that are engendered in large
| towns and cities. Horace Greeley once
said that If the Republicans Of the state
| of New York were not cheated by the
1ammany Hall repeaters and ballot-box
suffers in the city of New York more
than $1,000 votes, the Republicans could
| easily carry the state. The outlying
| counties cUhld always be relied upon
to overmatch any ordinary amount oil
| fraud in the great city, but sometimes
| the fine work" of the Tammany lead
ers was too much for the conservative
and honest element of the country.
Never before was there SO strong an
| appeal made to the agrichlthrist to help
| the Democracy "down" projection as
there is to-day. The present low price
of nearly all farm products is pointed to
| as one OF the legitimate results of a high
| tariff, and the farmer is made to believe
that everybody is protected but him
| self. He is told that being large con
sumner of manufactured goods, he ought
| to be allowed to buy where he can buy
| the cheapest, and that free trade would
reduce the price Of nearly everything
| which the farmer has to purchase.
But, somehow. no advocate of free
| trade ever refers the farmers of America
| to the prosperous condition of the farm
| ers of England, where they have had
| comparative free trade for long time.
| They can tell what grand thing the
| English theory that MIR. Cleveland adj
vocates would be for the farmers of the
United States, but they do not back
their arguments by pointing to the
prosperity of English and Irish agricul-
ture under free trade. They do not do
| it because they cannot. The truth is
| that English farming is very mitch de-
pressed, and it is admitted and be-
moaned by the English newspapers.
| An English paper gives sad H.
lustration of the depression that
exists over there by an exam
| pie afforded from Heckington. Two
| farmers were summoned before
| the local magistrate for not contributing
| to the support of their parents. Both
were single men and lived together
They owned about eight acres of land.
| which, however, was mortgaged for con-
siderable more than it would fetch in
the market. In addition to this, they
| rent about twenty acres of glebe land
They were unable to pay the interest on
| the mortgage money, or the rent of the
glebe land. They stated that they
worked early and late, and were only
| Just able to get a bare living, and never
| knew what it was to have fresh meat in
the house. They were unable to earn
more than shilling day, and had not
sufficient clothes. They were anxious tc
| contribute TO their parents main
tenance, but from poverty were unable
to do so. The magistrates refused tc
| make an order, not being satisfied as to
| the means of defendants.
Never knew what it was to have
| fresh meat in the house; they earned
but shilling a day, and they had mo-
| sufficient clothes"
The simple truth is that the American
| workingman. the farmer included, is bet
ter paid, better fed, better clothed anc
better housed than any similar class II
| any other country under heaven.