Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27

ultlOn. In my ramDllnBS JnrOugn bnc
county ] have met and talked with a
great many farmers, democrats as well
as republicans, and find a feeling
of discomfort and uneasiness concern
ing the tariff. | have not found one
single farmer with whom / have talked
that does not entertain a feeling of fear
that in the event OF a radical change in
the tariff something evil or detrimental
TO their interests will occur. The re-
publicans on the other side stand by
their party, and its principles because
they believe they are for the best in
terests of himself and his country, but
the democratic farmer has n fear of
turning over the old system under which
they ave become prosperous int self
supporting for the proposed new order
of things by their party the result of
which no one can foretell. And if | can
judge correctly from the sentiments 1
have heard expressed, this county will
give such an overwhelming majority for
he republican nominees hat it will
almost take the breath out OF them. To
illustrate what L mean: | met an old
time democrat the other day, a gentle
man who has resided in this state for
seventeen years, al uncompromising
democrat, but a man of unquestioned
honesty and integrity, and whose
word is as good as his bond, and whose
democratic proclivities are of such q
nature that no man has ever been bold
enough to breach the subject of repub-
licanism to him. Who told me when
speaking of the tariff that he was very
much in doubt as TO whether he would
vote the presidential ticket this fall or
not. Having been quite intimate with
him since | have resided in Nebraska
and knowing of him when he lived in
Pennsylvania, and knowing his politics
pretty thoroughly, L was somewhat sur
prised to hear him express himself in
that manner and | asked him what had
come over the spirit Of his democratic
dream to cause him to doubt the wisdom
Of his party, he replied that he had
been farming and stock raising for u
great many years, that he had been sue
cessful to. marked degree, but since
the agitation of the tariff he had begun
to think the matter over and had read
q great about it and the inference
he drew from the facts he learned was:
That he could not figure out how
a reduction of the tariff could possibly
benefit the farmers. "Take," he con-
tinued, 1.-The hundreds and thousands of
men who are now engaged in the manu-
facture of iron in all its branches, take
the wooden mills and it's thousands of
employees, men and women take the
hundreds and thousands of sturdy men
who are engaged in digging the ore
from the hills and mountains, tho same
as you and have seen in Pennsylvania.
What will be the result to them ii the
duties are taken off of such things as
they are now making u living atp The
only result that / can see is, that to a
o,,Ant aytant thnaA ,n,ll- a,J f -,
and shops will be obliged to close or the
wages of the men will be reduced to
such ar extent that they will be on the
verge of starvation and if that is so,
and as 1 see it 1 would like to know
what is to become of the farmer and his
grain and stock? Who is going to buy
my grain If men haven't money enough
to buy breadp Who is going to buy
my cattle if the w%orkingmen
can't earn money enough to pay
his rent Or buy coal, what will become
of us If one-half of the mills and fac
tories shut down, throwing thousands of
human beings out of work? I may per-
haps be a little selfish in this matter,
but you know that every man does, or
ought to, look out for himself first. and
for the life of me 1 can't see how any
poor man in this country can live If this
scheme is carried out. No doubt a
great many. Of the eastern importers
will be greatly benefited by free trade,
because importing things cheap and
selling them at Il high figure is their
business, and, of course, they will cry
free trade upon all occasions; but they
don't care a cent what becomes of any
one else SO long vs. they can fill their
own pockets and carry the money thus
obtained to Europe, and there spend it.
But if this scheme is successful, [ don't
see how | can plant my crops, cultivate
them, feed my cattle through the win
ter, and especially such n winter as we
have just passed through, and get
enough money out of them to pay my
expenses. Four miles west of the Blue
/ have 400 acres of land. He~retofore.I
have had the most of it in grain, re-
serving only enough for my stock, and
have done well. But since this infer
nal ~tinkering of the tariff by n lot of
backwoods lawyers, who don't know as
much about farming and farmers inter
ests as a cat does about astronomy, |
have come to the conclusion that it is
better to wait and see what will be the
outcome of all this talk before l invest
any more money In crop, cattle or any
thing else, not knowing where / am
coming ont. They "A all talk about
the farmer not understanding his own
business or interests, but / tell you
when it comes to a farmer working "a
whole year for nothing and paying his
own expenses out of it, they will find
that we are just looking out where
our dollars go to, and you can
just make up your mind that we are 60
ing to think twice this fail before we
cast our ballots. Suppose they can i'm
port goods cheaperthan they can be made
in this country what benefit is that to
me or any other poor man if we are out
of work and have no money to purchase
them with. 1t is like asking a hungry
man Co eat when there is no bread"
This is "A sample of what | have heard
expressed a great many times during
the past two weeks by farmers and
others, OF course the dyed-in-the-
democratic-wool democrats take a diff
ferent view and believe that somehow
or other their party will bring them
through all right, no matter how the
crops are, whether high or low; but the
liberal, far-seelng farmers of all politi-
cal shades will be very careful how
they vote. Z. L. Il.
A Remarkable Colt.
Walpole, H., possesses a remarkable
freak VI nature in the shape of a colt