Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-29

sar.N l~horers are
fsiAyes, held down to their wrstched exist
enee by English, French and German bond
holders.
Now, it struck me one day that we farm
ers had been saved from this condition
only by the government lands, that kept
rs from being crowded down. Then came
the thought, that when these lands are all
taken mp, as will soon be the case,
what will be our condition? l have OBJ
served how, within the last twenty-five
years, agricultural values have shrunk
thirty per cent. and this while every other
sort of property has been on the rise. Dur
ing the war, and shortly after, | sold my
wheat at a dollar and a half bushel. /
sold my last crop at sixty cents. Next
harvest it will be fifty. My wool, pork,
corn and hsy have all tumbled, not quite
so badly, but very nearly, At this rate,
DIV long will il be before / am working
3 eighteen dollars a year and that sheep
lin coat?
n The most significant part of it is that,
: while the agricultural interest goes down,
the country is prosperous, and all other in
terests 90 mp in value. Here IL my e0un-
\ ty, for example, fairly shingled over with
\ mortgages. In all the heavily investments
of the entire country there is not a hun
cred dollars profit. Mr.. Csrnagie clears q
million on q less investment every year.
Esnd Others like him, not farmers, have
9 eountry's prosperity in their breeches'
ekets. When one talks Of the great
merican boom he means Carnegie, Van
,rbilt, Jay Gould and boomers Of that
JTt. They hold all our prosperity.
This condition Of things put me to look
" round 10 see if j could ind the cause
the condition. 1 made a disc 1yery one
v. I found that this protective tariff
the Hon Lsatherlungs was s-Nhoop'
up was the vampire that was sucking
life blood out of us. Upper pretense
ging q tax to support the government,
cunning devils had laid q tax to
,ort themselves. / was curious to
" how much Of this levy for private
Gets | was paying. To this end | got
tariff and went to studying. II is no
ymatter, but it can be done by any
.mer.
Vow. 10 begin with, nv house, q frame
may be valued at $500. This, if !
70 building, would be the price; but
len I had deducted the protective tax on
mber. glass, shingles, hardware and
lint, / found the real cost Of my house
rs only $500. Here is a dead loss to me
$500.
had paid $500 to the Carnegie set to
0 their palaces and tsllyhOs at home
Scotland,
stable, also 8 frame one, cost me
Calculating n before, i found the
proportion held good, and l am
med to keep up the protectionists to
tune of $150-another loss to me Of
nat amount.
have a pair Of old work horses. The
harness on these cost me forty dollars; the
unnecessary tax is fourteen dollars-surely
. loss.
Ny three plows cost me thirty dollars.
The cost on these is, in steel, iron and
lumber, the neat little sun Of ~ near rs /
calculate, twelve dollars.
Four years since l bought q binder. l
paid, in installments, $225. An agent,
who had qusrreled with his manufacture
ing company, told me that the binder cost
ffty dollars. Twenty-Five dollars went to
advertising, and when the agent sold one
"a was allowed twenty-five dollars. OF
e remaining hundred and twenty-five,
twenty-five went in rs profit to the COM
n and fifty to the protectiOnists.
This is only . beginning. There IS moth
a farmer purchases that does not pay
10 these protsetionists. / take my
horses 10 the blaeksmith's to be shod,
example. The blacksmith charges me.
all-round shosiDg. one dollar and
suty cents. OF this forty cents Is re
ned for projection. To have q new ROOF
n a shed leaves two dollars in the hands
Mr.. Carnegie and such, to keep mp PAL
ses in Scotland and ct home. Mr.. Blaine
' protection is Republican principle,
md must be sustained. He was rolling
sing over English pixies, behind four
, I'd horses, and sitting by Mr.. Csrne-
Probably, i'll were fixed that way
Sid see beauties in the system Bur,
on the side that sees only