The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-10-12

spent on the household about So, 900 That
represents his entire savings. If ne were
to die it might possibly bring 300 or $500
under the auctiOneer'S hammer and that
sum with the small provision of s. 900 life
insurance he has contrived to keep the
premium up on would be all his beloved
wife and children would have upon which
they might live till the eldest boy-for the
children older are girls could get in the
way Of earning something towards the
family need. Unless indeed his daughters
should turn to shop keeping, or school
teaching or sewing or similar occupations
at which so many unfortunate girls are
starving themselves to make living This
they would have to do and ont of all this
grows the one shadow that filings its ugly
shape across my friends bright pathway.
Is it his fault that he has nothing laid
up for a rainy day? Maybe so, but | doubt
it. He might have stinted the lives of his
dear ones, robbed them Of some OF the
sweetness and light he delighted in giving
them. He might have learned miserly
habits and taught them to those about
him and made all their lives ugly and sor-
did. But he did not and | for one can't
blame him.
But do blame his government. do
blame the monopolists who have conspired
to rob him and swindle him and his fami-
ly at every step The bounty he has paid
to- tariff -fOstered mOnopOllsts in twenty
years out of his earnings would buy a
home for his family and make snug pro
vision for his dear ones against the dread
calamity of his death
10 YOU doubt 1t? Well, here are the
figures, solid reliable figures made from
the facts in the case, not distilled from
the fancy of any free-,rade crank bur cal
culatp1 with f,rpciSiOD and accDracv
He has paid out for Tariff tax aud boun-
ties to manufacturers someting over seven
thousand dollars Let Us state this with
in the mark at 1000 The interest on
that sum averaged over the years h" mas
been paying II out, amount; TO over half
the principal, 81 900, and we have d total
of $40, 600, out Of which tits worthy man
aud his family have been swiudle1 bY the
best government the world ever &aw for
rich folks. Ten thousand dollars taxes
taken from one family IN twenty years,
Five hundred dollars i ,ear from a man
who has no property upon which 10 pay
taxes. Five huudred dollars year from
a poor man taken in driblets from his
! daily earnings, pared III bits from the
comforts and neceSearles his labor provides
for his family Five hundred dollars :,
/ year taken from him that one hundred
may lie IDLE III the Treasury while inur
t hundred slip unmatched into the piethoric
! pockets OF millionaire manufacturers
| What robbery What a mockery OF jus
/! tice, What parody on protection,
/ Some day this husband and father this
4 good citizen VIII drop in the tracks of love ;
/ pilgrimage down the path of duty. Some
i day he Will die with the harness on. His
! beloved will be left to the tender mercie
Of Il cold and careless world. Think You
the Tariff will give them protection then
/ Think You the monopolists and trusts and
combines that taxed him md tieeced him
/ when he slept and when he walked, when
| he ate and when he drank, wherever he
went. W Lateyer be did, from he day when
first be earned a dollar till the time " hen
the undertaken cased him in a taxed coffin
think you they will come forward then
and tithing their gains in sweet charity :
name will give protection to his dear ones.
No. without mercy they run in pursuit OF
gain Without care they tranple on all
whD come in their way, Without remorse
they view the work of their expressing
| hands and even while their victims cry
out against them they grasp their gam
and suaveiy ask the lawmakers of the land
| for more.
This is true story, tru. in greater OF
less degree Of every man who has support
ed family IN this country for the past
twenty seven years.
1t viii remain true as long as the pres
ent iniquitous Tariff stands on our statut.
books monument to the corrupt alliance
between RadicaliSm and Monopoly.
D. PRESTON PARR. JR.