Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-05-31
Purtecshun.
News, Keithsburg In.l

MIR. EDIr0R:-Whati is the use or all
this kickin against the taruf? Aint we
got to purtect our infunt industries I'd
like to know? i was raised amung the
mines q mills of the east & worked my
self nearly to death in them tryin to
purtect the infunts. got 81 1-2 cents
a day when boy in the rollin mill d
when Saturday night cum got my lit
tie old rollin mill scrip & felt proud
that 1 could help little to build up
American industry & at the same time
could be protected against the pauper
labor NV Eurup myself. My scrip
wouldn't go any place but at the mill
store an would only buy about two
thirds az much az money would by,
but didn't care, for / wus buildin up
our infant industries all the same.
fused to work for Carnegie & B. f.
Jones Nv Pitsburg an I jest feel too
proud tn think that helped build up
their infunt industries till they are now
both able an willin tn chip in $780,
900 piece; & they got it all honestly
by runnin infunt industry, an pur-
tectin US workin fellers from the pau
per labor NV Eurup. Johes and Car
negie used to tell us fellers that they
didn't want high old taruf fur their
own good at all, but jest so that they
might purtect us workmen from the
pauper labor NV Eurup, an we knowed
it was so an kept rite on votin fur high
taruf candidates. Well, when l got
tired NV purtectin Jones & Carnegie
and likewise got tired Nv havin them
purtect me, cum west and went to
farmin az high purtective farmer, & l
am still sittin up mites buildin up the
infunt industries Nv the rocky, barren
east. Men are fools that can't see that
if we don't do this right along, the east
won't be able tn send us mummy at 8
per cent. and commishin. l don't
care if du pay more to git my hogs
sent tn markit, because the taruf makes
railroad iron higher; an I don't care if
/ buy, because the taruf raises the price;
amt helpin to build up the infunt in
dustries of the east? An besides If we
don't bid 'em up, how kin they keep
on sendin us mummy to lend? l amt
been quite able to make the rifle fur 2
or 8 years an so I borried sum mummy
NV them eastern chaps what needs so
much purtectin.
Well, l made out tn pay the interest
every pop till last year an then l had tn
sell my team tn pay the interest on my
little old mortgage, but bless you, l
don't care so long as the taruf is all
right & the infunt industries is pur-
tected. kin wabble along till another
lection or two and yell fur purtection
Il Jim Blame, & then the little old mort
gage kin take the farm & I'll 60 west tn
git another & go through the same old
caper agin. Hurrah fur the taruf, 8
cheers fur purtection tn infunt indus
tries; who cares if the taruf has distroyd
our merchant marine; who cares if
three-fourths of all our western farms
are mortgaged; who cares if it is utterly
impossible to pay these mortgages;
amt we helpin Jones and Carnegie tu
git the mummy tn help run Jim Blame
or John Sherman's taruf campaigne
next summer? Amt we helpin them
eastern chaps to git the mummy tu send
out here tu lend tn the other farmers
what amt yit got mortgage? You
bet we are, and az John Sherman says,
tive ought to feel proud that we are
purtected against the pauper labor of
Eurup." Dryden said so, & SO did
Aleck Petrie, & what they don't know
about the taruf, Freddy Douglar Jones
kin tell 'em.
Connel used to be purity good OH the
taruf, but his best holt was tn "formu-
late and crystalline things" Connel is
the same feller that went to Colorado
tu practise law fur his health, with q
string tied to him. And now Wharton
has gone to Omaha to live and practise
law and things, but he don't intend tu
loos his residence in Illinois; bless you
no; mebbe his law wont pan out & then
he will want to come back and git an
offs. But Pm gittin away off my
base; purtection is my theme and taruf
is tn be the cry NV this summer; the
bloody shirt is wore out at last and all
we have left is the "hurrah fur Blain"
or any other man; bully fur our infunt
industries; ran fur the pauper labor NV
Eurup. TARIFF.