The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-08-24

i4ai Il" al q, anu lOuiII titc al cost
OF my house was only five hundred collars.
Here Is dead loss to me of three hu 4dred
dollars.
had paid three hundred dollars to the
Carnegie set to Keep up their palaces and
tally hos at home and in Scotland
My stable, also q frame one, cost me
four hundred dollars. Calculating as be
fore. | found the same proportion held
good, and | am skinned TO keep up the
protectlonlsts to the tune of one hundred
and fifty dollars another loss to me of
that amount
| have Il pair Of old work horses The
harness Oh these cost me forty dollars; the
unnecessary tax is fourteen dollars-surely
a loss.
My three ploughs cost me thirty dollars
The tax on these is. in steel, iron aud
lumber, the neat llttlt sum of, as near as
| can calculate, twelve dollars.
Four years since | bought a binder. |
paid, il instalmentS, 500. An agent
who had quarrelled with his manufacture
ing company, told me that the binder cost
fifty dollars. twenty-five dollars went to
advertising, and when the agent sold one
he was allowed twenty-five dollars. OF
the remaining hundred and twenty five,
seventy five went in as profit to the com
pany, and fifty to The protectionists
This IS only beginning There is moth
iHg farmer purchases that does not pay
toil to these protectionists. | take my
two horses 10 the hl;,cksmith's to be shod,
for example. ne blacksmith charges me,
fof ali round shOCLGz,. ore dollar 3Ilt! TWEEN
y cents. OF This forty cents IS retained
for protection III haze new root on
she'd leaves two dollars n the hands Of
Nj Carnegie and such 10 keep up palaces
in Scotland aud At home M Blaine
says protection IS 2 Republican principle,
and must lie sustained. He was rolling
along over English pixies. behind four
bloodal horses, and sitting by Mr.. Car
negie Probably, If were fixed that way,
| would see betutiv, IN the system. But,
YOU see. am on the side that sees only
the SWiIdle.
When my daughter died, | took home
her three children After that, when my
daughter in law died, ! adopted her two.
50 have a family. ! could not afford il,
but there was nothing else to do. Now,
the cost Of clothing, shoeiug, and furnish
ing hats for these little folks. SO that they
may not ouly be comfortable, bat deceut
enough to attend the common schools,
makes up no small item. ! calculate that
/ the five cost me. in money expended at
the stores IN Middleburg, some two hun
drel dollars. OF this hundred and
| seyenty-fiye 90 on the backs Of ny poor
children, and twenty five into the pockets
Of the proteetionlsts.
All the purchases made by Us farmers
/ are at the village, where years credit Is
/ given When our crops come in We de
| liver our grain at the railroad depot, and
\ getting checks tor same, 90 round and
settle that is. 50 far as the money from
| our products enables Us TO do 50. Every
wear the sum that remains unpaid grows
4 l. co no hTlS - md
| sell wool, sell hogs, sell anything 70 make
/ u, this difference The worst Of all are
the township. county, and state taxes.
| These have to be paid, and two-thIrdS,
yes. thr e-fourths of the mortgages on
farms originate in these.
Now, if I could have the two hundred
and odd dollars cxtOrted from my poor
little farm of one hundred and sixty acres,
! | could about make both ends meet. And
what an Internal outrage il IS that |. and
other farmers Ike myself, should have
this eXtortion fastened on US, tor which
W. get absolutely nothing IN return,
We are told OF home market. We
have heard Of that home market for TWEEN
ty-fve years, but have never seen it
| Small wonder, for of al the people taken,
they tell US, from agricultural pursuits,
there is not one who eats more OF less than
he did before. And as for lessening the
| number Of producers, the emigration from
! Europe puts in three men for every man
taken out 1t is an odd sort of a protection
that protects labor agdinst the pauper In
| Europe but not from the thousands on
thousands pouring in upon our shores
| every year.
The home market don't work II costs
me, as it does any other farmer III this
locality. one dollar to plant, grow. cut,
thrash and get into the granary one
| bushel Of wheat The home market, a.
the thing is called, gave me last harvest
| sixty cents a bushel. This coming harvest
expect fifty cents for this is the rate OF
decline and all my other products suffer
the same loss This sort Of thing never
occurred with the foreign market.
This, however, is all fudge. There is
no more home market to day than there
was fifty years ago; and there cant be
After the people at home have consumed
our products TO heir utmost capacity
there remains heavy surplus that has tt
find it's market abroad or rot on our hands
This market abroad fixes the prices q
home, 50 that no law Of Congress car
lessen or add one cent. When they tall
about taking l&borers from farming anC
putting them at other pursuits, they don
h.ID as for these same consumers were
consumers before. As for lesSfnlng tn
number of producers. as ! have said, theS
people get pauper labor from Europe 70
less than they would have 10 pay NATIVE
! farmers; and get them they do. lheS
miners and manufacturers, after squeezin!
all they can out of US By law, proceed t
squeeze labor: and they do that by draw
ing on the labor Of Europe. am but
short distance, as crow flies, from th
Hooking Valley coal mines ! saw tn
native Americans driven out by Wclsl
and Irish. These in turn We're crOwde'
out by Poles, Bohemians, and Italians
These ia turn, as they object to beini
starved to death, are threatened by Ne
oroes and we should have Chinese di
not the law forbid. So far as | can fin
out, the poorest-paid labor i'll the nIte'
, States is protected labor Mining wor
. never was skilled labor, and, owing to th
improvements in machinery manufactuI
ing has ceased to be Of that sort. Even
girl or child eau stand by and regulate tn
: machine.
said IA, protected labor was the pool
est paid must qualify that ihere
; very little difference between that III
farm labor At the rate we have bee
sinking in the last twenty-five years, /
. the next twenty-five we shall see tarl
labor little better than the old serfdom {
+ Russia We are coming to the elghtee
dollars a wear and the sheepskln Goa
{, And as the right honorable official pre-
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