The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-04-27
1.-TWO PICTURES


Some mornings since horny.handed
farmer OF Linn county was seen to pass
out Of his house and 20 to his barn at the
early hour OF O'clock. liewore coarse
woolen shirt and woolen pants upon which
there is tariff duty of 20 per cent His
head was covered with slouch hat taxed
at rs per cent. lie carried IN his pocket a
pen knife that is taxed at so per cent lie
opened gate made of lumber taxed at 81
per thousand and whose hinges arc taxed
So per cent,and the painton which Is taxed
at 50 per cent. He entered his stable and
scattered insect powder, that pays duty
of 40 per cent, to protect his horses from
their ravaees. lie combed and brushed
his horses with combs and brushes that
are taxed at 80 per cent, after having fed
them oats from a sack that Is taxed 30 per
cent, 60 per cent means accents on every
dollar of the cost of the goods) lie quiet
ly took hammer that Is taxed 30 per cent
and set horse shoe tha. Is taxed at IS per
cent with nails taxed at 50 per cent, and
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whose trace chains are taxed at So per cent
He hitched his team to wagon whose
hubs are taxed 20 per cent and whose
wood work generally Is taxed at from 30
to IS per cent and whose iron work is tax.
ed at from 4oto 6s per cent. Put his plow
and harrow, the material OF each OF which
Is taxed at from 10 to o. per cent, into his
wagon, and went to his field to plew. Here
he labored all day and continued to labor
increasingly from day to day until his
wheat was all sown. On the same morn
ing when this scene was being enacted In
Oregon, another scene was transpiring in
India. An EagIish lord, who owns large
landed possessions near by "Indla's coral
strand" drove out Ia his richly caparison-
ed landaulet TO oversee his hired serfs in
putting in his wheat crop in that now Ia
msus wheat region. These serfs are the
real "pauper laborers" of Europe and Asia,
being hired at from rs to accents per day.
Well, this English lord continues his work
until his crop Is In. We now dismiss both
Oregon farmer and English lord until we
meet them both together at Liverpool,
whence they had both gone TO the great
wheat market of the world 10 dispose of
their wheat, the one the prodact OF "the
pauper labor OF the old world" and the
other the product of free labor ia Oregon.
The Oregonian is not offered such price
as he thinks he should have for his wheat,
but he is told by the Liverpool wheat deal
er that there Is plenty of India wheat In
the market, and that he viii have 10 com-
pete with the prices at which the English
lsrd, VINO produced his wheat with"pauper
labor" proposes TO sell. lie sees nothing
else to do,and hence sells his wheat at the
ruling prices, aud here he seems 70 learn
for the first time in life that the farmer in
Oregon has to compete with ''the pauper
labor OF the old world" lie sees that the
cry that American labor should not be
compelled TO compste with the pauPer la
Dor of Europe is delusioa and snare
for, from actual experience,he has learned
that all American wheat raisers do thus
compete with such "Pauper labor" while
being taxed on everything which he buy
for the benefit OF some one else. Nowon
der there is such a strong sentiment spring
ing up all over the country in favor OF re
ducing the high war taxes.