Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-01

Sam Is mean to his children, mean as d dog, Who ever heard ot a father getting rich off of his chil. dren after that fashion. paid a dollar and q half for CarPs hat and two dollars for his long pants and
 I'm mad about it. l am writing on paper pad now that cost He t"ettt five ce.tS, and if 1t wasn't Tor the tariff l could have bouulil u Tor fifteen c"n,S. Plague take
 the tariff. l want to take il off of clothing right away. Eve sold my sheep and l want it taken ofl ol Wool. Joe Brown has quit buy. Ing my corn and oats and hay for ms mines aud now want it taken oil ot pig iron. I'm opposed tu protecting Joe Brown unless he protects me. When iron plants are planted at Cartersyille, mav-be
 will be for protection, but Eve got mo infant industry now. We haNr qHt the intaut business at my house. It takes these infant l"dus'rlcs d powerful long time to get grown. wonder if they will ever quit sucking the bottle, or get big enough to stand alone. When a man goes to one ot these manufacturing cities. ev- erybody ls strutting round as big watch, and the banks are full of money, and land is worth two hundred dollars a front foot, but just let congress talk about reduc- ing the tariff, aud they scrootch up and pull small bottle from m. der their coattails and go to suck Ing and whine out: 1T m an infant. a poor little infant-ain't you gwine 10 protect me? Are you gwine to take away my pap and leave me an OrfunW
 But now. Ill all sincerity, this tariff question has got three or four sides To it, and 1t don't be- come any of Us common folks to be concerned about it. For half century it has perpleNed the wis. est statesmen of the nation. We admire Mir. Cleveland $ pluck and his unseltish patriotism, but Mir. Cleveland knows no more about the tariff than Randall or Carlisle or Watterson or Pat Walsh or the Constitution. or a host of other thinking men. They have all studied 1t and pondered over it for years and conScientiously differ about il. Calhoun and Clay and Webster differed, and so when I hear a small politician blowing his bu5le-h0rn and Swcariu' he'il he do2oncd if it aiu't thus and so Pm disguSted One time a conceited young preacher called on Mr. Cal houn, who was very sick, and be- gan right away to talk to him about religion and make preparations for death.
 Mir, Calhoun waved his hand for him to go and said "he presumes to instruct me on a subject that I have pondered all my life"
 Let uS have confidence in our statesmen, for many of them are away above party when the wei fare Of the nation is at Stake.- They will harmonize this thing in the best way possible. Nobody contends for free trade now. It will come sometimes unless we lock our doors against immigra- tionand the cheap labor of Flu. rope, but we won't worry about that now. Everybody wants a re- duction- everybody. Tue wool grower wants a reducti0u-every- body. The iron men want reduc- tion on everything but iron, and it is just so with the sugar planter and the glass manufacturer and every other industry that is pro. tected. We are all just like Arte- mus Ward was about the var when he said the union must be pre- served even if he had to sacrifice all of his wife's brothers, s,and cous- ins and uncles.
 There are a million wool grow CTS who are making a big fuss ov- CT the presidents message as the bees make in hive when you want little of their honey There are fifty millions of people in the nation, and forty-nine mil lions say take slice off of wool. There are two million engaged in the iron and steel business and forty-eight say take slice off of