St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-25

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A gentleman who went to that
county to start bank. and spent some
time there told me he went out riding
with friend, and every little ways a
b0b-taileu gopher would dart across the
road, much more excited and wild than
he had been in the habit of seeing
gopherS move, and he asked his friend
how so many of them happened to have
no tails. He said their tails had been
harvested and sold to the county COM
miSSlOnerS, and the animal had been
turned out 10
PLANT ANOTHER CROP.
He asked him why they were not
killed when they took the tail off, and
he said that bv doing that, the indus
try" would soon play out, and they had
to save it by protection; and there it
was; every gopher lived in fear that its
tail might grow long enough to cut off
second time; its eyes were dila'ed,
and it acted wild and excited in the
presence of strangers; familiar forms
Ii did not seem to care much
about. These tails were used
for currency. A lady going to
store TO trade had her shopping bag,
and instead of silver or gold, she had it
filed with gopher tails. When she got
through trading, she would modeStly
open her bag, take out her gopher tolls,
usually tied up nicely with fancy
silk cord of blue or red, in punches
from half up to dozen or more.
With this currency she would pay her
bills, take her goods and return home.
The stOrekeeper dropped these tails in
the drawer for cash. He did not take
them to the bank to deposit, but be
took them to the county treaSuler's
office. took a receipt for them. and this
receipt, presented 10 the board of COM
missiOnerS, was paid by county war
rant. The money on this warrant was
raised by tax on the county; SO really,
the only one making any thing out of
the business was the merchant. The
farmers and their families taxed them
selves to pay the bnunteS for the tails
at the treaSurer's office. So, III reality,
every dollar they received in goods for
the tails was put as
TAX ON THEIR LAND
when the merchant deposited the tails
with the treasurer and got his warrants.
Turn it how on please. it is protection
all right. 1t was saving the industry
when the boys let the gOpherS go after
cutting the tail Off-and it was the
farmers share of it, when he taxed him
self 10 pay for the tails and the gopher
was still alive and he had next year,
1t is singular fact that the most
popular man in the race for United
States senator. next to the man who
was nominated by reclamation, is Mr..
johnson, from this gopher tail prOtec-
ton county. This gopher protection
was such success in Nelson county
the Republican farmers of North Da-
kOta are clamOring for. good staunch
prOtectiOnst to still hold them down.
They are afraid if they don't have John
son, the gOpher'S head might be cut Off
instead of its tail. and they could not
tax their land, or borrow money at
high rate to pay their taxes if they did
not have johnson. The politician is a
great and
WONDERFUL MAN.
Especially the persuasive Republican,
who can make farmer believe that 1T
is higher privilege to serve some one
else than it is TO prosper himself. But
all things have all end. The gentleman
who sat on the pillow beam and smoked
one of John Miller'S cigars last fall and
concluded it was good enough for
him to 90 barefoOted this winter to pre-
vent the calamity of letting cheap goods
i'll the country, may change his mind
now that John has said to him: I'VE
don't deny that yOn are suffering, but
cut up we would have ll5 states as large
as Rhode Island? And you wanting
shoes and something to eat! You are
a strange COON" So read the report, |
yOupg man, of the immigration COM
missioner. The politician may be able |
to humbug suffering community for |
a while, as to what the greater needs |
may be, but there is no such thing as |
humbugging God and the laws of ua- |
ture. When natural laws get back of |
thing it has to move. Let there be no |
mistake on this. Nature and natural |
conditions are going to strike this thing |
square in the face from this on. Da- |
kOta is going to furnish the material !
and the elements to revOutioniZe |
the whole country. Her soil and eli |
mate, and every element are calculated |
for it. Nothing will make man think |
like long, cold winter. especially il he |
is sitting around with somebody elSe'S |
old clothes on. He will say 1T is !
mighty funny how | came to get them"
And he will commence to think; and |
with the aid of plenty of time to do |
nothing else, he will get onto the prob
lem. and when he picks up the paper
and sees that his United States senators
and congressman are voting to keep |
him in bondage still, he will make up
any longer; and he will walk to the
crib, ami after he once gets his nose
into the feed box he will wonder how it
was he waited so long. 1t will only take
quarter of pound out of each
buShel to
MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY:
but so long as the two eminent heads of
the states prefer to talk of the length of
the rivers, and make checker board of
the states to play game of any kind
on, only for charity sake, l will make
another proposition. If the Republic
can member of congress and the United |
States senators and the governor of |
North Dakota will 20 to Washington, |
and get the congress of the United |
States to say that in behalf of the Suf- |
ferers Of Ramsey and Nelson counties, |
for the next twelve months, they may |
be exempt from tariff paid to protect |
Eastern manufacturers, and that these |
two counties may have the privilege of |
buying their goods in the market where |
there wheat is sold free; and that all |
goods bought and used in these desti- |
tute counties may be free from all du |
ties or tariff now charged to protect |
home industry and manufactures; if |
the TT representatives. in congress will get |
this privilege, the Democratic national |
committee will see every man, woman |
and child within the borders of these |
counties, now suffering for aid. well |
and comfortably cared for. free of |
charge to the state or Counties in which |
they live. We want absolute free |
trade in these counties for winter
months. and they will get such boom |
and immigra ton that they will be send
ing aid to the other counties before the |
year is out.
Gentlemen, will you do it? We want |
to make practical illustration of the |
powers OF tariff reform, and an eduea-
tionai campaign.
Here is square offer made in good |
faith. Let US see who these worthy |
Republican representatives prefer TO |
help-tneir own people, or serve the |
Eastern manufacturer by sitting on |
their suffering constituents at home. |
Come. gentlemen; come to the front. |
liz you will not gather a small tax from |
the prosperous, will you allow them |
to have free goods from Liverpool.
BUDD REEVE.