St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-15
A RAY OF RELIEF.
The Government Allows the Set
tier to Cut Wood on the Reser-
VaCiOn

OuttE up, SlSGef. ClitcI up Ou olO
not like one without hope. Your noble
CONGRESSMAN has heard of you and is
going TO let you cut wood on the Indian
reservation this winter. That will
keep You from freezing. The govern
me ut and ctattel mortgage man who
took all you had for bonuses is not go
ing to furnish you any wood, but your
noble congressman has made arrange
mentS to have you carry OH the Indians
wood pile, With true Republican gem
crosby he is going 10 see tnat you don't
freeze during his term. But that Is not
Indians to furnish you wood he is go
ing To Washington 10 help rivet Those
letters of protective tariff on you still
tighter. He is gong TO make sure
that you pay the government
good round bonus on all you
cal, drink and wear. For that is the
principle lie was elected On-that is the
national Republican platform. Bonus
to the manufacturer first. No matter if
every man, woman and child on the Da-
kota praiTIeS Starye and freeze-bonuS
to the government, and let the Indians
furnish you wood. Weld those letters
and rIvit them OIL, HanSOrU', you dare
not do anything else. IT you did you
q
elected on that platform. Mr. HauSbro'
is resident of the plague-Stricken dis
trict. He will send the sufferers 10 the
Indians woOdpile for relief, but he dare
not take the tariff off of anything he
eats, drinks or wears. There IS another
gentleman. a resident of the unfOrtu-
nate district,
NJ. n. JOHNSON.
He was raised III Norway, a country
of free trade. He was educated to be-
lieve in it, and does believe in it; but he
hired out for pay to the Republicans
last fall 10 talk in favor OF the govern
ment keeping up and paying good
round bonus to the manufacturer out of
the farmers pocket. While the farmer
is crushed clear out OF sight under a
bonus collecting government. MIR. john
son wants to get into the United States
senate TO take a government sledge-
hammer and help riyet the letters lit
tie tighter. At the rate things are 60
ing, il will be but short time before
the Indians will be- taking care OF Us,
and the bonus takers will own the
whole earth, and the balance of the
world will be servants. The farmer is
under a bigger LOAD than he can carry,
and it is only question of little
time longer when he lays down his
bundle. He is not making money like
the rest of the world, and he
never will until he takes 1t into
his hands and has the privilege
OF seeing where he can get the most.
anu buying where he can get it the
cheapeSt-the same as other people
the right to do just as he pIeaSeS. He
can't DO that now. He is forced to pay
a bonus OH everything he uses, and sells
his crop against the pauper labor OF the
world. He can't sell his crop in Liver
pool and bring home cloth for coat
from there without paying the govern
ment a bonus when lie gets TO New
York. The minute he touches the
United States with cloth under his
arm for coat the government
LAYS hands on him and makes him put
up to protect home industry. You
can't raise wheat at 30 cents buShel
and pay bonus to support all the rest
of Gods creation Tne laws of nature
and commerce will settle this question
In time without any argument. The
Republican farme. s opinion on the
subject will not count. The only way
he will be convinced will be by the
sheriff's sale or the bankrupt court.
Then he will know ali about iI. Farm
ing is simple work. the first thing
necessary TO do is to plan. ALI it re-
quires to turn over the soil is to have
plow, with horse, a mule, an OK, or
jackaSS on the front end TO pull and
man behind to guide. Now, If you
should pull the bride off of the mule,
and not restrain it in any way, and it
could get to free oat box, you would
see him with his nose in it clear to his
eyes, having good time, getting fat
and growing sleek. But the farmer
who is free to choose between
CHEAP GOODS FOR HIMSELF
and his family and then turns round and
votes the Republican ticket and binds
himself to take all he can earn, and
more TOO, and puts it into bonuses on
all he eats, drinks ana wears and RODS
his family to keep up this voluntary
Servitude, don't know as much as the
end of the beast next to the plOw. For
the mule does know enough to take free
oats and where he can get them the
cheapest and easiest. Hansbrough's con-
stituentS will probably get on to this
after the Indians have supported them
awhile, ana will vote TO quit paying all
they can earn as bonuses to Eastern
manufacturers, and conclude, like wise
and sensible people, to put it in their
own pockets and give it to their own
children.
Instead of going to the Indians for
relief why did not Mr.. HanSbruugh 90 to
President Hill, of the Manitoba rail-
way. and say: mir, Hill, you may not
be aware of the fact. but the less of the
crop in Ramsey county has left
great many settlers without means
to get through long, cold win
ter. For the 20 I'd name and business
interests of tue country, we don't
wish to throw ourselves on public char
ity. As long as your road runs through
the wood lands of Minnesota, and you
can get wood for the mere price OF cut
ting, and the cost of hauling will be
little axle grease and few pounds of
extra steam, can't you leave US train
load Of wood in each of the unfortunate
eounties?"
Does any one suppose for moment
that a man who has voluntarily given
away half million dollars in blooded
stock to farmers would not do anything
to keep freezing from the door of set
tiers on the line Of his road? Is there
any one
FOOL ENOUGH TO BELIEVE
for a moment that a railroad company
doesn't know that the value and reve-
nueS of its line depends upon the pros
perity of the settlers along it, and that
they are the natural ones to feel inter-
ested in them. Why did not Mr.. Hans
brOugh go to the owners of elevator lines
and say: "Gentlemen, we have a few
people who did not have any crop to
haul to you this year, and they are need
ing help for the winter? We don't want
them to move away or become discOur-
aged. The ~. 100000 of wheat that you
handle, grain on Dakota farms is worth
millions to you. Now just give US one
pound out of all you take from the farm
ers over and above the grades you make
and d0ckage you take and we will be
satisfied" Don't you suppose the ele
vator men would do their share? You
can depend upon it they would. The