The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-09-26
THE FARMERS COLUMN.
Edited by the Pioneers Agricultural
Correspondent.
DEMOCRATIC RECORD.

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naturally high tariff party. The tariff il
levied to benefit the few-the rich who rule
in monarchical countries or the rich few
who hope to become rulers in a democratic
country. In this Republic the democratic
party has been, from the first political plat
form ever adopted down to the last, alway.
in favor of low tariff.-N. Y. World.
For sixty years, with the exception o.
three intervals Of four years each, the dem
ocratic party ruled. Their record is peacs
and prosperity. A refuge for the poor and
oppressed, Twenty-four years of republi
can rule with q record Of corruption un
equaled even in Rome in its decline, and
they dare to tell us wages are better than
ever. Do men strike, work and starve be.
cause of good pay. From 1880 to 1886 the
wages of the protected industries of Illinois
suffered decrease Of 1S per cent on the
average. We hear Of strikes continually
and men faced by grim starvation to return
to work for their taskmaster. White slave
ry and protection are twin brothers.
Dakota farmers are not the only suffer.
ers, Read and resolve to vote the aecursed
system down.
AN INDIANA FARMER WRITES.
The tariff taxes them from twenty five
cents to two dollars on one dollars worth Of
stuff; but they can sell one dollars worth Of
their produce for only one dollar, having NO
"protection" themselves. Yet many OF
them seem to be ignorant Of the fact that
they give so much boot in every trade. A
bushel of wheat or barrel of corn will not
buy as much sugar or salt or cotton or wool
en- goods as formerly, though the nominal
price of all these things ! is lower. That
something is wrong is conclusively proved
by the fact that most other classes are pros
perous--the professional classes, the rail
road men and the merchants.
A AKANsAs FARMER SAYS:
The Kansas farmer is beginning to See,
however, that Harrison and high prices for
their produce are two things, not necessari-
ly coupled together. They firmly believed
during the campaign that the election OF
Harrison would bring prosperity. In the
Usage County coal mines the cheap Italian
laborer has taken the place of the Ameri-
can. Many idle men in this state are now
living on vegetables. Traekmen on the
railroad receive $1.1O per day, and the en-
ployers have more applicants at that rate
than they can hire. These men board and
clothe themselves, and some are attempting
to maintain families.
A MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS THAT
The men who own the standing timber re-
ceive as much as, and in some cases more,
for their timber standing than the entire
cost of manufacturing it into lumber and
transporting it to the Chicago market. The
owners of our timber lands are the only
persons who are or can be benefited by the
tariff on lumber. The price of stumpage
has steadily increased; but there has been
no corresponding increase in the wages OF
the men engaged in the numbering trade.
Our unjust system of taxation enables our
so-called spine barons to live in palaces
and travel in private cars, while the poor OF
our cities are crowded into tenement houses,
and the settlers on our Western plains are
compelled to burrow in the earh like
beasts.
From my observations can say that
farms have declined in value, The large
amount Of pension money and the taxes
levied by the tariff are reducing the farmers
to tenants, and to as low level as the
slaves that knew thirty years ago.--In-
diana Freeman.
Correspondence New York Post-Mr.
Burrows, president of the National Farmers
Alliance. in his speech at Chicago said.
ssOn the costly woolen used by wealthy peo-
pie in this country there is duty Of about
so per cent on the cost abroad. But on the
coarse woolen goods usod by western farm
ers, such as blankets and fannels, this
combined specific and adyalorem duty
amounts to from 100 to $50 per cent. This
high duty is prohibitory; and these classes
of goods the importations are merely nomi-
nal and the western farmer and poor peo-
pie of this country buy annually $4,000,
600 worth of coarse blankets alone. on
which the price is enhanced over so per
cent, but of which the government does not
get dollar.
Our great agricultural and mining State
of Illinois was on the road to pass sterile
and rocky Massachusetts in per capita
wealth up to the excitement Of the war tar
if. Twenty years Of high tariff has revers-
ed this natural order Of progress. Where
Massachusetts has made $1.50 per capita
Illinois has not made quite ST., and this
short dollar is heavily mortgaged to Massa-
chusetts. Agriculture is declining general
ly in prosperity. In New England, except
in special lines, it is in ruins. The fine
farming districts of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio show marks Of dilapidation.
Illinois farms in the aggregate have declin-
ed in value during the last ten years more
than $500, ,OO0,0 900. The great garden OF
America, stretching from Kansas to Mime
sofa, is heavily weighed with mortgages.
It should be an object Of national concern
that our rural population shall be prosper
GUS and progressive. A decline Of agricul-
ture can not continue long before all Glasses
and interests will suffer.
The general economic condition Of Eng.
land, which yields low wages for dockmen
and common laborers, is created by the
density Of population (298 to the square
mile, against IA in the United States) and
by the other features Of an old and aristo-
cratic form Of government and land tenure;
IF Free Trade has not benefited England i'm
mensely why is there no party there to
urge return 70 protection New York
World. s
& Farmers are you willing to toll for the
benefit of few millionaries? Then vote
for High Tariff. But ifyou wish to enjoy
the fruits Of your labor vote for Low TariA
and Maratta.
SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT.
"a have been 4 raving lnnatic for week
writes = young Chicagoan, and my wife il
sick IN bed; All because at o party Of .sfor..