The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-02

him. He knows how many strokes of his labor
1t represents. His homes ache with the day
work that earned il. He knows how much
land 1t Representations much rain, frost and
sunshine. He knows that in the dollar he gives
you so much di, crction and patience so much
hoelng and threshing. Try to lit his dollar,
you must lift all that weight-Ra'ph Waldo
Emerson.
In some points Of view the farmers dol
lar IN this country is surely very heavy,
and getting heavier. 1t represents vast
amount OF sweat and sorrow expended in
unreqWted toll, and for every such dollar
which remains in the hard and honest
hand by which it was earned, several
other dollars. earned bv the same hand.
have gone to the monopoliSt manufactur-
er. the 9raSping transporter, the intrud-
mg mddlcman. and the c0ld-bloolcl
money-lcnderA The one lonesome dollar
ls what the benign policy Of protection to
American capital, a> against American
industry, leaves 10 the man whose labor
creates The halk Of oar national wealth.
lie pthel dollars. which ought t. remain
IN permanent company with this one.
hNe conc with the thousand millions
Whcil He producers If this country an
nu&jiy pay directly to Me ho,nr market
monopoli>t~ under the existing tali.. on
Pfet"n>e %. r1l~lug two hundred million,
81 revenue. IEcN are cnrching trusts.
supporting the Carnegie, and the .AYnn-
downs, AMI ii! the happy gentlemen oi
Tine Iamif League and the rlriou> ln:.llu-
lacturer's clubs, and furnishing the cam
faign funds for the Quav> and the Dad
lry> to buy American voters ain blocks
OF five
But this dollar Of the American farmer.
when he comes TO consider how he is to
lay 1t out IN the purchase of sugar from
the sugar trust, and clothing and implc.
mcn'> from the protected millionaire
irends of American industry" is All too
night. Then IT is anything but a heavy
one. II has been ruthlc>>ly clipped by
the fixed policy Of bis government, which
compcl> him to buy all that he needs in
the dearest market as it ha, already com
PEELED HIM to sell all that he has produced
In the cheapest. This dollar buys only "A
third or halt, or two-thirls As much as
II would bay III All open market SO the
American farmer, who has sold his grain
ana meat at Liverpool prices, when he
comes to buy his supplies and his nipple
menjs at american larif.monopoly and
trust prices, learns, to his sorrow. that
the one dollar he has been permitted to
keep and apply to his own use is greatly
lighter than the dollar OF England. or of
any other enlightened nation Oh the earth.
1t is to be hoped that some means will
be found to induce the American farmer.
sitting III his mortgaged house, witness
ing the gradual decline Of his noble in
dustry, aud the more or less complete
subordination of his class to the creed of
others, using the power OF taxation as the
rcadlest instrument for his spoilation. to
reflect serious y upon the wisdom Of TAX
ing some important steps towards making
his dollar lighter III the getting and
heavier in the spending. 1t this farmer
is really in earnest he will DO a wise
thing to begin attendance, without delay,
upon the meetings OF the nearest Demo
cratic society, where he will learn that
there is party i'll this country, which,
from the time of Thomas Jefferson. has
maintained the equality OF all men before
the tax-gatherer; which has resisted mo-
nopolies which has favored economy
which has discountenaced class legisla-
ton; and which would shape every
measure Of public policy SO that labor
may be lightly burdened." 1t is by sup
porting this party, and by this expedient
only, that the farmers dollars may be in
creased in numbers and in purchasing
power, that the mortgage may be re-
moved from his home and his lands adj
vanced to their true value.-New York
Globe.