St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-25
BUDD reeve AGAIN.
He Addresses Pointed and
Plain Remarks to the Da-
kota Farmers,
And Shows How They Protect
others at Their Own Ex-
penSe.
The Governors Come in for a
Few Very Vigorous Re-
Elections.
Gopher Statesmen Are the
Product of That Peculiar
Industry.

Special CORES pOuueuCc OF tAfe Nlput
BUXTON. \. d., Nov. 23.-"The truth
Is mighty" Too great to be suppressed
or eternally hidden. The smooth-ton-
gued, smiling, hypocritical, dishonest
politician may succeed for time in tax
ing a whisky bottle or box of cigars, and
getting the ignorant Republican farmer
round behind the barn and convincing
him that the highest honor and privi-
Iege he can possibly attain is in being a
slave to indirect taxation. Up to date
the Republican politician has been
wonderful success, or majority of the
Western farmers have been most stupid
blOckheadS. One Of the two, or perhaps
both conditions have prevailed. The
politician who can convince the farmer
that it i benefit to him 10 take the sub
stance he digs out of the ground by hard
labor-"in the sweat OF his brow''-and
pay it over to the support of some Que
else. deposit il TO the credit OF New
New England or Pennsylvania manu-
faCturerS. whose bank accounts are al
ready swollen far above any sum the
farmer will ever see or handle is, indeed,
q good one. Think of farmer living
on treeleSS prairie, where he has to
pay freight on wood and coal to burn;
think of him sitting out behind SOD
barn on his plOw, for which be paid man
utacturer a bonus I'D the way Of pro-
tectIYc tariff 10 prevent some one else
from selling him cheaper one: think
of him With his toes sticking out OF his
shoes. for which the StorekePper has
chattel mortgage on his team; think OF
him as he sits there with his elbows out
of his shirt. not able to be kept inside
of his pantalOOnS for the holes IN those.
As he sits there you can hear the tar
paper on his house, ragged and torn by
the wind. tapping and sfappinC. The
children are poorly Oareheaded
and without shoes. The wife and
mother is worn out and dragged to
death by hard work. She is also poorly
clad. 1t is late III the season. There Is
no warm place fixed up for the pigs and
chickens. The horned animals are I'M
protected. Everything is in the most
deplOrable state. The principal part of
his mail consists of
DUNNING LETTERS
for bills past due for things which he
has bought on time and paid three
prices and three rates 0finterest for the
time In this deplOrablc state, with ev-
erything around him calculated 10 make
q stout heart faint at the thought of the
future before him, nne-lOokirg gen.
tleman has driven up, and the farmer
sitting on the plOW beam is smoking a
Havana cigar-the first he has had since
lust before election a year agO-thiS
courteous visitor has just handed it TO
him. He has not come to dun him for
back pay. He is not the sheriff, come
to levy an execution for another mans
Il, =, .nRNN TNsfalH ri
ferent buSinesS-he is = wise saan and
Il statesman. and has come to LOOK after
this Door mans welfare, and tell him
what to do and how to vote for the fut-
ure good of the country. lie has heard
that a Democrat has been round but
short time before to see him. and he
wants to set him right on the tariff queS
ton. This fne-lOoking gentleman with
well-balanced head has come to tell the
Door farmer that if he should so far for
get himself as to vote to
REMOVE THE TARIFF,
and should throw open the gates OF free
trade. that the finest silks and satinS
andl caShmereS and brOadclOths would
flow in here from ali the countries of
Europe; that lumber would be Sd low
that every man could buy it, and in
stead of money being tied up in manu-
factories, it would not pay such eHor-
NOUS profits, and the rich manufactured
would have to take less interest on it;
and possibly, have to loan it on farms
at Z per cent per annum-and this fine
looking gentleman has come to argue
with this poor farmer, to caution and
warn him against such state and con-
diti0n of things. 1t is true, it would
bring relief to the farmer. tie would
get good goods cheap, and lots Of them.
But that is not the point of in
terest for him to consider. While
he was doing this. he would
be Gripping the industries of the cOun-
try. If he should say, Il want the
tariff off of lumber" he would be taking
Just that much out of the pocket of
some rich lumberman and saving it for
his family. If he should vote to buy q
coat directly from London, worth s.,
that an Eastern manufacturer would
not furnish him for $l5, he would be
taking-iuSt so out of the Eastern man
ufacturer's pocket, which he was cal
culating to buy diamonds with at
Christmas, and saving Tor a rich family.
This good and wise man, now talking
to the ufarmer. has come to tell him
such a course would be all wrong, and
he must not think of voting for cheap
goods: if he did. it would change the
entire plans and calculations of large
part Of the whole world. The farmer,
in his rags and oppressed condition,
listens aitentivPly to what this great
and good statesman has to say, and
after hearing him, says, well, by
George; that is so. l never thought of
that before. If l should vote to take
that tariff of, and quit paying the
government bonus to keep me from
getting cheap goods, that would break
up home industries, wouldn't it? You
bet l am Republican. and will stand
L., 70, irnln y