The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-09-12
THE FArMgRS' COLUMN.
Edited By tie Pioneers Agricultural
Correspondent.
THE UN-AMERICAN SYSTEM O.
PROTECTION.

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The assembled wisdom Of the republican
convention at Fargo, declared that 1--WE are
uueompromisingly in favor Of the American
system Of protection, etc." With this bare.
faced lie they come to our taxed to death
farmers. American protection was slaugh.
tered by the "Grand Old Party" and High
Tariff laws passed which have caused mort.
gagged farms, the land overrun with tramps
and few millionaires. High Tariff enabl.
ed the sugar trust, last year, to have $22,.
SOC, 600 profits; and their estimate for this
year Was $30,Oo0,Oo0. Think Of this bro.
ther farmers, struggling with poor crops to
get bread for your families. Carefully
read the following extracts.
II want TO know lift is possible to in
crease the absurdity Of bill which take
the laths used in building the poor man :
cabin, and permits to come in free the oil OF
lavender to sweeten boy on Sunday when
he puts on his Sunday clothes? If there il
any possibility Of increasing the absurdity
Of that should like to know it.'-Senator
Vest a
You must tax the people in their food,
must tax the people in their clothing; you
must tax them in their implements of labor,
and if you want anything free, take free
drink Of whiskey.
Here is lumber. We have put it on the
free list to shelter the people in the North
west from the terrible and rigorous climate
ofthat region. We democrats say to our
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cred. Prior congresses have released the
taxes on banks, the taxes on railroads, the
taxes on telegraph companies, the taxes on
express companies, and the taxes for buying
and selling exchanges. All the wealth OF
the country has been released. Now the
democratic party says, 1--WE intend to hunt
the men who are living in sod houses and
give them free lumber.-Hon. Mr.. Mills.
now FOR REPUBLICAN, AUTHORITY.
The farmers Of this coutry, paying as
they do tariff royalty to nearly every in
dustry but their own, and paying relatively
higher wages for labor than any other in
dustry in this country, and having their
home price fixed by the export price, {.
/. notwithstanding all these disadvan-
tages, -. enter the markets of the
world and compete, not only with the So
called pauper labor Of Europe; but also
with that great and uncounted horde of
Asi.tics in the valleys and plains of India.
Hon. Knute Nelson, Republican congress-
man from Minnesota, March 20, 1888.
The republican party owes it to the mass
es Of the people by whom it was returned
1, lower to revise and reduce the tariff
from the high pressure to which it was rais-
ed no war measure, and unless it does the
common people will take the controlling
nouer of government out of its hands. The
hammered autocrats, like Carnegie, the ircn
k;nr Of Pennsylvapia, who are revel-
inr In wealth produced by the sweat of
woe workers, may, through subsidized
nress and stumP-orator demagogues, who
for a Zoo fawn upon American nabobism.
howl down the righteous demand Of the peo-
nle for tariff reduction with the false cry Of
free trade and Golden Club gold.
No marty nor organization Of numerical
consequence wants free trade. The people
want What is fair and right, and thew are
coming .to see that tariff system that
makes the rich richer and the poor poorer
is wrong, and they are going to demand in
no uncertain tone that the wrong be right
ed jamestown Capital, Republican
Next week We will show what the Ameri.
can system Of protection is in contrast with
the system which is robbing our farmers Of
millions, and will continue to do 80 il such
men as Hansbrough are sent to congress-