Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-06
u SELLS HIS WHEAT.

> and the Hired Man Go Home
each Protection Philo that Re-
lan Farmers Are Fools--Mike's
for Higher Wages.
)ndence Chicago Herald
Inns POINT, Ind, Oct 25.-I
ant to know no more about this
] !. y. \! i.
bill than know now The
k ou find out about some things the
you air off; but this aint one of
M$K6ssn kind of things. When first
I'm >pepel talkin' about the McKindlin
H 81 spring Last Billy Owen, our con-
nan, what it meant when he come
TO see about the corn plantin', and
i 1t meant more taxes. And | sed /.
amity You can't raise the taxes
4; thare too high now" But he
was different from reglar taxes up
te court house. He sed it would
everything we wore and worked
cost about half more than it did
and l told him, $50 long, don't
We even an American Congress can
the pepel thataway.n
ut forgot all about the thing in the
y of the crops, and when all my
ors was fussin about it just let 'em
for / thought it was just another
Gbublican scare to put the Democrats
,dilMa hole. / wasn't afraid our hired
tlIlaffftA ~ OpIls3ltcS MOulu IudAB lnluES no
"a, 5sgS Ter for us than tina air, and so | just
Fy251lSfsHged away and fetched rattlin' good
gggLMl#8gete crop and some Of the finest pota-
you ever turned out of the ground.
1istidy | took 'em to the Point and
EN-, and | amt been in good
er ever since.
Why, when l got to town all the
rekeepers was hangin up sines in the
nders, tellin' how this had riz, and
had riz, along of the McKindlin
But don't never mind the sines
ch, cause | hev knowed 'em to say
thing and mean another. / Just
mt ahead with my whete and pulled
IN line at the elevator
The Teller what buys whete lowed
3price was only 81 cents, though il
80 the day before and mite be so
Yin tomorrow. | asted him to keep
" ENaill tomorrow, and if it was 80 pay
that. He said he would take the
lnces if would but the McKindlin
So was maxim things darned oncerten,
it was just as likely to fall as to
Sc. | sed: "Fhen pay me what it's
nth to-day; | don't take no risks on
other mans game. But i thought the
ckindlin bill was goin' to help the
rmers.n
And he lated, but he sed: "If il
pes, you let me no. So he paid me
] cents, little less than | got last
Ear, and went back uptown. | met
like, my hired man, at the public well
hen come to water the horses, and
esed he couldn't git no more than 40
ents bushel for the taters to save his
fe.
l sed, "That's a purity howdedo
Fhete and taters low after the Me.
Aindlin bill. But waite till we come to
1y the winter flannels and them goods
aebby that will even things upa little. >
So we baited the horses in the open
OF back Of the blacksmith shop and
vent up to the stores. The last seen
# Mike he was talkin' to Bob Cards
the postmaster; and Bob was sayin' to
:, him, ITS all rite foryou, anyhow, Mike
lrst Jim Blame seq this whole question Of
. esGiosl5protection is labor question from core
rnn,9to bark, and from bark back to core
'ifthagin You've been yotin' rong, Mike
ixththat's all. You vote agin the Dmicrats
evernext time and you'll come out all rite !
light Mike asst him if the labor of keepin' 0
,,intlpost-office was eny easier Or paid eny
IN, gau better, and Bob sed, mo, its only fol
wei the horny handed sons of toll our party
mir is carin'-not for the rich and the
'oui powerful and the CRATE
'ifte ] went up to Sleezer' store and mel
ixtemy wife, and we asst to see his stockin
.e,venyarn and flannels. lie didn't send nc
I; SSna.,clerk to us, but he come around and
'weI throWed down the goods himself. | as
'wet him how much was piece of james
'wersame's | bought off of last year at 81
,wercents, and he sed, Sixty FIVE Their
',wenmy wife found stockin' yarn and car
we, WEI pet chain had went up just about the
we, WEI same. And red flannel for under
W. clothes couldn't be looked at for les
than twice what tina was last fall
My wife sed, "Ain't this the samt
- piece bought of in Jnly2n And Slice
3rai ger lowed it was. He said ii was 81
Bra, cents in July, but since the McKndlir
,hr. bill went into force the price had riz
,hri SEE, But it didn't cost you no more.
III And he lated and sed if we could dt
VI. any better in town we better go out ant
VII try.
zen So we did go out. | hate 10 be stol,
lev from by eny man. We went to Mogel'
lsa store and then to all the others, and W,
.eo found the same thing everywhere
= Goods had went up like smoke and TIN
want no reason for it. Stuff that haC
laid on the shelves two year waitin 70
customer at so cents was nifty hoity
toity now al 65. And all along of til,
Mckindlin bill
Well, we he'd to hev, so we he'd t,
buy; but couldn't see for my life how
law like that was goin' to maxi
friends. fused when / come to gi
my male, but Bob Card, the postmaster
said it want no hardship. He sed if
coat cost twice as much this year as /
did last man would just git along witt
hat as many as he had last. sed, "Bu
/ only he'd one coat last year" AM
Bob bent purity nigh double with latin
and he sed, Then 90 without this year.
I'll be darned if can see eny fun ii
that.
Mebby its a joke, but it looks TO m
like insult
So this is the way | figgered it out a
my wife and nc rode home;
Lost on whete........,.,... S03
Lost on aters................ Al
lDtal ...t.......a. flj
Lost on stockin' yarn.-..,.,.s 05
Lost on james. .,..,9.....,..,.. 3 60
Lost on red flannel........,.. Z 10
Lost on carpet chain......... 50
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