The Butler weekly times., 1890-05-07
Joseph NediIl to the Farmers.

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| is. He is not only the editor of the |
Chicago Tribune, the leading repub-
lican newspaper Of the northwest,
but he is a man of broad informa-
ton, wide reading, studlous habits,
serious thought and earnest devo-
ton to any cause which he espouses.
His loyalty to the republican party
has never been questioned; it is a
part of his patriotism, which is of
the highest order. He had two
brothers in the war, one of whom
sacrificed his life in the Union cause
and he himself has alway been one
of the ablest and most uncompro-
missing advocates of the oneness OF
the American republic. He spells
Nation with big N. He has an
abiding distrust Of the democratic
party and its leaders. No utterance
of his can be fairly construed as de-
signed to inlure the party to which
he has devoted his life and his dis
!, tinguished talents. Far this reason
his words ought to appeal with es-
pecial force to the republican farm
ers of Kansas and Nebraska. And
following is what he said concern
, ing the relations of the high tariff
and the American farmer, the occa-
sion being Gf the Star is not mistak-
/ en) the assembling in Chicago OF
, representative republicans from the
various counties of Illinois for con-
) sultation as to the welfare of the
party:
"Where, then, is the remedy for
, this burden of so per cent tax On
! the necessaries of life. both imported
, and domestic? There is only one
$ element Or class able to remove it,
| and that Samson is sleeping on the
Q lap OF Delilah and will not awaken
I, of course, mean the farmers. The
e The Dlundered, unprotected, twenty.
Y milli..l # geese-like farmers who
t permit themselves to be plucked OF
almost every feather by a hundre q
: thousand ''pfotected' monopolists.
k So long as the simple-minded buco
f lie class do not kick off the burdens
0 laid upon them congress will not
q disturb the war taxes and the man
G ufac turers' corresponding bounties.
e While the ploughmen act like Issa
:. chars ass, and crouch between two
n burdens, both will be kept on thei,
o backs The lubricants live localized
a in the cities, and plot aud scheme
] for the promotion of their selfish in
t terests and bring their united lobby
r influence to bear on members O.
e congress, whereas, the farmers live
t isolated and scattered, and can't Oh
= don't combine in defense of their in
) terests. Hence, they are unprotect
ed, unrepresented and unconsciou:
of what keeps them poor. They art
. captivated by the spacious cry o.
-, ''protection to American industry
n tho they get none OF it; and of thu
! value of the ''protected'' home mar
kets to them, as if protected monop
olists eat any more than any Other
men. Not until the verdant, impos
: ed-upon agriculturists wake up to {
realization of the confidence game
= being played upon them will the
war tariff be reduced or reformed
but when will they get their eyes
open aud act? In your lifetime
Samson (the farmers) is under tht
spell of Delilah (the manufacturers
and his locks are shorn and he feel.
no strength to resist. Until tn,
protected manufacturers themselve,
ask congress to reduce their protec
ton bounties in order to enabl,
them to cheaper the process of fab
rication with view to finding for
e eign markets for their surplus wares
there will be no reduction of tn,
high tariff, and no relief from tn,
. heavy burden it imposes on the foe
- farmers and oppressed consumers
But when will that be-"
These words, coming from such
man as Joseph Medill, ought t