St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-21
TOPICS OF THE TIME.

jerry Rusk Secretary Rusk,
Uncle jerry was in
Talks Tariff. Chicago Friday, says
the Tribune He is a
big man, is ''Uncle jerry" and his hair
and beard are white with yellowish
tinge, and he has glow on his cheeks
like the sunsets when the days are short
and the ground is frozen hard. He has
great big laugh that you can hear clear
across the ''medder lot" It's hearty
laugh. He shakes the callers hand and
asks him to sit down just as they do out
in the country, and one rather expects
him to call the bellboy and have the
horse put up.
"Uncle Jerry" is conyersant with ag-
riculture and agriculturists. lie talked
to the farmers at the state fair in Col
umbus, o., Thursday, and told them
what great country this was.
Il told Them" said he, they'd better
secure their political demands from the
two old political parties, and not try to
start another one. / don't think that
would be a success. No, honestly, |
don't think the Alliance is going to
hurt the Republican party any more
than the Democratic. There is no
Tree traders. Don't you believe 1t. 1t
worrying them They know that some
things the matter, and they want to
find out what. Farming doesn't pay as
1t used to during the war and right
after the war, but then it isn't depressed
as it was in the ante-bellum times. The
farming business has been rather over
done lately, or rather it hasn't been di-
versitied enough. We export wheat
and corn, but we import 10000, 900 BUSH
els of barley year. We can grow bar
ley as we'll as in Canada, ana when the
new tariff bill goes into effect We'll
keep all that barley out. Now we i'm
port potatoes too, and we ought to grow
all our own potatoes.
Another thing; they thought it was
awful smart to poke fun at the McKin-
ley bin because it put duty on eggs
and they laughed at the old hens and
all that sort of thing. Well, now, sir,
do you know that the poultry industry
OF this country is worth more than the
silver industry? Well, it is, and it
ought to be protected"
Don't you think there ought to be a
law to prevent people from wanting
forelgn-laid eggs OF foreign-grown pota-
toes?'
THAT isn't apracticable thing. know
of course that if the people of this
CouHtly Ulull Wdill lucu. tley WOllull
be shipped here. but if there is a tariff
on glass there ought to be tariff on
the farmers produce. He's as much
entitled to it as the manufac-
turers are. Forty-four per cent of the
inhabitants Of this country are engaged
in the farming business. l say they are
entitled to the same measure of protec-
ton as the other fellows. If they don't
get it, it's not a fair deal, that's all.
We're getting pretty tired of rocking
the cradle for some of these six-foot
whiskered infants, while our infants
don't get any rocking at all. Unless our
infant does get the same amount of
rocking we're going to get right up in
our wrath and not only kick the six
footer out of the cradle, but smash the
rockers off, don't you understand. We
must all be protected alike, to the same
extent. Wouldn't that be the same as
if we had free trade, if everybody was
protected alike? Not bit OF it. Every
body will be protected"