The Butler weekly times., 1890-01-08
LOOKS SUSPICIOUS.
A Warning to the Farmers-A Great
Trust Scheme Exposed.
Clinton, Mo. Dec. 20, 1889.

Clinton, Mo, Dec 20, 1889.
Brother farmers. YOU will find
printed petition presented to your
orders asking for your Endorsement
to the following suggested legisla-
ton:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States OF America in Con-
gress assembled:
That the Secretary If the Trels.
ufy be AID Is authorised to pay a
bounty Of fifty cents on each barrel
ot -four exported from any port III
the United States. i'll vessel built
in the United States, and owned by
citizens of the United States, to any
por, III Europe, until twenty million
barrels OF -four shall have been ex-
ported. And the sum OF ten million
dollars is hereby appropriated for
that purpose out Of any money in
the treasury to any owner, or officer
or their agents, or to any other per
son, until satisfactory evidence has
been produced to said secretary
that the -four has been shipped from
port in the United States and
landed in a port III Europe, and
that the vessel in which it was ex-
ported was built III the United
States and owned by citizens Of the
United States.
The act shall take effect i'll thirty
days from its passage,
The above is being sent out by
]. Isaac Hollinsworth, of Winches-
ter. Va, who asks that it be circulat
ed for signatures and then sent to
their representatives III congress
and urge them to give it their atten
ton. Fifty cents OF every barrel
OF -four shipped abroad until twenty
million barrels are exported" Read
er, are you aware that English cap
italists have recently bought up all
Of the large Touring mills Of Mime
sofa, for which they paid about S.,
get *on to have congress pass such
Il bill, it would enhance the price of
each barrel Of iour these mills
would manufacture until they would
export twenty million narrcis, which
would be years before ii is done
Twenty million barrels would be
ten million dollars in their pocket,
SO would give them back what the
mills cost them and S5,O00,00 bon
u because they did buy I think
that would be enough, but it would
not be more than one tenth the
profit they would get of the bill.
English capitalists are said to own
so per cent Of all our National
Banks, onf manufactures and rail
roads, and will soon own ali our
breweries and elevators, and still we
are divided OH the policy Of our gov
ernment We are still urging tariff!
Some OF rs accuse the others of leg
,slating for the benefit of English
capitalists! When we legislate for
cspital and against labor we are
bound to legislate for them.
[ wish every man would consider
this subject thoroughly before he
signs said petition. Ii such bill
becomes a law we would have the
greatest trust on earth. English
capitalists boast that the Yankees
can beat the world producing
wealth, but they are shrewd enough
to get possession of those lines of
business that produce wealth the
fastest, and then try to get congress
to throw in bonus to boot. The
circular from old Virginia doubtless
has its paternity in some other sec.
ton of the Union as that grand old
commonwealth is more on tobacco
than she is on wheat.
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