Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-06-19

10 iNN~IrNUritt ~|H|3if ~ VIM
nell, Iowa. Democratic organ OF free
trade. recently said Manufacturers
are allowed to compel exactions on all
their products from all corners. II
compels the farmer to buy Ia an artifi-
cial market and to sell Ina free mar
ket. Still he declines to have any
change made, being content to stand
fleecing because the Imposition is Inn
posed by the grand old Republican
party. The laboring man has discover
ed that his boss and not he is benefit
ted by the protective system. The
farmer who labors from sun to sun
and grows poorer as he grows older,
comes up at every congressional cleo
ton to approve his own robbery and
to assist In perpetuating a SYSTEM that
is villainous. Will he ever lift his
nose from the grindstoneY'
An intelligent and substantial farm
err residing near Grinnel, who CHANGED
to read the above paragraph, gives the
following chapter of personal expert
ence as a fitting reply TO that sort OF
free trade clap-trap. He says: "The
inputation In the above that the
farmer does not know enough to vote
intelligently is an insult to every hon
est tiller of the soil. By reading such
rot one would be led to believe that
the farmers are actually. In want did
they not know better by observation
and experience.
Twelve years ago this spring !
landed in Brooklyn from Ireland. a
country that Is cursed with the same
free trade that it is proposed to fasten
upon this country If such fools as the
writer of the above could have their
way. Free trade ruined US. The
poor tenants of the richest island in
the world as regards soil, contribute
their products to help sustain the
English lords, who in turn supply the
people with English goods at exorbi-
tant prices. They would like awful
well to make this country strictly an
agricultural one. and they would
manufacture all of the goods we need
over here. Gladstone practically said
ms much in his controversy with Blaine.
"When landed in, Brooklyn. Iowa,
I had just so cents In money. 1 had
no trouble in getting work among the
farmers at good wages. made more
clear money the first year was here
than ever had before. After work.
ing four years for different farmers, l
went into business for myself. rent
ed small farm aid worked it for all
it was worth, To-day own 100 acres
of as fine land as there Is in Scott
township, and it is all paid for, too,
-.n1 =. III 1cr.. e.l:- wii.ias to show up
any day with that Grinnell editor who
has so much sympathy for the farmer
with his nose to the grindstone.' My
own experience il also that of scores of
others here on the Ridge No other
country in the world would give us
such ~ chance AZ sllis- ono. l. know.
corn Is low in price, but 1t fatteDs hogs
like blazes, and they are selling for u
good price. / sold mine two weeks ago
for 1886, and considering The price
Of everything else that is good. sold
horse the other day for $l40 and in
vested the money in yearling calves,
for which had to pay from Sl4 to $17
per head.
II do hope that Grinnell editor will
not lose any sleep oyer the condition
OF us poor farmers. AMI want to as
sure him that l don't want any free
trade in mine, not even a tariff for
revenue. If had my way about it i
would increase the tariff on everything
that can be produced in this country
and admit free the articles that we
can not raise or manufacture here"