The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06

if shipped and admitted tree, (>0E
And then again, in tile ne tariH
bill, the tax on ho IS is nearly 100 per
cent. and that is called protection TO
farmers. We produce about one
third more hops than we can consume
sell the surplus to Europe and the
price of hops, like the price OF Wneat'
IS made in London, We import hops
Just as we import Egyptian cotton
and Spanish ores, simply because we
must have them to mix with our
home products, and a tariff tax on
either is no protection to the home
producer, but imposes increased taxes
on And all this sort OF
coddling racket is called increased
protection to farmers Verify, such
mockery is not only an insult to the
| intelligence of the toiling yeomanry
of the land, but it would be a down
right affront to even the microcephallc
Intelligence of a dwelling idiot.
When will the farmers learn to re-
sent this costly mockery of the most
important industrial interest OF the
country; be convinced that tariff taxes
~opDress farmers, and that tariff taxes
never protect farmers to any substan-
tial extent ? To state the sum and
substance of this bill as regards the
good it does the farmer, it not only
does not reduce the present high tariff
war taxes on any of the necessaries OF
life, excepting sugar and tobacco, but
it increases the present needlessly op.
pressive taxes throughout the general
list of common n-ecessaries consumed
by the masses of the people. Indeed,
such is the oppression which the Nc
Kinley bill imposes upon us, that we
may well exclaim with old Colepeppe1
in the Long Parliament, in the reign
of Charles I. of England, in abiding
to the exactions caused by the mos
onerous monopolies: "They sup II
our cup; they dip in our dish, they sit
by our fire; we find them in the dye
: fat, the wash bowls, the powdering
tub. They share with the cutter IL
his box. They have marked anc
r sealed US from head to foot" So, il
like manner, has this "farmers
tariff" (God save the mark marked
and sealed US. Yes, this is just tn,
e way this new scheme for coddling tn
a. farmers will work. And in the meal
0 time millions of workingmen through
e out the country will have been taxe'
s in their wearing apparel and essentia
8 articles of daily food. 1t is great
to be feared that the farmers tariff
t racket won't work. 1t may deceiv
s farmers for a while, but not for
s great while. AS a class they may b
g fooled once; as Lincoln said, som
of them Ray be fooled all the time
e but all of them can't be fooled all tn
time" And when they awake to
n realization of the facts the heavy han
OF their displeasure will fall at tn
@ ballot-bo on those responsible for tn
infamous deception. The more tn
# Mckinley bill is examined the MOI
clearly it is seem to be the work
political tricksters; the more certai
it is to be shown as not based upC
wise and enduring principles of n
q. tional prosperity. 1t is a one-side,
le narrow-minded, partisan, vote-catc.
ing, double-ender affair, that may fl
a time catch votes at both ends, but
a little while it will lose more than
h gained thereby.
d In short, the new tariff is simp
ID an ingenious method of increasing tt
-o~--%-~,r- o-N~ ~ 4IA ~00r
as saries of business and the necessari
Or of life, and of establishing a tar:
il policy that will give monopoly gree
the absolute mastery of the whole i
te dustrial interests of the countr
ed Yes, here is this partisan tariff lit
III nothing more nor less) even i~ncreasil
es the present high war taxes upon t
IN people-will they dare to tamper wi
rv the patience of the people by t
passage or the adoption of such an
iii famous tariff policy? 1t is the gre
nd hot-bed of trusts on which the dor
IT'S nant party depends for a perpetuati
of of its hold to power by the Doodle
IN. will afford to subsidize every chan1
les that corruption can reach in order
nd bride. If the Pc pie can stand su
,rs a glaring hOcus Iocus arrangement
n. hoodwink them into gnawing at su
,ar a bone, then there is no such thi
as with them as that familiar last featI
he which, as we ge all heard, sometin
ne breaks the camel's back, and tn
IDS patience and long suffering is enou
es. to make ola Job himself turn gre
1at with envy. If we do not awake fir
it this long lethargy of degrading s
ted vitude, and by thinking, and strivil
to and resisting, with might and ma
oh conjure up and adopt the means
1t. rid ourselves of the a cursed shack
is with which these merciless ia
at masters fetter us, we are irretrieva
o a fated to a never-ending plutocrs
we bondage. UPTON B. GwYNN