St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-13


high tariff was all right, but am fully
convinced it's all wrong. Those letters
of Budd Reeves have done more to set
the farmers thinking than anything |
ever read before. They will be the
means of reducing the ranks of the Re-
publicanS in South Dakota. Every line
IS the truth. South Dakota IS in just
that terrible situation. Was not Cleve-
land defeated on account of his low
tariff ideas and because he favored
farming and laboring industries? Do
you know OF any papers replying to
Budd Reeves letters?'
pliments directly and indirectly. L was
never the recipient of many bouquets,
and until [ become little more familiar
with blushiDg modesty, i hope the pub
lie will bear with my native awkward
ness until L can become little accuS-
toned to the situation. Ali the compli-
mentS and congratulations that have
come in have been sent, not for brill
fancy OF writing or speech. but because
they say l told the truth. If l have
gained a reputation for telling the
truth | will try and maintain it on the
principle through which the coInpli-
ments were gained. When you get
right down tc it, this world is not only
little queer, but wonderful TO behold
and contemplate. Every man has more
or less original matter in him; there is
many a man and woman born with good
sense but who adopts and accepts the
opinions of others, for which they
very often pay too dearly. Eve
~ man, educated or uneducated,
can put it down as safe principle to
go by, that he can try experiments, adj
vocate new theories and doctrines,
speculate or take any kind of chance,
provided he always has the door open,
and leaves himself i'll such position
that he is no worse off in trying the eX-
pertinent than by letting it alone In
case he should fail. If man were in
hell, he would not stop and hesitate
about making his condition worse in
trying to get out. He would not say:
Il will remain i'll hell rather than take
any chances in being worse off by get
ting out" He would say; This Is the
worst place possible; am safe in fly
ing anywhere rather than remain here"
This is the way the farming commu-
nifty is beginning TO feel all over the
country. With lands on the decline,
low prices for everything raised, high in
tereSt and high prices for machinery, he
is taxed to pay tribute TO support an
other mans business at the expense of
his own. He sees other branches of in
dustry prospecting while he is getting
poor. The simple fact is, he is in hell.
He not only smells the birthstone, but
feels the oppression. Can lie be made
worse by advocating free trade or any
other doctrine for change? Whether
you are right or wrong, brother farmers,
it is no worse on the outside than it is
on the in-you are safe i'll making
any kind of a change. In any event you
will have the bills to pay, while the 9TH
or fellow will walk
OFF WITH THE OFFICES.
As long as you have to bear the heat
and burden of the day, it is your glori-
Gus privilege to try or do anything y0u
please; from working for monopoly,
down TO going to the poorhouse if that
is the thing you are after.-Or, you have
right to occupy the front seats and let
the other fellow walk if you so desire.
You are your own greatest oppresSorS
if you vote to enslave yourselves, as
you have the ballot in your hands to do
otherwise If you SO will.
A prominent lawyer in South Dakota
writes as follows: 81 have read your
letter aloud to my friends, who are
captivated with it. Our Democratic
anything like it. and suggest that we
can guarantee you thirty or forty sub
seribers from the start, to any news
paper sent forth by you"
What shall | say to these people,
these warm, complimenting admirers.
Shall be honest With them, or shall |
be fraud? Let us be honest. Gentle
men, am not highly educated man,
or graduate on any subject. L simply
see and feel the same as the balance OF
tie world. l have sufficient intelli-
gence, though, to tell when my feet are
cold, when l am hungry, when l get a
Gunping letter. and can find the market
reports in a newspaper. And when it
says, s'Wheat declined two cents on &C
count of no foreign demand" can UNI
derstand something of that; and
when it says it event up two cents
on account of foreign demand" l
con catch on to that, without the aid of
a college professor or writer on politi-
cal economy to explain it-that is, l
think can. All i have to guide me is
my simple senses. Ii man were Starv-
ing to death, the statistics of how much
wealth manufacturer had accumulated
under protection would serve him but
little purpose without there was some
thing in it for him to eat. Nobody
doubts the amount monopolsts and pro-
tectioniSts can not only pile up in fig
ureS, but actual wealth-count the stuff
right out. But these things don't help
the starving farmer out. He can see
where he lost it and the other fellow
made it; that is all. The tariff question
is said to be deep and complicated one
that is so; one common man can't
understand or dlscuSS-l can see this
also. When l try to understand why
should be taxed to protect and supportan
Eastern manufactures at the expense
-, 70 ICtl / mil
admit that | am up stump am
plump, bang, jam up against stone
Wall-can't understand or see for the
life of me why should do it; and
don't believe there are people enough
living to make me see through it, with
out l could see for certainty money on
the other side of it-then l should be
like tho porter in the sleeping car. l
heard man on sleeper trying to get
something through pOrterS head, and
after he had repeated it all over, as he
thought very clearly, the porter said:
ut will take just about So TO have me
understand that" The man who has
the money in it seems to be the only
one who can understand it. Sir Isaac
Newton was travelling through the
country, once, and he stopped
at farm house for dinner. After din
ner he got ready to pursue his journey,
and the farmer told him he better not
start out: it was going to rain. The sun
was shining brightly and everything
was as clear as could be, and Sir Isaac
drove on. In few hours there came a
terrible storm. and rain poured in tor
rents. 1t impressed Sir Isaac so much
that he turned round and drove back to
hunt up the rustic in the cabin. When
he reached him he revealed his identity
to him and said: my friend, have
spent all my life looking for principles
OF truth and philosophy. could see no
signs or indications of an approaching
storm, and you, living here in obscu-
rity, predict accurately the condi-
tons of the elements. l should
like to know the knowledge or
power by which you do it." Certainly,
certainly" said the old backwOedsman.
"Come, go with me down to the sheep
pasture" They went, and when they
got there the granger said to Mr.. Isaac,
'sDo you see that black sheep there?''
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