Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-15
A Grent protectIon yIctory.


As YOU are well aware, | sold my full
roller system Touring mill about Tour years
ago thinking To find better remuneration
for INV invested capital and labor. During
the last Presidential campaign, the RepuO-
licau speakers and newspapers informed the
voters that if Harrison were elected ana
protection insured as the settled policy OF
the nation. farmers would share IN the gen
eral prosperity. These sentiments were
loudly applauded. and to-day, farmers ana
the entire population are dancing TO the
music. One year ago wheat was worth
with Us out here about one dollar oushel'
NOW il is worth IS 20 10 cents. Oats We're
then y 10 30 cents; now they are worth ~.
Dressed hogs brought $50; now they
hardly bring = per hundred weight On
the other hand, we have been paying TAX
of two or three cents per pound on sugar,
and on other goods accordingly / own
good farm of 100 acres. / have worked
hard all summer keeping strictly 70 the
eight-hOur system eight hours before din
ner and eight hours after dinner-and have
raised very good crops. ] find after de-
Quoting all necessary expenses. / have not
received over twenty-five cents day FOR
NV hard labor, and / have done fully as
well as my ncighbOrs. If ] had my farm
propertv I'm hard cash and al interest, and
worked bv the month or day. would be a
GOOD many dollars ahead. paid 81 day
10 hired help. besides board. but only real
lied - cents "a dav myself The farmer
votes for protection So that the men who
manufacture his tools, implements, ma
chimes. clothing and other necessarieS OF
life. make from - 10 y day at their ease,
while ne makes - cents 'uder the burning
RAYS Of the sun. Surely farmers are the
l.. Q ON AfnN
dear readers. before You call the writer a
fool or crank. estimate the property OF a
farmer and see if he has realized over p
cents "a day for his hard labor Talk about
cheap pauper labor of Europe. Show me
"a country i'm the civilized world where they
paw such starvation wages as is paid 10
these poor. deluded dupes of the monOp0-
lists-the farmers
Since the incoming of the present Ad-
ministatiOn an immense amount OF Ameri-
can property has been bought by British
capital -breWerics. grain elevators. flour
ing mills and other manufacturing estab-
lishments. After looking over the globe
for an investment for their surplus capital,
the British lords saw the laboriug and pro-
ducing classes here vote tax of over 40
per cent. on the ncccsSaries OF life and as
no other people on earth We're simple
enough 10 vote SuCu foDOcfN on lucnSclNeS'
the British capitalists hurriedly bought all
the property they could possibly get Now
they can form trusts and syndicates and
rob their dupes 10 their hearts content
Our forefathers would not pay a tax of two
pence pound ON tea 20 England. vet we
pay her lords "a tax OF from 20 to3Oper cent.
on most of the necessalics of life.
IL would seem as II one more purchase is
all that is necessary for these foreigners 10
own this country again. Let them buy all
the milling papers which claim the biggest
circulation for whatever these papers ask,
and also the daily papers. The voters act
ually believed il when tine latter papers
said the tariff was not tax. and that the
election of Harrison would insure a home
market and raise the price of grain and
stock As 10 takes about one bushel of
oats 10 buy two pounds of sugar. and as
we are selling good cattle at TO D. cents
a pound. wonder how long AT the same
ratio of increase that ong-promised home
market will be in reaching u.s.
This epiStle hardly belongs In your
paper. but being afraid that some of my
dusty friends might contemplate making
as foolish a change as did. ] thought il
well To let them know little of my eXpe-
rience.