Daily Republican., 1890-04-24

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Farmers aud the Tarin.
Oh, the farmer, the poor farmer
cry the Democracy, what is 10 becom,
Of himt This far the cry is all RICH
and stock In 1t can b. safely taken
The farmers interests are moi promis
Ing with wheat ut 10 cents and corr
al So cents q bushci. But free trade
newspapers are engaged in the task OF
trying TO make the farmers believe
that all their troubles and woes spring
from the terrible tariff. Yes, to listen
10 them IL ia protection that does the
business. And these. with bypocrit
ical sanctity, these false teachers try TO
persuade him into the belief that ii he
would vote the Democratic ticket he
would find pan, cea ior all his ills
With them frec-trade is the cure. ali
Tor the most aggravated cause OF de-
preston in business. Oh, ii only the
farmers had the markets Of the world
open TO them, how prosperous and
happy they would be- They yet the
discouraged farmer full OF this enron.
eous kind OF IN idea aud he begins 10
think that after all 1t might be- better
10 have change.
The picture of free trade Is made
nlluring TO him by the great prosperity
OF England and other foreign nations
who have no protection bars to keep
out the trade OF the world. AS free
trade prevails to Q greater extent In
England Than in any other civilized
nation, let us turn to that fortunate
country and SEC whether these highly
colored pictures are borne out by the
facts in the case, especially iu regard
10 farming. II the iarmer is so much
better oil in England than America.
then iarms must bring high price.
and not u loot OF land should be left
unculliysted that Cab be TILED. Eut
what farming is in England is tersely
told by writer tor the London Daily
News, who relates his experiences in
Lincolnshire in this kind OF style:
'Jrst look around this neighborhood "
said q particularly well Informed resi-.
dent In the county. ''Over youder is an
unoceupied farm ui over no acres: over
yondcr Is smother Of $40 acres, and
little !srther OIL is another OF perhap,
200 acre., which has attached to II 40 or
: Duo acres elsewhere. AT another village
mentioning the uafHe OF ia firm
OF 400 or 600 acres lies ,acaut: another of
500 or 4uO, AID another OF 400 aeres. All
these are Oh Que estate. There is another
estate lying away SJuder In another di. |
fecton which has uaoccuped farms OF n |
total extent u 2l01 acres and another of |
wv Gcr,f, and SO the speaker proc, eded
with list which apparently he could
have continued almost Indefinitely.
And this is prosperous England, the
great land OF free trade. And This.
honest farmers Of Delaware, is what
this county would be with free trade.
Why are thescsplendid farms In Eng.
land unoccupiedg Free trade may not
be the reason, but there is where free
trade predominates. What becomes
oil The hippsnt assertions, made by free
traders here. that "there is not an ex.
ception 10 the rule thu; low tariff
b.esses agriculturel'
1t blesses these unoccupied farms In
England, does it not? Yes, in its own
way. Aud yet tree trade theorists are
going around among our farmers, tell
Ing them 10 vote the Democratic
ticket and get these protection lava
repealed, and then they will be pros
porous. Such brazen efrontery has
NO equal.
But further, We arc told that labor
ing farm hands in England live better
and are more contented than they are
YIN this country. Let us see what this
same writer in the London Daily News
says on this point
with the great mass of these lat or.
Ing poor, lie is one prolonged agony OF
dread and anxiety. Thelr whole careers
are overshadowed by the workhouae 6,
against which they can make no pioyI
sion, however careful and industrious
they may be. talked with one woman
who had four children too young 10
earn penny. Her husband earned two
shillings $50 cents) day. For that
he had to set out at half-past O In the
morning, walk two miles, work iii 6
o'clock In the evening, asd walk two
miles back again."
II only tree trade papers would pub
llsh these facts there would be bu, it,
lie danger of either farmer or laborer
becoming infatuated with free trade
ideas. But this they will not do. They
would rather deceive and mislead the
farmer and get him 10 vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. That ia sill they ere
after. Low tariffs and free trade are
but catch arguments to make a blind
issue and decoy to draw farmers aud
A5orers into the Democratic trap.