St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-11

ket will go up." This is the routine
talk of every day in every chamber of
commerce and board of trade through
out the United States. 1t is not an oc-
c%asional idle remark Oh the street,
but the actual trade and bus
mess conditions of the country.
Now what are the facts? With a llthese
co nditiOnS and business relations star
ing the farmer III the face and ringing
in his ears, while watching the foreign
market to catch a glimpse of hope for
the future of his wheat, knowing that
everything depends upon that. the
the president of the Irvine trust step
up to him and say: after you sell
your wheat on the rise and fall of
a foreign market. won't you vote
not to buy anything of foreign
ers or allow foreigners to ship
any cheap goods into this country
so you a get hold of them. Won't you
vote to protect me so | can sell sell you
goods for a high price and give you
about half as much for the money re-
ceIved for your wheat or foreign quota
lions as you could buy where your crop
is Sold? To this mOnstrous and
Outrageous Proposition,
like the girl who went to the store. the
farmer meekly bows his head and says,
yes, sir" Way down from dried up,
old Maine. the home of Tommy Reed
n Jimmy Blaine, this proposition
comes: MAINE is only a work shop.
We are wholly dependent upon manu-
featuring for a living. Our soil is barren
and rocky. We can't farm it. but we have
got a large amount of bass rood trees.
We can make wooden spoons and ladies
to work your butter. We can make pill
boxes, toothpicks, matches, w~ashboarGS
and Spools to wrap thread on. For Gods
sake, won't you vote to protect us
against foreign markets and shut your
self out from buying anywhere else?:"
And the Western farmer says, Yes,
sir" The manufacturer in Massa-
chusetts sees how readily the farmer
takes Maine on his shoulders to sup
port, and he asks him if he will not vote
to keep all cloths and prints out of this
country, and he says, Eyes, sir" The
iron manufacturer and coal baron of
Pennsylvania asks him the same ques-
ton, and he responds without hesitation,
Yes. SIR" And after he has said
Eyes. sir" to all these people, and been
loaded up with their goods at a high
price, he sits down and wonders why he
is so poor and hard up. AS a business
mat ana thinker on economy the farmer
has no equal. A large majority Of them
in the Western states have forgotten
the words mo, sir" entirely, and seem
to be
Unconscious of the Causes
and reasons of their condition. 1t is
true, society is made up of many people
and many relations. But just why the
farmer should feel bound to contribute
to all of them, and then seek a market
abroad for his own productions is be-
yOnd comprehension. Western farm
ers who have been voting to support a
lot of Yankees, depending on Blaine
and Reed to furnish them brains,
should say: when we dig a crop out
of the ground we propose to sell it
where we can get the most. and buy
what we want where we can get it the
cheapest. and if New England can't
compete with old England i'll helping
US out, instead of voting to tax our
selves indirectly to support a lot of
MaineiteS, you must move West and
work Oh the farm and drive mules, and
let US farmers play nabob a little while,
there would be some sense in it, and a
revolution would put the farmer to the
front. He would get good prices for
everything he raised, and get his labor
done by unprotected Maineites.
BUDD REEVE.