Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-30

| T0IIO ONGI WullG 4 was PubtlhE
up the teme and wanted to buy some
sede whete. He got purity nigh enough
of me last week, but he wanted about
four bushels to path out. ] told him
OWN to the McKindlin bill, would
hev to raise the price on him little.
He just looked paralyzed and he sed:
"Why, the law wasn't never made for
that, it's made to raise the price Of fac
tory stuff-not farm produce, just fac
tory stuff and labor" looking at Mike
kind quick. PhIlo's bin tryin' to
reskew Mike from the error of his waze
for long time.
"Well, sez 1, "take what you need
Philo, but leave US enough for bread.
And / hope since you are a prosperous
republican farmer, you will pay for 1t
before you sell your next CROP"
Philo was leanin' into the bin when
sed that and he most stood on his
head when / talked about payin'. He
never was less than year behind and
he never will be. But II these McKin-
din bills keeps on I'll be darned
II any of us ketches that close up after
a while. Philo filled his sacks and then
he seZ:
"Sol, you've got the rong idee ofthls.
This tariff law is blessin' in disguise" +"
"Tha didn't need to disguise 1t so
much,n sez Mike, but / made him a
motion to be still and Philo went on:
"Whut the country needs Is to devel-
op her resources. Now no manufac-
turer is maxim the money you think he
is. He Is proper glad If he can git 10
per cent. gross profit. This bill will
make his goods sell for little more. L
know. 1t will pinch you and me for
few years, but we will get used to 1t
after while and then we wouldn't have
1t changed for no money. "Cause the
manufacturers being better paid, can
raise the wages oflabor, and then labor
can buy more feed and things, and then
you and can get a better price for
what we raise, and will be as we'll off
as we air now"
"Will we be eny better off?' I asst
him.
"WelI, I don't know as we will" SEE
Philo.
"Then what's the good of bein'
squeezed two or three years?" sez l.
-"Oh," sez he, the country will be de-
veloped and labor will be ennobled and
we will take our proper rank among
the nations of the earth"
sed, sob, footw and slapped one
of the horses before thought; but l
was mad.
"Now, sez /, ave got a big family,
and the McKindlin bill will cost me
just $50 this year. It'll cost every farm
er in Indiana just that much with my
size family, or he'll have to go with
out lots of the things he needs and has
earned and ought to have. 1t don't
make market at home nor abroad for
bushel of wheat nor barrel of flour.
Jim Blaine SEE that and for once the
devil has scared the truth out of him.
won't never git even with that loss If
/ wait a hundred years. I'm tirder of
protection than ever / was before"
"Oh,n SEE Philo every manufacturer
in the country is tired of protection for
his nabors. All of them wants free
trade for every body but himself"
"Why," 1 asst him.
"Cause protection is good thing on
" where it helps man."
"Well then,n sez /, "seein' it helps
one man and hurts five, the American
pepel is a set of fools to stand it. FoI
every one man who manufactures there
must be many to buy. 1t helps him
and hurts them. Tha are five to one.
If tina can't outvote him, by gum! we
need duty on branes to encourage
some man to produce them. And then
you say manufacturers don't make no
money. Why, this plow, made at
South Bend and sold to me for SIG is
sold in Brazil for SO. This feed cutter
that ] paid $11 for is sold there for Sc.
Why can't tina sell at home for IS II
tina can way there?"
Philo sez, "Oh, you must have more
!, patriotism more American pride, SOS
| to help your countrymen compete with
the foreign maker in the markets OF
the world"
I've heard that 80 often it makes me
sick. / don't see why an American
farmer haint as good as greaser in Rio.
Philo kind frightened up cause
didn't say nothin' and he sez:
"You two men will soon see the wis
dom of this law. Why, wages is goin'
up already; factories all over the land
is showin' sines of renewed activity
The whole country feels glow ofwarm
prosperity, and"
"Sol,n sez Mike, interruptin', can't
work for you no longer"
why" sez 1.
"Cause the wages hain't big enough" /"
mike sees the benefit of the McKin'
din bill now,n sez Philo, laffin' little
and rubbin' his hands.
"No," Mike went on, II am goin' to
hev more wages or quit. The law sez II
and mean it." ;.
sez: "All right, Mike, you can quit;;'
but hated to for better man never
drawed breath.
"Philo,n sez Mike, you will need q
man through seedin' and corn shukin'
You know what I can do. Will you
hire me and pay me So a month more
than Sol does?"
seen what Mike meant then right
away, and / guess Philo did too, for his
Jaw fell and he scraped around on the
barn floor with his scoop and at last he
sed:
"WelI, you see, Mike the benefits
amt quite got down to US yet. l couldn't
give you no more than Sol does, for Q
man come to me from the farm tools
works at South Bend and he's willln' tO
work for $4 less than you're gettin'
But next year Or"
"Philo you're goshdum fool" se'
Mike.
"Whut's that?" sez Philo, pickin'ur
the scoop.
"Oh, sed you was fool; that's all
Mike told him and he got up and walk