Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-06

before you sell your next crop"
Philo was leanin' into the bin when l
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 if these McKindlin
bills keeps on I'll be darned if any of us
ketches that close up after while. Philo
filled his sacks, and then he seq:
Sol, you've got the rong idee Of this.
This tariff law is blessin in Disguise
"Tha didn't need to disguise it SO
much,n seq Mike, but made him a
motion to be still, and Philo went on:
"Whut the country needs is to de-
velop 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,
know 1t will pinch you and me for
few years, but we will git used to it
after while, and then we wouldn't have
it changed for no money. Cause the
manufacturers bein' better paid, can
raise the wages of labor, and then labor
can buy more feed and things, and then
you and | can git better price for what
we raise, and will be as well off as we
air now
"Will we be emmy better OFF," asst
him.
"Well, don't know as we will" SEE
Philo.
"Then what's the good of bein'
squeezed two or three years 2" seq ].
"Oh," sez he, 'the country will be de-
yeloped and labor will be ennobled, and
we will take our proper rank among the
nations of the earth"
| sed, "Oh, footn and | slapped one
of the horses before / thought; but
was mad,
"Now," seq l, give got big family,
and the McKindlin bill will cost me
Just $50 this year. It'll cost every
farmer 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. It don't
make market at home nor abroad for
bushel of wheat nor a barrel Of floor
Jim Blaine sez that, and for once the
devil has scared the truth out of him. |
won't never git even with that loss if /
wait hundred years. I'm tireder of
protection than ever was before
ooh, sez Philo, cheerful like, every
manufacturer in the country is tired of
protection for his Majors. All of them
wants free trade for everybody but him
self"
"Why ~ l asst him.
"'Cause protection is good thing
only where it helps man."
well then" sez |, "seein' il helps
one man and hurts five, the American
pepel is a set Of fools to stand it. For
every one man that manufactures there
must be many TO buy, 1t helps him and
hurts them. Tina are five to one If
tina can't outyote him, by gum! we
need duty on branes TO encourage
some man TO produce EN-. And then
you say manufacturers don't make no
money. Why, this pillow, made at south
Bend and sold to me for SIG, is sold in
Brazil for so. This feed cutter that
paid $lt for is sold there for So. Why
can't tina sell at home for So if tina can
way there"
Philo sez, "Oh, you must have more
patriotism, more American pride, SOS to
help your countrymcn compete with the
foreign maker in the markets Of the
world
I've heard that SO often it makes me
sick. | don't see why an American
farmer amt as good as greaser in Rio.
Philo kinda frightened up cause
didn't say nothin' and he SCI:
You two men will soon see the wis
dom of this law Why, wages is goin'
up already; factories all over the land
is shown sines of renewed activity
The whole country feels glow Of
warm prosperity, and"
"Snl" seq Mike interruDin' 81 cant