St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
THEY PAY TOO MUCH

THEY PAY TOO MUCH
For What They Buy, and That's
What's the Matter With the
Farmers.
If we did not have to pay so much for
what we buy, we would save just that
much out of what we raise. If I could
buy self-binder for S75 instead of $50,
would have binder, and S75 to buy
something else with. But if I only
have money enough to pay for binder
l have to go in debt for everything else,
simply because my money doesn't go far
enough. / may be mistaken, but these
things seem clear to me. We are told
that the tariff is too deep and compli-
Gated a subject for common farmer to
comprehend. That may be, but the
thing seems to comprehend US all right
as no one in Dakota is living in a
house inherited from his grandfather,
but has had everything to buy and
pay for, from the clothes line he hangs
his shirt out to dry on up to the house,
including everything he wears and
uses. and his power of paying for these
depends upon what he can raise out of
the earth. The simple truth is, he has
load must be taken off his back before
he can get up.
The weakness of human nature, the
soft spot on the farmers head, to hang
to something that is killing him, is be-
yond comprehension. This weakness
seems to have gone so far that the
farmer who sticks to it is unable to
throw it Off without divine help. That
help is now here, ever present and
all-powerful. When man settles in
North Dakota he is in Gods coun-
try, and God demands, if you
are going to live in this country, that
you must be children of light and walk
after His laws. The stupid granger may
be led to one side and induced to sit
down in the middle of ditch by the
sophistry and arguments of the protec-
ZIONIST and hired politician. but in order
for the protectionist to gain control of
this country he must overturn the
whole order of nature and dethrone the
Supreme Ruler. Let us see if he is
likely to do it. God says: 81 made my
country to develop the highest order of
beings and intelligence; l made it to
advance man in knowledge and virtue;
[ made it that man might discover the
truth.'
All are but parts of one stupendous whole
There is nothing so sublimeIy beauti-
full as boundless prairie, treelass and
riverless, with six months of cold Win
ter weather hanging over it. 1t is &C
tually inspiring.
THIS MEANS BUSINESS.
1t is grand tribute to the advance
ment of clviliZation-to the genius and
enterprise of man; to the advancement
he is making to gain dominion over
everything, to fill the place designed
for him by tbs Great Creator-to meet
him toiler here in Gods field as God
designed to have him. As telegraph
wire stretches over this open plain. and
a steam engine rolls up, what a tribute
to science, and victory over time and
distance. Not river in sight. not
drop Of water. God said to Moses:
'Strike the rock" Here put down the
artesian well. There is water in abun-
dance right under your feet, and of the
very best. Ask for a perpetual
fountain, and it is yours. So
ciety ana the world is but a
simple machine. One part is made to
support and balance up the other. To
have the machine run perfectly and
smoothly proper attention must be paid
to all parts. You can't oil one wheel
and let all the rest go. You can't load
plllNi Will 1llCbiOu CuG III QUIZ
and have the balance of the machine go
on. This may be done in some coun-
tries, but it can't stand in Gods. Here
there must be an equilibrium. A proper
regard for the general interest of all
must be maintained. The building up
and advancement of one industry alone
don't make a country; it requires
combination and development of many.
Who, in this great and grand race for
life, has right to claim a prefer
ence? Why should agriculture bow
down and pay tribute to manu-
featuring, any more than manufactur-
ing to agriculture? Why should the
man be protected in the factory more
than the one who holds the pillow? Par
TALLY or discrimination against one is
friction on the machine, and bound to
wear the pgrt that receives the strain or
pressure. Protection for one, and no
protection for another, is a file cutting
somewhere on the machine of society.
Bring out the oil can and throw away
the file. In Gods country there must
be just and honest balance. The man
who rolls up with his steam engine and
drops another man off in this most
BLESSED AND FAVORED SPOT,
to go to farming-to build house and
barn, buy all his machinery and put
down his artesian well; this farmer
can't get off here and have all the rest
of the world pile on his back and live.
The lumberman, the machine man, the
chattel mortgage and high tariff man, all
go for him with high prices. In the fall
this man is expected to have money to
fill the pockets of all these protected
rascals-fill all the box cars with wheat,
after the, elevator man has had his
share. then sit down and live off of
himself for six months through cold
winter. 1t is very beautiful to see a
farmer on the prairie in partnership
with God Almighty-God furnishing the
seed and soil, and the farmer the labor
then see mill lit up by electricity
and run by steam 800 miles away-then
see this farmer and this mill connected
by rails of steel, and the majestic en-
CINE going back and forth be-
tween them to carry on their
commerce and supply their wants-this
is all very beautiful, poetic and relig-
ious-filled with politics and business.
These men are all partners, in one
sense of the word. This is all one piece
of machinery, composed of combina-
ton of wheels. You can't put oil on
one of these wheels and throw sand on
another and have the machine give sat
isfaction. God says, "While | am at
the head, and ruler over all, pull