The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

that tariff.
Great is Mckinley! and greater
are our congressman! Crown the
carbohydrates hog-latin, and
means 1.-THE five Minnesota patriots
who voted for the Mckinley bill"
And yet the old party will renomin-
ate every one of them! Don't Or
ganize new party-it will hurt some
body.
The farmers movement will not
down. It is not a temporary gust Of
popular excitement that will stir the
breeze to-day and end in calm to-
morrow. 1t is earnest. ltcomes out
of conditions that have got to be
corrected. opolitical party is going
to be able to beguile and deceive the
farmers permanently. The thing
has got beyond that possibility.
There maybe temporary deceit, there
may be successful demagoguery for
a day, there may cheating for the
purposes OF a single campaign; but
success on this basis, if it can be
achieved, will be futile-Sioux City
Journal.
Steele Co, Democrat:
The time has long since gone by
when a farmers daughter or his
wife should be known from her city
cousin by her dress and education.
This government OF ours, at least
the politicians, has tickled the farm
er under the chin, told him he was
the uncrowned monarch of the uni
verse, the pride OF the government
and the chosen of God and country.
In their burning, passionate love for
the farmer, the politicians enacted
certain 'protective' laws for the far
mer that he might have "cinch"
on the poor banker, manufacturer
and merchant prince
This so tickled the farmer that he
registered a vow to support the party
of protection through thick and thin
and he did it. What is the result?
In less than thirty years Of this ''pro-
lection to the farmer, four-fifths of
all his land has been mortgaged al
most to it's full value; millions upon
millions of acres have been confiscat-
ed by the money loaner and the land
shark the farmer has been compelled
to dress in common homespun, while
the merchant and the manufacturer
dress in broadcloth; the farmers
daughter dresses in calico, while the
other dresses in silks and satins
The farmer had to be content with a
country school education. in readin'
and writin, while the latter received
a polished education at Vassar and
a trip through Europe According
as the farmer and his family were
driven from the farm to the poor
house, the manufacturer and the
idler became millionaire and married
their daughters to foreign princes
whose morals are not only a dis
grace to God and man, but to
dogs as well. The politician who is
maintaining this protection law for
the farmer sips his wine in the place
of the unprotected. manufacturer to
the health of the sturdy ebay seeder"
who votes him back to Congress
next year. Yes, protection is a great
thing to enrich the farmer, to educate
his children and to make his humble
home palace OF social comfort and
luxurious ease, Farmers should be
given a chance to vote twice on this
law.
The Railroad Commissioners in
their last report, say the liabilities
of the Kansas railroads exceed
$4,000 a mile; that is the stock and
bonds. The Railroad assessors have
recently met and they report the
valuation of the 1852 miles of road
about $4,000 a mile. It evidently
makes considerable difference.
whether the roads are valued for the
purpose OF excusing transportation
rates on three times their cost, or
whether they are valued for TAXA
ton. Crawford county farmers and
merchants were this year assessed at
40 per cent. of the value. OF their
stock, and the railroads are now as
sessed at Ii per cent of their pur-
ported value. In the consideration
Of the authorities the railroads: still
hold first place.-Girard Herald.
Preston Republican:
Census taking in Pennsylvania is
revealing some OF the disgusting fea-
lures of the labor Importation that
degrades American labor. Mr.. Ash
ley, census supervisor of the fifth dis
trict, has informed superintendent
Porter that the Hungarians, Poles
and large number of Italians en-
ployed in Lackawanna, Luzerne and
Carbon counties refuse to give any
account OF themselves even through
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