The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
THE FARMERS COLUMN.
Edited By the Pioneers Agricultural
Correspondent.
A False Statement.

A False Statement.
% Ii late issue, the Grand Forks Plain
dealer has what would be an able article if
correct. But whereit states that the repeal
Of the Corn Laws injured the British farmer,
it is either willfully or ignorantIy making
false statement. Few if any Old Country
farmers own land Owing to the law Of en-
tail few families own nearly the whole Of
the British. Isles. To enable those fav-
ored few to live in luxury aud extravagance;
q heavy duty, tax, was levied on ali grain
imported into the United Kingdom, artifl-
Gelly keeping u2 the price Of grain, tax
inf the poor mans loaf SO that owing to
the Aigh price Of grain q few lordlings
could 1wringp high rent out Of the farmer.
To relSive ths distress and suffering caused
by this iniqaitous system, Golden and
Bright agitated. The repeal Of the Corn
Laws is the best monument to those illus
trious philanthrophists. Who cares if few
men have less money to spend in extrava-
gance2 The millions who toll have cheap
loaf, thanka to Golden and Bright who did
not toady 70 the money power but advo-
Gated the cause Of suffering humanity and
will live forever in tie hearts of their CRATE
full countrymen. But our would be despots,
our Reeds and Mckinley tools and lackeys
Of our ceddsh sristocracy, will go down to
the
"Viie dust from which they sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
And not only has the workingman cheap
loaf but his wages are higher, then before
the repeal Of the Corn Laws and England
with her dense population with tariff for
revenue only, pays much higher wages than
any other European country. Prom highly
protected counties, the workingman fees
to Old England to get work and better pay.
The great drawback to the British farmers
is the rent for the land he cultivates. He
has better price for his grain etc, than we
get. His machinery costs less, so does his
clothing, and the neoessaries of life. Give
the Old Country farmer equal con itions,
no rent, virgin soil. no manure to purchase
and the American farmer would be dis.
tanced in the race, Handicapped as he is BY
a system Of legal robbery.
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The Question.
The United States increase in wealth has
been unprecedented. How is it there is so
much distress; men aud women working for
scarcely enough to keep body and soul to-
gether. What causes So many deserted
farms in the New England states, that in the
most fertile counties in New York and
Pennsylvania, farms have deprecated in
value. How is it that on the fertile prairies
Of the west, there ore SO many mortgaged
farms, SO many thousand farmers evicted
from their homes after years of tell. What
is the reply to this cutlery of over taxation
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They like
Rheboam Of old would increase our bur-
dens. By sitting debate and . gag law
the despot Reed forced the members Of his
own party to vote for the Mckinley bill
which is condemned by that great protection
ist j. g. Blaine. Like the Israelites Of old
the Republican farmers call out: "To your
tents o Israeli" AMI by the thousand are
leaving the rotten hypocritical party who so
long misled them. But this is not all, these
traitors to liberty and our freedom are try
ing to undermine our free institutions. And
having robbed us Of our money are now
conspiring to deprive us Of the right of doing
our own voting. They are trying to iniure
our southern farmers by forcing them at
the point Of the bayonet under the rule Of
the ignorant negroes. Reccolect that the
North Dakota republicans have endorsed
this infamous measure. We will now give
Mr.. Powderly's views upon this measure
Mr.. P. has kept his organization clean Of
party politics and is no partisan: