Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-10-30
SOL SELLS HIS WHEAT.
AND TRIPS ON THE MCKINLEY
BILL.
Then He and the Hired Man Go Home
and Teach Protection PhiIo
that Republican Farmers
Are eFools-Mike's Strike
For Higher Wages.

don't want to know no more about
this McKindlln bill than know now.
The more you find out about some
things the better you air of; but this
Amt one of them Kind of things. When
l first heard pepel talkin' about Nc
Kindlin bill last spring l asst Billy 0w-
en-, our Congressman, what 1t meant
when he come home to see about the
corn plantin', and he sed IL meant more
taxes. And 1 sed "Lodamityl You
can't raise the taxes none; thare too
high now" But he sed IL was differ
ent from reglar taxes up to the court
house. He sed that 1t would make
everything we wore and worked with
cost about half more than it did now, l
teld him, "Go long, 1 don't believe
even an American Congress can rob
the pepel thataway."
But forgot all about the thing In
the hurry Of the crops, and when all
my nabOrs was fussin' about 1t l Just
let 'em fuss, for 1 thought it was Just
another republican scare to put the
democrats In hole. l wasn't afraid
our hired men in Congress would make
things no harder than tina air, and so
just pegged away and fetched a rattlin'
good whete crop and some of the finest
potatoes you ever turned out of the
ground.
Yistidy I took 'em to the Point and
sold 'em, and amt been in a good
umer ever since.
Why, when got to town every store
keeper was hangin' up sines in the
winders, tellin' how this had riz, and
that had riz, along of the McKindlin
bill. But don't never mind the sines
much, cause hev known them to say
one thing and mean another. l just
went ahead with my whete and pulled
up In line at the elevator.
The feller what buys whete lowed it
was worth only 81 cents though it was
80 the day before and mite be 80 again
tomorrow. | asted him to keep it till
tomorrow, and IL it was so pay me
that. Hesaid he would take the chan
ces If l would; but the McKindlin bill
was making things darned uncertain,
and 1t was just as likely to fall as to
raise. sed: "Then pay me what it's
worth to-day; / don't take no risks on
another mans game. But I thought
the McKindlin bill was goin' to help
the farmers"
And he laffed, but he sed: "If it does
you let me no." So he paid me 81
cents a little less than 1 got last year,
and went back uptown. / met Mike
my hired man, at the public we'll, when
] come to water the horses, and he sed
he couldn't get no more than 40 cents
bushel for the taters to save his life.
seG: "That's a purity howdedo;
whete and taters low after the McKind-
lin bill. But waite till we come to buy
the winter fiannels and them goods,
mebby that will even up things lit
tle.n
So we baited the horses in the open
lot back of the blacksmith shop and
went up to the stores. The last 1 seen
of Mike he was talkin' to Bob Cards,
the postmaster; and Bob was sayin' to
him, "It's all rite for you, anyhow,
Mike. Jim Blaine sez the whole cues
tion of protection is a labor question,
from core to bark, and from bark back
to core agin. You've been votin' rong.
Mike; that's all. You vote agin the
dimicrats next time and you'll come
out all rite"
Mike asst him If the labor of keepin'
q post-office was eny easier or paid eny
better, and Bob sed: mo, it's only for
the horny handed sons of toll our par
ty is carin'--not for the rich and the
powerful and the grate.n
Invent up to Seezer's store and met
my wife, and we asst to see his stockin'
yarn and f1annels. He didn't send no
clerk to US, but he come around and
throwed down the goods hisself. I asst
him how much was a piece of James,
same's l bought off of last year for SO
cents, and he sed; "Sixty-five.n Then
my wife found stockin' yarn and car
pet chain had went up Just about the
same. And red flannel for underclothes
couldn't be looked at for twice what
tina was last fall.
My wife sed: "Ain't this the same
piece bought of In Julym And Slee-
Zer lowed 1t was. He said it was 60
cents In July, but since the McKindlin
bill had went into force the price had
riz. sez, "But it didn't cost you no
more" And he LATED and sed if we
could do any better in town we had bet
ter go out and try.
from by eny man. We went to Mo-
gers store and then to all the others
and we found the same thing every
where. Goods had went up like smoke
and tina want no reason for it. Stuff
that had laid on the shelf two years
waiting for customer at so cents was
nifty hOity-toity now at IS. And all
along of the McKindlin bill.
Well, we he'd to hev, SO we he'd to
buy; but couldn't see for my life how
. law like that was a goin' to make
friends. ] fused when I come to git
my male, but Bob Card. the postmas-
ter, said it want no hardship. He sed
II coat cost twice as much this year as
1t did last, man would just git along
with half as many as he had last. sed:
but ! only he'd one coat last year"
And Bob bent purity nigh double with
laffin' and he sed: "Then 60 without
this year"
I'll be darned If can see eny fun in
that.
Mebby it's joke, but it looks to me
like insult.
80 this is the way figgered 1t out as
my wife and me rode home:
Lost on whete -.................... s q3t
Lost on taters. ers............-.........,. Al,
IOtal SIS IL
LOST on stockln yarn. O5
Lost on red flannel. -. ................ 7l0 .
Lost on carpet chain. ............... IS
LOet On clothing. ......,.... 40 -2l o.
Total. So. ..t.. %S4 Al
That,a most "a much as the whete