Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-03-05


work four years TO git fuel enough 10 keep from
freezing. Send me $50, for Gods sake TO buy
close for the children.
"Philo." SEE /, ''you can make your
fortune now, sure"
"How2" sod he, quick like, for he
needs fortune about as bad as any man
/ know OF.
$50 tell the world" SEE |, THAT Har-
rison struck Billy Patterson"
He shifted at me, cause eny Joke that
rubs agin his politics amt never funny TO
him. And then showed him this item
from the Tycoon
Brazil, IND. FED. 1. The coal miners here are
only working one-fourth time. The operators say
they have no market for coal, and will not mine
any more till the price gets better, They think
the price will rise II no more coal Is dug TIL March
Meantime the men are starving.
Seems TO me Jim Blaine paper hadn't
ought TO print that kind Of news. II goes
agin the editorial So said to Phllo.
Here's where the workingman gifts
left. Billy Paterson has lots of corn and
wheat and can't sell IL ; he and his chill
dren are freezing. The Indiana miner has
lots OF coal but he can't sell Il, and his
family is starving. II you could trade
half Of this coal off for half of that grain
you would drive hunger and cold off the
earth. The moro corn they have out
there the poorer they air; the more coal
we have here the lower the price IL. How
can you fix IL p
"Raise the tariff on corn and coal"
SEE Philo.
"And make the Kansas farmer pay
more for fuel and the Indiana workman
pay more for bread" SEE |. THAT don't
sound very smart. There they're burnin'
food that other folks is starvin' for; here
the hungry folks Is burnin' coal that Is 50
plenty it will not sell. But while your
brother warns his babies by his burning
corn, and while the miner here trades a
weeks earnings for loaf OF bread, the
corn merchants and the coal merchants
is wearing diamonds and eatin' quail on
toast. They call you fools, and you seem
to know the name. Folks that vote as
you do need emancipation. You're
chained up tighter than Uncle Toms Cab
in"
"How can fellow git out ?" scz Philo.
WELL" l told him, take off the tariff;
don't put no more on. Take the tariff
from everything you need TO eat or wear
or work with. Let them heap II up on
silks and diamonds and the like. Rich
folks amt goin' to favor that; it amt to
their interest. But why not look out for
your own interest as we'll az them for
theirs? They sed n big tariff would make
"A market for the farmers grain. 1t did
not. Two bushels out OF every five rails
cd in this country last year has to go to
England or IL wouldn't have had any mar
ket at all, and what they did buy hcrc
went for the English price. Your Tycoon
last week said the corn crop of Illinois
cost the farmers Sl0,000.00 more than
they got for IL. Coal Is protected rs cents
a ton-more than the miners get for min-
ing it--and yet they say tho price Is 30
low they can't afford to sell IT, We'll, II
corn and coal don't pay you can't make Il
law to make 1t pay. II you can't mako
money on what you have to sell mebbe
you can save some on what you have to
buy. Any poor man that goes through
this winter and votes the protection tick
OF next summer ought to freeze and starve
too, and some Of them will. Your BROTH
or paid enough tariff on the lumber no
put into his house, barn, fences and cribs
as his whole crop this year was worth
The tariff tax on the toughest, implanted
pine lumber is SO thousand feet The
tariff he paid on nails would feed his FAM
lily for months, and il he had the tariff out
could dress his children warm all around
in spite of the tax on flannel. But there
he goes out west and makes another GUS
toner for the barb-wire lords and the
lumber kings and the flannel docks, pay
in them whatever tina ask, and when he
offers to sell them some OF his corn tina
say tina don't wan'tit tha've got enough.
Now, will he or you vote for them agin
next year 2"
IF Congress would wipe the tariff all
out this winter, would the farmers be
prosperous next year," asked Philo, just
rs innocent as a child.
III you had been sick twenty-five years
would you expect to get well in a day z"
] asked him. mo, we wouldn't be all
right next year, nor the next but we'd
be Citing there every day. Every dollar
we spent we'd git a dollars worth. When
an American robber disgraccd his country
10y asking two prices for n blanket, we'd
say; I'm just IA green rs you are hon
est: III patroniZe your home industry
when you patronize mine. Loyalty will
III you just rs well as IL will me- have
to sell my wheat I'm England; I'll buy my
blanket there. You buy your stuff in
England go sell your blankets there.
Deal with me and I'll deal with you; freeze
me out and I'll vote you out. Good day!"
Philo studied a long time; then he put
his hands in the pockets of his ragged
pants and went away. He can't send his
brother any money Indiana farmers
amt got nothing to give away. Yes tina
have tha've got thare votes, and I'll
give mine, by gum, to put a tariff on
everything, or else wipe out the hull dun
thing. This tariff for the poor and free
trade for the rich Is Dustin us wide open.
SOLOMON JONES.