Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-08-07
THE NORTHWEST
6TZs CwEsrERS LErrsR.


EDITOR NoRTHwEsr-I am now 10
the land Of "original packages" and
from all reports l shear3the original
package houses are doing very thriv-
ing business. But commend me to
prohibitionist Of Iowa and Kansas foi
unique enterprise in anything that will
enable him to get his whisky and beer
In slick and easy manner. The very
latest novelty and enterprise In this
line is the original package wagon. A
company has been formed to operate
these saloons on wheels, and large
number of them are now In operation.
They make regular trips once week
to the farm houses, delivering whisky
and beer. This certainly is Of great
convenience to the farmer In his busy
season; it saves him the loss of his time
and use of his team of horses II he had
to go to town to get jug and get a sup
( ply to take home. It's weekly arrival
will be a great event TO the farmer; his
wife and children. who will be at the
gate, summoned there by the clarion
blast from the trumpet Of the driver of
the original package wagon. just i'm
agine how delighted the good wife and
bright little children will all be to have
this great enterprising institution on
wheels to arrive, so their good temper
ance husband and father (the Iowa and
Kansas kind,) can get his supply of vile
whisky and beer; tvile or bile what the
original package sells) land by drink
ing his fill at night time, he feels equal
to the task of whipping the whole fam
ily, if not murder them. From my OBJ
servation of the original package hous-
es, I consider them much worse than
= the regular open saloon. s@
The drouth continues pretty much
through Iowa, Kansas and Missouri,
and everything is drying up. Corn
that few weeks ago looked SO promis-
ing is badly damaged, and will not be
over half a crop. Potatoes, also, will
fall short one-half. Oats were light all
through the State. Taken as whole,
Iowa is beautiful country, and fine
agricultural section of the union, and
with laws that are more liberal and
humane dhe State would soon grow
radiant with new life and prosperity.
II find one great improvement, how
ever, in the State in the last year, and
the same in Kansas and Missouri, and
that is all classes are wanting tariffre-
form in earnest; not the kind the Nc
Kinley bill proposes, which increases
in place of reducing taxes. The farm
ers of the west are studying the tariff
and its effects, and they begin to see
where for so long time they have
been duped by voting for high protec-
ton, promised SO much forthe benefit
Of the farmer and all laboring classes.
They now see who gets all the benefits,
the manufacturers, who have grown to
be millionaires in short space of time,
while the farmer and poor have grown
poorer each year. They are getting
tired of paying useless high war taxes
on all they wear and use in their fami-
", such as clothing, crockery, glass
ware, tinware, cutlery, etc., and all the
machinery they use on their farms, and |
hundreds of other articles, and in return |
sell all they produce from their farms at
free trade prices of the world, they will |
not be caught very often again by such |
chaff as is offered them in the McKin-
ley bill by imposing a duty or tax on
all grain Imported in to this country.
Every school boy knows that there is no |
grain imported into this country to
speak of, only little for seeding pur-
poses, and the duty imposed would be
against the farmer who purchased it.
This country produces more grain, |
hops, cattle, etc., than 1t can consume,
and the balance has to be sold in the free
trade market of the world, Liverpool,
England. The rights of sixty millions
Of people are much greater than five
millions, and the majority will soon get
their lust dues if they hurl the mo.
nopolist, and favored few from power.
This protecting our infant manu-
factors was all right years ago
when they were first commenc-
ing, but this infant In the last
thirty years has grown to be full sized
giant, and is still claiming to be an in
FAINT, and If we don't grant him more
protection every time he asks for it,
he proposes to get up out of his cradle
and kick us all to pieces. Its about
time this monster infant was strangled |
and give the balance of the people a
chance to accumulate something. You
would be surprised to know the num-
Der of tariff reform clubs that is form
ing all through the West, Missouri
leads in number, for she was the first to
form these clubs. The political battle
is already commenced for 1892, and in
fact commenced right after the defeatDf
Cleveland in 1888. Tariff reform Is the
watch word and its a going to sweep
the country. Even the brilliant Blaine,
the highest of all high protectionists
heretofore, sees the signal of the times;
and is setting his sails right. so to be
along with the right and popular issue,
that has been taken up in earnest, by a
long and oppressed people, the farmer
and laboring classes OF this country.
Yours truly,
f. M. BALDWIN.
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