The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-02-01
TIE FkEEEES' COLUMN,
Ettd by the Pioneers A~orituh,~a
Correspondent.
The To. q Alu The Farmer.

AAo 4NA II EAlAG me TGrmSr,
Joss'h NJ 'ill. EDITOR OF the Chicsoo Tri-
hume, the le"u g Republican organ Of tbs
West, does >ot i.olu very different view.
'om his party ,.s,ciates. b!t no ia net
NJ nid 10 express them. In o letter written
ior lu )~!ie"tion he says:
Where: then, Is the remedy from III,
l'envy burden Of 4 60 per cent. tax ON ,bs
ntcessaries ollie. both imported and dum,s.
nc! There Is only one element or cluss able
20 remove it, and that San son is sltepinv
n the Ia } OF Deiilai, and will not awaken
!. OF course. mean the farmers. The pluu-
''cred, unprotected, twenty-five million of
seese'llke farmers who permit themselves
20 he pl"cked OF allost every feather, by a
hundred thousan, 'protecte.I' monopolis.s.
20 long a. the simple minded bucoiic cluss
do I OF kick of the burdens laid upon
hem, toheie y will not disturb the war
axes and tle nnhuta~ :ture,s' correspopdinr
''''iles: While the plougl men act like
1"achers ass. and crouch )et wecn the bur-
ems, both will b. kept en- their backs. The
t'bricahfs live localized in the ci.ies. and
tot and scheHe for the promotion OF their
selfish interests and bring their united
100 y influence to bear on MEMBERS Of Con-
'es', whe'ea" the fl' mers live isolated and
catered, and emit or don't combine in Co.
nee OF Il" II interests. Hence they arc
hpi"tected, unrepresented and unconscious
what keeps them poor. They are cap
S"'ed ~ the slecious cry of protection 10
"ericnn industry tho they get zone Of
'; ana OF re value Of the "prt tec,ed'' home
market to the" as il protected monopolists
at any noie thnn other men. Not until
nc verdapt, imposed upon agriculturalists
wake lp toA realization of the eonfdencs
'me being played upon them. will he war
arm DC reduced or be formed; but wien
III they get their eyes open md act: In
yonr lifetime? Samson, Nhe farmers) Is
under the spell Ct pelilah, (the Manufacture
ers), ana his locks arc sI,orn and lie feels no
strength to resist. Until the protf cted
manufacturer themselves ask Congress 20
reduce their protection tour ties in order 70
enable them to cheaper the processes of fab
''cn.'cn with a view 10 finding 70, eien
':arkets for tleir surplus wares. there will
be no red lcti"n Of III, high tariff. ard no
tlief from the heavy burden It imposes on
he 70 ! farm" and oppressed consumers.
But when will that be? Yours truly.
J. Medill.
This Is what Mr. Mcdill says Of farmers
who have been induced to vote the mono.
oily ticket by his and other hireling mis-
erresenta'ions, and who will again at
lection TIM repeat the hackneyed cry Of
rote'tIon. Next week we shall resume the
Protection Catechism. 49,
No more fo%olislness, don commenc,
comparing conditions with the cid rotten
monarclies of Europe. where the people
have been oppressed by protective tariffs
and every other mems OF robbery that
thieves could invent for Thousands of years,
where they have 4fO inhabitants to the
mile. while we have only 16.
Don't compare with England, either; bnt
c"mrarc England with Germany, Austria.
Italy or S. ain.
f"mpnr the England of to day with the
England of fifty years ago when she had o
protective tariff.
WI y nre wages higher in free trade
FngIand than IN any other European COIN
try? ~
Don't 60 TO England to find paurers. when
YOU would have to he deaf. dumb and blind
20 not find them all around you.
We have 100 men, with incomes Of one
million 1ollars a ye'r. England. ar old and
"ristocratic nation does not have a 100 men,
with half that in come. The wealth per
npita is less than in 1860 Of the whole
country The agricultural states and peo-
rle are RAPIDLY getting poor.
The wealth and resources. the moral and
intellectual powers Of n nation are devel.
oped by free, jus, and equal laws.
leols and monopoly b'ights, deaden and
destroy every thing they touch.
Pools and monopolies rob a people a.
effectually as kings and mobiles.
Plutocracy ia a worse form Of govern.
'nent than monarchy and aris 'ocracy. His
tory fails to show a PEOPLE so plundered %
this nation BY tariff, fiscal; pool and mon
" oily laws.
We reformers of to day are only keeping
up tho same age long warfare which has
been haI dee d,wn to Us b. the God-like
ucn of the past. We are in The 8 ,me grand
campaign With them that is now centuries
upon centuries eld-only the battles and
battle fields are new.
Farmers Voice.