The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-03-15
A WHEELER SPEAKS.
I srom the Albany (Mo1 Ledger


EDITOR LEDGER:-I notice in your
asst issue communication from X. :.
NJ, on the tariff, which suggested the
following TO us, u iaTmer. Every mama
bic article of use or consumption by
The farmer, imported or otherwise, is
faxed an average OF AZ per cent. Their
look at the manufacturers, moving as
it " ere, heaven and earth, TO raise the
tax or keep II at the present figures
{. as not this tax, or so called protective
system, closed every American port
against foreign trade and every foreign
port against the products OF American
farns7 Has the republican campaign
promise of protection TO home indus
tries been keptf 1s not the farmer
squeezed down to the 10 west point on
ali he has to sell, and forced TO the
highest point on all he has TO buy: as
Witnessed by ID cent corn,12 cent oats,
IL aud 2 cent beef, 5 cent pork on one
hand, and ~ and 20 per cent. money,
and an average OF AZ per cent. premium
on all he bays, on the other hand? All
this the result Of 25 years of "protect-
ion' and legislation In the interest ol
the manufacturing and money lending
east, and against those engaged In
agricultural pursuits el ewhere. How
much longer will the tillers of the sol
| be content to "stamd and deliver" IL
thoae r0bbers'
| We read every day of some repre-
sentative OF some mandatory being
before the ways and means committee
Would not the farmer that hauled al
the corn TO market that two good horses
could pull, and exchanged the SAINT
for key Of nails, or the one that drov,
the fatted COW to market and exchang.
ed for suit of clothes, be Il competent
witness before this committee?
| was taught when small, to believ'
that God made all things, but TO this
now denur. God certainly had moth
ing to do with making any farmer ,
nigh tariff man. Ii Is either the result
Of party prejudice, or willful ignorance
Ons-third OF the voters of this countr,
arc engaged In agricultural pursuits
yet we must continue to pay tribute Il
those engaged In the manufacture o
hats. boots. cotton and wooden goods
OF every description; steel, iron, tin
glass or copper ware of all kinds; salt
sugar and In fact hundreds of othe
articles are now "protected' with al
most prohibitive taxes. Wa have thi
to say, reader: il this state of thing
suits you. just continue to vote for tn
party as represented in the presen
administration and you will most as
suredly get all the projection" yo'
want, such as Wauamaker aud his g.
per cent. premium ON clothing; Alge
aud his So q thousand premium on lum
ber; Depew and half OF your crop TO
hauling tue other half to this "blessed
home market AS we write we hav
in our mind all agricultural state tina
at last election returned q majority q
81 900 Of those shorn lambs and plucke
geese. May God In his goodness ten
per the winds TO them and may thi
school OF adversely, in which they NJ
unwilling students, open their eyes
And that the party responsible for tn
present monetary and tariff system b
overthrown. and The present hom
market which yields nothing but make ed
ness, starvation, and bankruptcy,
supported by a better system of tua,
ces and market is the wish Of an hun
BILE tariff reiormer.