St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-26
SOL SELLS HIS WHEAT
But He Trips and Falls Upon
the Infamous MeKin-
ley Pill.
He Talks the Whole Matter
Over With His Hired
Man.
The Pair Teach Protection
Philo That Republican
Farmers Are Fools.
Mike Strikes for Higher
Wages and Gets the Old,
Old Story.

Wages and Gets the Old,
Old Story.
BIRCH COOLEY, Mimi. Oct. 19.-l
| don't want to know no more about this
McKindlin bill than know now. The
more you find out about some things
the better you air off: but this amt one
| of them kind of things. When | first
| heard pepcl taillin' about the Mckind-
lin bill last spring | asst Oar" Hall, our
congressman, what it meant when he
come home to see about the corn plant
in, and he sed it meant more taxes.
And sed: 'LodaWighty! You can't
raise the taxes none; thare too high
nOw.' But he Sed it was different from
reglar taxes UP TO the court house. He
sed it would make everything we wore
and worked with cost about half more
than it did DOW. and told him. go
'long, | don't believe even an American
congress can rob the pepel hathaway"
| But 1 forgot ali about the thing in the
hurry of the crops, and when all my ma
bOrS was fussin' about it | just let 'em
fuss, for thought it was just another
Republican scare to put the Democrats
in hole. | wasn't afraid our hired
men in congress would make things 10
harder for us than tina air, and SD just
pegged away and fetched rattlin' good
whete crop and some of the finest pOta-
toes you ever turned out Of the ground.
YiStidy took 'em to the Cooley and
sold 'em and j amt been III good inner
| ever since.
Why, when got to town all the store
keepers was hangin' up sines III the
| that had riZ, along of the McKindlin
bill. But don't never mind the sines
| much. cause hey knowed 'em to say
one thing and mean another. ] just
| went ahead with my whete and pulled
| up in line at the elevator.
The Teller what buys whete lowed
| the price was only 81 cents, though
it was 80 the day before, and
| mite be 80 again tomorrow.
asted him to keep it till tomorrow.
| and if it was 80, pay ME that.
| He said he would take the chances if
l would; but the McKindlin bill was
maxim things darned oncert0n, and it
was just as likely to fall as to raise. l
| Sed: "Then pay me what it's worth to-
day; don't take no risks on another
1 l.
| Kindlin bill was goin' to help the farm
| erS."
| And he LATED, but he sed: eff it
does. you let me no." So he paid me 81
cents, little less than got last year,
| and / went back up town. / met Mike,
my hired man, at the public well, when
come to water the horses, and he sed
he couldn't get no more than 40 cents a
bnshel for the taters to save his life.
l sed, 'rhat's purity howdedo;
whete and taters low after the McKind-
lin Dill. But waite till we come to buy
the winter flannels and them goods
mebby that will even things up a little"
SO we baited the horses in the open
went up to the stores. The last l seen
OF Mike he was talkin' to the postmas-
| ter, and the postmaster was sayin' tC
him, "Its all rite for you, anyhow,
Mike. jim Blame SCI this whole ques.
ton of protection is labor question,
| from core to bark, and from bark back to
core agin. You've bin 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' a
postOffice was eDy easier or paid eny
better. and he said, mo. it's only foI
the horny-handed sons of toll our party
is carin'-not for the rich and the pow.
erful and the CRATE"
went up TO Sleezer's store and mel
my wife, and we asst to see his stOckin
yarn ana flannels. He didn't send nc
clerk to US, but he come around anC
thrOwed down the goods hisself. 1 as
him how much was piece of james
same's l bought off of last year at 81
cents, and he said ''SiXty-1ive." Their
my wife found stockin' yarn and carpe
chain had went up just about the same
And red flannel for underclothe.
couldn't be looked at for less than twice
what tina was last fall.
My wife sed: ''Ain't this the same
piece bought of in July?" And Slee
ger Flowed it was. He said it was 6,
cents in July, but sence the McKipdlil
bill went into force the price had riz.
| seq: "But it didn't cost you no more
| And he LATED and Sed if we could d,
eny better in town we better go out ant
try.
So we did 90 out. / hate to be stol,
from by eny man. We went TO Mogel'
store and then to all the others, and W,
found the same thing everywhere
Goods mad went up like smoke. and til;
want no reason for it. Stuff that hat
laid on the shelves two year waitin' fo
a customer at so cents was nifty hoity,
t0ity now at %, and all along of the Nc
Kindlin bill.
Well, we he'd TO hev. so we he'd +
buy: but couldn't see for my life nov
a law like that was goin' to max
friends. fused when l come to gi
my male, but the postmaster said
want no hardship. He sed if a coat cos
twice as much tins year as it did last
man would just git along with hat a
many as he had last. sed: but
only he'd one coat last year." And til
postmaster bent pretty nigh doubl
with lafiin', and he sed: "rhen &
without this year"
I'll lie darned if ] can see eny fun i
that.
Mebby it's joke. but it looks to m
like insult.
So this is the way figgered it out q
my wife and me rode home:
| Lost on Whete.. ....... ...... 9 8
| Lost on taters. ............. ... ]
Total. ............ ....... SIS 4
: Lost on stockin' yarn. ISL 05
Lost on james ..-..........- ) 6U
Lost on red tiannel. .........., z 10
Lost on carpet chain...- ..... So
Lost on clothing 8 40 81 c
= Total. ..-... ....... S34 4
That's most as much as the Whete an
taters both come to. If l hadn't ha
money with mewe couldn't have bouel