The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-02-21
SOL JONES IS A

Starve-ObJects to Free Trade
for the Rich and a Tax on the
Poor, and SuKsests a Remedy by
Voting.
Sloshin's Point, Indiana, Feb. 1S-Philt
gets hispolotics from the Chicago Tycoon
He amt got no settled mind about wha'
ls right and wrong in government, bu1
every time a big republican boss Al
Washington gets a chance to steal some
thing by patentin' a new law the Tycoon
yells: "That's gospel~ and Philo falls in
like q bound boy at a husking and sweart
that every a who doesn't agree with
him is a rebel and oughtn't to vote. He's
like all the rest of them and forgits one
year what the Tycoon used to say, sc
since 1 have knowd him Philo has bin
on every side Of every question from
tariff to tanglefo0t. He's a good man
and don't mean no harm, but he amt got
no mind of his own and is willing to fol
low republican lead through lies and
fraud and outright crime without a shad.
de1 Of shame If only that will beat the
Democrats. He used to be with such
men as Grant and Garfield and others
that sed the tariff must be reduced when
the war was over, but he swallowed the
last big high tax platform at one gull
and seemed to like it.
1 was a looking over the plows and
things this morning, getting them in
shape for spring work when the time
comes, and Philo come down with a let
ter from his brother out in Kansas. He
couldd't read it all; sed his eyes was
weak. He'd be awful sore to have it said
he couldn't read riting. but that's a
fact. So l read him the letter and here
it is.
ingalls,, Kan, Feb. 2nd-We are busted.
When | came here l had a team and $500
in money. Eve worked four years and
voted and yelled for old Jim Blaine and
his party all the time, and now l can't
raise enough money to buy a pair of
shoes. I've got a thousand bushels of
corn in a crib out here IN the prairie and
q hundred bushels of wheat in the barn.
But there amt a man in fifty miles who
wants to buy a peck of either one. They
say there amt no market for them and
l gness they are right. Coal is SIP n ton
and my hull crib Of corn wouldn't buy
one load. We have to burn the corn to
keep alive, for the winter is powerful
cold. A man sued me for a doctor bill
the other day, and levied on my corn,
but my attorney beat him, cause the law
exempts fuel enough to last one year.
But it don't pay to come a thousand miles
and work four years to git enough to
keep from freezing. Send me $50, for
Gods sake to buy close for the children.
Billy Patterson.
"Philo." seq /, you can make your for
tune now. sure"
"How" sed he, quick like, FOR he needs
a fortune about as bad as any man l
know.
go tell the world" seq /, that Harri-
son struck Billy Patterson"
He shifted at me, eny joke that
rubs again his politics amt never funny
for him. And then l showed him this
item from the Tycoon:
Brazil, Ind, Feb. 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
until the price gets better. They
think the price will rise if no more coal
is dug till March. Meantime the men
are starving.
1t seems to me a Jim Blaine paper
hadn't ought to print that kind of news.
1t goes agin the editorial. Sol seq to
Philo:
Here's where the working man gets
left. Billy Patterson has lots of corn and
wheat and can't sell it; he and his child
rem are freezing. The Indiana miner has
lots of coal but he can't sell it; his fam
lily are starving. If you could trade
half that coal for half the grain you would
run hunger and cold off the earth. The
more corn they have out there the poorer
they are; the more coal we have here the
lower the price is. How "a you fix it?"
Raise the tariff on corn and COAL" sed
Philo.
"And make the Kansas farmer pay
more for fuel and the Indiana workman
pay more for bread" seq l. "That don't
sound very smart. There they're burnin'
food that other folks is starving for; here
the hungry folks is burning coal that is
so 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 a loaf of bread the
corn rparabonts aud tGn pcol n,nro1,o,{
is a wearing diamonds and eating quail
on toast. They call you fools and you
seem to know the name. Folks that vote
as you do need emancipation. You are
chained up tighter than Uncle TOMS
Cabin"
How can a fellow git out?" seq Philo.
"Well,"I 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 'em heap it up on
silks and diamonds and the like. Rich
folks amt a going to favor that; it amt
to their interest. But why not look out
for your interest as we'll as them for
theirs9 They said a big tariff would
make a market for the farmers grain. II
didn't. Two bushels out of every five
raised in the country last year has to go
England, or it wouldn't have had no mar,
kct Mt all, and what they did buy here
went for the English price. Your Tycoon
last week said the corn crop of Illinois
cost farmers 100000 more than they
got for it. Coal is protected at IS cts. a ton
more than the miners get for mining
it-and yet they say the price is so low
they can't afford to sell it. Well, il corr
and coal don't pay you can't make a Law
to make them pay. II you can't max,
money on what you have to sell mebby
you can save some on what you have to
buy. Any poor man who gets through
this winter and voices the protection
ticket next summer ought to freeze ant
%starye, too; and some of them will. You
brother paid enough tariff Oh the lumber
he put into his house, barn, fences and
crib as his whole crop this year wa