The advocate., 1890-09-17

VIII no tell ms why no wants tO Cut down the
tariff, while million men are IDLE, and thereby
reduce the wages Oi Che few who are employed
% level with the prices paid for labor In the
OvorcrOWded countries OF free trade Europe?
Now this great man Crawford con
cludes that Mr. Davis "ls one who has
agitated himself beyond the boundaries
Of human reason and Is a III subject for
an insane asylum"
Using his closing expression, "applled
20 the agitator Of Junction City with that
degree of commlsseration 10 which all la.
natics are entitled" why does Crawford
ask the man he thus describes TO answer
the foregoing question: Could lunatics
answer ltY But, perhaps, this political
economist, Crawford, might tell Kansas
voters why Preston B. Plumb "wants 10
cut down the tariff" Why, all Of the
Kansas delegation in fact personally
said II should be tout down." while, nev
ertheless, they were politically bound
hand and foot in the House TO obey that
superfne lmperialist, Thomas B. Reed,
who sits In the speakers chair, and that
the two senators from Kansas must needs
ratify the bargain made with the manu-
facturers in the republican campaign OF
1888, who, "fat fried out Of them,' bought
and paid for the election Of Harrison and
Moron-the first choice of the money
bags.
10 cut down the tariff and thereby reduce the
wages Of the few who are employed tO 70 level ~
etc.
What an Idea for man to possess who
calls one q "lunatlC" whose views are
right opposite
All, Crawford hast thy judgment fled
TO british beasts, or hast thou indeed
lost thy reason2 But this roseate phil.
osopher (S) who seemingly believes that
the condition Of the country Is really one
now Of the most halycon days, exclaims
Mr. Davis says "The farmers Of Kansas are
losing their homes through the foreclosure Oi
mortgages"
viii lie please toll the people how many farm
mortgages are no the present time being fore
closed In MS own cOunty2 He Is close 10 the
court house and familiar with the record VIII
no answer the question:
lie further says, ~ million men are tramplnp
ana hunting work, and several millions more are
working on short time and short wages, and
within Tent thirty days Of starvation" Oh,
what lio
Does this arch apostate from principles
he once proGessed to respect presume TO
say that the farmers Of Kansas are NOT
losing their homes through the foreclos-
ure Of mortgages?
But he says; "Oh, what lie" In re-
ferring to what MI, Davis says Of mil
lion men, quoted above.
But let Crawford and his monopolistlc
myrmidons carefully read the following
from the Forum, September, 1887, on
THE SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT,
written by Senator John James Ingalls,:
by the close Of the present century and per-
maps earlier there VIII not be- an acre OF the pub
Tic domain upon which corn and wheat can be
raised without Irrigation subject 20 presumption
or homestead entry within the present limits OF
the United States. Real estate wifi Increase
enormously In value. Our surplus population,
no longer having the fertile acres OF free land
over which TO diliuse Itself, will accumulate In
cities. The rich will become richer and the poor
VIII become poorer, The middle class win grad
ually disappear as the struggle becomes herCe
and relentless. More than one million skilled
ana unskllled labOrers are now unemployed or
employed nc wages inadequate for the support of
themselves and their families.
WILL CRAWFORD SAY INGALs Is A LIAR?
Men OF the coarsest organization, Of
which Samuel j. Crawford is made; very
promptly when their plutocratlc theories
are confronted by facts, use the common
refuge to which mercenary towards re-
sort, and when they cannot sncoesafnllv