The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-05
THE FARMERS COLUMN.
Edited BY TIE Pioneers Agricultural
Correspondent.
ST. O n ON

ST. JOHN ON HARRISON.
The Noted Prohibitionist Exo6riates the
Republican Party.
We respect 'ully dedicate the following to
! Walter Muir, C. F., Of the Farmers Alliance
who so kindly playe d into the hands Of Mo-
nopoly last fall by making the fight upon
Prohibition instead Of reducing taxes.
On the tariff question and its application
to Kansas farmers, Mr.. 81. John said:
"Never in the history Of this nation have
farmers tariff duties and the mortgage in
%debtedness been greater than they are. to-
day.
Just think ofiu Corn selling at 10 cents
per bushel in Kansas and SO cents in New
York City. Who gets tho difference Of 40
cents between here and New York; Hard
coal selling at 81. SO to ~ per ton in Penn.
sylvanis and $ll here. Farmers using corn
for fuel in Western Kansas because IL is
cheaper than soft coal from ous ewn mines.
Z eef cattle selling at less than actual cost
Of production. u...
oats at ten cents per bushel and good
horses going at from $50 to $50, while
Western potatoes bring from 8 to 20 cents
per bushel where they sre produced, but
comms nd 80 cents to $l.a bushel in Eastern
markets ..
Can any Of you see where the We;tern
farmers protection comes in? His land l.
plastered with mortgages. He finds 1t o.
mt st impossible to pay the interest AMI
utterly in possible to l~iquidats the principal.
Taxes-municiral. State and nati3nal-
never so exorbitant as at present; transpor-
tation and markets for all he has TO sell, as
well as for everything he is compelled to
buy, are under the control Of gigsntic mo-
nopolies and trusts.
Blu. il not his pig pen protected Yes, if
tariff means protection, then It must be sd-
mitted that the farmers pig pen is protested.
So are his plows, harrovs, picks, shovels,
rea ,ers, mowers. Wagons, harness, hamm.
ers, saws, augeIs, Rimlets, food. fuel, cloth
ing-ine luding the buttons on his shirt-aA
are protected In fact, the farmer is pro
tected' to death, and le is just beginning to
find it out. Whatever we have accomplish
cd in the West has been despite this the So
called protection, which is nothing more or
less than legalized robbery Of the many to
enrich q fs vored few.
DuL WuSu wv OJul0 " In ANVPuOtAonA
party we are assured that it has given US
all the prohibition We ever had and that
we Prohibitionists are trying TO urn the
Government over into the har DIS Of whisky
Demooracy.'' These are Republican claims.
Now, what are the facts? Let US see.
Adozon States adopted prohibition before
the Republican party was born. Within the
past year such Republican State 8 as New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rht do Island,
Connectiout-ip one open fight between the
home and the saloon stood. by the saloon
by biz majoritie,. Pennsylv anis which
gave Harrison $4,000 plurality, defeated
prohibition by 10000 majority. Iowa.
which gave Harrison, the Prohibition :
list, 30, 600 majority in '88 defeated the Re-
publ lean candidate for governor in '89 on q
platform pledged to tho enforcement Of the
prohibitory law, and elected an auti-Prohi-
bition Democrat.
President Harrison was parsee ed before
the church people in '88 as q strong tenn
perance man and the ia nily prayers rack
ct was used to q good advantage politically.
The day before his Inauguration was Sunday
Two thousand saloons ran wide open in
Washington City, in direct violation of law,
riotous drunkenness was seen on every
hand, and yet this Christian President had
not q single word to utter in his inaugural
address against these outrages upon
moral and common decency. In his iragu-
raj procession II ere marched 1000 saloon
keepers. How many slave drivers marched
in the inaugural procession Of Abraham
Lincoln? Not one. Why? Simply because
they were not in sympathy with Mr.. Lin
coins party. From the inaugural cere
mony this Christian. President e to q
big dance in the Pension Office, where 400
gallons Of Ro nan punch were consumed.
1T now turns out that he is not even a
total %abstsiner, He not only drinks intox.
tcating liquor, but SER, es guests with it in
he White House. We are told by the press
hat at a recent great feast given by the
President, FIVE wine glasses We . at each
plate, and that the sparkling beverag.
flowed RELY.
"Surely history repeats itself. The Bible
tells US that 'Belshazzar. the king, made .
great feast to q thousand Of his lords and
drank zine before the thousand And
hat they drank wine and praised the god
Of gold, and Of silver, of brass, of iron VI
wood and Of stone
Now strike out 'Belshazzer, the king.
md put Benjamin, the President. in the
irst verse, We insert In the second
and trusts, pig iron and WOOL
Ind the parallel, solar as these two verses
ire concerned, is complete No act. either
III cial or otherwise, gives us any reason
10 suspect that President Harrison has AIRY
iesire to overthrow the liquor traffic.
Vice President Morton Is Of . more practi-
cal turn Of mind He is only worth ten
dollars and VI course must in some
way provide . living for his family, who
have = right to look 70 him for support.
Therefore, he owns 4 bar Of his y whore
the elect are supplied for 20 cents . drink
And yet the liquor from the .Shoreham bar
will make . man just as drunk % that
sold in O'Brien's saloon on the Bowery.
May God hasten the day when this ration
have officials whose example, Il fol-
lowed by our boys, would not lead them
to the nse Of Intoxicating liquors.
StIa age Is it nay seem. Y is nevertheless
true, that in the States carried by Harrison
there are two saloons in proportion to The
population to one In the States carried by
Cleveland. and the Republican North con-
sumes % barrels Of beer to every one
consumed in the Democrrtic South. So
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